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Top Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds

Explore 146 Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds that source acquisition and investment opportunities on Axial’s M&A platform.

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Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds

146

Active Firms

5,024

TTM Deal Inquiries

$5M-$23M

Core Revenue Range

$1M-$5M

Core EBITDA Range


Florida 14%
Texas 11%
California 10%
New York 6%
Illinois 4%

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

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Catalus Capital

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Catalus Capital is a multi-strategy private equity firm founded in early 2011. The flexibility of the firm’s investment mandates sets it apart from its peers. The firm invests out of two strategies: Catalus Growth Partners, a buyout fund focused on acquiring majority stakes in growing middle market companies, and Catalus Special Opportunities, a fund focused on finding deep value in corporate, real estate, and esoteric assets.

Recent Transactions

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  • Sep 2023 Acquired Big Apple Auto Leasing
  • Jun 2023 Acquired Forge Nano
  • Feb 2023 Acquired XL-batteries
  • Dec 2022 Acquired CC Wellness

Cyprium Investment Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Cyprium Partners (Cyprium) is a private investment firm that makes non-control investments in profitable middle-market companies, allowing company owners and their management teams to retain controlling interest in their business after we invest. Cyprium can provide any combination of equity or subordinated debt giving us non-traditional flexibility in structuring transactions as well as increasing our certainty of close.Cyprium, through the experience of its partners as well as through its Advisory Council members, strives to be a value-added investor that supports the growth, acquisition,…

Recent Transactions

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  • Mar 2025 Invested in Willamette Valley Meat
  • Aug 2024 Invested in Washington Metal Fabricators
  • Dec 2023 Invested in Apollo
  • Dec 2023 Invested in Kustom

Banyan Capital Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
We are a Canadian based private equity firm that makes control equity investments in mid-sized private and public companies throughout North America. We provide full or partial liquidity to existing owners or partner with owners seeking capital for organic or acquisition-driven growth. With over 50 years of private equity, investment banking and operating experience collectively, we have developed a strong franchise. Our success is based on our experience, relationships and our reputation for honesty, respect and integrity. Since inception, Banyan has acquired equity interests in 20…

Recent Transactions

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  • Dec 2021 Acquired Innovative Surface Solutions
  • Sep 2017 Acquired Rack Attack
  • Jun 2014 Acquired Newcrete
  • Sep 2013 Acquired MIP Inc.

Trinity Private Equity Group

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Trinity Private Equity Group is a private equity firm founded by entrepreneurs who have started, grown, and sold multiple companies. As such, we invest in entrepreneurial businesses with strong operations and growth potential. Entrepreneurs that partner with Trinity benefit from a board of experts who help expand the management team and add financial capital.Trinity has an especially robust background helping businesses expand their sales and marketing efforts, with significant experience in a wide variety of industries.Trinity’s current portfolio exceeds $2.2 billion in value and consists…

Recent Transactions

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  • Feb 2022 Acquired Freedom Powersports Edson Ltd.
  • Dec 2020 Acquired Trammell Crow Residential
  • Dec 2020 Acquired Branch at Medical Center
  • Oct 2020 Acquired Utopia

Union Park Capital

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Union Park Capital is a private equity investment firm focused solely on lower middle-market Industrial Technology companies. We partner with management teams to cultivate businesses through a combination of organic growth and careful strategic add-on acquisitions.

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  • Aug 2022 Acquired Advanced Illumination
  • Jan 2022 Acquired Bruins Instruments
  • Mar 2021 Acquired Guided Wave
  • Feb 2021 Acquired EyePro System

Gallant Capital Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Gallant makes control investments in sectors where the team has extensive experience and relationships that drive value. We use our operational expertise to support our management teams and strive to be valuable partners at every stage of our investments.

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  • Nov 2022 Invested in Lightning Step
  • Sep 2022 Invested in SLWM
  • Feb 2022 Acquired Pro-Vac
  • Dec 2021 Invested in InformData

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West Lane Capital Partners

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
West Lane Capital Partners is a private investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to invest in lower middle-market companies. In addition to providing capital, we are actively engaged partners across the strategy, operations and finance functions within our portfolio businesses.We focus on control investments in the logistics, consumer, food & beverage, broader manufacturing and the financial and business services sectors and our experience allows us to invest in both successful growing businesses as well as more difficult and complex situations. We also know that…

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Blue Cross
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Epicurean Catering
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Cutler Group
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Stansberry Asset Management

Sky Island Capital LLC

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Founded in 2018, Sky Island Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas. The firm makes control investments in strategically viable North American manufacturing companies. The firm focuses on situations where it can draw upon its deep operational experience to support senior management in driving significant value creation through operational and strategic partnership, including add-on acquisitions. The firm is comfortable with and has a history of executing transactions with complex dynamics, including corporate carve-outs, public to privates, family-owned…

Recent Transactions

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  • Jun 2025 Acquired Scranton Products
  • Aug 2024 Acquired Farmdale Creamery
  • Jul 2024 Acquired Pacific Paper Tube
  • Apr 2023 Acquired Kaufhold's Kurds

Tulcan

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
With a focus on the businesses that make America strong, and a mission of empowering the people behind them, Tulcan is a family operated investment partnership providing equity in middle-market industrial companies.For nearly 30 years, we’ve been delivering value to some of the country’s oldest businesses by prioritizing stable growth, while dreaming big.We seek long-term partnerships with business owners who share our values of patriotism, family, and positive energy.   Visit us at tulcan.com to learn more.

Recent Transactions

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  • Jan 2023 Invested in Aaron Concrete of Texas
  • Oct 2021 Invested in AGADCO of Texas
  • Apr 2012 Acquired National Signs
  • Mar 2011 Acquired Texas Bolt & Nut

American Pacific Group

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
American Pacific Group is a San Francisco-based private equity firm targeting control equity investments in lower-middle-market companies, typically with EBITDA from $0 to $40 million. We focus on complex businesses and transactions across technology, consumer, business services, industrial, and healthcare. We are growth-oriented investors, and together with our in-house operating partners, seek to implement our proprietary value creation model to drive sustainable growth in our portfolio companies. 

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2022 Acquired Concisys
  • Dec 2021 Acquired Gym Launch & Prestige Labs
  • Nov 2021 Acquired Fellers
  • Mar 2021 Acquired Aesop

Tecum Capital Partners

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Tecum Equity is an operationally oriented growth investment firm focused on supporting family and founder owned businesses within the precision manufacturing, high value-added distribution, and nondiscretionary B2B service sectors. We target industrial end markets where we can leverage our past operational and investment experience. We seek to support first time ownership transitions where our resources and experiences can augment the existing team’s culture and capabilities. Since 2006, our team has invested over $1B of growth capital and served as leaders and advisors to over 100…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2025 Acquired A&D Manufacturing Company
  • Jun 2025 Acquired Industrial Supply Company
  • Aug 2024 Acquired Kadon Precision Machining
  • Oct 2023 Acquired Basement Waterproofing Company

Crossplane Capital

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Crossplane Capital is a private equity firm based in Dallas investing control equity in industrial business services, niche manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses. The firm invests in companies with up to $200 million of revenue and significant value creation upside through prudent net working capital management, rigorous cost optimization and thoughtful revenue growth.Our team has decades of collective experience transforming industrial companies as senior executives, operational improvement consultants, strategy consultants, restructuring advisors and private equity…

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  • Sep 2022 Invested in Viking Fence
  • Sep 2022 Invested in Kaemark
  • Mar 2022 Invested in Hunter Leasing
  • Dec 2020 Invested in Empower Rental Group

Crux Capital

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Crux Capital is the ideal partner for owners seeking liquidity, generational transition, capital for growth or recapitalization. The firm is committed to preserving the legacy of the companies we invest in, recognizing that people and culture are the key determinants of long-term success. In addition to providing capital, we leverage the expertise of our team and limited partner investors to support management teams in reaching their growth objectives. While we do not participate in the day-to-day management of our companies, we do serve as active advisers and provide additional…

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  • Apr 2025 Acquired Pool Works
  • Dec 2023 Acquired Uncommon Brands
  • Jan 2023 Invested in HTeaO
  • Mar 2022 Acquired Woody's Brands

Lincoln Road Global Management

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Lincoln Road Global Management, LLC (“Lincoln Road”) is a private equity firm focused on investing in market leading businesses. Our goal with every investment is to work in close collaboration with management, stakeholders, and operating partners in order to help these businesses achieve operational excellence and unlock the next phase of growth. As a result, we position our companies to enjoy long-term success well into the future.

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  • Oct 2023 Acquired Silversand Services
  • Oct 2023 Acquired SLI Landscaping
  • Mar 2023 Acquired Zodega
  • Jul 2021 Acquired Brothers Paving & Concrete Corporation

Victor Capital Partners

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Victor Capital Partners provides equity and resources to middle-market businesses with valuable brands and growth opportunities in the consumer, industrial, and business services sectors.

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  • Jan 2024 Acquired The Coats Company
  • Oct 2021 Acquired Catbird NYC
  • Dec 2020 Acquired SLIPNOT
  • Oct 2019 Acquired Code Green / Rizzo Group

Milton Street Capital

5 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Milton Street seeks to consistently generate market-leading returns by transforming lower middle market industrial companies into sustainably great businesses through active engagement in strategy, human capital, and commercial and operational improvements.Prior to forming Milton Street in 2016, our founding team worked together for over a decade at a large and highly successful institutional private equity fund manager. One challenge that we believe the traditional private equity model faces is the pressure to invest in larger and larger companies, companies where there are fewer…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired American Trailer Rental Group, LLC
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Kreg LLC
  • Aug 2023 Acquired ZXP Technologies, LLC
  • Sep 2022 Invested in ProVeyance Group

Sagemoore Capital

5 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Sagemoore is a private equity firm focused on making investments in the lower middle-market. We utilize an evergreen fund structure with committed capital from family office investors resulting in a patient capital base.This structure offers a flexible investment horizon designed to maximize stakeholder alignment by focusing on true long-term value creation. Sagemoore’s investment principals each have more than 15 years of professional investing and healthcare operating experience.We seek to cultivate deep partnerships with entrepreneurs and experienced operating teams for the benefit of…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2024 Advised Sagemoore Capital on an investment from Confidential Company
  • Jan 2017 Acquired Carie Health
  • Mar 2014 Invested in ServRX
  • Apr 2011 Acquired Restore Health

Alterna Equity Partners

5 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Alterna Equity Partners is a South Florida-based private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market U.S. companies through both control and select non-control transactions. The firm partners with founder-owned, family-owned, and entrepreneur-led businesses that have established operating histories, strong management teams, and clear opportunities for continued growth and value creation.Alterna’s investment strategy is centered on partnering with businesses, targeting Founder Rollover and alignment. The firm takes a relationship-driven approach to investing, working closely with…

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  • Nov 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Oct 2023 Acquired Crenshaw
  • Dec 2022 Acquired Bulk ExpressTransport
  • Mar 2022 Acquired AMG Marketing Resources

Sleeping Giant Capital

5 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Sleeping Giant Capital is pioneering a place-based alternative to private equity – a model designed to preserve and grow the next generation of businesses in American communities. Focused on the generational transition of closely held businesses, the firm utilizes permanent capital, prepared leaders, and place-based ownership to deliver market-rate financial returns while strengthening regional economies.

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  • Mar 2026 Acquired Process Engineering & Equipment
  • Mar 2025 Acquired Replite Pondera
  • Mar 2024 Acquired Portland Products, LLC
  • Apr 2023 Acquired SignComp

Kinzie Capital Partners

4 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Kinzie invests in lower middle market companies amidst transition in the manufactured products, consumer and business services industries. Whether a company is experiencing a generational shift, period of high growth or changes in business cycles, we seek opportunities to create lasting change in today’s disruptive environment by leveraging technology and a strong operational focus to eliminate inefficiencies and unlock new business opportunities.

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  • Feb 2024 Acquired Arctic Industries
  • Jan 2023 Acquired GT Golf Holdings, Inc
  • Sep 2020 Acquired Chelsea Lighting
  • Nov 2019 Acquired Colony Display

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Private Equity Funds in this directory ordered?

Firms in the Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

What information is included in each Private Equity Fund profile?

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

What company sizes are most common for Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds is $5M-$23M, with a core EBITDA range of $1M-$5M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

How important is Manufacturing experience when evaluating Private Equity Funds?

Relevant Manufacturing experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 146 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Manufacturing.

Do all Private Equity Funds in this directory focus exclusively on Manufacturing?

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Manufacturing, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

How do I compare Private Equity Funds with experience in Manufacturing?

When comparing Private Equity Funds with experience in Manufacturing, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 146 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds?

Axial can help you identify and connect with firms based on your objectives and what you are looking to accomplish. The process varies depending on your role and transaction needs. If you are interested in connecting with firms in the Automobile Manufacturers Private Equity Funds directory, you can request information here.


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