Top Casino & Gaming Operators Independent Sponsors with Recent Private M&A Activity

715

Active Firms

19,716

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$15M

Core Revenue Range

$600K-$3M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

Florida 14%

California 12%

Texas 12%

New York 8%

New Jersey 4%

Key Attributes

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Deal-By-Deal Financing | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

Surge Private Equity

16 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Founded in 2017, Surge is a Dallas-based private equity firm. Surge generally focuses on businesses in the business services, healthcare, online businesses, and specialty goods industries. Primary characteristics sought are companies with high recurring revenue and predictable cash flows with EBITDA of at least $3.0MM. Surge takes a majority equity position in its investments and prefers to target acquisitions where the seller will remain on board in an ongoing capacity with a minority interest.

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Aug 2025 Acquired White Plains Linen
Dec 2023 Acquired Coastal Amusements
Sep 2023 Acquired Elite Clinical Network
Mar 2023 Acquired Toska Spa and Facial Ba

Rock Gate Partners, LLC

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Rock Gate Partners, LLC ("RGP") invests in lower middle market companies that have created unique market positions, resulting in customer "mind share" leadership and providing the basis for organic growth while offering a platform for acquisitions. RGP partners with management teams and family owners in buyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, industry consolidations and later stage growth capital investments in companies typically generating $10 to $100 million in revenue. RGP is primarily focused on acquiring companies that design, engineer, market and distribute products or…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Purple Arch Ventures
Aug 2023 Acquired Intensity Therapeutics
Aug 2023 Acquired I/D/E/A, Inc.
Aug 2023 Acquired NRG

Weinberg Capital Group

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Expertise:Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Weinberg Capital Group is a private investment group dedicated to private equity and real estate. Our team has a combined total of over 75 years experience successfully managing companies throughout the US and Asia. Where necessary and appropriate, the WCG team will work closely with management to enable it to maximize its growth opportunities. We have the knowledge and resources to provide the assistance necessary to insure successful implementation of development strategies.Relationships:The individual success of our partners and the collective…

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Dec 2025 Acquired Pinson Valley Heat Treating
Mar 2025 Acquired Gavitt Wire & Cable Co.
Apr 2024 Acquired Aviocraft
Dec 2023 Acquired Salt River Aviation

Pleasant Bay Capital Partners

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Pleasant Bay Capital Partners (“Pleasant Bay”) is a merchant banking firm focused on acquisitions, recapitalizations, and minority investments in lower-middle market companies. We partner with management teams and co-investors to maximize the long term value of our portfolio companies. Our opportunistic approach provides us the flexibility to invest in a broad range of opportunities and utilize innovative equity and debt structures to fit the specific needs of company owners and management teams. We have investment experience in multiple industries with particular expertise and focus…

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Aug 2023 Invested in VisualDx
Aug 2023 Acquired Optimos
Aug 2023 Advised TechBooks on an investment from American Capital
Sep 2021 Advised Memorial MRI & Diagnostic in its sale to Panos Partners

Liberty Lane Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Liberty Lane Partners is a firm that invests in businesses that can benefit from the operating, financial and transaction experience of its founding principals. We seek to partner with outstanding management teams to generate meaningful growth in value.Liberty Lane Partners focuses on transforming and building successful companies for the long term. Our operating strategies are designed to generate above-market absolute-dollar returns through strategic realignment, organic growth initiatives, cash flow management and acquisitions.Liberty Lane Partners is a private equity investment firm…

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May 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Jan 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Jul 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
Jul 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Grand Valley Holdings, LLC

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Grand Valley Holdings is a Cincinnati-based acquirer of privately-held, family owned businesses in the Ohio Valley. The Principals of Grand Valley Holdings bring over 30 years of experience acquiring, developing, and operating private businesses.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Idaho Timber
Aug 2023 Acquired Epic Gas Shipping Company
Aug 2023 Acquired Café Rio
Aug 2023 Acquired Liberty Oilfield Services

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The Pine Street Group

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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The Pine Street Group is an investment holding company focused on investing in middle and lower-middle market businesses in a variety of industries. Our primary industries of focus include healthcare services, chemicals, financials, business services, franchise businesses, media, and agriculture. We have a highly flexible mandate enabling us to invest across capital structures and deal types. The Pine Street team has experience executing well over $1 billion in transaction value with over a decade of combined experience.

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Jun 2023 Acquired Right Choice In-Home Care (Right Choice)
Mar 2023 Acquired Midsouth PICCs
Dec 2022 Acquired Achieve Beyond (California Assets)
Jul 2022 Acquired Coastal Care

Bounds Equity Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Bounds Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm that invests in well-managed, entrepreneurial businesses with EBITDA in excess of $1 million. The principals of BEP have partnered with entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level since 1989. We invest in good businesses and help management build larger, more successful companies. Nearly all of our investment transactions have been with private company entrepreneurs seeking liquidity, who almost always have reinvested with us to share in the future value creation. We are an experienced private equity group; we have…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Rocktops Granite & Stone Fabrication
Aug 2023 Acquired Hollinee
Aug 2023 Acquired Torstenson Glass
Aug 2023 Acquired Sportcraft

Phoenix Strategy

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Phoenix Strategy Investments is an entrepreneurial investment company dedicated to acquiring and nurturing the growth of small to medium-sized, privately-held businesses. With a strategic focus on entrepreneurial ventures, the firm operates as a private equity entity, leveraging its expertise to foster business development and expansion. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Phoenix Strategy Investments is committed to identifying promising opportunities and implementing growth strategies that enhance value and performance. The company has a substantial portfolio, reflecting its success…

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Dec 2025 Acquired ExamSoft
Nov 2014 Acquired PI Worldwide
Dec 2013 Acquired Predictive Index
Nov 2009 Acquired Exam Soft

Kaho Partners

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Kaho Partners is a thesis-driven investment firm focused on building market-leading companies through organic and acquisition-driven growth. Kaho is based in Dallas, TX and Miami Beach, FL. For more information on Kaho Partners, please visit www.kahopartners.com.

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Aug 2024 Acquired Colanar
Oct 2023 Acquired Sirius Automation
May 2023 Acquired Bow Robotics
Jan 2023 Acquired Missouri Tooling & Automation

Vion Investments

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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VION Investments, headquartered in Atlanta is global advisory provider of receivable investment services to businesses managing consumer and commercial receivables. VION provides a single, comprehensive source of expertise in receivable purchasing, consulting, and valuation.VION’s industry leading management team can help any business owner, turnaround manager, or lending institution facing issues of liquidity, covenant restrictions, and compliance. We also have solutions available to deal with the unique requirements affecting specialized industries, such as specialty finance, medical,…

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Jun 2017 Acquired Dearden's
Jul 2016 Acquired Italian Government
Nov 2013 Acquired Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company
Oct 2013 Acquired Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company

Infinitive Capital LLC

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Infinitive Capital is a private investment firm focused on partnering with lower middle-market businesses whose owners are seeking an exit or interested in staying on helping to drive the next stage of growth

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Apr 2024 Invested in Caretech
Aug 2023 Invested in Funds for Learning
Aug 2023 Invested in North shore medical laboratory
Aug 2023 Invested in EquitySim

Potomac Equity Partners

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Potomac Equity Partners is a Washington D.C.-based private equity investment firm focused on providing superior equity returns through the close partnership and collaboration with our portfolio company management team members. We strive to invest in companies with leading products and services, superior management teams, and in which our invested capital and collaborative efforts can enable companies to exponentially ramp their long-term growth prospects and overall performance.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Synergy
Feb 2022 Acquired Mobile health exam
Jul 2019 Acquired laser md
Jul 2019 Acquired Sculptme

Lapa Capital

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Lapa Capital is an investment adviser headquartered in New York. We provide an alternative approach to wealth creation for our partners, investing at the two ends of the risk spectrum: acquiring stakes in growing companies and originating/managing credit collateralized by real assets. We look for established solutions (i.e. tested and deployed) and businesses facing an inflexion point on its growth trajectory. ‍ We leverage our relationships globally to help our partners expand their network globally. ‍ We focused mainly on companies operating at or near financial profitability

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Jan 2024 Invested in Confidential Company
Sep 2023 Invested in Confidential Company
Sep 2022 Invested in Confidential Company
Jul 2022 Invested in Confidential Company

Woodlawn Partners

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Woodlawn Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm that is focused on people, not transactions. Our primary responsibility is to provide stability for employees and customers. Rather than simply replacing a business owner with a new manager, we first become directly involved with a business to educate ourselves and to earn the trust of its people. We then work collaboratively to build a team that can drive self-sustaining growth. We help a business owner to tailor a succession strategy around their personal and financial needs. We take a hands-on approach to shepherding a business…

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Jul 2022 Acquired Sheer Logistics
Jan 2021 Acquired Active Roofing
May 2018 Acquired Tighe Logistics
Jun 2017 Acquired BW Manufacturing

Glass Lake Holdings, LLC

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Glass Lake Holdings partners with exceptional privately-held businesses. Having previously acquired, grown and exited two businesses (Richmond Alarm Company and RRS Medical), we have deep operational and investment backgrounds specifically focused on family and founder-owned businesses.

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Mar 2026 Acquired The Fire Group
Oct 2025 Acquired FSS Technologies
Oct 2023 Acquired Big Box Storage
Aug 2023 Acquired Green Grass Landscaping

Chrysalis Growth Partners

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Chrysalis Growth Partners is a private investment firm focused on the lower and middle market, primarily focusing on business services and industrials. We have a flexible investment mandate and hold periods - given we partner with two Pacific Northwest family offices who have indefinite (multi-generational) investment horizons. For illustrative purposes, sectors of interest include: waste collection and hauling, uniform rental + linen supply + commercial laundry, facility services (janitorial, pest control, route-based, etc), telecommunications, financial services (CPA, tax, accounting,…

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Jan 2025 Advised Industrial Waste Collection and Hauling Services in its sale to Infrastructure PE Firm
Jun 2024 Acquired Pacific NW Perimeter Security Company
Mar 2023 Acquired Water and Wastewater Filtration and Treatment
Jun 2022 Advised Residential Services (Plumbing) in its sale to NYC Private Equity

Galaxi Group

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Galaxi Group is a family office backed independent sponsor focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We consider ourselves entrepreneurial capital partnering with management teams and entrepreneurs to achieve next level success.

Recent Transactions

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Jun 2026 Acquired Confidential Company
Jul 2025 Acquired Serpico Landscaping
Aug 2021 Acquired Medallion Landscape Management, Inc.
Jul 2017 Acquired Rainforest

Northwood Ventures

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Northwood Ventures has been a leading venture capital and private equity investor for more than three decades. Our long-term investment horizon, entrepreneurial orientation, and collaborative approach make us an attractive partner for skillful founders, shareholders and management teams.

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Dec 2011 Acquired Designer Protein, LLC
Jun 2010 Acquired Zevia
Dec 2009 Acquired Celebration Restaurant Group, LLC
Oct 2009 Acquired JVC Media LLC

Westerly Group

6 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Westerly Group is a family office backed investment platform seeking to invest in durable founder-owned businesses providing critical consumer or business services.

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Oct 2024 Acquired Water Babies
Aug 2023 Acquired Steel River
Aug 2023 Acquired Evermore Industries, LLC
Aug 2023 Acquired Solen Software Group

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Firms in the Casino & Gaming Operators Independent Sponsors 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.

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.

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Casino & Gaming Operators Independent Sponsors is $3M-$15M, with a core EBITDA range of $600K-$3M. 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.

Relevant Consumer Services 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 715 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Consumer Services.

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Casino & Gaming Operators Independent Sponsors directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Consumer Services, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

When comparing Independent Sponsors with experience in Consumer Services, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 715 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

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 Casino & Gaming Operators Independent Sponsors directory, you can request information here.

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