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Dark Alpha Capital LLC

Independent Sponsor
  • 3 Total Closed Deals
At Dark Alpha, our investment strategy revolves around acquiring and enhancing cash-generating companies within select sectors. As a nascent entity, we prioritize industries with significant growth potential including manufacturing, business services, health care, aerospace & defense, and industrial services.Thesis-Driven Investment StrategyOur in-house industry advisors identify industries poised for disruptive growth by studying macroeconomic factors, technological advancements, and regulatory changes. The selected thesis is further substantiated by examining industry reports,…
Most Recent Transactions
Investor
May 2021
acquired
Investor
Nov 2020
acquired
Investor
May 2020
acquired

Thoroughbred

Independent Sponsor
  • 3 Total Closed Deals
Thoroughbred is a Denver-based private equity sponsor providing capital and creativity to support relentlessly driven management teams. We partner with lower middle market companies, offering operational expertise, strategic insight, and valuable relationships to build enduring businesses. We leverage our experience as both operators and investors to be effective partners, knowing when to step up and when to step back, empowering management to create exceptional value.
Most Recent Transactions
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Aug 2022
invested in
Investor
Sep 2020
invested in
Investor
Aug 2020
invested in

Loyal Companies

Independent Sponsor
  • 2 Total Closed Deals
Loyal Companies is a PE company. We focus on strategic partnerships, acquisitions and opportunities. We help founders unlock the growth potential of their companies. We focus on providing a strong management team, and operation expertise that help our companies reach untapped potential. With our deep technology experience, we are able to provide and help with the ideal customer experience, product management and the people with in the business.
Most Recent Transactions
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Oct 2022
secured debt financing from
Investor
May 2020
secured debt financing from

Newgate Capital Holdings

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Newgate Capital Holdings is a diversified financial services platform. We provide funding, advisory and investment banking services to small and medium sized clients. Our finance unit provides consumer, commercial and real estate lending products. Our advisory unit offers banking, acquisition, restructuring and asset management consulting services. We provide a full suite of services for buy-side and sell-side investment banking needs as well.
Most Recent Transactions
Investor
Jan 2018
invested in

Mayfair

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Mayfair is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We plan to work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.  
Most Recent Transactions
Investor
Nov 2019
acquired

GCI Funding

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Global Concepts Funding has strategic partnerships with major financing companies within the United States. These alliances have provided us with a resource base of funds that exceed a billion dollars. Global Concepts Funding takes pride in its team of seasoned financial and marketing professionals who contribute, to a great extent, to Global Concepts Funding’s continued success.Global Concepts Funding was founded with the mission of assisting business enterprises attain their growth and profitability goals.We help a large consumer base to reach personal goals, start new businesses, send…
Most Recent Transactions
Advisor
Jan 2016
secured investment from

Nexturn Partners, LLC

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Nexturn Management Group is a boutique consulting, business development and investment firm focused on growth-oriented small- to mid-sized companies. Nexturn works with clients as advisors, consultants or as partners to incubate and execute innovative ideas that deliver sustainable results.Nexturn also acts as an “Independent Sponsor” focused on acquiring and operating small- to mid-sized companies with organic and strategic add-on growth potential.Our focus is at the intersection of business and financial services industries with a secondary interest in technology companies serving the…
Most Recent Transactions
Advisor
Oct 2015
was acquired by

Newpark Ventures

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Newpark Capital is the private equity partner for impact-oriented management teams seeking growth capital. We help companies grow by investing our operating experience and impact-aligned capital, and help current owners achieve their liquidity objectives. Newpark Capital provides: * Increased equity value. We invest our operating experience to drive growth and bottom line performance, increasing the value of the enterprise – and of owner’s equity. * A clear path to liquidity. Patient, flexible capital experienced in mid-market investing provides liquidity up front, and then co-invests…
Most Recent Transactions
Advisor
Aug 2015
secured investment from

608 Partners LLC

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
608 Partners represents the majority owner of Blooma Tree Experts, a residential-focused tree services company in Seattle, Washington.The President & team of 608 Partners & Blooma Tree Experts is always open to acquiring well-run tree services businesses with great quality standards, clean safety record, and an established history. Since the original acquisition in 2022, Blooma Tree has completed two further add-on acquisitions in the residential tree care space in the Seattle area.
Most Recent Transactions
Investor
Feb 2022
acquired

Nima Asset Management, LLC

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
Nima Asset Management LLC was formed in 2008 to identify and purse direct special situation investments.  The Founder of Nima has extensive experience across a range of industries and financing types.  We have several active projects underway.  We actively seek value added co-investors.
Most Recent Transactions
Investor
Feb 2017
invested in

True Vines LLC

Independent Sponsor
  • 1 Total Closed Deal
True Vines is helping finance businesses positively impacting the world in the midst of what we consider a massive shift. Our focus is particularly on businesses empowering the global digital transformation. We have mandates in the US and Africa with public and private sector stakeholders.
Most Recent Transactions
Advisor
Dec 2021
secured debt financing from

Wind River Investment Holdings LLC

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Wind River Capital Strategies is a specialized advisory, investment management, and consulting firm. We provide insight-driven, and expertise-based services exclusively to select endowment & foundation, pension and family office clients across the globe.

Black Sands Industries

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Black Sands is an investment firm that partners with small and medium-sized businesses in legacy industries with significant potential. We seek to drive growth through technology and aim to build high-performing and high-integrity teams with strong organizational cultures. 

The Palomar Group

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

The Palomar Group is a private investment and advisory firm that was founded based on the premise that the most important factor driving substantial, long-term value creation is a relentless focus on building fundamentally better businesses. Our innovative and disciplined blueprint for identifying strategic value creation initiatives is unconventional and was developed over the years based on our experiences.As a principal investor, we are operationally driven and focused on unique and compelling situations within the lower middle market involving leveraged and management buyouts, minority…

Digital Foundry Ventures, LLC

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Digital Foundry Ventures, LLC is a NY based venture, growth and buyout equity firm that focuses on investing in great businesses that are on the cusp of accelerated growth. Our objective is to create exponential value by establishing digital leaders in sector that benefit disproportionately from advanced technology. We look beyond transactional investing and focus on transformational investing.

Grove Mountain Partners

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Based in Atlanta, GA and founded in 2020, Grove Mountain Partners is a private equity firm investing in lower middle market home service companies and specialty business service companies, generally with annual revenues between $15-200 million. We are long-term and relationship-focused, possess deep sector domain expertise, and are comprised of operators rather than financiers. Our primary mission is to build great companies.

Zion Peak Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • This member has no reported closed transactions.

Zion Peak is an independent sponsor firm seeking to acquire a profitable, customer-obsessed services business with minimum $2M+ EBITDA. We bring deep operational expertise, long-term capital, and a founder-friendly approach to help great companies reach their next peak. We’re hands-on, values-driven, and committed to lasting success.

Scalewerks Holdings, LLC

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

The ScaleWerks Holdings Model represents a radical departure from the “Traditional Private Equity Model” - it represents a new way of enhancing generational wealth through Long-Term Sustainable Value and Profit Creation for a Select Group of LP’s.Our strategy is to make control investments in middle market companies through acquisitions, special situations, corporate carve outs and turnarounds. We work with management to subsequently enhance enterprise value through operational/strategic initiatives and add-on acquisitions.ScaleWerks Holding's purpose is to provide sustainable…

Vedere Capital

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Vedere Capital invests in, empowers, and grows business services and financial services related companies that are effecting change in their industries. We make equity investments in companies with EBITDA between $1 million and $5 million throughout the United States.

City Different Investments

Independent Sponsor

    This member has no reported closed transactions.

City Different Investments is an independent investment management firm headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As seasoned veterans of various industry-leading investment management firms, our founding portfolio managers have run peak cumulative assets of more than $35 billion.In addition to public equity and fixed income strategies, City Different Investments is actively sourcing private equity investment opportunities. We are seeking majority stakes in mature companies with between $250,000 and $1,500,000 in EBITDA. Our target deal will offer growth equity or personal liquidity to an…

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