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Education Services Independent Sponsors

962

Active Firms

26,432

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$15M

Core Revenue Range

$600K-$3M

Core EBITDA Range


Florida 13%
Texas 12%
California 11%
New York 7%
New Jersey 4%

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

Showing 121-140 of 962 Independent Sponsors

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NB Group

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
We invest $10 to 50 million in family or founder owned companies in the US or Canada with $3 to 15 million of EBITDA and attractive growth opportunities. Our preference is for majority ownership (51%+) or a significant minority stake, but we are highly flexible and will collaborate with a business owner to structure a win-win transaction. Unlike a traditional private equity firm that might have dozens of investments, we only focus on a handful of investments at a given time, which allows us to spend more time with our portfolio companies. While we typically plan…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2022 Acquired OnePeak Medical
  • Mar 2020 Acquired Retail Services Rollup
  • Apr 2018 Invested in CR Fitness

CP Energy Holdings

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
CPEH is an investment company focused on the energy, power, and industrial sectors. It aims to drive decarbonization and modernization, investing in businesses that enhance reliability and resiliency. The firm is dedicated to supporting leading companies within these industries, contributing to the advancement of sustainable and modern energy solutions. CPEH's strategic investments are designed to foster growth and innovation, ensuring that the businesses they partner with are well-positioned to meet the challenges of the future energy landscape.

Recent Transactions

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  • Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Aug 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Apr 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

venn growth partners

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Venn Growth Partners is a growth equity fund that partners with distinctive companies in the healthcare services, education, consumer, and business services sectors. As a private investment firm, it seeks to provide strategic support and capital to businesses poised for growth. With a focus on fostering innovation and expansion, Venn Growth Partners leverages its expertise to drive value and success in its portfolio companies.

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  • Jan 2026 Acquired Guidepost Global
  • Feb 2025 Acquired Millie
  • Jan 2022 Acquired Monarch House

Liftout Capital

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Liftout Capital is a Denver-based investment holding company dedicated to investing in lower middle market founder owned businesses. We make control investments in business and industrial service companies with $4-15 million of EBITDA. Liftout Capital brings decades of experience and resources, flexible investment hold periods, and deep industry expertise to help companies accelerate their growth.

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  • Apr 2025 Acquired AG&E
  • Jul 2024 Acquired Pay4Leads
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Franchise Creator

1819 Partners

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
1819 Partners (“1819”) is a private investment firm based out of Memphis, TN formed to provide direct, private investment opportunities for high-net worth family investors. The firm looks to invest in lower-middle-market private companies with enduring industry tailwinds and partner with strong management teams. Compared to traditional private equity, we aim to provide "patient" capital, which allows for decisions to be made that are best for the long-term success of the business, not just short-term returns. We are looking for business owners who are looking for a financial "partner"…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Highway Signing
  • Mar 2023 Acquired Ecoserv
  • Jul 2022 Acquired Crockett Partners Equipment Company

M.D Wolfe & Co

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
We work with founders of established, profitable businesses who see opportunity for the next phase of growth or a thoughtful transition.Our role is to support continuity, strengthen cash flow, and provide the capital and operating structure needed to scale responsibly over time.We partner with owners who value long-term outcomes — whether that involves expansion, succession planning, or preparing the business for a future exit.

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  • Nov 2023 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jul 2021 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Apr 2020 Acquired Confidential Company

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Hyperion Capital Partners

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Hyperion Capital Partners is a private investment firm that establishes and utilizes partnerships with management to produce substantial long-term value. We partner with management teams to invest in companies reaching an inflection point—a period during which we can provide capital and strategic guidance to accelerate profitability and growth. We invest with a conservative capital structure and are not reliant on excessive leverage to generate superior returns for our investors. Further, we are flexible in our investment approach and will always explore creative, tailored methods through…

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  • Nov 2022 Acquired Algus Packaging
  • Oct 2022 Acquired A Plus Tree
  • Apr 2021 Acquired Kabinart

ClearPoint Investment Partners

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
ClearPoint Investment Partners invests in lower middle-market business services and financial processing companies. We work closely with management as a hands-on partner to create long-term value for our stakeholders. We focus on businesses at key inflection points – where our deep strategic, operational, and industry expertise can accelerate growth and materially enhance company value.Clarity of focus, process, and principles are hallmarks to our approach.

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  • Oct 2019 Invested in H1 Insights
  • May 2018 Invested in Accommodations Plus Technologies Holdings
  • Sep 2017 Invested in Shore Group Associates

RLG Capital

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
RLG Capital (“RLG”) is an independent sponsor private equity firm based in Park City, UT. RLG invests in or acquires early-stage and lower-middle market companies with innovative products or services, part founder-led businesses with a strong market position, sustainable cash flow, significant growth potential, and a clear and compelling opportunity to leverage our experience as operators and entrepreneurs.Since our founding in November 2013, RLG has sponsored or co-sponsored $650m of invested capital into 29 companies, with $205m in realized investments and $4455m in our current…

Recent Transactions

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  • Feb 2022 Acquired Kamaka Air
  • Jan 2022 Invested in Powder Watts
  • May 2020 Acquired ELB Learning

Adventure Capital Partnes

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
We are a team of serial entrepreneurs with a refreshing perspective on business. We ditched the suits and ties and prefer to think outside the box. Expect board meetings to be replaced with chairlift meetings and mundane TPS reports with creative executive collaboration.

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  • Jun 2026 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jun 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
  • May 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Fortunesse Financial Limited

3 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Fortunesse, a structuring company, specializes in developing financial products, including investment products such as debt and equity. The company manages private credit funds and has a private equity arm. 

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  • Jan 2026 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Nov 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

Signal Rock Capital

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signal Rock Capital is an independent sponsor investment firm that targets B2B industrial, infrastructure, consumer, and healthcare service businesses with EBITDA of $1.0 to $5.0 million.

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  • Sep 2025 Acquired Thermae Retreat
  • Jul 2025 Acquired Eagle's Nest Property Management

Shingle Hill Capital LLC

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Shingle Hill Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in family or founder owned businesses. We serve as successors in business ownership with a disciplined focus of growing exceptional businesses while upholding relationships with a company's four key stakeholders: former owners, current employees, historic customers and trusted vendors.We are capitalized by a collection of family offices and private investment funds preferring to participate on a deal by deal basis.

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  • Mar 2024 Acquired American Bedding Manufacturers
  • Jul 2023 Acquired Arcus Hunting

Edgehill Management

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Edgehill is a New York-based private investment firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams of leading companies to unlock new horizons.We draw on our investing and operating experience, thesis-driven diligence processes, and deep professional networks to source differentiated businesses, execute win-win partnerships, and manage investments for long-term success.We believe that businesses reach their full potential with partners who deliver both the capital and the clarity needed to succeed.Team's deal experience…

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  • Jan 2026 Invested in ILS Gummies
  • Dec 2024 Acquired Life Science Connect

Do Good Group LLC

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Holding company that owns, builds, and purchases businesses with goal of being cash flow positive, around for 10+ years, simple to run, and most importantly that will throw off cash to invest into other businesses and donate to charity. 

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2025 Acquired Oli's Trolley
  • Feb 2025 Invested in Confidential Company

Ohana Legacy Partners

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Ohana Legacy Partners is not a private equity firm. We are a long-term Employee Owned holding company committed to acquiring enduring businesses and transitioning them to employee ownership. Led by former Navy SEAL and seasoned operator Justin Knowles, we invest in companies with strong cultures, loyal teams, and a legacy worth preserving. We don’t flip, we don’t rebrand—we build on what works and share the upside with the people who built it. If your client is looking for a buyer who will protect their legacy and elevate their people, we’re ready to move with speed and integrity.

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  • Mar 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Fruition Partners

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Fruition Private Equity is a Denver-based private investment firm dedicated to advancing middle-market businesses and management teams. Since its inception in 2020, the firm has executed over $650 million in transactions, completing 17 acquisitions and successfully recapitalizing one platform. Fruition Private Equity specializes in strategic investments and operational improvements, focusing on stable, predictable revenue businesses in fragmented sectors. Their primary investment focus is on convenience stores and gas stations in the Southeastern United States. The firm is co-founded by Jay…

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  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

Blueline Ventures

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Blue Line Ventures is an operating company first, and an investment company second.Our team's passion and background rests in helping small business owners and investors achieve their goals through sales or acquisition. We do this across industries and help our clients focus on team design, process optimization, and systems development.​We make direct investments in businesses that fit our personal investment thesis and that align with our specific industry focus. We are skilled in creating flexible finance solutions and are backed by a leadership team with a proven history of business…

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  • Jan 2024 Advised Confidential Company on an investment from Confidential Company
  • Jan 2024 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company

SixFive Partners

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
SixFive Partners is an operator-led investment firm founded by brothers Mike and Matt Speaker, seeking to acquire and grow founder-owned commercial and industrial service businesses in the $5–50M revenue / $2–10M EBITDA range across the continental United States. Unlike traditional private equity, SixFive's founders become the CEO of the businesses they partner with and bring direct operating experience — most recently acquiring and scaling Revive Med Spa across California, as well as prior healthcare platform investments in pediatrics and ophthalmology. Backed by patient, long-term…

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  • Jun 2022 Acquired Revive Med Spa
  • Aug 2020 Acquired Coastal Kids

Braes Bayou

2 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Braes Bayou Company is a Texas based independent sponsor firm dedicated to partnering with founder-led B2B service businesses. Braes raises capital from its investor network on a deal-by-deal basis, ensuring alignment across management teams and capital providers.

Recent Transactions

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  • Apr 2026 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to Confidential Company
  • Oct 2020 Acquired Confidential Company

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Independent Sponsors in this directory ordered?

Firms in the Education Services 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.

What information is included in each Independent Sponsor 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 Education Services Independent Sponsors?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Education Services 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.

How important is Consumer Services experience when evaluating Independent Sponsors?

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

Do all Independent Sponsors in this directory focus exclusively on Consumer Services?

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Education Services 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.

How do I compare Independent Sponsors with experience in Consumer Services?

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 962 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with Education Services Independent Sponsors?

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 Education Services Independent Sponsors directory, you can request information here.


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