Top Education Services Private Equity Funds with Recent Private M&A Activity

245

Active Firms

15,957

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$800K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

Florida 14%

California 11%

Texas 10%

New York 7%

New Jersey 4%

Key Attributes

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

Centerfield Equity

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Centerfield Equity collaborates with like-minded owners and management teams seeking a change of control transaction to accelerate business transformation. We focus on lower middle market businesses generating greater than $1.5M in EBITDA that are based in the Midwest. Centerfield Equity invests across a variety of industry verticals, including business services, healthcare, consumer, niche manufacturing, and distribution. We do not invest in oil & gas, financial services, real estate, retail, early stage, or distressed situations.

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Nov 2024 Acquired Dental Alliance Group
Jun 2024 Acquired ASAP Garage Door Repair
Mar 2018 Acquired TriplePoint
Jul 2017 Acquired Rice's Honey

Catalus Capital

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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.

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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

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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,…

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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

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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…

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

ZS Fund

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We are a private equity firm engaged in making long-term investments in successful middle-market companies. Since 1985, we have focused on transactions that provide liquidity to business owners while enabling them to maintain a significant ownership stake and keep their company independent. Our strengths are understanding the objectives of business owners, structuring transactions that respond to those objectives, and being constructive partners to help increase the value of the businesses in which we invest.We look for a handful of important characteristics in a potential investment…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Research Horizons, LLC
Dec 2016 Acquired Juniper Landscaping Holdings, LLC
Jul 2016 Acquired Amerijet LLC
Dec 2012 Invested in SOS Security LLC

Tyree and D'Angelo Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investment opportunities in the lower middle market (companies with $1-$5M of EBITDA). We seek out investments in which we can establish true collaborative partnerships with business owners and management teams that will lead to a substantial creation of value over a long-term investment horizon. TDP relies on an extensive team comprised of Investment Partners, Executive Partners, and Advisory Partners to make investments, and focuses on opportunities in which our team of professionals can add…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Veterinarian Partners
Aug 2023 Acquired Thrive Physical Therapy Partners
Aug 2023 Acquired Superior Insurance Partners
Aug 2023 Acquired Star Dental Partners

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Rising Point Capital Management, LLC

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We are a Chicago-based private investment firm that provides partnership and capital to transform and grow your business. We primarily invest in business and consumer services companies in the lower middle market.

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Jan 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
Oct 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
Aug 2024 Acquired JDS Inc

Keswick Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Keswick Partners is a Lower-Middle Market PE firm armed with a $100M fund that invests in niche manufacturers, value-added distributors, and specialty service providers doing $2-$6M in annual EBITDA. Our Managing Partners have over 90 years of collective investing experience and have executed over 135 transactions in their shared careers. We presently have four active investments in our portfolio, but are looking to expand our operating footprint. We invest in rollovers, buyouts, carve outs, and more, but have developed a specialty in facilitating intra-family handoffs and employee…

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Jun 2025 Acquired Thomas Wilson Contracting
Jun 2025 Acquired Meeker Holding Company
Apr 2025 Acquired Seal Brothers
Dec 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Trinity Private Equity Group

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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…

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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

Osceola Capital Management

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Osceola Capital is a Tampa, Florida based private equity firm that invests in lower middle market services companies. Our strategy is to partner with exceptional management teams and drive long-term value creation through a combination of strategic acquisitions, internal growth initiatives, and operational improvements. We offer a unique blend of operations and transaction experience to help support our management teams – principals of Osceola have led over 100 corporate finance transactions ($1 billion+ in capital) and served as the CEO, CFO, or President of over 15 successful…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Industry Services Co.
Aug 2023 Acquired O’Cloud Ventures
Aug 2023 Acquired Forward Solutions
Aug 2023 Acquired Revelation Pharma

Storr Group

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Storr Group is an operationally-focused investment firm that builds and scales industry-leading platforms. With a rich background in business building, we combine world-class operators with high-velocity M&A, deep integration, and sophisticated technology – to drive sustainable growth and long-term value. Storr Group has offices in Austin and New York City.Our collaborative approach – leveraging top-tier investment professionals, operating executives, and functional experts – drives organic growth, margin expansion, and accelerated scale. Storr Group has completed over 130…

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Aug 2025 Acquired Marlin Pool Service
Jul 2025 Acquired Aqua Freedom Pool Cleaning & Service
Apr 2025 Acquired Splash Zone
Apr 2025 Acquired Wade’s Pools

Princeton Equity Group, LLC

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Princeton Equity Group is a highly experienced franchise and multi-unit investor that has sponsored investments in growth-oriented brands in the consumer, healthcare, and business services industries. Our focus on franchise and multi-unit business models allows us to speak the same language as the management teams with which we partner and add significant value.

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Aug 2023 Acquired Stellar Service Brands
Aug 2023 Invested in 1-800-Textiles
Aug 2023 Invested in Bio-One
Aug 2023 Acquired Card My Yard

Cohere Capital

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Cohere Capital is a growth focused private equity firm that invests in leading middle-market businesses. We have over 30 years of combined experience investing in and working with growth companies, and we bring that experience to our partnerships with entrepreneurs, management teams, and companies.We take our approach from our name, "Cohere", which means being united and consistent. Our firm is founded on that philosophy.Growth is our focus. We help solidify a strong foundation and provide the expertise and capital to achieve the growth plan. While not all growth is linear, we are focused…

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Dec 2025 Acquired Flextecs
Sep 2025 Acquired Leverege
Feb 2023 Acquired Phaedon
Mar 2022 Acquired Boostability

River Sea Network

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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River Sea Network is an acquirer with committed capital to purchase contractor services businesses across the country.We have flexible capital, allowing us to both work with owners who want to continue to operate their business after a transaction in addition to owners who want to transition away from their business or retire. Following a transaction, we provide capital investment, strategic resources and human capital to help companies achieve their full potential. We are team players who believe that a culture of collaboration, shared ownership and aligned incentives create long-term…

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Jan 2025 Acquired Home Pro Roofing
Oct 2024 Acquired Trinity Exteriors
Sep 2024 Acquired Perfect Exteriors of Minnesota
Feb 2024 Acquired Fargo Roofing & Siding

West Lane Capital Partners

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

Jamestown Capital

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Jamestown Capital is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm investing in lower middle market businesses in non-discretionary sectors. The firm was co-founded by managing partners Henry Carter and Nate Harner (both ex-IMC traders) in 2024 around the premise that the highest LLM returns come from operational efficiencies, not financial engineering. Combining patient capital with hands-on operational and technology expertise, Jamestown targets companies with the opportunity to meaningfully scale growth capacity and improve margins with technical systems upgrades, combining patient capital…

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May 2026 Invested in Titan Water Solutions
Mar 2026 Invested in Nexplore
Dec 2025 Invested in Guardian Hurricane Protection
May 2025 Invested in DC Live Productions

Station Partners

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Station Partners is an entrepreneurial private equity firm that makes control investments in support of management teams operating established lower-middle market businesses with outsized potential.Taking a long-term, value-based, people-first investment approach, the principals of Station invest their own capital, alongside a select group of industry pioneers, executive partners, and investment advisors, all of whom are passionate about building great enterprises. At Station, we understand that a company’s people and culture are the key to success, and we seek to work with entrepreneurs…

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Aug 2023 Invested in Granite Hills Group
Aug 2023 Invested in Ark Technology Companies
Aug 2023 Invested in COR Health
Feb 2022 Invested in River Riders

Tulcan

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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.

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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

Unity Partners

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Unity Partners is a middle-market PE firm that backs ambitious leaders in fragmented services businesses. Our Partner & Propel strategy - a) partners with leaders who would like to accelerate their plan through M&A b) propels teams forward by bringing operating expertise from the outset to help with levers, scale, and integration. We follow six operating principles, one of which is 'Purpose' - our belief in sharing the upside and building better together through broad employee ownership.

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Jun 2026 Invested in Meaden & Moore
Nov 2025 Acquired Yardmaster
Jun 2025 Invested in Ampleo
Jun 2025 Acquired Byng Group

Caltius Equity Partners

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Caltius Equity Partners buys and builds lower middle market companies in the Business Services, Industrial Services, Technology, and Consumer Services sectors. Founded in 1999, the Los Angeles-based private equity fund makes equity investments from $10 to $30 million for a controlling or substantial minority position in companies with $2 million to $12 million in EBITDA.Caltius Equity Partners’ creative and flexible solutions facilitate management buyouts, recapitalization, and growth financings. The firm’s experienced team develops deep relationships with its portfolio companies’…

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Oct 2022 Acquired APHIX
Jul 2019 Acquired Air Conditioning Innovative Solutions
Apr 2018 Acquired Health Payment Systems
Jun 2017 Acquired Talent Systems

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Firms in the Education Services 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.

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 Education Services Private Equity Funds is $3M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $800K-$4M. 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 245 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 Education Services Private Equity Funds 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 Private Equity Funds with experience in Consumer Services, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 245 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 Education Services Private Equity Funds directory, you can request information here.

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