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Gemini Investors Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 131 Total Closed Deals
Founded in 1993, Gemini Investors is a Massachusetts-based private equity firm that provides capital and strategic resources to lower middle market companies. Since its inception, we have invested approximately $600 million in more than 100 companies throughout the U.S., typically investing $3 – $8 million per transaction in either control or minority positions. Gemini offers a flexible investment approach. We provide a wide range of financing structures, which include subordinated debt with warrants, preferred stock, and common equity. We have extensive experience leading transactions, as…
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L Catterton Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 81 Total Closed Deals
About UsSince 1989, L Catterton has made more than 300 investments in leading consumer brands across all segments of the consumer industry. With over $30 billion dedicated to growing middle market companies and emerging high-growth enterprises, we are the largest and most experienced consumer-focused private equity group in the world.How We Foster GrowthOur Operations Team is comprised of in house functional and strategic leaders, our focused team of expert project leaders and associates and an eco-system of partners with expertise in key supplemental functions (e.g. digital, market research,…
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Jan 2014
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Jan 2014
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Arcapita Group Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 66 Total Closed Deals
Arcapita is a global investment firm focused on middle-market private equity and real estate transactions, with offices in Atlanta, Bahrain, London, and Singapore.Over the past 20 years, Arcapita has completed over 70 investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.Our flexible investment mandate and hold period allow for creative structuring solutions and the ability to partner with founders, executives, family offices, fundless sponsors, and institutional investors.
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Jan 2022
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Dec 2019
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Dec 2017
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Oct 2010
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Gen Cap America Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 57 Total Closed Deals
Gen Cap America (GCA) is a private equity firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee that specializes in leveraged buyouts of privately held lower-middle market businesses. Investment Criteria: Revenue: $5M - $100MEBITDA: $1.5M - $10M Geography: United States & CanadaTransaction Types: Family SuccessionManagement BuyoutDivisional Spin-offRecapitalizationsMost transactions are management buyouts or buyouts of one or multiple retiring owners. GCA target investments typically have a long history of successful operations and cash flow, and quality managers who wish to be part of the buying…
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Feb 2022
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Sep 2021
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Jan 2021
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Sep 2020
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Graham Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 46 Total Closed Deals
Graham Partners is a private investment firm focused on investing in businesses with proprietary technologies, advanced manufacturing know-how, innovative product development capabilities, and strong growth potential. Graham Partners targets companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million, and will invest in smaller companies to the extent they complement one or more of its other holdings. Since the firm's founding in 1988, Graham Partners has closed over sixty acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and divestitures. The committed capital raised since inception through the Graham…
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Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Company Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 44 Total Closed Deals
HKW is evolving with clarity and purpose, while honoring the vision of the firm’s founders and our 100 plus year history. We focus on specific sectors in which we can utilize our skills and perspective, leveraging technology as part of a data-driven methodology to power our “Four Pillar” structure. HKW has developed processes that support our strategy to find, create, and sustain value in our companies while trusting and appreciating that our approach is what sets us apart.
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Dec 2022
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Mar 2022
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Blue Point Capital Partners, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 44 Total Closed Deals
Blue Point Capital Partners is a private equity firm managing over $1.5 billion in committed capital. With offices in Cleveland, Charlotte, Seattle and Shanghai, Blue Point’s geographical footprint allows it to establish relationships with local and regional entrepreneurs and advisors, while providing the resources of a global organization. The Blue Point partner group has a 21-year track record of partnering with lower middle-market businesses to build processes and capabilities to achieve dramatic growth, specializing in ownership recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and buyouts,…
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Mar 2018
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Mar 2018
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Nov 2017
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Aug 2017
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Clearview Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 42 Total Closed Deals
We are a private investment firm specializing in control and non-control investments of North American companies with operating profits of $4 - $20 million.Since the firm’s founding in 1999 by Jim Andersen, Calvin Neider and Pete Doolittle, Clearview has single-mindedly remained dedicated to investing in and supporting the development of lower middle market companies. Working collaboratively with our portfolio company management teams, we provide targeted strategic and operational assistance, as well as capital, to fuel organic and acquisition growth initiatives.Since inception, the…
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Apr 2023
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Dec 2021
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Sep 2021
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Aug 2021
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Encore Consumer Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 33 Total Closed Deals
Encore Consumer Capital is an innovative private equity firm built specifically to help consumer products companies grow. We invest exclusively in leading consumer products companies, and utilize the experience and network of our operating partners at Encore Associates to accelerate their growth. Encore provides a unique combination of exceptional talent, diversity of experience, and operational capabilities to build partnerships with its portfolio companies.
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Argosy PE Investments, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 32 Total Closed Deals
Founded in 1990, Argosy Capital invests entrepreneurial capital with experienced business partners in two asset classes, lower middle market operating companies and real estate. Our focus is on creating value with our business partners by investing in inefficient markets where creativity, hard work and disciplined risk taking can generate exceptional returns for the benefit of all stakeholders. As partners with our investors, co-investors, operating company management teams and real estate operating partners, we are dedicated to creating value by building upon the strengths of the people,…
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Aug 2023
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May 2023
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Apr 2023
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Nov 2022
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Graylight Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 30 Total Closed Deals
Graylight Partners, LLC provides capital and support to emerging middle-market companies for the purpose of creating long-term value. We are approachable and collaborative investment partners with a different perspective. Our goal is to achieve growth through business model refinement and sustainable value creation, not financial engineering.As such, we seek out opportunities in unique business niches to find companies that are doing things differently. We look for innovators and groundbreakers that need a true partner to take their business to the next level. We then work closely with these…
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Nov 2022
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Mar 2021
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Mar 2019
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Highview Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

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  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 30 Total Closed Deals
Highview Capital is a $500 million family-office backed private equity fund in Los Angeles with an evergreen fund structure (patient capital with ability to hold longer) and flexible, opportunistic investment mandateWe look for companies poised to undergo a transformation. We drive value through a strategic and operational approach coupled with patient capital and an extremely flexible mandate.We invest in middle market businesses that are facing a critical inflection point and are ready for transformation, whether that is executing turnarounds or managing rapid growth.Typical investment…
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Aug 2023
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Sep 2022
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Bertram Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 27 Total Closed Deals
BERTRAM CAPITAL is a private equity firm that partners with management teams to fuel the expansion of lower middle market companies. In addition to supplying flexible investment capital, we are committed to providing meaningful operational and strategic resources to facilitate rapid growth in revenue and profitability. We work with companies to unlock the full potential of previously resource-constrained businesses. Bertram Capital's core objective is to propel management teams in their quest to build more capable, faster growing, and highly profitable enterprises BERTRAM CAPITAL is actively…
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May 2023
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Aug 2022
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Mangrove Equity Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 27 Total Closed Deals
Mangrove Equity Partners' founding principals enjoy a national reputation as uncommonly effective, fair, flexible and honorable partners to company owners and managers. We have the captive financial resources (including bridge capabilities) and deal experience to efficiently close transactions. We also have substantial operating experience and a collaborative approach to building value at the companies with whom we partner. Mangrove's three person internal operating team affords our fund the ability to help owner/operators maximize the value of their retained ownership, and allows Mangrove to…
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Dec 2021
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Jan 2021
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Nexphase Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 26 Total Closed Deals
NPC is a thematic and operationally-focused private equity firm that partners with founder-owned companies that have reached a growth inflection point and are seeking a value-added partner to help navigate the ‘Next Phase’. NPC specializes in three distinct sectors: Consumer, Healthcare, and Software & Services. NexPhase was formed in 2016 by the former principals of Moelis Capital Partners.
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Apr 2018
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Feb 2018
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Mar 2017
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Oct 2016
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Eureka Equity Partners, L.P. Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 25 Total Closed Deals
Eureka Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in and building niche-market leaders at the lower end of the middle market. Eureka’s core focus is partnering with exceptional management teams to acquire businesses with up to $100 million in revenue across industry segments in which Eureka brings significant experience and operating resources, including business services, health care services, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Eureka leads buyouts that bring significant ownership to the operators driving the success of the business. With this core principle…
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Nov 2014
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Feb 2013
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Dec 2012
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May 2011
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Halifax Group Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 25 Total Closed Deals
The Halifax Group is a private investment firm dedicated to partnering with founders and managers of lower middle-market businesses with total enterprise values generally between $50 million and $300 million.
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Nov 2019
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Sep 2019
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Jun 2019
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Apr 2018
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Compass Diversified Actively Sourcing Deals

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  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 25 Total Closed Deals
Compass Diversified (NYSE: CODI) (“CODI”) is an owner of leading middle market businesses in the consumer and industrial sectors. Each of its current subsidiaries is a leader in its niche market. Unlike traditional private equity investors, CODI’s permanent capital structure enables us to invest in people, processes, culture, and growth opportunities that drive transformational change. The potential for extended ownership enables our collaborative, low leverage approach, which is attractive to management teams and allows subsidiaries to better manage for growth.Ability to provide both…
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Aug 2022
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Jul 2022
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Sep 2021
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Oct 2020
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Harren Equity Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 24 Total Closed Deals
Harren Equity Partners is a Charlottesville, Virginia and Fort Lauderdale, Florida based private investment firmand leading provider of equity for middle market acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth capital financings. Harren professionals work with each portfolio company to develop and/or implement a strategic business plan, and we support management by providing the operational, financial and human resources necessary to manage the increasingly complicated decisions associated with growing a business. Harren's approach to private investment is significantly differentiated from the…
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Apr 2022
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Aug 2021
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Jun 2021
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Century Park Capital Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Private Equity Firm
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 24 Total Closed Deals
CENTURY PARK CAPITAL PARTNERS is a middle market private equity investment group with capabilities to provide equity capital for growth, shareholder liquidiity or both. We typically invest $10 million to $40 million in profitable, growing middle-market companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $100 million. We can make larger investments with the participation of our institutional limited partners. We are relationship-driven, long-term investors, partnering with owners and management to build industry-leading companies. We do not intrude in day to day operations, but rather seek to…
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Aug 2023
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