Top Forest Products Private Equity Funds

Council Capital

16 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Our goal is to ensure every investment we make is on the right side of change in healthcare – supporting companies that improve the healthcare system and who will help accelerate the shift from volume of service to value. While change is often slow and unpredictable, we seek investments that perform well in the current environment and will thrive as the pace of change accelerates.We invest in companies positioned for rapid growth that operate in excellent markets within healthcare. Our focused approach targets companies that will benefit most from our relationships and expertise.Within the…

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• Aug 2025 Invested in GeoH
• Aug 2024 Invested in StrataPT
• Mar 2024 Invested in Opus Medical (fka OccMD, Allegiant Managed Care, and Corporate Remedies)
• Nov 2022 Invested in Alivia Analytics

May River Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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May River Capital is a private equity investment firm based in Chicago and founded by three partners who seek to help lower middle-market, high-caliber industrial businesses grow and thrive. We take pride in our culture of partnership and collaboration—a characteristic rooted in the fundamental appreciation of the human element in business. Since 2012, we have completed 33 acquisitions across 15 industrial growth platforms. We are currently investing out of our third Fund of $530M.

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• Apr 2025 Acquired Tusk Industrial
• Oct 2024 Acquired NDSL
• Oct 2024 Acquired Cashco
• Nov 2023 Acquired RLE Technologies

Charter Oak Equity

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Charter Oak Equity and its predecessor funds have invested in private equity since 1992. We focus on niche manufacturing, packaging, medical products & services, specialty chemicals, consumer products and financial services companies ranging in size from start up to $150 million enterprise value. To date, over $500 million in control-oriented capital has been invested in 30 portfolio companies through over 50 acquisitions.The general partners average over 10 years of private equity experience having previously worked together at Charter Oak Capital Partners. Prior to joining Charter Oak,…

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• Aug 2023 Invested in EiKO Global LLC
• Aug 2023 Invested in Metal Powder Products LLC
• Aug 2023 Invested in LicaFlex Packaging
• Aug 2023 Invested in Revere Industries LLC

Traction Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Traction Capital is a Minnesota-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and scaling businesses located in the Upper Midwest.Traction seeks buyouts in essential industries with strong, defensible market positions, target control investments in lower middle market companies with $1–3.5M of EBITDA, Traction is also very interested in ecommerce, product, and SaaS opportunities.Traction prioritizes industries with recurring demand, low cyclicality, and meaningful barriers to entry, enabling sustainable value creation and attractive exit optionality.

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• Jun 2025 Invested in PARQA
• Jun 2025 Invested in Blank Metal
• Feb 2025 Acquired Superior Decks and Railings
• Dec 2024 Invested in Atlasticity

Hadley Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We work with founders/owners, families and management teams in need of ownership transition, management succession, and / or growth support. We primarily focus on companies with revenue between $5 million and $80 million, and a cash flow between $1 million and $10 million. We consider a wide range of industries and look for companies with potential to build on past successes and open to new ideas.

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• Sep 2014 Acquired Brushy Mountain Bee Farm
• Sep 2013 Acquired Centare
• Dec 2012 Acquired Bluff Manufacturing
• Sep 2012 Acquired W.C. Rouse

Blue Sage Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Blue Sage Capital is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm that has been investing in profitable, growing, lower middle-market companies since 2002. Blue Sage currently has over $400 million of assets under management and seeks to partner with founders, families, and management teams as the first round of institutional capital for businesses that enjoy leadership positions in niche manufacturing, environmental solutions, or specialty services industries. Blue Sage typically invests $20 million to $40 million in control buyout investments and recapitalizations of companies with $20…

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• Apr 2023 Invested in NexGen Financial
• Jan 2023 Invested in Clearly Clean
• Jul 2022 Invested in Baker Manufacturing Company LLC
• Apr 2021 Acquired Purpose Legal

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Third Century Management, LLC

14 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Third Century Investment Associates, LP ("TCIA") manages private equity capital for significant investments in small businesses. We invest actively in partnership with operating companies and carefully selected management teams located in the United States. Our team targets proven businesses in specialized sectors where we work to become advantaged investors through existing or acquired expertise. We are a disciplined, process-driven partnership, focused on long-term fundamentals. Our mission is to build sustainable business value, earn a superior return and develop a best-in-class reputation…

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• Apr 2026 Acquired Mobile IV Medics
• Sep 2025 Acquired BlackJet Marketing
• Jul 2025 Acquired Local Web Leads
• Oct 2024 Acquired Mobile RN Management

Ironbridge Equity Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Ironbridge is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $750 million of assets under management focused exclusively on investing in companies in the Canadian lower middle-market. We focus on traditional industry businesses in the manufacturing, distribution, consumer products and services, and business products and services spaces. We have completed over 55 transactions since 2005 and are currently deploying from our $383M Fund IV. We are looking for new platform acquisitions in Canada fitting the following parameters:Lower middle-market focus:• Deal Sizes generally between $25 and…

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• Oct 2018 Invested in Canada Metal (Pacific) Limited
• Dec 2017 Invested in Midland Appliance
• Jun 2017 Invested in Avena Foods
• Jun 2017 Invested in Brooklin Concrete Products

Metalmark Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Metalmark targets middle-market companies, seeking to build long-term value through active and collaborative partnerships with business owners, founders and executives.We invest primarily in privately held companies with a significant strategic footprint and growth objective in the North American market.Metalmark is a patient and diligent partner intent on building long-term enterprises.

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• Aug 2023 Acquired CP Power
• Aug 2019 Acquired Collagen Matrix
• Oct 2018 Acquired T Parker Host
• Oct 2016 Acquired Premier Research

Platform Partners LLC

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Founded in 2006, Platform Partners is a Houston-based investment firm that as of September 2025 manages approximately $800M of assets in a perpetual holding company structure, which allows for a long-term, patient approach. We have invested in over 30 companies, and we typically are the first institutional investor. We invest $25-$100M of equity in profitable, growing companies, and like a private equity firm invest from a pool of committed capital. We invest across industries and have significant experience in business services, financial services and industrial…

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• Oct 2025 Acquired Champion Contractors & Services
• Dec 2024 Acquired Basin Creek
• Oct 2024 Acquired Progressive Pipeline Management, LLC
• May 2024 Acquired Alliance Strategies Inc

LDR Growth Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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LDR Growth Partners (LDR) is a people-focused private equity firm.Our vision centers on maximizing the potential of people, communities, and businesses through teamwork and the infusion of human and capital resources.Our mission is to create a new standard for successful North American businesses by aligning growth and infrastructure with optimism and opportunity.Our values are trust, service, creativity, and discipline.

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• Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Jul 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• May 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

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

Sunridge Partners

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OverviewSunridge Partners is a private principal investor focused on food, beverage, agribusiness, and related sectors. We partner with exceptional companies to guide them through rapid yet sustainable growth to become clear leaders. Sunridge has significant sectoral strategic, operational, development, and financial expertise from nearly 15 years of deploying capital across the value chain. Our flexible model allows us to provide patient capital, deep industry expertise and relationships, and a hands-on approach to achieving outsized returns for all stakeholders.   Investment…

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• Apr 2025 Acquired Marin Gimenez
• Feb 2025 Acquired Juan Rubert
• Sep 2024 Acquired Norbev
• Aug 2024 Acquired Legacy Foods

Catalus Capital

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Sole Source Capital

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Founded in 2016 by David Fredston, Sole Source Capital is a private equity firm that thematically invests in fragmented, high-growth industrial subsectors. Sole Source seeks founder-owned businesses or corporate carve-outs that will benefit from the team’s operating and M&A capabilities. The Firm has a strong operating heritage that enables it to execute a buy-and-build strategy with significant downside protection. The Firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Santa Monica, California.

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• Sep 2024 Acquired GrayMar Environmental Services, Inc.
• Aug 2023 Invested in Cantium
• Feb 2023 Acquired Lee Fish
• Oct 2022 Acquired Westwood Laboratories

Rising Point Capital Management, LLC

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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