Validor Capital is a private investment firm that provides liquidity to family and founder owned industrial, manufacturing, and service businesses in the lower middle market. We seek situations where we can partner with management teams to leverage our combined expertise and deep industry relationships to create significant value. Our investment criteria is outlined below.- Industry: Industrials, Manufacturing, and Industrial Services- Transaction Type: Buyouts, Recapitalizations, & Corporate Divestitures- Size: EBITDA of $3 to $15 million- Geography: U.S. & Canada based…
Gridiron Capital is an investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams and creating value by building middle-market companies into industry-leaders in branded consumer, B2B and B2C services, and niche industrial segments in the United States and Canada. We help transform growing companies by winning together through hard work, partnerships grounded in shared values, and a unique culture that comes from hands-on experience building and running businesses. As a team led by former operators and entrepreneurs, we know what it takes to run successful…
Ironbridge is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $400 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 40 transactions since 2005 and are currently deploying from our $238M Fund III. We are looking for new platform acquisitions in Canada fitting the following parameters:Lower middle-market focus: • Deal Sizes generally between…
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.
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…
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…
The Pine Street Group is an investment holding company focused on investing in middle and lower-middle market businesses in a variety of industries. Our primary industries of focus include healthcare services, chemicals, financials, business services, franchise businesses, media, and agriculture. We have a highly flexible mandate enabling us to invest across capital structures and deal types. The Pine Street team has experience executing well over $1 billion in transaction value with over a decade of combined experience.
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…
Elm Creek Partners has a history of successfully collaborating with uniquely talented management teams to fully realize opportunities within niche industries or pursue opportunistic situations. These investments are typically smaller than what a traditional middle market investor will consider and do not fit the criteria of the traditional venture capital; limiting access to institutional capital. Situations may include teams interested in spinning off a corporate orphan or out of a corporate parent, reentering a consolidating/expanding market they have previously participated in or pursuing…
Starboard Capital Partners is a private equity firm that sponsors and invests in lower middle market companies, with values ranging from $10 million to $250 million. We participate with our network of high net worth, family office, and institutional fund co-investors to partner with management teams and entrepreneurs who are looking to accelerate the growth of their companies. Starboard is actively involved in leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, and recapitalizations. Most importantly, we actively listen to business owners and look to match our knowledge and capital resources to…
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…
One Equity Partners (OEP) makes private investments behind compelling business ideas and strong management teams. Established in 2001, OEP manages $11 billion of investments and commitments for JPMorgan Chase & Co. in direct private investment transactions. Partnering with management, OEP invests in transactions that initiate strategic and operational changes in businesses to create long-term value. OEP's investment professionals are located across North America, South America, Europe and Asia, with offices in New York, Chicago, Frankfurt, São Paulo and Hong Kong.One Equity Partners acts as…
Gallant makes control investments in sectors where the team has extensive experience and relationships that drive value. We use our operational expertise to support our management teams and strive to be valuable partners at every stage of our investments.
Established in February 2019 and currently registered with Financial Supervisory Service (equivalent to SEC in US) as General Partner for private equity funds, Dreamstone Partners is a global private equity firm based in Korea and a parent company of Dreamstone Private Equity and Dreamstone Aviation Partners. We invest across alternative asset classes covering private equity of our specialty and real assets including aircraft investments and real estate. We serve many institutional investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, family offices and other capital market investors. Our…
Assurance Growth Partners looks to work with business owners to allow them to fully exit or partially exit via control equity investments in private, lower middle market U.S. - based companies.
Founded in 2016 by David Fredston and an experienced group of private equity professionals, Sole Source Capital LLC (“SSC”) is an operationally-focused lower-middle market investment firm that targets investments in diversified industrial companies. SSC seeks to partner with founder-owned businesses and capitalize on opportunities with a higher degree of complexity, including corporate carve-outs and management buy-outs. SSC's expertise is in opportunities where our principals and operating advisors can help management teams achieve their goals by fostering a collaborative, high-touch…
Union Park Capital is a private equity investment firm focused solely on lower middle-market Industrial Technology companies. We partner with management teams to cultivate businesses through a combination of organic growth and careful strategic add-on acquisitions.
TJM Capital Partners is a boutique, operationally-focused private equity firm based in Chicago. The firm was founded in 2008 and is led by Tom McDonough (Founder and Managing Partner), Scott Witt (Partner), Bill Van Sant (Operating Partner) and Dan Cleary (Operating Partner). TJM seeks high growth potential middle market manufacturing and services businesses with $10-40 million revenue and $0-7 million EBITDA, and typically invests $2 to $20+ million of equity per transaction.Our firm primarily invests in, and serves as counselors to, companies in the following sectors:Industrial…
Cairngorm Capital is a specialist private equity investment firm providing capital and management expertise to leading US and UK companies. We invest in private lower mid-market growth companies in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and services industries. We manage $500m of committed capital and typically invest in companies with $2m to $20m EBITDA and the potential for substantial future growth.
Star Mountain Capital, founded in 2010 by Brett Hickey, is an asset management platform focused exclusively on the U.S. Lower Middle-Market. Leveraging its unique and differentiated "Collaborative Ecosystem" of partner fund managers and senior advisers across the United States, Star Mountain is a value-added capital provider to small businesses. Supported by some of the world's most sophisticated individual and institutional investors, Star Mountain looks to work with established small and medium-sized businesses unable to access the capital markets for their capital needs.Star Mountain…
