Entrepreneurial operator with a strategy background, actively seeking to acquire and grow businesses with $500K–$1.5M in EBITDA. Focus on essential services with recurring cash flow, strong teams, and durable customer bases. Target sectors include automotive services, light industrial, education, and culturally aligned food concepts. Long-term ownership mindset with operational support and reinvestment capacity. Open to both 100% acquisitions and majority recapitalizations.
We have known each other for over twenty years. This deep connection is embodied in our name; Valpo is short for “Valparaiso,” the street where we met one another and grew up. We’re not the traditional investor group that has probably been knocking on your door. For starters, we use our own capital. Here’s how else we’re different:
Actively seeking strong cash-flowing companies with scalable teams and clear growth potential. While our core focus includes construction, concrete, and development, we are fully open to exceptional opportunities in any sector that demonstrate great fundamentals and operational scale.
NJK Partners (NJK) is a thematic private alternative investment firm focused on opportunistically acquiring and scaling family-friendly assets, with an emphasis on opportunities often located in underserved communities throughout the United States. Kevin (Founder of NJK) has extensive experience in finance, having previously served as an Alternative Investment Research Analyst with a focus on private equity and real estate investing. In this role, he developed a comprehensive understanding of investment analysis and demonstrated a consistent ability to identify and evaluate opportunities…
Primarily focusing on purchasing a business focused on B2B but also willing to look at B2C businesses. Not interested in HVAC,landscaping,restaurants,laundromats. Open to operating a business and also buying a business with management in place.Funding will come from Personal savings, family wealth, and family & friend investors.
Curtis Eggemeyer is a driven entrepreneur, investor, and operator with a passion for building enduring companies that shape the future, value the present and honor the past while creating opportunities for high performing teams to thrive in their environment. Within the last two decades, Curtis has founded, scaled, and successfully exited multiple businesses across consumer products, chemical manufacturing, and private label development — including leading Lemi Shine from a small household brand into a nationally recognized category disruptor, culminating in a strategic exit.Today, Curtis…
Highland Healthcare Partners (HHP) is an independent sponsor exclusively focused on sourcing, acquiring, and managing exceptional healthcare assets to Accelerate Impact & Maximize Value.
Donghaeng America, Inc.At Donghaeng America, we are a U.S.-based investment firm focused on acquiring and growing lower middle-market businesses. We specialize in partnering with founder-led companies during ownership transitions, bringing operational experience, cross-border insight, and a long-term mindset.Investment Focus:Target EBITDA: $1M–$10MEnterprise Value: $10M–$100MIndustries:OEM/ODM ManufacturingAutomotive & Aftermarket PartsHealthcare & Industrial DistributionB2B Niche ServicesGeography: U.S.-based companies with domestic or international potentialTransaction Types:…
Investor with over 20 years of private equity experience across a broad range of deal types (family owned, founder backed, and institutional ownership), sizes (from a few million in revenues to a few hundred million in EBITDA) and structures (minority and majority). Currently serving as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Rock Capital is a Canadian Private Equity Group located in the Greater Toronto Area. It was founded on a unique focus to own and operate businesses, through acquisition with proven durable competitive advantages. We work with companies both regionally and nationally in a wide variety of industries and markets that have a strong track record of success looking for a viable transition or exit.
Walnut Bay Partners is holding company that acquires and operates small businesses in the U.S. for the long term. Modeled after Berkshire Hathaway, we focus on buying high-quality, cash-flowing companies — or distressed assets with turnaround potential — and holding them indefinitely. We specialize in smooth succession for retiring owners, preserving legacies while improving operations and driving growth. Our structure allows investors to own shares in the HoldCo, with no fund lifecycles or forced exits. We don’t flip businesses — we steward them, optimize them, and grow them for…
Socium Capital is a Toronto-based private investment firm built on the foundation of partnership, integrity and trust.We’re focused on investing into exceptional private businesses across North America. We use our capital, operational expertise and extensive networks to accelerate growth and drive value over the long-term.We are committed to the continued success of the business, culture, well-being of employees and safeguarding the legacy that has been crafted over the years.We acquire businesses with an EBITDA of $1 - $10 million.
Autokatalyst is a New York-based digital transformation and technology enablement firm, focused on making control investments in digitally-native businesses (SaaS, tech-enabled services, business process automation firms) and businesses in traditionally non-digital industries where it has identified opportunities for specialized process automation technologies to generate significant value creation and growth acceleration.Uniquely situated as value-add investors, we combine capital investment with a bottom-up approach of applying transformative technologies across a firm. Our experience spans…
This is a fundless sponsor / independent sponsor. We are targeting profitable businesses that could form the platform business of a bolt on accretive acquisition strategy. We are a newly formed entity. I have experience delivering LOIs and have relationships with the investment banking and financing community, in addition to legal counsel relationships that could paper a transaction. We have colleagues and personal relationships that have deep experience in private equity and search funds. My partner has worked in the consumer space in e-commerce retail, as well as in large, global…
We are looking to acquire financial services, general services and health/fitness organizations with greater than $500K in cashflow. I am doing this because I have been working in the technology world for the last 35 years running organizations that I was a very small stakeholder in, and I am now looking to leverage that experience as a small business owner/entrepreneur.
Mechanot is a boutique private equity firm for over 13 years that has been investing in people who are passionate about their businesses and are leading operators within their fields. We drive success through a keen focus on financial performance driven by exceptional cultures - no jerks allowed. The investment activities of the firm are led by our two Managing Partners, Sean Larkin, MBA CPA and Kristin Baker, PhD MPH. Sean is a global corporate executive in the industrial manufacturing industry and currently the CEO of a multinational technology hardware company. Kristin is a global…
Crestone Properties is a real estate investment company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The firm specializes in asset management, development, investment banking, and business operations, focusing on maximizing property value through strategic investments. Crestone Properties develops, operates, and owns a diverse range of real estate properties, leveraging its expertise to enhance asset performance and deliver value to stakeholders. With a robust team of around 100 employees, the company is well-positioned in the real estate market, managing a variety of wholly owned and joint venture…
Managing Partner, Boudrow Capital LLCIndependent acquirer focused on buying and operating B2B service businesses with recurring revenue in New England. Background in sales and revenue operations at high-growth tech companies, now applied to modernizing traditional service businesses for long-term ownership.Professional BackgroundKlaviyo (Employee #9): Early sales hire during the company's foundational growth phase. Built initial sales processes and customer acquisition workflows at what became a $9B+ public company (NYSE: KVYO).Metrilo (Sales Director): Led sales for an e-commerce analytics…
Josh leads the Oceans Equity investment committee and oversees operations at the firm. Collaborating with key stakeholders, executives, and board members, Josh formulates growth strategies and objectives for each investment.With nearly 20 years of investing and M&A advisory experience, Josh has developed the ability to foresee challenges that small businesses face as they progress along their growth trajectory. He leverages his expertise to optimize capital structures, allocate resources, recruit executives, and establish efficient organizational infrastructures. Josh also possesses a core…
Brown Street Capital is a private investment firm focused on lower middle-market opportunities in the U.S. We partner with exceptional companies seeking the next stage of growth.
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