We are passionate about improving the value and performance of your business. We've started companies, managed operations, made acquisitions, sold businesses, and learned plenty of valuable lessons along the way. Whether you are looking for a partner to help you grow your business, or someone to step in so you can take a step back, give us a call. We invest in businesses to help them grow, and hold for the long-term. Since we don’t raise blind pooled funds, we can seek out co-investors that have capital, experience, and expertise in your industry. Plus, with no arbitrary timelines to exit…
Lincoln Road Global Management, LLC (“Lincoln Road”) is a private equity firm focused on investing in market leading businesses. Our goal with every investment is to work in close collaboration with management, stakeholders, and operating partners in order to help these businesses achieve operational excellence and unlock the next phase of growth. As a result, we position our companies to enjoy long-term success well into the future.
Victor Capital Partners provides equity and resources to middle-market businesses with valuable brands and growth opportunities in the consumer, industrial, and business services sectors.
Milton Street seeks to consistently generate market-leading returns by transforming lower middle market industrial companies into sustainably great businesses through active engagement in strategy, human capital, and commercial and operational improvements.Prior to forming Milton Street in 2016, our founding team worked together for over a decade at a large and highly successful institutional private equity fund manager. One challenge that we believe the traditional private equity model faces is the pressure to invest in larger and larger companies, companies where there are fewer…
Sagemoore is a private equity firm focused on making investments in the lower middle-market. We utilize an evergreen fund structure with committed capital from family office investors resulting in a patient capital base.This structure offers a flexible investment horizon designed to maximize stakeholder alignment by focusing on true long-term value creation. Sagemoore’s investment principals each have more than 15 years of professional investing and healthcare operating experience.We seek to cultivate deep partnerships with entrepreneurs and experienced operating teams for the benefit of…
Alterna Equity Partners is a South Florida-based private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market U.S. companies through both control and select non-control transactions. The firm partners with founder-owned, family-owned, and entrepreneur-led businesses that have established operating histories, strong management teams, and clear opportunities for continued growth and value creation.Alterna’s investment strategy is centered on partnering with businesses, targeting Founder Rollover and alignment. The firm takes a relationship-driven approach to investing, working closely with…
Frontline Healthcare Partners is a dedicated private equity fund investing in lower middle market healthcare companies. Our strategy is focused on the shift in the provision of care form the hospital system to outpatient, retail, and home-based setting. We invest in both provider-based organizations and value-added vendors.
Kinzie invests in lower middle market companies amidst transition in the manufactured products, consumer and business services industries. Whether a company is experiencing a generational shift, period of high growth or changes in business cycles, we seek opportunities to create lasting change in today’s disruptive environment by leveraging technology and a strong operational focus to eliminate inefficiencies and unlock new business opportunities.
Sumit and Arun founded Gulmohar Capital Partners (GCP), a private investment firm focused on acquiring and scaling software and tech-enabled services businesses across the U.S. and Canada. Under GCP, they established GRCS Trust, a permanent-capital platform focused on governance, risk, compliance, and security (GRCS) software serving CIOs, CISOs, and regulated industries. The platform's first acquisition was CurrentWare, and GCP intends to continue expanding GRCS Trust through additional acquisitions that strengthen its position within the broader GRCS ecosystem.Sumit most recently served as…
When a business owner wants to exit, but lacks a succession plan, their legacy is in jeopardy. Who can be trusted to preserve and grow their business? Sleeping Giant Capital is a Kalamazoo based firm that exists to solve this dilemma. We invest in West Michigan by acquiring small businesses and growing them over the long term. To do so, we develop the next generation of business owners, back them with capital, and surround them operating resources and expertise.
Established in 2009 and based in Brussels, Syntagma invests in companies that can benefit from our hands-on operational expertise to accelerate growth and improve performance for the benefits of their employees, customers, suppliers and shareholders.Syntagma’s Partners have deployed €1.1 billion in over 40 companies with revenues in excess of €4 billion and employing over 11,000 people worldwide. Our team has successfully carved-out businesses from public and private companies, among others, Solvay, Tessenderlo, Ashland, Clariant, Tyco International, Smurfit Kappa, ADT and Getronics.As…
RAB Ventures is a healthcare-focused investment firm that partners with companies approaching profitability or seeking capital and expertise to scale an established platform. Founded by Richard Barasch, former CEO of Universal American (NYSE-listed through its sale to WellCare in 2017), RAB provides growth equity and credit to healthcare services, healthcare technology, and value-based care businesses navigating important strategic and operational inflection points.RAB also brings direct experience evaluating and structuring real estate alongside operating companies. When a business owns its…
At Saturn Five, we believe business is an adventure—and we love helping ideas, companies, and people get to bold new places. We do that through founding breakthrough startup ventures, finding opportunity for innovation and value-creation where some might just see an intractable problem. And we do that by owning and operating Main Street service companies that elevate people’s lives and enhance communities. Our daily commitment is to lead enduringly profitable businesses that we hold for the long-term. But we define true success…
We are fellow entrepreneurs and impact capitalists working on creating a better financial future for under-represented business owners.We do this by providing equity investments and management support to folks who want to acquire and run existing small businesses. We believe this is a sustainable path to reduce wealth disparities in our society and is a path that can naturally lead us to an evolving ecosystem that has a lasting impact on our communities.
Antarctica Capital, LLC, an international private equity firm headquartered in New York. Antarctica’s investment focus is on private markets, infrastructure and real assets within our target sectors and the creation of permanent capital vehicles to leverage this investment focus. Antarctica’s long-term capital and sourcing model, in conjunction with its vertically integrated asset management and investment platforms, uniquely positions the firm to structure transactions that maximize long-term value for both investors and portfolio companies.
9FB Capital is a lower mid market Private Equity firm which is operator-investor focused on buying, integrating, and compounding value in fragmented industries. At 9FB Capital, we pair disciplined acquisitions with a repeatable integration playbook: cross-selling across shared customer bases, driving organic growth with modern GTM and tech, unlocking financial efficiencies, and standardizing operations with EOS principles. We move quickly, treat founders like partners, and build platforms designed for optionality—recap or strategic exit on a predictable timeline.How 9FB Wins…
Stirling Heights is a holding company that acquires exceptional businesses and builds them to withstand the test of time. We care deeply about the companies we partner with and commit to preserve and advance their legacy, values, and people. Our structure enables us to nurture and grow our companies indefinitely, unfettered by short-term constraints.We have an experienced team with a proven track record of building businesses, and we are supported by committed capital from a select group of families and institutions who share our long-term vison. We are a lasting partner armed with…
Sara Capital Partners is an investment group focused on acquiring Midwest firms that are too small for traditional private equity (typically <$5m in EBITDA). We are operational focused and particularly interested in industries that qualify for QSBS tax treatment.
Founded in 1986, Nautic Partners is a middle-market focused private equity firm and has managed over $2.5 billion of assets over its 28-year history. Nautic primarily targets equity investments of $25 million to $75 million for majority ownership, with a focus on companies with $5 million to $40 million in EBITDA in the business services, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. Examples of focus sub-sectors for business services and manufacturing include specialty chemicals, specialty coatings, energy services, building products, petrochemical services, petrochemical infrastructure, aerospace…
Frontenac Company was founded in 1971 with the belief that people are the driving factor behind successful businesses. Nearly 20 years ago we developed a “CEO1ST Investing” strategy to partner with outstanding business leaders and together identify, acquire and build leading businesses. Our CEO1ST partners are leaders in their fields and provide strategic and operational insight to our portfolio companies.Together with our CEO1ST partners, we provide the capital, network and resources to enable our portfolio companies to respond to opportunities, grow and succeed.We focus on lower…
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