Bluestem Management LLC is a Midwest-based family office that specializes in the acquisition and growth of established private companies. With a focus on privately held, founder-led businesses, Bluestem Management employs a buy-and-hold investment strategy that emphasizes legacy, people, and continuity. The company is dedicated to nurturing and expanding businesses, ensuring long-term success and stability. As a direct buyer, Bluestem Management is committed to maintaining the core values and operational integrity of the companies it acquires, making it a trusted partner in the business…
Entrepreneur Partners invests in the following segments:Direct marketing companies including business-to-business and business-to-consumer catalogers and direct marketers, specialty publishers, retailers and marketing service providers. Multi-channel retailers serving enthusiast customers.Printing and PackagingThe companies in which we invest are building loyal customer bases with high lifetime value – customer bases characterized by long relationships, frequent purchases and large cumulative spends. In addition to building high lifetime value, these companies participate in well-defined…
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Treaty Oak is an Austin-based private investment firm with capital commitments from two Texas family offices.We partner with privately held and family owned businesses to address funding needs, ownership transitions and succession planning issues while preserving legacy, existing culture and values. Our namesake, the Treaty Oak, is located in current-day downtown Austin. It is estimated to be over 500 years old and is a local symbol of Texas history and resilience. We seek to build long-term partnerships with our management teams. Our core values include conducting our business with…
Obelysk is a family office with a long history of investing in, operating and growing businesses in North America.We seek to acquire high-quality businesses and grow their cash flow through a combination of organic growth, operational improvements and M&A.Our focus is on acquiring lower middle market companies in the following industries: business / industrial services, light manufacturing / processing, infrastructure services, and home services.
Rising Ventures Group, established as a family-run business, came to fruition as a result of the family’s shared passion for Entrepreneurship, Value Creation, Leadership, Culture-building, Core Values, and Community.Both parents have been successful business owners since the mid-80’s and have spent their careers in CPG, Retail, Healthcare, Consulting, Manufacturing and Distribution. With savvy business acumen, multiple start-up companies were created and successfully exited, realizing extensive wealth.The younger generation of three adult children have experienced professional success and…
Caldicot Capital is a private equity firm serving lower middle market businesses. We view our investments as partnerships and take a hands-on approach in collaborating with business owners and management teams. We have a concentrated portfolio which enables us to focus our time and resources to closely support operators we invest in. When combining management's expertise with our own, we unlock significant value together. We focus on investing in businesses with $1 to $10 million of EBITDA and structure our transactions flexibly on a case-by-case basis with "patient capital"…
Jumana Capital is a private investment firm focused on long-term value creation through strategic investments in lower-middle market companies across the United States. We target founder- or family-owned businesses that are at an inflection point—whether through succession planning, operational optimization, or platform expansion—where our capital and partnership can accelerate growth.Investment CriteriaWe typically invest in companies with:EBITDA between $2 million and $15 millionDefensible market positions in niche sectorsRecurring or re-occurring revenue modelsA clear path for…
Forest Lane Capital is a Pittsburgh-based family office focused on acquiring lower middle market companies that welcome an energetic partner who wants to help them accelerate growth. Our model is centered on leveraging what we have seen and learned from thousands of other lower middle market businesses we have evaluated to help you grow yours. From our experience, the right mix of capital and operational resources provides the greatest opportunity to build long-term equity value.
Gart Capital Partners is a private investment partnership focused on investing in closely-held and family-owned businesses. We focus on facilitating ownership transition planning; and strategic future growth.With over ninety years of collective investing and operating experience, we are true innovative and operational partners rather than passive financial investors. In addition, our patient, family office capital base allows us to be uniquely flexible and focused on the long-term potential of every company in our portfolio.We partner with growing, lower middle market consumer and services…
Alitus Partners is a private equity firm managed by experienced operating executives rather than financial experts. Each of our managing partners have personally built companies from as small as a few million dollars of sales into businesses generating in excess of several hundred million dollars of revenue. Our goal is to acquire control positions in lower middle market companies, then use our hands on operating experience to help existing ownership and management realize potential which they can not achieve with their current resources. We not only know how to enhance the foundation of a…
Nobel Investments is a family investment office based out of Santa Monica, CA. We are majority stake hold investors and are owners / operators of our businesses post-acquisition. We invest in businesses that operate in industries where we have demonstrated a successful track record of helping companies scale – either as direct operators or as consultants.Nobel Investments was founded by Atta Tarki. Born in Tehran, Atta moved to the countryside of Sweden at age 7, where he grew up a few minutes away from Alfred Nobel’s workshop. There, Atta developed a deep respect for Alfred Nobel’s…
Pulte Capital seeks acquisitions and relationships in targeted sectors across the building products industry. We specialize in flexible transaction structures, with particular expertise in strategic partnerships and recapitalizations in which management teams have the opportunity to retain significant ownership stakes. Our target transactions typically range from $10 – $200 million in size. We generally invest in middle-market companies and lower-priority divisions of national companies in the following building products segments: Niche / Specialty building products businesses Countertops /…
Schultz Brothers Holdings is a family-owned holding company based in Texas, focused on acquiring and operating small to mid-sized businesses primarily in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, with flexibility to consider opportunities across the broader Texas region. We are long-term operators—not financial engineers—and we take pride in preserving the legacy and culture of the businesses we invest in.We target companies with $1M to $5M in EBITDA across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, industrials, consumer products, technology, business services, energy, and…
Falcon Private Investments is a family office with over three decades of experience in managing and investing in a diverse range of assets. The firm specializes in growth capital and distressed assets, focusing on non-healthcare related companies. Falcon Private Investments is particularly active in the industrial sector, with a strong emphasis on steel processing, fabrication, distribution, and logistics. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, the firm is committed to value investing across North America, leveraging its extensive expertise to drive growth and operational excellence in…
Taubman Capital (“TC”) is a private equity investment firm for the Taubman familyThrough TC, the family is building an investment portfolio of world-class businesses led by exceptional management teams outside of its core real estate holdingsThe firm’s flexible, long-term capital base offers sellers closing certainty, while also providing management teams with the ability to focus on building larger, more valuable enterprises without time constraints or exit pressuresTC has no outside investors – all internal capital means making investment decisions as true owners and the ability to…
OverviewThe Thomas Family office has a strong tradition of establishing, acquiring and growing family owned manufacturing, service and distribution companies. Royal Vendors and Coin Acceptors, Inc. have both been owned by the Thomas family since their founding’s 30 and 60 years ago respectively. Numerous add-on acquisitions have been made to these two companies over the years that have helped grow them into the market leaders that they are today. We have rich histories in metal fabrication, plastics and electronics manufacturing, tight-tolerance engineering, refrigeration engineering,…
KGF Capital Partners is a single-family office founded by Louis Kenter, who previously co-founded Prospect Partners, a Chicago-based middle-market private equity firm. We pursue microcap platform buyouts (sub-$3 million EBITDA) in manufacturing, value-added distribution, and business services, along with add-on acquisitions of all sizes for our existing portfolio companies — John Boos & Co. (commercial food equipment) and Workspace+ (school and laboratory furniture).
GoodCapital owns and builds national leading companies that have a clear purpose and long-term reason to exist. We do this by combining talented leadership, smart capital, and the flexibility to own them forever. We are led by entrepreneurs who have been there and done it - successfully leading and transforming purpose-built businesses.The GoodCapital team has completed 7 transactions with a focus on safety and asset management software and technology.
Smith Ventures is a single family office that acquires and holds generational businesses long term. The family’s capital originated from founding and exiting multiple technology businesses, giving them a deep understanding of what it takes to build a successful organization.
Family office with $150MM in capital to acquire lower middle market businesses. Our strategy, eBuild Ventures, is nestled within a public holdco called ENDI with a few cashflow generating businesses including a mutual fund with $2-3B AUM.
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