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Zatara Capital

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    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Zatara Capital is a boutique merchant banking platform focused on making control equity investments and providing capital and debt advisory services to middle market companies. Founded by leveraged finance professionals, Zatara Capital looks to partner or acquire founder owned businesses in fragmented sectors. Our deep transactional experience and strong relationships with operating professionals helps us to identify opportunities and unlock potential within these businesses.On the capital advisory side, we deliver truly differentiated capital markets expertise with our ability to raise…

Upside Capital

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Founded in 2022, Upside Capital was born as the result of the effort of investors who decided to integrate their knowledge through Private Equity. Its founding partners and managers have been in the consulting industry for more than 20 years and have experience in company transformations in the most successful industries: healthcare, banking, utilities, fuels, and retail among others. The combination of Consulting and M&A experience gives Upside Capital an edge in company transformation and the ability to understand the possible drivers of valuation and the key levers to scale. Upside Capital…

Flatrock Management

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Flatrock provides patient capital to ambitious and growing small businesses, with preferred equity, mezzanine debt and second lien notes. Raise on your own terms. Harness equity or debt capital over a 5-10 year period. Stay in complete control of your business - and prepare for a successful exit.

Ranosys Technologies Pte Ltd

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Lacher Investments

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I have a strong background in investing, finance and operations through varied experiences in PE, investment banking and portfolio operations. I am currently a second year at Columbia Business School and a member of the PE fellows program. I enjoy investing in and working with companies, management teams, and entrepreneurs to help them reach their full potential.

Dara Knot Capital Partners

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Dara Knot is a Los Angeles-based private investment and advisory firm, founded to bring entrepreneurial passion, best in class strategic and operational support, and highly tailored capital solutions to small and lower middle-market services businesses seeking to achieve their next level of growth and profitability. 

Streamside Ventures LLC

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For over 20 years, our principals have been involved with small and middle-market businesses, having done everything from startup to restart to turnaround to successful sale of companies across a broad range of industries.We’ve done consulting engagements that include interim executive engagements, M&A advisory, and technology advisory and implementation for Financial, Agri-business, Aviation, Energy, Medical, Manufacturing, Contracting, and many others that don’t immediately spring to mind.Our current interest is in finding small and mid-market companies where we can take an ownership…

Dorn Group

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    This member has no reported closed transactions.

Dorn Group is a private investment firm focused on high-growth manufacturers across the industrial sector. We seek out opportunities where we are able to closely partner with management teams to create value through operational and commercial insight, and strategic growth capital.

Truce Media

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We acquire businesses in need of IP engineering and position them for aggregation. We are currently targeting a company in the marketing and advertising space with the aim of transforming their IP and data through innovative technology and AI.

Clay Ridge Capital

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Clay Ridge Capital is a Boston-area investment firm that was founded to acquire and operate small manufacturing and industrial companies in New England. We are focused on profitable companies with established operating histories, sustainable competitive advantages, and a strong base of talent.We are focused on companies which operate in mission-critical industries, such as Aerospace, Defense, Energy, Infrastructure, and Transportation.Our team brings decades of experience in Engineering, Production, and Management in Aerospace & Manufacturing companies with world-class education in…

Sago Capital

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Sago is an independent, Texas-based firm working to create the strongest long-term investments for, and relationships with, our partners.We are seeking to be our partners’ first and best resource for compelling, stable, and high-yield opportunities in all markets and categories of real property assets. Sago principals have extensive experience in both real estate investments and transactions as well as operating company management. This deep and diverse background allows us to evaluate both real property investments and tenants with every transaction. We personally conduct extensive due…

Baton Valley

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Baton Valley, founded in 2023 by University of Pennsylvania alumni, positions itself as a diversified investment group. Baton Valley's founders, with diverse expertise in aerospace, government contracting, education, security, logistics, family office, real estate, and international banking, bring a wealth of experience to the table. Baton Valley focuses on mature companies within construction, home services, technology, education, and security while exploring opportunities beyond these sectors.Baton Valley adopts a strategic approach reminiscent of Berkshire Hathaway, diverging from…

s.c. Renewable Energy s.r.l.

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Prospect the market to put in place a fiew case Studies in Renewable Energy , whith suport by hydro, solar and wind. We are in start -up project and try to realise some partnership in this maters. We are specialize in hydropowerstations , large and smalls. we are opened in any ather direction, I'm mechaniqual engeneer in hydropneumathichal machinary.I'. administrator and part in staf of this small company.Stefan rachitan

L39 Equity

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L39 Equity is a family office backed sponsor founded by an investment professional with experience in investment banking as well as principal investing at Credit Suisse, DLJ Merchant Banking, Westhook Capital and BlueRiver. The firm is focused on lower middle market investments in select geographical areas across the United States.

Moon Ridge Capital

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Moon Ridge was founded to combine Cam Wertheimer’s sales and operational experience in digital marketing and technology with Richard Palkhiwala’s investing and transactional experience in the public and private markets. We are focused on discovering tech-enabled businesses with high preforming management teams, and supporting them to drive growth and create value for our partners. 

Aaron Allen Capital Partners

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Aaron Allen Capital Partners (AACP) is an investment group focused on funding the future of foodservice™. A consortium of esteemed restaurant industry executives, investors, and family offices, we are combining resources to solve some of the biggest pain-points for the foodservice industry globally. We back high-growth-potential restaurant companies and innovative foodservice technology companies across the globe. AACP funds transactions through a combination of internal capital and an expansive network of third-party investors using a deal-by-deal approach to maximize value creation…

BHS Capital Group

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    This member has no reported closed transactions.

As an independent sponsor in the lower middle market, we specialize in acquiring positive cash flow businesses led by families or founders. We understand the unique needs of these owners and see ourselves as partners in extending their legacy during their transition out of the business. Our team leverages deep expertise in banking and management consulting, with one partner boasting experience in corporate finance at portcos of major PE firms and the other a proven track record at BCG and Oliver Wyman.

JCDR Investments, LLC

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    This member has no reported closed transactions.

JCDR has been established to source, evaluate, and purchase an individual company, with plans to become a holding company. The firm aims to leverage management's knowledge of financial evaluation to build, grow, and potentially exit target companies. To date, the company has purchased only hard real estate.

Hughes Asset Management

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Owners and partners have previously acquired half a dozen businesses, and posses a wide variety of business acumen. Located in the intermountain west, but with many ties to the US Southeast and various parts of Latinamerica. Having recently exited from prior holdings, investors are now in search of another business to add to their portfolio. Industry agnostic.

SeventeenOtis

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    This member has no reported closed transactions.

SeventeenOtis is seeking to buy one small business in niche manufacturing or industrial services. We want to work with a business owner who has built his or her business legacy and who is looking to move on to life’s next adventure, leaving the business in new, capable hands that will give the same care and dedication that built the business. SeventeenOtis is led by Karl Kulling, the son of small business owners, who has professional experience in a wide range of roles needed to run a business.Why work with SeventeenOtis and Karl?​I grew up with a small business as a central part of my…

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