Top Industrial Machinery & Equipment Private Equity Funds with Recent Private M&A Activity

376

Active Firms

18,337

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$800K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range

Top States by Activity

Florida 14%

California 11%

Texas 10%

New York 7%

New Jersey 4%

Key Attributes

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

Highview Capital

30 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Highview Capital is a family-office backed private equity fund in Los Angeles with an evergreen fund structure (patient capital with ability to hold longer) and flexible, opportunistic investment mandate that has deployed nearly $700mm of equity capital through 2024.We look for companies poised to undergo a transformation. We drive value through a strategic and operational approach coupled with patient capital and an extremely flexible mandate.We invest in middle market businesses that are facing a critical inflection point and are ready for transformation, whether that is executing…

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Sep 2023 Acquired Lamm Food Service
Aug 2023 Invested in Safety Marking
Jun 2023 Invested in B&R Auto
Sep 2022 Acquired Armstrong’s Restoration

SE Capital Partners, LLC

29 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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SE Capital is a private investment and acquisition firm which operates as a strategic partner for quality management teams of small and mid-sized companies in select industries.As skilled business builders we know how to recognize compelling market and industry opportunities that others may overlook, and respond to them quickly and thoughtfully with a well-defined strategic vision.As hands-on investment professionals we help develop and arrange supportive, cost-efficient capital structures for improved organizational energy, operational flexibility and profitable growth.As relationship…

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Apr 2024 Acquired Cardinal Heating & Air
Jun 2022 Acquired Ultimate Heating & Air, Inc.
Apr 2022 Acquired Russett Southwest Corporation
Apr 2021 Acquired PEOPLEASE

Northern Lakes Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Northern Lakes Capital makes control equity investments in leading family owned private companies with revenues typically ranging from $15 million to $150 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) between $3 million and $20 million. We will look at smaller companies as add-on acquisitions.

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Apr 2026 Acquired Gary O’Brien Property Services
Apr 2026 Acquired Collins Brothers Towing of St. Cloud
Mar 2026 Acquired True Access Security
Jan 2026 Acquired Cones & Barrells

Martis Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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With offices in Palo Alto, CA, and Washington, DC, CHSO is a private investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare and wellness industry. We target middle-market companies and growth situations in North America where our team has an edge in understanding the opportunity, performing due diligence and adding value post close. Our investment team possesses over 50 years of combined investment and medical experience, and leverages an extensive network of relationships with healthcare executives, clinicians, scientists and regulators. We provide flexible, patient capital in partnership…

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Oct 2022 Invested in Alcanza Clinical Research
Nov 2021 Invested in Lighthouse Lab Services
Sep 2021 Acquired Community Based Care
Nov 2020 Acquired DCN Dx

Mangrove Equity Partners

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Mangrove Equity Partners' founding principals enjoy a national reputation as uncommonly effective, fair, flexible and honorable partners to company owners and managers. We have the captive financial resources (including bridge capabilities) and deal experience to efficiently close transactions. We also have substantial operating experience and a collaborative approach to building value at the companies with whom we partner. Mangrove's three person internal operating team affords our fund the ability to help owner/operators maximize the value of their retained ownership, and allows Mangrove to…

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Oct 2022 Invested in Atlas Greenhouse
Feb 2022 Acquired STCR
Dec 2021 Invested in Vintage Air
Jan 2021 Invested in Seaside Waste Services

Silver Oak Services Partners, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Silver Oak Services Partners is a lower-middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on service businesses. We seek to partner with exceptional management teams to build industry leading business, consumer and healthcare service companies.Silver Oak utilizes a proactive, research-led investment process to identify attractive services sectors and seek out the best potential management teams and investment opportunities. We bring extensive services industry expertise and relationships to our investments and work closely with our management teams to drive long-term value creation.Silver…

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Aug 2023 Acquired VASA Fitness
Dec 2022 Acquired Vecta Environmental Services
Dec 2020 Acquired Geriatric Medical
Nov 2020 Acquired Launch Family Entertainment

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Capitala Financial Advisors, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Capitala Group is an asset management firm that has been providing private credit and private equity capital to lower- and middle-market businesses throughout North America for over twenty years. Since our inception in 1998, Capitala has invested over $2.2 billion into small businesses and strives to make an impact through responsible investing and a unified mission to support social impact initiatives. We seek to partner with strong management teams to create value and support growth through strategic partnerships, operational expertise, and a shared vision for success.

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Jan 2025 Provided debt financing to Newbury Franklin Industrials
Dec 2024 Provided debt financing to The Stonewall Group
Oct 2024 Invested in Stueve Construction, LLC
Sep 2024 Acquired Better Car People

Halifax Group

25 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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The Halifax Group is a private investment firm dedicated to partnering with founders and managers of lower middle-market businesses with total enterprise values generally between $50 million and $300 million.

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Nov 2019 Acquired AAMP
Sep 2019 Acquired Prairie Industries
Jun 2019 Acquired StrataTech
Apr 2018 Acquired ChanceLight

Eureka Equity Partners, L.P.

25 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Eureka Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in and building niche-market leaders at the lower end of the middle market. Eureka’s core focus is partnering with exceptional management teams to acquire businesses with up to $100 million in revenue across industry segments in which Eureka brings significant experience and operating resources, including business services, health care services, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Eureka leads buyouts that bring significant ownership to the operators driving the success of the business. With this core principle…

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Nov 2014 Acquired Jansy Packaging, LLC
Feb 2013 Acquired West Academic Publishing
Dec 2012 Invested in Creative Co-Op
May 2011 Invested in Project Leadership Associates

Tonka Bay Equity Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Tonka Bay Equity Partners acquires and invests in small and midsized companies that are pursuing the next level of success. Our patient, personalized and collaborative approach has yielded superior returns for investors and management partners alike.Since 1998, Tonka Bay has raised more than $550 million of capital in four funds, composed of contributions from institutional investors, endowments, pensions, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. We seek to partner with and support management teams in established, profitable businesses that serve a specific niche. We do not consider…

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Jan 2023 Acquired Corporate Technologies
Jan 2022 Acquired Standard Locknut
Jan 2021 Acquired Professional
Jan 2021 Acquired Orange Tree

Harren Equity Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Harren Equity Partners is a Charlottesville, Virginia and Fort Lauderdale, Florida based private investment firmand leading provider of equity for middle market acquisitions, recapitalizations and growth capital financings. Harren professionals work with each portfolio company to develop and/or implement a strategic business plan, and we support management by providing the operational, financial and human resources necessary to manage the increasingly complicated decisions associated with growing a business. Harren's approach to private investment is significantly differentiated from the…

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Apr 2022 Acquired Core States Group
Jan 2022 Acquired A & A Transfer
Aug 2021 Invested in Health Connect America
Jun 2021 Acquired Alliance Ground International

Century Park Capital Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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CENTURY PARK CAPITAL PARTNERS is a middle market private equity investment group with capabilities to provide equity capital for growth, shareholder liquidiity or both. We typically invest $10 million to $40 million in profitable, growing middle-market companies with revenues ranging from $20 million to $100 million. We can make larger investments with the participation of our institutional limited partners. We are relationship-driven, long-term investors, partnering with owners and management to build industry-leading companies. We do not intrude in day to day operations, but rather seek to…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Packaging Plus LLC
Aug 2023 Acquired Becker Underwood Inc.
Aug 2023 Acquired Hi-Tech Rubber Inc.
Aug 2023 Acquired Aqua-Flo LLC

Ronin Equity Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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About Ronin Equity PartnersBased in New York City, Ronin Equity Partners represents a new type of investment firm, powered by an operationally-focused value creation strategy. Ronin makes control equity investments exclusively in the Industrial and Consumer sectors, where the team has prior investment and operating expertise. The group invests in market leaders with highly defensible market positions, strong demonstrated cash flows, and in situations where Ronin’s operating playbook can add value through enhanced systems, processes, and talent recruitment. The Ronin team embeds into each…

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Sep 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Jun 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Sep 2023 Acquired North Country Packaging
Apr 2023 Acquired Brewmation

Heartwood Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Heartwood Partners (formerly Capital Partner, Inc.) was formed in 1982. Since then, its principals have invested in more than seventy five companies. We believe in doing what we say we will do and being patient and disciplined investors who support exceptional management teams as they develop their businesses. On average, we have held our investments for over five years and have supported management through the acquisition of complimentary businesses. As supportive capital partners to exceptional management teams, together we have created substantial value.In January of 2014, we raised our…

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Sep 2020 Acquired Patten Seed
May 2020 Acquired MicroCare, LLC.
Oct 2019 Acquired Allentown, Inc.
Apr 2019 Acquired Universal Woods

Lightview Capital LLC

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Lightview Capital is a private equity firm that invests in profitable, capital efficient Business Services and Tech-Enabled Services companies in North America. We principally target bootstrapped and founder-owned companies, corporate divestitures and recapitalization transactions with EBITDA between $2m-$15m.

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Dec 2025 Acquired Integral Solutions
Dec 2025 Acquired The Social Element
Oct 2025 Acquired FSS Technologies
Jul 2025 Acquired Vermana

Granite Creek Capital Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Granite Creek manages SBIC funds providing flexible debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies. Target check sizes are $15mm to $25mm (with flexibility to scale to $50mm+ with partners) with a focus on targets with $4mm to $12mm of EBITDA. We partner with management teams to help grow their businesses and be their institutional capital partner, even when we are in a minority position. We also partner with independent sponsors. Our capital is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of debt (senior, subordinated, mezzanine) and equity securities (preferred, common, other) to…

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Jan 2026 Invested in Confidential Company
Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
Nov 2024 Acquired Ritchie Industries
Sep 2024 Acquired Global Animal Products

Kainos Capital

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Kainos Capital, a middle market private equity firm focused on the food and consumer sector, was recently formed by Andrew Rosen, Robert Sperry and Sarah Ashmore Bradley. The Kainos Partners have invested and collaborated together in the food and consumer space over the past 20 years and their deep industry knowledge is complimented by an experienced team of investment professionals.The Kainos Team has extensive investment and operating experience in the industry, having invested more than $2 billion of equity in more than 52 transactions in the food and consumer sector with a total…

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Aug 2023 Acquired Good2Grow
Feb 2023 Invested in CellCore
Jan 2023 Acquired Evriholder
Aug 2021 Acquired Muenster Milling Company

GenNx360 Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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GenNx360 is a private equity firm driving value through Operational Engagement and Investment Excellence.We invest exclusively in North America-based business-to-business middle market industrial services and manufacturing companies in fragmented markets having structural tailwinds and sustainable competitive advantages in sectors we know well. We provide the talent and expertise of our in-house operational talent and the expertise and transaction experience of our investment team. Together, we accelerate value creation.

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Oct 2020 Acquired B2B Industrial Packaging
Dec 2019 Acquired AeroRepair Corp.
Sep 2019 Acquired Schneider Packaging Equipment
Mar 2019 Acquired Miller Environmental Group

Artemis Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Artemis is a highly specialized private equity firm focused on partnering with differentiated Industrial Tech companies that contribute to a healthier, safer, and more productive world. Focusing exclusively on manufacturers of highly engineered products with mission-critical applications, Artemis' vision is to buy and build deeply impactful Industrial Tech businesses that enhance global health, security, and productivity.These products enable some of the most important technologies to serve the most pressing human demands: Diagnostic lab equipment enabling health &…

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Nov 2025 Acquired Antenna Associates, Inc.
Sep 2025 Acquired Millrock Technology
Mar 2025 Acquired Athena AI
Jan 2025 Acquired Richland Glass

ScaleCo Capital

21 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Investors Scaling Companies LocallyScaleCo Capital is a Cleveland-based lower middle market private equity firm that focuses on control-oriented leveraged buyout and growth equity investments in fast-growing companies based primarily in the Great Lakes region. ScaleCo partners with companies in the verticals of business services, tech-enabled services, value added distribution and assembly, and training, compliance, and education, bringing operational expertise and strategic resources to scale their growth potential and build long-term value.ScaleCo is the Proud Capital Investment Partner of…

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Mar 2023 Acquired Safety Controls Technology
Oct 2022 Acquired TPI Efficiency
Apr 2021 Acquired InnoPlast
Feb 2021 Acquired PSP Metrics

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Firms in the Industrial Machinery & Equipment Private Equity Funds directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Industrial Machinery & Equipment Private Equity Funds is $3M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $800K-$4M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

Relevant Industrials experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 376 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Industrials.

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Industrial Machinery & Equipment Private Equity Funds directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Industrials, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

When comparing Private Equity Funds with experience in Industrials, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 376 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

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