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…
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…
Horatius Group is an investment bank, technology company, and private equity firm (fundless sponsor). We have advised upon over a dozen transactions with leading private equity firms across services and technology
Circe Capital is a US business service organization. We are focused on partnering with exceptional founders and management teams to form long-term investments across several strategic services platforms including business services, technology, media and entertainment.
Navo Capital is a middle market private investment firm that makes majority (and select active minority) investments in service companies within the business-, consumer- and healthcare-service sectors. Navo’s principals have significant experience executing middle market platform and add-on investments, having deployed and managed over $1b in equity investments over the course of their careers. Navo targets opportunities where it can invest $15m - $50m in equity (up to $80m for the right opportunity) in support of established, profitable US businesses consistently generating $3m - $15m in…
Lifespan Equity Partners invests in healthcare services and information technology businesses that improve population health and wellness, quality of life for those living with chronic diseases, and quality of care for our elderly. Lifespan also invests in the health and fitness of the American healthcare ecosystem by partnering with innovative business services and information technology businesses that improve efficiency, lower costs, and improve outcomes for providers, payors, biotech, and medtech companies.We believe in the power these founder-led companies have, one growing business at a…
Venture Catalyst works with the management teams of therapeutic companies spun out of university tech transfer commercialization programs to increase their exposure to experienced therapeutic investors and partners. Therapeutics face ever dwindling resources available to move promising early stage opportunities to commercialization. The widening translational funding gap threatens to strand promising products and cures.
Flying Point Capital, LLC is a consumer-oriented lower middle market private investment firm that selectively invests in profitable companies, with competitive products and/or services, doing business in growing markets that are principally located in the United States. Flying Point Capital's "Building for Scale" mentoring program is anchored by a highly practical business management system that has been successfully applied by hundreds of small and mid-sized businesses for almost a decade.Our Principals have significant success as business builders, board members and investors. Our Focus We…
Strategic Growth Investments (“SGI”) is a private investment firm founded in 2012 to pursue compelling investment opportunities in middle market businesses. SGI has a flexible mandate to invest across the capital structure in control-oriented investments ranging from strategic financings to buyouts, allowing us to implement innovative investment strategies that preserve invested capital and mitigate risk while driving growth and creating value.
Growth-oriented operators seeking growth-oriented companiesPaley Madison Partners acquires significant majority equity or total equity in its portfolio companies.After acquisition, we support our portfolio companies with a full suite of C-level management and advisory services. We accelerate growth. We achieve milestones. We manage exits, if required.Paley Madison Partners has the demonstrated ability to grow small and medium-sized companies – as well as orphaned corporate divisions – across a variety of sectors. We help our portfolio companies realize their greatest potential.
Occur Capital is an investment firm led by entrepreneurs focused on acquiring, operating and continuing the legacy of SMBs with up to $10M in annual revenue