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Explore 279 Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds that source acquisition and investment opportunities on Axial’s M&A platform.

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Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds

279

Active Firms

15,142

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$900K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range


Florida 14%
California 11%
Texas 10%
New York 7%
New Jersey 4%

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

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Stonehenge Partners

42 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Stonehenge Partners ("Stonehenge" or the "Firm") is a middle-market private equity firm with a highly successful 25+ year track record. The Firm directs the investment activities for approximately $1 billion in capital commitments. Stonehenge's investment professionals have extensive experience executing a broad range of transactions including:Management and leveraged buyoutsAcquisitionsRecapitalizationsGrowth capital investmentsStonehenge Partners has the flexibility to invest in a variety of structures including common equity, preferred equity and subordinated debt (or combinations…

Recent Transactions

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  • Jun 2019 Invested in Carolina Restaurant Group, Inc.
  • Apr 2019 Invested in Weil Foot & Ankle Institute
  • Jan 2019 Acquired PPM Technologies
  • Sep 2018 Acquired EMX Industries, Inc.

Rockwood Equity Partners

41 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Rockwood Equity Partners:B2B manufacturing, service providers, distribution in industrials and regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, aerospace & defense, environmental, waste, rail, water, others)Transaction types: First institutional capital partner, majority, minority, growth, independent sponsor and operator partners, management buyout, corporate divestitureTarget company size: $10-$75 million in revenues and $2-$7 million EBITDA, add-ons of any size.Private equity investment firm for lower middle market companies, with a track record spanning 25+ years.Approach:Focused on growing…

Recent Transactions

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  • Dec 2025 Acquired Wright's Hydroseeding
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Utility Locating Services in Ohio
  • Nov 2025 Acquired Sealer Equipment Business serving Medical and Pharmaceutical
  • Sep 2024 Acquired SafeSite

The Brydon Group

38 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
The Brydon Group is a veteran-led $500M+ private equity fund focused on acquiring recurring revenue small businesses with $1-$5M EBITDA. To date we've closed 39 transactions. We are an ideal solution for owners looking to transition their legacy to the next generation of small business owner as we bring in one of our industry-focused entrepreneurs-in-residence as CEO.We have a focus on software and B2B, government, & healthcare services.Investor team consists of Alex Mears (two decades in large cap private equity at Blackstone and Carlyle and five years in Special…

Recent Transactions

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  • Jan 2026 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

Garnett Station Partners

35 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Garnett Station Partners was founded in 2013 by Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, two entrepreneur-investors who grew up together, attended school together, and built the firm together. Today, GSP is a New York–based principal investment firm managing approximately $4.5 billion in assets, investing in growing businesses at attractive entry points across sectors including food and beverage, health and wellness, automotive, and business services. GSP's origins trace to the founders' first year of business school, when they acquired 23 struggling Burger King franchises in Henderson, North…

Recent Transactions

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  • Dec 2025 Acquired Skybound Service Partners
  • Dec 2025 Acquired True North Fleet Services
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Honey Baked Ham
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Tavern in the Square

Industrial Opportunity Partners

35 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Industrial Opportunity Partners, LLC ("IOP"), based in Evanston, IL, is a private equity investment firm. With $910 million of committed capital since its inception, IOP is focused on acquiring and managing middle-market manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses. Utilizing its operations-focused approach and dedicated Board of Operating Principals, IOP has a track record of stabilizing, growing and enhancing the value of its acquired businesses having invested in over 20 platform companies.

Recent Transactions

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  • May 2024 Acquired Transcendia
  • May 2024 Acquired Forte Opening Solutions
  • May 2023 Acquired HARVEST FOOD GROUP
  • Apr 2022 Acquired VIAFLEX

KLH Capital Partners, LP

33 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Founded in 2005, KLH Capital is a private equity firm serving management teams of lower middle-market companies in the specialty services, value-added distribution, and niche manufacturing industries. The firm makes majority and minority equity investments in U.S.-based businesses to support the company’s growth plans, provide ownership opportunities for key managers, and allow owners to harvest the value in their businesses. Our commitment goes beyond financial support as we believe in establishing a collaborative team of peers, all of whom have a hand in the company’s progress.…

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  • Aug 2022 Invested in Thorpe Specialty Services
  • Nov 2021 Invested in The Warehouse Rentals & Supplies
  • Oct 2021 Invested in Precision Impacts
  • Dec 2020 Invested in Jackson Infrastructure Services

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Argosy PE Investments, LLC

32 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Founded in 1990, Argosy Capital invests entrepreneurial capital with experienced business partners in two asset classes, lower middle market operating companies and real estate. Our focus is on creating value with our business partners by investing in inefficient markets where creativity, hard work and disciplined risk taking can generate exceptional returns for the benefit of all stakeholders. As partners with our investors, co-investors, operating company management teams and real estate operating partners, we are dedicated to creating value by building upon the strengths of the people,…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Barco Products
  • May 2023 Acquired Diverse Logistics & Distribution, Inc.
  • Apr 2023 Acquired Burco, Inc.
  • Nov 2022 Acquired Best Warehousing & Transportation, Inc.

Highview Capital

30 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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

Northern Lakes Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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.

Recent Transactions

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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
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
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

Capitala Financial Advisors, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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
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
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
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…

Recent Transactions

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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
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

Ronin Equity Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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…

Recent Transactions

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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
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…

Recent Transactions

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

Granite Creek Capital Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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
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

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Private Equity Funds in this directory ordered?

Firms in the Marine Ports & Services 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.

What information is included in each Private Equity Fund profile?

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.

What company sizes are most common for Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds is $3M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $900K-$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.

How important is Business Services experience when evaluating Private Equity Funds?

Relevant Business Services 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 279 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Business Services.

Do all Private Equity Funds in this directory focus exclusively on Business Services?

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

How do I compare Private Equity Funds with experience in Business Services?

When comparing Private Equity Funds with experience in Business Services, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 279 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds?

Axial can help you identify and connect with firms based on your objectives and what you are looking to accomplish. The process varies depending on your role and transaction needs. If you are interested in connecting with firms in the Marine Ports & Services Private Equity Funds directory, you can request information here.


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