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Exonas Capital

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Exonas Capital is a private investment firm focused on investing in high-quality businesses that have reached strategic, operational, or financial inflection points and stand to benefit from our proven value creation playbook irrespective of the prevailing economic environment. We are focused on four key sectors, including the niche consumer, business services (including SaaS and DaaS), industrials, and non-reimbursement-based healthcare services sectors. Our mandate is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of transactions, including founder and family-owned companies, corporate…

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• Jun 2025 Acquired VFG Advisory
• Nov 2021 Acquired TeleGeography
• Jan 2021 Acquired Seybert's Billiards Supply
• May 2020 Acquired Apartment Guardian

F2H Capital

4 Total Closed Deals

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F2H Capital Group operates a diverse portfolio that includes four distinct businesses: two pharmacies, a real estate development company, and a mortgage company. In addition to these business ventures, the group has a significant presence in the real estate sector, owning $135 million worth of multifamily and mixed-use properties in New York and Texas.F2H Capital Group is seeking to acquire the following companies:Business Characteristics·     Founder-owned, entrepreneurial, growth-oriented business·     Meaningful management team…

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• Apr 2023 Acquired Clear Rate Mortgage
• Apr 2019 Acquired Hasanov Capital
• Sep 2016 Acquired Clear Pharmacy
• Feb 2013 Acquired Crystal Pharmacy

Bearing Partners

4 Total Closed Deals

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Bearing Partners is an independent financial sponsor that invests in lower middle-market companies. We seek to invest in businesses $1M to $8M of EBITDA with a strong management team and the potential for significant growth. We prefer to partner with the management team or founder(s) in control investments in industries including consumer products and services, business services, oil & gas, technology, industrial & manufacturing, etc. We have a low leverage approach in structuring transactions and no required hold period which allows for flexibility for each specific situation.

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• Oct 2024 Invested in Blue Frog, LLC
• Nov 2023 Acquired 7-2-11
• Nov 2022 Acquired JR's Country Stores
• Nov 2021 Acquired Newton Crouch Company, LLC

Hemingway Capital

3 Total Closed Deals

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Hemingway Capital is an operationally oriented investment firm that specializes in growing lower middle-market industrial companies. We offer creative, flexible capital and deep operating experience to optimize and grow our partner companies. We invest in fundamentally sound businesses possessing a competitive advantage, recurring demand for products or services, and favorable macro trends. We stand beside management teams, family businesses, and business owners as a preferred investor in lower middle market industrial businesses that adds value beyond capital.

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• Feb 2022 Acquired GTA Containers, Inc.
• Mar 2021 Acquired Vege Labs, LLC
• Oct 2019 Acquired Maid O' Mist

Scooter Partners LLC

3 Total Closed Deals

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Founded in 2022, Scooter Partners LLC (SCOOTER) is an investment and advisory firm primarily focused on helping U.S. based start-ups and lower middle market companies succeed and grow. SCOOTER has the experience, expertise, creativity, and resources to provide sound guidance, help solve problems, and furnish smart solutions for opportunities that other investors may deem unappealing due to their smaller size, complexity, or difficulty. We are flexible in our approach to making an investment, providing advice, or helping raise capital so that it best fits the needs of all parties involved. 

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• Jan 2025 Acquired Mid-Michigan Canvas & Awning
• Dec 2024 Acquired Royal Oak Birmingham Awning Company
• May 2024 Acquired Belle Isle Awning Company

Rockaway Securities

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Rockaway Securities is a privately-held boutique investment company. We aim to invest in both public and private securities, such as the investment in quality stocks, the acquisition of small-businesses, financing startup companies, leading commercial real estate ventures, and more. Rockaway will raise the investment capital, and in some cases, the debt financing, to acquire ownership stakes in private security offerings. ​Rockaway seeks to find valuable investment opportunities that their investors will see great returns and meaningful asset value over the ownership term of the…

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• Nov 2022 Acquired Winslow Storage
• Jul 2022 Invested in Bulwark Risk Management
• Feb 2018 Acquired Express Waste Removal

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West Allen Capital

3 Total Closed Deals

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West Allen Capital is a private equity firm supported by family office capital that makes control equity investments in family owned businesses in the lower middle market between $2 and $5mm of EBITDA. We seek to partner with strong management teams to generate systematic growth for our portfolio companies and create value for our investors.

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Ruscoe
• Aug 2023 Acquired Stealth Manufacturing Inc.
• Oct 2018 Acquired M&RR

Bridgefield Capital

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Bridgefield provides simplified, one-stop shop capital solutions to middle market companies. Through both debt and equity capital solutions, we help entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams accomplish their goals—whether their goals are to achieve liquidity, to diversify their personal wealth, facilitate management buyouts and/or pursue growth and acquisition financing.Since 2006, we are proud to have facilitated more than 100 transactions (credit and equity) representing more than $1 billion in transaction value across industries including manufacturing, technology, consumer…

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• Aug 2022 Acquired Avaloq Outline
• Mar 2022 Acquired SPS
• Feb 2020 Acquired QDQ Group

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Tushar

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TM Holdings is a private investment firm that seeks investment opportunities alongside great management teams. Our goal is to invest in companies with competitive dynamics that drive long-term value.While markets change and the universe of investment opportunities continually evolves, our investment criteria remains the same. We target equity investments in privately-held businesses that are ripe for disruption. We prefer to invest alongside management teams who want to maintain an active role, or who are open to a succession plan. While every investment requires a significant amount of…

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• Dec 2022 Invested in Mirakl
• Nov 2021 Invested in Savage X Fenty
• Jun 2021 Acquired Harbor Family Orthodontics

Thoroughbred

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Thoroughbred is a Denver-based private equity sponsor providing capital and creativity to support relentlessly driven management teams. We partner with lower middle market companies, offering operational expertise, strategic insight, and valuable relationships to build enduring businesses. We leverage our experience as both operators and investors to be effective partners, knowing when to step up and when to step back, empowering management to create exceptional value.

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• Aug 2022 Invested in Oxbow Crush
• Sep 2020 Invested in Redeux Energy
• Aug 2020 Invested in Willow Glen Terminal

Fox River Capital LLC

2 Total Closed Deals

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Fox River Capital is led by Jason Salisbury, Managing Partner and a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of success in engineering sales, industrial services, and business ownership. Jason’s extensive experience includes founding, growing, and successfully exiting a company, as well as managing operations and sales for high-performing industrial businesses. His hands-on approach and strategic vision drive Fox River Capital’s mission to create lasting value for all stakeholders.Backed by a group of established business leaders who own and manage substantial companies, we…

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• Aug 2025 Acquired Dehumidifier Corporation of America
• Dec 2024 Acquired Becker Boiler

Fourth Exit

2 Total Closed Deals

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After spending 15 years in enabling small to medium sizes businesses in revenue generation, Fourth Exit is now venturing into SaaS enterprise acquisitions. Looking to acquire a SaaS business with $1M-$5M acquisition cost.

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• Jul 2021 Advised Afterpay in its sale to Block
• Jun 2018 Advised Magento in its sale to Adobe Systems Inc.

21 Hilton Holdings Inc

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Real estate operator and developer that has expanded into the home services and property services industry. Acquired a residential garage door servicing and installation company generating $1M EBITDA. Also looking at home restoration (water) and asphalt repair/maintenance.

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• Aug 2023 Acquired AUSTIN SFR & LAND PORTFOLIO
• Aug 2023 Acquired DURHAM 10-ACRE DEVELOPMENT SITE

Dekos Capital

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Dekos Capital Management LLC is a privately held Texas-based investment firm. The firm’s founders have significant experience as private equity, investment banking and operating executives and are partnered with institutional investors to invest in strategically viable middle-market businesses.

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• Mar 2024 Acquired Achieve Accreditation
• Jan 2024 Acquired Shear Drive Group

Navaid Equity Partners, LP

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Navaid Equity Partners is a private equity firm founded to provide companies, executives, employees and their stakeholders navigational support through turbulent financial and operational headwinds created by economic, industry, and technology disruptions.We take an entrepreneurial and flexible investment approach We look to invest in complex and special situations We provide both financial and intellectual capital to support companies We focus on investments in small to medium sized companies with revenue up to $500 million and EBITDA from unprofitable, nominal, and positive but not…

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• Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
• Jul 2023 Invested in AdGraphics.us

Paradise Capital

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Browndale Capital is the investment arm of our family office - Paradise Capital. https://www.paradisecapital.biz/ We advise business owners on how to exit their business both personally and financially-strong. In cases where the owners do not wish to run a formal "process" we will invest our own capital to help the owner with an alternative path to transitioning out of the business. With 4 platform investments, we are looking for strategic add-ons to bolster our portfolio.

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• Jan 2024 Advised Confidential Company on an investment from Confidential Company
• Dec 2023 Advised Confidential Company in its sale to The Boat House Group/Concentric Partners

Prisma Group

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Prisma Group is an experienced Independent Sponsor located in Raleigh, North Carolina. We work with business owners, managers and investors to create and grow Enterprise Value within small and medium-sized private companies. We accomplish this through our:· investment activities which marry ownership transition opportunities with the right set of capital to enable existing companies to reach their next level of performance,· suite of commercial business development services targeted at growing revenues in core and adjacent markets, international expansion as well as…

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• Jun 2016 Acquired Manufacturer of Beverage Packaging Equipment
• Dec 2012 Acquired Motor & Mechanism Manufacturer

UpperStage.Capital

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We are growth equity, for good. We combine impact investment and operational experience to boost profitable businesses to their next level of success in a post-Covid world. At UpperStage.Capital, we get excited by companies that are trying to make the world a better place. We look for companies that are impactful in community, sustainability, or wellness.

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• Sep 2023 Invested in NIRA
• Oct 2021 Acquired Talius

CTA Financial LLC

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CTA Financial LLC is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions of founder or family owned businesses. We seek exceptional companies seeking the next stage of growth. Post acquisition, we work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders. Investment criteria: EBITDA minimum $3 MN, EBITDA margin 10%+, no minimum EBITDA for add-onsIndustries of interest: Consumer and business services, industrials, multi location models, automotive aftermarketGeographic interest: USA and Canada (majority of sales)

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• Feb 2018 Acquired Oil Changers
• Jul 2015 Acquired John N Fehlinger Co. Inc

Green Stride

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Green Stride works with cashflow-positive businesses with established teams of 2-20 employees generating $1M-$5M in annual revenue. We focus on B2B services businesses with at least 25% contractually recurring revenue that can materially benefit from improvement in sales and operations. We look for 1-20% annual growth and strong customer retention.

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• Dec 2023 Acquired Wayne Barnett Software
• Nov 2023 Acquired Wellness Fi