Top Marine Shipping Private Equity Funds

Agellus Capital

13 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Agellus Capital partners alongside management teams of essential, non-discretionary services businesses across the United States and Canada. We focus on a combined organic and buy-and-build strategy, scaling our companies through add-on acquisitions within large, fragmented markets. Post-M&A integration, commercial and operational improvements, and investments in technology and people are key to our value creation playbook helping to accelerate organic growth.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jul 2026 Acquired The Logic Group
• May 2026 Acquired Lawn Enforcement Agency
• Apr 2026 Acquired Synergy Landscapes
• Mar 2026 Acquired Titan Restoration

Ironbridge Equity Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Ironbridge is a Toronto-based private equity firm with more than $750 million of assets under management focused exclusively on investing in companies in the Canadian lower middle-market. We focus on traditional industry businesses in the manufacturing, distribution, consumer products and services, and business products and services spaces. We have completed over 55 transactions since 2005 and are currently deploying from our $383M Fund IV. We are looking for new platform acquisitions in Canada fitting the following parameters:Lower middle-market focus:• Deal Sizes generally between $25 and…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Oct 2018 Invested in Canada Metal (Pacific) Limited
• Dec 2017 Invested in Midland Appliance
• Jun 2017 Invested in Avena Foods
• Jun 2017 Invested in Brooklin Concrete Products

Metalmark Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Metalmark targets middle-market companies, seeking to build long-term value through active and collaborative partnerships with business owners, founders and executives.We invest primarily in privately held companies with a significant strategic footprint and growth objective in the North American market.Metalmark is a patient and diligent partner intent on building long-term enterprises.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Aug 2023 Acquired CP Power
• Aug 2019 Acquired Collagen Matrix
• Oct 2018 Acquired T Parker Host
• Oct 2016 Acquired Premier Research

LDR Growth Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

LDR Growth Partners (LDR) is a people-focused private equity firm.Our vision centers on maximizing the potential of people, communities, and businesses through teamwork and the infusion of human and capital resources.Our mission is to create a new standard for successful North American businesses by aligning growth and infrastructure with optimism and opportunity.Our values are trust, service, creativity, and discipline.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Jul 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• May 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

Centerfield Equity

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Centerfield Equity collaborates with like-minded owners and management teams seeking a change of control transaction to accelerate business transformation. We focus on lower middle market businesses generating greater than $1.5M in EBITDA that are based in the Midwest. Centerfield Equity invests across a variety of industry verticals, including business services, healthcare, consumer, niche manufacturing, and distribution. We do not invest in oil & gas, financial services, real estate, retail, early stage, or distressed situations.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Nov 2024 Acquired Dental Alliance Group
• Jun 2024 Acquired ASAP Garage Door Repair
• Mar 2018 Acquired TriplePoint
• Jul 2017 Acquired Rice's Honey

Catalus Capital

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Catalus Capital is a multi-strategy private equity firm founded in early 2011. The flexibility of the firm’s investment mandates sets it apart from its peers. The firm invests out of two strategies: Catalus Growth Partners, a buyout fund focused on acquiring majority stakes in growing middle market companies, and Catalus Special Opportunities, a fund focused on finding deep value in corporate, real estate, and esoteric assets.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Sep 2023 Acquired Big Apple Auto Leasing
• Jun 2023 Acquired Forge Nano
• Feb 2023 Acquired XL-batteries
• Dec 2022 Acquired CC Wellness

Stop Browsing. Start Transacting.

Join 20,000+ members who source deals, connect with counterparties, and close transactions on Axial.

Get Started Today

Cyprium Investment Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Cyprium Partners (Cyprium) is a private investment firm that makes non-control investments in profitable middle-market companies, allowing company owners and their management teams to retain controlling interest in their business after we invest. Cyprium can provide any combination of equity or subordinated debt giving us non-traditional flexibility in structuring transactions as well as increasing our certainty of close.Cyprium, through the experience of its partners as well as through its Advisory Council members, strives to be a value-added investor that supports the growth, acquisition,…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Mar 2025 Invested in Willamette Valley Meat
• Aug 2024 Invested in Washington Metal Fabricators
• Dec 2023 Invested in Apollo
• Dec 2023 Invested in Kustom

Banyan Capital Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

We are a Canadian based private equity firm that makes control equity investments in mid-sized private and public companies throughout North America. We provide full or partial liquidity to existing owners or partner with owners seeking capital for organic or acquisition-driven growth. With over 50 years of private equity, investment banking and operating experience collectively, we have developed a strong franchise. Our success is based on our experience, relationships and our reputation for honesty, respect and integrity. Since inception, Banyan has acquired equity interests in 20…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Dec 2021 Acquired Innovative Surface Solutions
• Sep 2017 Acquired Rack Attack
• Jun 2014 Acquired Newcrete
• Sep 2013 Acquired MIP Inc.

Sole Source Capital

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Founded in 2016 by David Fredston, Sole Source Capital is a private equity firm that thematically invests in fragmented, high-growth industrial subsectors. Sole Source seeks founder-owned businesses or corporate carve-outs that will benefit from the team’s operating and M&A capabilities. The Firm has a strong operating heritage that enables it to execute a buy-and-build strategy with significant downside protection. The Firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Santa Monica, California.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Sep 2024 Acquired GrayMar Environmental Services, Inc.
• Aug 2023 Invested in Cantium
• Feb 2023 Acquired Lee Fish
• Oct 2022 Acquired Westwood Laboratories

Rising Point Capital Management, LLC

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

We are a Chicago-based private investment firm that provides partnership and capital to transform and grow your business. We primarily invest in business and consumer services companies in the lower middle market.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jan 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
• Oct 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
• Aug 2024 Acquired JDS Inc

Keswick Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Keswick Partners is a Lower-Middle Market PE firm armed with a $100M fund that invests in niche manufacturers, value-added distributors, and specialty service providers doing $2-$6M in annual EBITDA. Our Managing Partners have over 90 years of collective investing experience and have executed over 135 transactions in their shared careers. We presently have four active investments in our portfolio, but are looking to expand our operating footprint. We invest in rollovers, buyouts, carve outs, and more, but have developed a specialty in facilitating intra-family handoffs and employee…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jun 2025 Acquired Thomas Wilson Contracting
• Jun 2025 Acquired Meeker Holding Company
• Apr 2025 Acquired Seal Brothers
• Dec 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Union Park Capital

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Union Park Capital is a private equity investment firm focused solely on lower middle-market Industrial Technology companies. We partner with management teams to cultivate businesses through a combination of organic growth and careful strategic add-on acquisitions.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Aug 2022 Acquired Advanced Illumination
• Jan 2022 Acquired Bruins Instruments
• Mar 2021 Acquired Guided Wave
• Feb 2021 Acquired EyePro System

Gallant Capital Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Gallant makes control investments in sectors where the team has extensive experience and relationships that drive value. We use our operational expertise to support our management teams and strive to be valuable partners at every stage of our investments.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Nov 2022 Invested in Lightning Step
• Sep 2022 Invested in SLWM
• Feb 2022 Acquired Pro-Vac
• Dec 2021 Invested in InformData

River Sea Network

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

River Sea Network is an acquirer with committed capital to purchase contractor services businesses across the country.We have flexible capital, allowing us to both work with owners who want to continue to operate their business after a transaction in addition to owners who want to transition away from their business or retire. Following a transaction, we provide capital investment, strategic resources and human capital to help companies achieve their full potential. We are team players who believe that a culture of collaboration, shared ownership and aligned incentives create long-term…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jan 2025 Acquired Home Pro Roofing
• Oct 2024 Acquired Trinity Exteriors
• Sep 2024 Acquired Perfect Exteriors of Minnesota
• Feb 2024 Acquired Fargo Roofing & Siding

West Lane Capital Partners

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

West Lane Capital Partners is a private investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs and management teams to invest in lower middle-market companies. In addition to providing capital, we are actively engaged partners across the strategy, operations and finance functions within our portfolio businesses.We focus on control investments in the logistics, consumer, food & beverage, broader manufacturing and the financial and business services sectors and our experience allows us to invest in both successful growing businesses as well as more difficult and complex situations. We also know that…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Aug 2023 Acquired Blue Cross
• Aug 2023 Acquired Epicurean Catering
• Aug 2023 Acquired Cutler Group
• Aug 2023 Acquired Stansberry Asset Management

Tulcan

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

With a focus on the businesses that make America strong, and a mission of empowering the people behind them, Tulcan is a family operated investment partnership providing equity in middle-market industrial companies.For nearly 30 years, we’ve been delivering value to some of the country’s oldest businesses by prioritizing stable growth, while dreaming big.We seek long-term partnerships with business owners who share our values of patriotism, family, and positive energy.   Visit us at tulcan.com to learn more.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jan 2023 Invested in Aaron Concrete of Texas
• Oct 2021 Invested in AGADCO of Texas
• Apr 2012 Acquired National Signs
• Mar 2011 Acquired Texas Bolt & Nut

Unity Partners

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Unity Partners is a middle-market PE firm that backs ambitious leaders in fragmented services businesses. Our Partner & Propel strategy - a) partners with leaders who would like to accelerate their plan through M&A b) propels teams forward by bringing operating expertise from the outset to help with levers, scale, and integration. We follow six operating principles, one of which is 'Purpose' - our belief in sharing the upside and building better together through broad employee ownership.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jun 2026 Invested in Meaden & Moore
• Nov 2025 Acquired Yardmaster
• Jun 2025 Invested in Ampleo
• Jun 2025 Acquired Byng Group

Roebling Capital Partners

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

We complete controlling equity investments in lower-middle market companies that want to sell or begin a transition, have strong growth prospects, and can benefit from our expertise and extensive network.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Mar 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Feb 2025 Acquired Spray EZ Equipment & Coatings
• Aug 2023 Acquired Longstreth Sporting Goods
• Feb 2022 Acquired The Porch Swing Company

Percheron Investment Management, LP

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

Percheron Capital is a private investment firm with $3+ billion in AUM that is focused on partnering with strong management teams to build market-leading essential services businesses.

Recent Transactions

View All

• Oct 2023 Acquired SafeBasements
• Mar 2023 Acquired Lookout Pest Control
• Sep 2022 Acquired Blue Cardinal Home Services Group
• Dec 2021 Acquired Animal Dermatology Group

MKH Capital Partners LP

7 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

View Full Profile

MKH Capital Partners is a Miami, FL-based private equity firm. Founded by entrepreneurial families and professional investors. MKH offers a combination of long-term family capital and large-scale private equity expertise and resources.We actively partner with business owners and leading management teams to create stronger companies that become regional/national leaders.We manage our business using three guiding principles:• Be flexible, straightforward, and supportive partners• Prioritize people, culture, and values• Move quickly and decisivelyThe capital for MKH’s private equity…

Recent Transactions

View All

• Jan 2022 Acquired Fertilitas Ventures
• Jun 2021 Acquired Fertilitas Ventures
• May 2021 Acquired Wax Center Partners
• Mar 2021 Acquired Allied Universal