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SouthWorth Capital Management, LLC is a family office looking to invest in and grow businesses that have the following characteristics: - Fragmented industry and a deep target market - Experienced management in place where we can provide financial incentives to create a stake for management - Enhanced returns that can be achieved through scale - Circumstances which allow our experience to be value additive to the growth of the investment SouthWorth Capital Management, LLC invests in multiple industries. Our current portfolio includes retail, advertising, logistics, imports, business services…

Life, Liberty & Creation Corp. is a private investment firm focusing on small to medium-sized business acquisitions. Having completed several acquisitions and growing the businesses by more than 700%, we know what is required to complete a deal and to increase revenue. Our leadership team brings several years of experience in multiple industries, allowing for a frictionless change in ownership.

Now in its fifth decade, Sowell & Co. is a family investment office investing in private equity, oil & gas, and land development. The partners invest their own capital in each venture, rather than raising outside funds, and believe that such investment creates a longer term investment horizon that better aligns investors with its management team partners.

Lead Lap is a Northfield, Illinois-based private investment firm with several current investments in private companies. Lead Lap seeks control investments in the business services, consumer, online, education, information, media, marketing services, and health services sectors of small to mid-size company buyouts. Lead Lap also makes non-control growth capital investments in promising businesses. Lead Lap was founded by operating executive David F. Zucker ("Zucker"), who serves as Managing Partner, and made his first private company investment in 1994. Zucker combines twenty-three years of…

Next Sparc Growth Partners is a private capital group with a passion for accelerating the growth of Professional Services, Digital Marketing, Business Services, Information Technology, e-Commerce, Mobile, SaaS, Consumer, Distribution, and Health & Wellness businesses. We accelerate growth by leveraging our deep operational experience, patient capital, and extensive resources. Next Sparc serves as a value-added partner to our businesses, and seeks entrepreneurs who desire to build a scalable business and accelerate growth. WHAT WE LOOK FOR • Founder/family-owned businesses •…

Century Technology Group is a private investment firm focused on small to medium sized acquisitions. We plan to work closely with our portfolio companies to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

First Haven Capital (“First Haven”), a private investment firm based in New York, is targeting non-control equity investments in leading lower middle market companies in partnership with high quality investment sponsors.  As part of the Turtle Creek family office, First Haven maintains a flexible, patient capital base that can invest for long hold periods and support future growth needs.  By utilizing First Haven’s broader investment network and industry contacts, the firm can effectively evaluate opportunities and provide additional support required to build successful business…

Pondera Holdings is an operationally-focused holding company that provides capital to private, entrepreneurial businesses. Our objective with each investment is to create value for employees, customers, communities, and our shareholders. Pondera’s principals serve as active board members of portfolio companies, and in certain situations, will play an active management role if needed.As a holding company with permanent capital, we are not constrained by the fixed time horizon of a traditional private equity fund. This structure is advantageous for all stakeholders because it allows for a…

Cresset Private Capital investing team makes direct investments in operating companies where we have experience. We focus on long term partnerships with like-minded entrepreneurs, founders, and management teams. We believe in long-term, flexible, and patient capital avoiding misalignment, friction and unfavorable fee structures, which can produce inefficient results for business owners and investors.

About:Kairos Companies is a firm established in 2018 dedicated to owning and operating family-owned businesses across the United States. At Kairos, we take pride in providing creative solutions for business owners in need of a transition. Beyond the initial transaction, Kairos constantly strives to provide the best home for our businesses. With an indefinite investment horizon, Kairos acts as a family for our companies: nurturing growth, mentoring managers, and maintaining the outstanding legacy of the founding family.The Greeks had two words for time: “chronos” and…

Sagemoore is a private equity firm focused on making investments in the lower middle-market. We utilize an evergreen fund structure with committed capital from family office investors resulting in a patient capital base.This structure offers a flexible investment horizon designed to maximize stakeholder alignment by focusing on true long-term value creation. Sagemoore’s investment principals each have more than 15 years of professional investing and healthcare operating experience.We seek to cultivate deep partnerships with entrepreneurs and experienced operating teams for the benefit of…

Taubman Capital (“TC”) is a private equity investment firm for the Taubman familyThrough TC, the family is building an investment portfolio of world-class businesses led by exceptional management teams outside of its core real estate holdingsThe firm’s flexible, long-term capital base offers sellers closing certainty, while also providing management teams with the ability to focus on building larger, more valuable enterprises without time constraints or exit pressuresTC has no outside investors – all internal capital means making investment decisions as true owners and the ability to…

ALEC Capital, LLC is a family investment firm focused on acquiring and operating lower middle-market businesses throughout North America. We also specialize in minority or structured investments that provide bespoke solutions to sellers and/or existing owners. We've invested in healthcare providers and services, real estate, consumer goods, and many other industries. We have a large amount of dry powder and are able to close transactions quickly without financing.

Joshua Ventures is a New York based family office seeking to acquire a controlling stake in US businesses. Our team consists of entrepreneurs, executives, academics, physicians, and government leaders with decades of experience in buying, growing, and selling companies across multiple industries.

Pelagic Capital Partners is a search and family investment vehicle formed to acquire and operate exceptional small businesses on the US east coast. The group was founded by Nicholas Stancu, a former private equity professional and M&A advisor. At this time, PCP is actively looking for its first platform investment and invites opportunities for review. Prior to founding PCP, Nicholas pursued several investment and advisory roles in the US and Europe. While in private equity his key responsibilities included on the one hand managing the transaction process when buying or selling…

Shiro Capital is a Los Angeles based family office that invests in public and private equity. At Shiro, we identify and partner with best-in-class management teams by providing the financial and strategic resources required to grow businesses. We have a broad, flexible mandate to invest in any part of a company’s capital structure. Shiro Capital’s investment team has in aggregate invested over $1 billion of capital in public and private equity transactions. Our team has diverse perspectives and skill sets but shares a common commitment to integrity, loyalty and unbiased decision making…

Elm Fork Partners stems from a history of entrepreneurship, corporate value creation, and successful outcomes for all parties involved. We are a Texas-based, single family office, focused on providing flexible and sustainable capital to companies, teams, and assets that are striving to create material value. We are not a private equity fund, but rather a permanent capital source focused on providing capital to high quality companies or assets that exhibit the following characteristics: High returns on invested capital (ROIC) and free cash flow generationSignificant barriers to entry and…

Alistar Resources is a private equity company that invests in ongoing businesses. The company's goal is to maximize shareholder value through the superior deployment and management of capital over the long term. In doing so, Alistar aims to foster effective collaboration with all of its stakeholders through commitment, integrity and transparency.

Chaifetz Group is a private investment firm that partners with carefully selected entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams to build and grow game-changing businesses.Our team has an established track record of building businesses and working with management teams to create lasting value. We understand from personal experience that each business is unique and does not follow a perfectly scripted growth path. Every business requires a unique combination of time, flexibility, capital, resourcefulness, and tenacity in order to become industry leaders. Accordingly, Chaifetz Group…

White Spruce Capital is an operator led management firm established by its principal to acquire and actively manage a single lower-middle market Southern Ontario-based business. We focus on owners who wish to reduce their day-to-day operating role through full or partial liquidity and on businesses whose growth trajectory can be enhanced with capital and active management expertise. We are flexible in developing deal structure and make investments for full control or a clear path to control. Graham Yin, White Spruce's principal, will assume a senior operational role post-acquisition to drive…