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Etna Industrial

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Etna Industrial is an investor focused exclusively on lower-middle market investments in the food, beverage, and related industries. We target control investments in entrepreneurial and family-owned companies with stable cash flows and significant growth opportunities. We are hyper-focused on a handful of companies at a time and support our partner companies with our deep industry knowledge, networks, and operating experience. Our flexible investment approach enables us to approach our holding periods in decades rather than a typical 5-year holding period.

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• Aug 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

Duratus Holdings

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Duratus is a permanent holding company started by Yaz Malas and Nick Vafiades. We are a duo dedicated to acquiring and growing a single small business for decades. As partners, we bring years of experience starting and scaling our own businesses in the online retail and financial services industries.

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• Nov 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

LP First Capital

71 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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LP First Capital is a private investment firm focused on commercial, consumer, education, and healthcare services businesses. We seek to acquire leading, high performing services businesses that are primed for organic and acquisitive growth. We utilize our strong operational backgrounds to help our management teams create a focused value creation plan and growth strategy. Our passion is partnering with founder-led and family-owned businesses to generate long term value for all business stakeholders.

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• Dec 2025 Acquired H&O Grounds
• Nov 2025 Acquired Wrightsville Beach Landscaping
• Oct 2025 Acquired Icon Restoration
• Jul 2025 Acquired East Coast Mechanical

Progress Equity Partners

31 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Progress Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in acquiring majority control of operating companies to facilitate their growth. The firm focuses on partnering with entrepreneurs to provide liquidity and long-term growth opportunities, particularly in the lower middle market. Progress Equity Partners targets companies with high returns on capital and sustainable business models, requiring a minimum annual EBITDA of $2 million. They invest across various industries, often collaborating with founder-entrepreneurs to transition their…

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• Jan 2026 Acquired Continental Contractors
• Dec 2025 Acquired ProSet Set Services
• Jan 2025 Acquired Salisbury Moore
• Mar 2024 Acquired Hanson Lab Solutions

Strength Capital Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Strength Capital Partners (SCP) is a Birmingham, Michigan-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring traditional businesses, primarily throughout the greater Midwest and Central United States.We seek to invest in businesses with $4 million to $20 million in EBITDA. We pursue investments in a wide range of industries, including consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, industrial and financial services, energy, transportation, and infrastructure. We are particularly interested in "buy and build" opportunities, where we can grow and diversify our platform companies through a…

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• Apr 2023 Acquired Kansas Golf & Turf
• Jan 2023 Advised ACME Meat in its sale to DTM Distributors
• Apr 2022 Invested in Western States Reclamation
• Jun 2021 Invested in Chemlock Nutrition

Graylight Partners

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Graylight Partners, LLC provides capital and support to emerging middle-market companies for the purpose of creating long-term value. We are approachable and collaborative investment partners with a different perspective. Our goal is to achieve growth through business model refinement and sustainable value creation, not financial engineering.As such, we seek out opportunities in unique business niches to find companies that are doing things differently. We look for innovators and groundbreakers that need a true partner to take their business to the next level. We then work closely with these…

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• Feb 2016 Acquired Assurance Laboratories
• Jun 2015 Acquired GCM North American Aerospace
• Jun 2015 Acquired Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, LLC
• Jun 2015 Acquired Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis

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Forged Capital

19 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Partnership is personal. We provide more than capital. We stand alongside the people who built their businesses from the ground up. At Forged Capital, we work with founders and family business owners who have invested years of effort, resources, and vision into essential service and trades companies. We protect that foundation, help accelerate growth, and scale thoughtfully while preserving the values and culture that make the business special.We bring this perspective because we are operators and founders ourselves. In addition to investing in other entrepreneurs, we own and continue to…

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• Nov 2022 Acquired Wisconsin’s Best
• Feb 2021 Acquired Altius Dental
• Jan 2020 Acquired Excellarate
• Jul 2014 Acquired GlobalLT

Surge Private Equity

16 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Founded in 2017, Surge is a Dallas-based private equity firm. Surge generally focuses on businesses in the business services, healthcare, online businesses, and specialty goods industries. Primary characteristics sought are companies with high recurring revenue and predictable cash flows with EBITDA of at least $3.0MM. Surge takes a majority equity position in its investments and prefers to target acquisitions where the seller will remain on board in an ongoing capacity with a minority interest.

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• Aug 2025 Acquired White Plains Linen
• Dec 2023 Acquired Coastal Amusements
• Sep 2023 Acquired Elite Clinical Network
• Mar 2023 Acquired Toska Spa and Facial Ba

Weinberg Capital Group

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Expertise:Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Weinberg Capital Group is a private investment group dedicated to private equity and real estate. Our team has a combined total of over 75 years experience successfully managing companies throughout the US and Asia. Where necessary and appropriate, the WCG team will work closely with management to enable it to maximize its growth opportunities. We have the knowledge and resources to provide the assistance necessary to insure successful implementation of development strategies.Relationships:The individual success of our partners and the collective…

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• Dec 2025 Acquired Pinson Valley Heat Treating
• Mar 2025 Acquired Gavitt Wire & Cable Co.
• Apr 2024 Acquired Aviocraft
• Dec 2023 Acquired Salt River Aviation

Grand Valley Holdings, LLC

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Grand Valley Holdings is a Cincinnati-based acquirer of privately-held, family owned businesses in the Ohio Valley. The Principals of Grand Valley Holdings bring over 30 years of experience acquiring, developing, and operating private businesses.

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Idaho Timber
• Aug 2023 Acquired Epic Gas Shipping Company
• Aug 2023 Acquired Café Rio
• Aug 2023 Acquired Liberty Oilfield Services

Dry Fly Capital

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The partners at Dry Fly Capital are passionate about fueling business growth. We are looking to partner with owner/operators that are making a move to transition into their next phase of life, yet would like the legacy of the company they’ve built to carry on. We look for companies with a passionate, committed workforce that could use an injection of business development and digital marketing expertise. We are operators that have built multiple companies with organic growth and strategic acquisition. We are intimately involved in the operations of each business we acquire because we love…

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• Jun 2025 Acquired Serpentix Conveyor Inc
• Feb 2024 Acquired PSA Worldwide
• Oct 2022 Acquired Square Scrub LLC
• Jan 2022 Acquired Robert and Sons Aluminum

Snowdon Partners GP Inc.

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Snowdon Partners is a private equity firm focused on control investing and building value in lower middle market businesses with $3 million to $15 million in EBITDA across North America.

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• Jun 2024 Acquired Urgence Marine Environnement
• Aug 2023 Acquired Tortella Group
• Aug 2023 Acquired GLP Canada
• Aug 2023 Acquired JDI Cleaning Services

Phoenix Strategy

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Phoenix Strategy Investments is an entrepreneurial investment company dedicated to acquiring and nurturing the growth of small to medium-sized, privately-held businesses. With a strategic focus on entrepreneurial ventures, the firm operates as a private equity entity, leveraging its expertise to foster business development and expansion. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Phoenix Strategy Investments is committed to identifying promising opportunities and implementing growth strategies that enhance value and performance. The company has a substantial portfolio, reflecting its success…

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• Dec 2025 Acquired ExamSoft
• Nov 2014 Acquired PI Worldwide
• Dec 2013 Acquired Predictive Index
• Nov 2009 Acquired Exam Soft

Kaho Partners

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Kaho Partners is a thesis-driven investment firm focused on building market-leading companies through organic and acquisition-driven growth. Kaho is based in Dallas, TX and Miami Beach, FL. For more information on Kaho Partners, please visit www.kahopartners.com.

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• Aug 2024 Acquired Colanar
• Oct 2023 Acquired Sirius Automation
• May 2023 Acquired Bow Robotics
• Jan 2023 Acquired Missouri Tooling & Automation

Vion Investments

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VION Investments, headquartered in Atlanta is global advisory provider of receivable investment services to businesses managing consumer and commercial receivables. VION provides a single, comprehensive source of expertise in receivable purchasing, consulting, and valuation.VION’s industry leading management team can help any business owner, turnaround manager, or lending institution facing issues of liquidity, covenant restrictions, and compliance. We also have solutions available to deal with the unique requirements affecting specialized industries, such as specialty finance, medical,…

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• Jun 2017 Acquired Dearden's
• Jul 2016 Acquired Italian Government
• Nov 2013 Acquired Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company
• Oct 2013 Acquired Cornucopia Oil & Gas Company

Infinitive Capital LLC

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Infinitive Capital is a private investment firm focused on partnering with lower middle-market businesses whose owners are seeking an exit or interested in staying on helping to drive the next stage of growth

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• Apr 2024 Invested in Caretech
• Aug 2023 Invested in Funds for Learning
• Aug 2023 Invested in North shore medical laboratory
• Aug 2023 Invested in EquitySim

Lapa Capital

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Lapa Capital is an investment adviser headquartered in New York. We provide an alternative approach to wealth creation for our partners, investing at the two ends of the risk spectrum: acquiring stakes in growing companies and originating/managing credit collateralized by real assets. We look for established solutions (i.e. tested and deployed) and businesses facing an inflexion point on its growth trajectory. ‍ We leverage our relationships globally to help our partners expand their network globally. ‍ We focused mainly on companies operating at or near financial profitability

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• Jan 2024 Invested in Confidential Company
• Sep 2023 Invested in Confidential Company
• Sep 2022 Invested in Confidential Company
• Jul 2022 Invested in Confidential Company

Kinsale Capital

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Kinsale Capital Partners is a Relationship Based Merchant Bank focused on providing equity solutions to middle market companies located primarily in the U.S.Kinsale invests its own capital, along with co-investment capital provided by Kinsale's proprietary network of co-investors.Rather than limiting its investment focus to a few specific industries, Kinsale focuses on investment situations having one or more of the following critical investment characteristics:The capital need is for growth, restructuring, ownership transition or special situationsThe Company serves a market that is growing,…

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Malabar International
• Aug 2023 Acquired Terminal-Andrae Inc.
• Aug 2023 Acquired Dental One, Inc.
• Aug 2023 Acquired RF Controls

Glass Lake Holdings, LLC

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Glass Lake Holdings partners with exceptional privately-held businesses. Having previously acquired, grown and exited two businesses (Richmond Alarm Company and RRS Medical), we have deep operational and investment backgrounds specifically focused on family and founder-owned businesses.

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• Mar 2026 Acquired The Fire Group
• Oct 2025 Acquired FSS Technologies
• Oct 2023 Acquired Big Box Storage
• Aug 2023 Acquired Green Grass Landscaping

Chrysalis Growth Partners

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Chrysalis Growth Partners is a private investment firm focused on the lower and middle market, primarily focusing on business services and industrials. We have a flexible investment mandate and hold periods - given we partner with two Pacific Northwest family offices who have indefinite (multi-generational) investment horizons. For illustrative purposes, sectors of interest include: waste collection and hauling, uniform rental + linen supply + commercial laundry, facility services (janitorial, pest control, route-based, etc), telecommunications, financial services (CPA, tax, accounting,…

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• Jan 2025 Advised Industrial Waste Collection and Hauling Services in its sale to Infrastructure PE Firm
• Jun 2024 Acquired Pacific NW Perimeter Security Company
• Mar 2023 Acquired Water and Wastewater Filtration and Treatment
• Jun 2022 Advised Residential Services (Plumbing) in its sale to NYC Private Equity