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Bridlewood Partners

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Bridlewood Partners is a private investment platform dedicated to partnering with management teams to drive sustainable growth and create lasting enterprise value.  We focus on acquiring founder- and family-owned businesses when ownership is ready to transition or exit, providing not just capital, but acting as a trusted partner to steward the company into its next phase of growth and preserve the legacy of the founding families.

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Integrated Partners, LLC

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Integrated Partners focuses on partnering with executives to acquire and operate companies in the executives industry of interest. Integrated Partners will provide strategic support and identify add on acquisitions while allowing the executive to focus on operational excellence and organic growth.

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Pacific Aspen Partners

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Pacific Aspen Partners is an operator-led investment firm that acquires and builds small to medium-sized businesses in the industrial and B2B services sectors in North America. We are looking to make majority investments and take active roles in stable, profitable companies with annual revenues of $10 to $50 million and EBITDA of $2 to $10 million. Pacific Aspen Partners approaches every investment as a long-term partnership focused on continuity and value creation. We are seasoned operators committed to operating with integrity and honesty to protect owner legacies. We take an active role…

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Go To Retail LLC

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Brian C. Zollar is Managing Partner at Go To Retail, where he focuses on acquiring, building, and scaling consumer products and retail-oriented businesses. With more than 25 years of executive leadership experience, Brian has worked across large corporate enterprises, early and growth-stage companies, private equity-backed businesses, and entrepreneurial ventures.Most recently, Brian served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Timilon Corporation, a technology and advanced materials company. Throughout his career, he has built and led high-performing teams, developed commercial growth…

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Owl Bayou

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Owl Bayou is seeking to acquire a lower middle-market company located around Texas. Our founder is a recent Rice University MBA graduate with 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and project management at a Fortune 500 company focused on sustainable energy solutions. Post acquisition, he plans to work closely with the business to drive measurable value for all stakeholders.

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Harbor Canyon Capital

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Harbor Canyon Capital acquires and operates profitable businesses in California, Arizona, Nevada, as well as businesses that can be operated remotely.We seek founder- or family-owned companies with recurring revenue, strong customer relationships, and proven operating histories. We are flexible regarding management continuity and will work with existing teams or implement new leadership when appropriate to support the long-term success of the business.Our team brings transaction and financing expertise, and we partner with management to provide the operational support best suited to each…

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Stone Pine Holdings

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Search fund sponsor backed by HNW, family office, and search fund of funds investors. Differentiated with speed and certainty of execution. Focused on US-based opportunities with a general mandate across geographic and industry-scope, though there is a preference for B2B opportunities in the government services, medical, software, and F&B (logistics, distribution, production, packing, and wholesaling) spaces given operational expertise in these fields. Opportunities must generate a minimum of $1.25M of pre-tax earnings annually. Although the current portfolio consists of minority stakes,…

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N3 Capital Management

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N3 Capital Management is a private investment firm based in Chicago, IL. We focus on acquiring or investing flexible capital solutions into lower middle-market businesses in the United States.We partner with entrepreneurs, families, other investors and management teams to transition and scale companies in the industrial/manufacturing, consumer, and business services sectors.Within real estate, we partner with asset owners, developers, and lenders who are seeking creative and flexible non-control capital solutions.When acquiring a majority stake in a company, we bring a hands-on, long-term…

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Tucker Equity Holdings, LLC

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We are a small group of private individual investors / sponsors. We have up to $2M (+/-) in deployable capital, excluding debt financing. We are headed up by Steve Tucker, a corporate attorney with over 25 years' experience in M&A, real estate, and finance. Steve is acting in a business (not legal) capacity with respect to this effort, and will be a co-investor in any acquisition.One of our capital investors has decades of experience in the flooring and industrial metals business.Another investor has decades of experience in real estate development, commercial leasing, and commercial…

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Bretmoor Capital LLC

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I am an independent sponsor planning to acquire and operate a company using a mix of loans, personal capital, and a preferred equity raise. I have six years of M&A experience through Investment Banking and Private Equity, most recently as a Senior Associate at Gauge Capital. I led M&A transactions and provided operational support across the healthcare and business services industries for our $2.5B AUM fund. On the sell-side, I worked at Cowen Partners providing M&A advisory services in the consumer industry, with a specialization in pet products and services.I left Gauge in 2021…

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Virtus Partners

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Virtus is a family office investment firm that acquires, manages, and builds market-leading companies. Being a family office, we do not have investors, which allows us tremendous flexibility, and an indefinite investment horizon.

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Sylvanite Capital, Inc.

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We are small family office that is seeking to deploy our own capital in the lower middle market. We seek to do majority and minority investments. We typically seek earnings of $500,000 or greater in the Western, Southwestern US.

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workpolar

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Holdco focused on building targeted roll-up platforms in the Lower-Middle Market. Previously secured financing for ~$250m of Independent Sponsor M&A bids - Across Senior Debt, Mezz, Alternative, and Sale-Leaseback financing.

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Elmwood Group

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I run a family office backed vehicle called The Elmwood Group, which provides growth capital to best-in-class consumer and services business to turbocharge growth and allow founders to take chips off the table if desired.

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Zittel Advisors

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I lead Zittel Advisors, leveraging 20+ years in banking, credit risk and digital transformation to help businesses grow through analytics, operational efficiency and go‑to‑market strategies. I’m seeking lower‑middle‑market companies with asking prices up to $10 M and EBITDA/NOI of at least $1 M that require operational or technological modernization. My track record includes managing lending portfolios as large as $3 billion and spearheading AI‑driven digital transformations that delivered exponential growth in customer acquisition, product conversion, loan originations and…

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Flight Equity

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We are a well-capitalized partnership focused on acquiring high quality business services and core infrastructure assets. We both hold MBAs from Columbia Business School and possess over 20 years of combined experience in roles that have ranged from institutional private equity investing to public company leadership. Our goal is to seek investment opportunities that allow for both organic growth and value creation through follow-on acquisitions. As an investment group, we aim to evaluate opportunities with first principles thinking and do not dismiss assets due to the presence of an…

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Shaw Ventures, Ltd

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We are a diversified group of companies with operations in 17 countries across Latin America and Europe, spanning industrials, logistics, financial services and consumer sectors. We are now establishing a U.S.-based private equity arm to pursue lower middle market acquisitions. We bring deep operational expertise, long-term capital, and the ability to add strategic value. We are focused on partnering with founders, family-owned businesses, and operators seeking succession or growth support.

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Integrity Growth Partners

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Founded in 2018, Integrity Growth Partners is a growth private equity firm focused on investing in high-growth software and tech-enabled services businesses led by exceptional management teams. As of September 2023, Integrity Growth Partners has over $550 million in assets under management across its fund and investment vehicles.We believe that the foundation for exceptional growth in any company starts with its team. We bring complementary strategic, operational, and financial resources to our portfolio companies.We partner with exceptional management teams to accelerate growth. We invest…

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Rally Sky Capital

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Independent sponsor seeking business services investments. Decade+ of private equity experience in the middle market. Focus on marketing services, information services, travel services, legal services and the event ecosystem.

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Helium Capital

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Helium Capital is a buyout independent sponsor in Houston, Tx. We invest across industries in MRO Facilities & Industrial Field Services Companies with varying degrees of institutional infrastructure in place. The Helium team brings an average of 20 years per Managing Partner across disciplines of Finance, Operations, Talent, and Capital Raising.  The team collectively have invested $400M+ across Venture, PE, and Real Estate encompassing 60+ operating companies. Helium Capital strives to create value through implementing, optimizing, and scaling the institutional infrastructure…

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