1876 Partners is an emerging manager private equity firm based in Tomball, Texas. We are seeking buyout opportunities in profitable, vertically focused enterprise software, tech-enabled, and data companies with strong management teams, in the lower middle market. We will take a controlling interest in businesses with up to $10M of EBITDA, and a defined M&A pipeline for future add-on acquisitions.
We partner with founders and family-owned companies in their next stage of growth, taking businesses from good to great. We are not just flippers, consolidators, or cost-cutters. We want your business and your team to survive and thrive for the long run.
We are a $16 bn asset management firm with offices globally. We make investments across capital structure, with a focus on hybrid capital. We prefer businesses with an EV over $50 mn, though our sweet spot is anywhere from $200 mn to $500 mn.
Author Capital is a private equity firm that empowers highly entrepreneurial family- and founder-led businesses with flexible capital, strategic advice, and long-term partnership.
National Diversified Funding Corporation (NDFC) is a private investment firm that has been acquiring and partnering with businesses since 1969. We focus on lower middle market companies across a wide range of industries and are known for presenting fair, well structured offers that close.We approach transactions as growth partners rather than operators. Our typical model allows owners to take meaningful liquidity while continuing to lead the business and participate in the next phase of growth. Sellers remain responsible for day to day operations, while we support expansion through capital,…
Broadcrest is an investment partnership based in Winter Park, Florida, founded in 2015 on the conviction that investment returns, over the long-term, mimic business performance. We invest in a concentrated portfolio of high-quality businesses and take a partnership approach towards their growth.
Liberty Partners is an investment firm founded by entrepreneurs who are passionate about creating long-term value and shared economic success.We invest in search funds as well as direct majority investments with a focus on Healthcare, B2B Services, and Financial Services. Our purpose is to create great entrepreneurial stories by buying and building category leading businesses alongside operators and entrepreneurs.
Private lending manager specializing in structured financing, risk assessment, and strategic capital deployment. Focused on delivering secure, high-yield opportunities while building trusted client relationships.
Greystone Industrial Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm dedicated to investing in lower middle market industrial businesses. Greystone leverages over 40 years of combined private equity experience to drive value creation and growth. The firm specializes in sectors such as packaging, building products, manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services. The firm is committed to partnering with exceptional founders and management teams to scale and transform businesses, ensuring efficient transaction execution and strategic growth. Greystone targets buyouts, management-led…
Lead origination for Aquiline's family of funds including our lower middle market fund, middle market fund, credit fund, and venture fund. We invest in anything that touches the financial services ecosystem.
Carlyle, based in Washington, DC with 29 offices globally, is a leading global alternative asset manager with $447 billion of assets under management across 612 active investment vehicles. Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Global Investment Solutions – in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Since its founding in 1987, Carlyle has invested over $146 billion in more than 785 private equity transactions. Carlyle conducts its investment activities through focused industry groups that leverage the extensive operating and…
About UsSince 1989, L Catterton has made more than 300 investments in leading consumer brands across all segments of the consumer industry. With over $30 billion dedicated to growing middle market companies and emerging high-growth enterprises, we are the largest and most experienced consumer-focused private equity group in the world.How We Foster GrowthOur Operations Team is comprised of in house functional and strategic leaders, our focused team of expert project leaders and associates and an eco-system of partners with expertise in key supplemental functions (e.g. digital, market research,…
SCP & CO is a Southeastern US based private investment firm focused on investing in lower middle market businesses where we can provide capital and strategic resources to accelerate growth and build stronger companies
Golden Gate Capital is a leading private equity firm with $9 billion in capital under management. We generate superior returns for our investors through buyout and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. We partner with world-class management teams to make equity investments in situations where there is a demonstrable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's value. Although we are a multi-sector fund and opportunistic in our approach, industry areas in which we have a particular interest include:
Founded in 1986, Nautic Partners is a middle-market focused private equity firm and has managed over $2.5 billion of assets over its 28-year history. Nautic primarily targets equity investments of $25 million to $75 million for majority ownership, with a focus on companies with $5 million to $40 million in EBITDA in the business services, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. Examples of focus sub-sectors for business services and manufacturing include specialty chemicals, specialty coatings, energy services, building products, petrochemical services, petrochemical infrastructure, aerospace…
Frontenac Company was founded in 1971 with the belief that people are the driving factor behind successful businesses. Nearly 20 years ago we developed a “CEO1ST Investing” strategy to partner with outstanding business leaders and together identify, acquire and build leading businesses. Our CEO1ST partners are leaders in their fields and provide strategic and operational insight to our portfolio companies.Together with our CEO1ST partners, we provide the capital, network and resources to enable our portfolio companies to respond to opportunities, grow and succeed.We focus on lower…
WELLSPRING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, founded in 1995, is a middle-market private equity firm that has approximately $3 billion of private equity capital under management. The firm’s objective is to bring partnership, experience and value creation to each investment. By teaming up with strong management, Wellspring is able to unlock underlying value and pursue new growth opportunities through strategic initiatives, operating improvements and add-on acquisitions. The firm functions as a strategic rather than tactical partner, providing management teams with top-line support, M&A experience and…
Founded in 2003, Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that manages $1.25 billion of committed capital. The firm was established to capitalize on the principals' expertise acquiring middle market companies. Kinderhook primarily makes control investments in companies with transaction values of $25-$100 million where the firm can achieve significant financial, operational and growth improvements. The firm targets orphaned non-core subsidiaries of corporate parents, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations of…
Cortec Group is a private equity firm with ~40 years of experience working alongside founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams of leading middle-market companies in the U.S. and Canada.Our team shares decades of real-world business experience to help good companies grow and thrive. We collaborate with management to drive commercial success and operational excellence, generating attractive results for all stakeholders.
BelHealth Investment Partners (“BelHealth”), based in New York, is a healthcare private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies. BelHealth has a unique combination of investing, executive management and entrepreneurial experience. BelHealth acquires majority positions in entrepreneur-owned companies that it believes would benefit from its extensive operating and private equity investment expertise. The firm typically invests $20-40 million per platform company across three healthcare segments: Services, Products and Distribution. Collectively, the BelHealth Team, consisting…
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