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Princeton Equity Group, LLC

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Princeton Equity Group is a highly experienced franchise and multi-unit investor that has sponsored investments in growth-oriented brands in the consumer, healthcare, and business services industries. Our focus on franchise and multi-unit business models allows us to speak the same language as the management teams with which we partner and add significant value.

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Stellar Service Brands
• Aug 2023 Invested in 1-800-Textiles
• Aug 2023 Invested in Bio-One
• Aug 2023 Acquired Card My Yard

Arthur Ventures

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Minority and majority investments in software and business services companies.Based in Minneapolis.Targeting $2-20M investments in companies Headquartered in North America.

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• Aug 2023 Invested in Candor Consultants
• Aug 2023 Invested in CFI
• Aug 2023 Invested in Avalara
• Aug 2023 Invested in CyberQP

Union Park Capital

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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.

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

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• Transportation
  Industrial Equipment Platform With Meaningful EBITDA
  NDA Available CIM Available Eastern Midwest

  Revenue

  $36.7M

  EBITDA

  $9.5M

  Margin

  26%

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• Consumer Goods
  Outdoor Consumer Products Brand Platform
  NDA Available CIM Available Eastern Midwest

  Revenue

  $23.0M

  EBITDA

  $4.5M

  Margin

  20%

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• Technology
  Multi-Region IT Asset Disposition Provider
  NDA Available CIM Available West South Central

  Revenue

  $28.1M

  EBITDA

  $5.7M

  Margin

  20%

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• Food & Hospitality
  Historic Winery and Hospitality Platform
  NDA Available CIM Available Middle Atlantic

  Revenue

  $13.2M

  EBITDA

  $1.3M

  Margin

  10%

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• Technology
  Southeastern U.S. Healthcare AI Services Platform
  NDA Available CIM Available South Atlantic

  Revenue

  $7.7M

  EBITDA

  $3.0M

  Margin

  39%

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• Business Services
  Vertically Focused B2B Sales Development Provider
  NDA Available CIM Available South Atlantic

  Revenue

  $3.2M

  EBITDA

  $1.2M

  Margin

  37%

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• Industrials
  Scaled Public-Sector HVAC Contracting Platform
  NDA Available CIM Available Middle Atlantic

  Revenue

  $53.5M

  EBITDA

  $7.2M

  Margin

  13%

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• Healthcare
  Multi-Brand LED Therapy Platform, Multi-Million EBITDA
  NDA Available CIM Available Middle Atlantic

  Revenue

  $16.6M

  EBITDA

  $3.5M

  Margin

  21%

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Gallant Capital Partners

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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.

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

Cohere Capital

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Cohere Capital is a growth focused private equity firm that invests in leading middle-market businesses. We have over 30 years of combined experience investing in and working with growth companies, and we bring that experience to our partnerships with entrepreneurs, management teams, and companies.We take our approach from our name, "Cohere"​, which means being united and consistent. Our firm is founded on that philosophy.Growth is our focus. We help solidify a strong foundation and provide the expertise and capital to achieve the growth plan. While not all growth is linear, we are focused…

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• Dec 2025 Acquired Flextecs
• Sep 2025 Acquired Leverege
• Feb 2023 Acquired Phaedon
• Mar 2022 Acquired Boostability

River Sea Network

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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…

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

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West Lane Capital Partners

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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…

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

Waypoint Capital Partners

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WayPoint is an operationally focused private equity firm purpose-built for the lower middle market with a family office heritage. We are experienced stewards of patient capital, investing in growing businesses that require institutional professionalization and hands-on partnership to unlock future value.Our goal is to support families and founders as they continue to grow, helping them become a leader in their respective market and drive meaningful value for their employees.We focus on businesses between $4-25M of EBITDA in the industrials, business services, and healthcare services sectors.

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• Jun 2025 Acquired AMX
• Mar 2024 Acquired B&P Littleford
• Dec 2023 Acquired Synergy Medical Solutions
• Sep 2022 Acquired Greenshades

Jamestown Capital

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Jamestown Capital is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm investing in lower middle market businesses in non-discretionary sectors. The firm was co-founded by managing partners Henry Carter and Nate Harner (both ex-IMC traders) in 2024 around the premise that the highest LLM returns come from operational efficiencies, not financial engineering. Combining patient capital with hands-on operational and technology expertise, Jamestown targets companies with the opportunity to meaningfully scale growth capacity and improve margins with technical systems upgrades, combining patient capital…

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• May 2026 Invested in Titan Water Solutions
• Mar 2026 Invested in Nexplore
• Dec 2025 Invested in Guardian Hurricane Protection
• May 2025 Invested in DC Live Productions

Sky Island Capital LLC

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Founded in 2018, Sky Island Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm based in Dallas, Texas. The firm makes control investments in strategically viable North American manufacturing companies. The firm focuses on situations where it can draw upon its deep operational experience to support senior management in driving significant value creation through operational and strategic partnership, including add-on acquisitions. The firm is comfortable with and has a history of executing transactions with complex dynamics, including corporate carve-outs, public to privates, family-owned…

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• Jun 2025 Acquired Scranton Products
• Aug 2024 Acquired Farmdale Creamery
• Jul 2024 Acquired Pacific Paper Tube
• Apr 2023 Acquired Kaufhold's Kurds

Station Partners

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Station Partners is an entrepreneurial private equity firm that makes control investments in support of management teams operating established lower-middle market businesses with outsized potential.Taking a long-term, value-based, people-first investment approach, the principals of Station invest their own capital, alongside a select group of industry pioneers, executive partners, and investment advisors, all of whom are passionate about building great enterprises. At Station, we understand that a company’s people and culture are the key to success, and we seek to work with entrepreneurs…

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• Aug 2023 Invested in Granite Hills Group
• Aug 2023 Invested in Ark Technology Companies
• Aug 2023 Invested in COR Health
• Feb 2022 Invested in River Riders

Tulcan

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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.

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• 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

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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.

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

Lock 8 Partners

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Many traditional investors focus their efforts on finding and buying the perfect company. But we aren't traditional investors -- we are operators at our core. We understand perfection is fantasy; imperfection is opportunity, and that the only constant in the world is change. We believe successful organizations are those that operate best in a fluid environment.These views shape Lock 8's investment strategy and our holistic, hands-on approach to consistently building valuable businesses.

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• Mar 2024 Acquired CGR
• Jan 2024 Acquired Firm 360
• Aug 2023 Invested in Relay
• Aug 2023 Invested in OrgChart

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Incline Equity Partners

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Incline Equity Partners is the driving force in middle market private equity. A firm that proves you can be authentic, transparent, generate strong results… and have fun doing it.Based in Pittsburgh, with an office in New York City, we are active investors targeting services, value-added distribution and specialized light manufacturing companies with enterprise values of $25 - $750 million. Step into Incline Mode at inclineequity.comThird party posts found on this profile do not reflect the views of Incline and have not been reviewed by Incline as to accuracy or completeness.

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• Jun 2012 Acquired Dorner Manufacturing
• Apr 2012 Acquired Double E Company
• Jul 2010 Invested in Revolution Dancewear
• Jun 2010 Acquired Oracle Elevator

San Francisco Equity Partners

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San Francisco Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on consumer growth companies. We partner with companies that have reached an inflection point in their development, where consumer and retailer adoption are proven and a hands-on partner is desired for the next phase of growth. To each of our partner companies, we provide not only financial capital but also extensive operating experience and a broad network of relationships across the consumer landscape.

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• Jan 2019 Acquired Jane Iredale
• Jul 2018 Acquired Brazi Bites
• Nov 2017 Acquired San Francisco Salt Company
• Jan 2017 Acquired Red Monkey Foods

Astara Capital Partners

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Astara Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2020, headquartered in New York City, and investing out of a $312M fund. The firm specializes in value-oriented investing and special situations, focusing on middle-market companies across various industries such as manufacturing, building products, environmental infrastructure, tech-enabled services, and food & beverage.Astara Capital Partners is known for its integrated team of experienced investors and operators, boasting over 100 years of cumulative experience. The firm aims to provide both capital and operational expertise…

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• Nov 2024 Acquired Unified Service Partners
• Feb 2024 Acquired Ally Building Solutions
• Jan 2023 Acquired Wyandot Snacks
• Nov 2022 Acquired Del-Air

Caltius Equity Partners

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Caltius Equity Partners buys and builds lower middle market companies in the Business Services, Industrial Services, Technology, and Consumer Services sectors. Founded in 1999, the Los Angeles-based private equity fund makes equity investments from $10 to $30 million for a controlling or substantial minority position in companies with $2 million to $12 million in EBITDA.Caltius Equity Partners’ creative and flexible solutions facilitate management buyouts, recapitalization, and growth financings. The firm’s experienced team develops deep relationships with its portfolio companies’…

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• Oct 2022 Acquired APHIX
• Jul 2019 Acquired Air Conditioning Innovative Solutions
• Apr 2018 Acquired Health Payment Systems
• Jun 2017 Acquired Talent Systems

Roebling Capital Partners

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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.

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• 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

Iron Path Capital

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Founded in 2021, Iron Path Capital is an operations-focused private equity firm targeting growing companies in select high-value, niche market segments.Led by a seasoned operating executive and a successful private-equity investor with 25-year personal and professional partnership.We focus on businesses that have an identified path to greatness with founders and management teams seeking a different type of partner with shared values and vision –providing strategic leadership, full immersion operational support, and flexible capital.

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• May 2025 Acquired Gougeon
• Aug 2023 Acquired TruTech Servo Motors & Systems
• Aug 2023 Acquired VION Biosciences
• Jul 2023 Acquired PureTech Scientific