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Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds

234

Active Firms

16,225

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$800K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range


Florida 14%
California 11%
Texas 10%
New York 7%
New Jersey 4%

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

Showing 41-60 of 234 Private Equity Funds

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Garnett Station Partners

35 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Garnett Station Partners was founded in 2013 by Matt Perelman and Alex Sloane, two entrepreneur-investors who grew up together, attended school together, and built the firm together. Today, GSP is a New York–based principal investment firm managing approximately $4.5 billion in assets, investing in growing businesses at attractive entry points across sectors including food and beverage, health and wellness, automotive, and business services. GSP's origins trace to the founders' first year of business school, when they acquired 23 struggling Burger King franchises in Henderson, North…

Recent Transactions

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  • Dec 2025 Acquired Skybound Service Partners
  • Dec 2025 Acquired True North Fleet Services
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Honey Baked Ham
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Tavern in the Square

Argosy PE Investments, LLC

32 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Founded in 1990, Argosy Capital invests entrepreneurial capital with experienced business partners in two asset classes, lower middle market operating companies and real estate. Our focus is on creating value with our business partners by investing in inefficient markets where creativity, hard work and disciplined risk taking can generate exceptional returns for the benefit of all stakeholders. As partners with our investors, co-investors, operating company management teams and real estate operating partners, we are dedicated to creating value by building upon the strengths of the people,…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Barco Products
  • May 2023 Acquired Diverse Logistics & Distribution, Inc.
  • Apr 2023 Acquired Burco, Inc.
  • Nov 2022 Acquired Best Warehousing & Transportation, Inc.

Highview Capital

30 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Highview Capital is a family-office backed private equity fund in Los Angeles with an evergreen fund structure (patient capital with ability to hold longer) and flexible, opportunistic investment mandate that has deployed nearly $700mm of equity capital through 2024.We look for companies poised to undergo a transformation. We drive value through a strategic and operational approach coupled with patient capital and an extremely flexible mandate.We invest in middle market businesses that are facing a critical inflection point and are ready for transformation, whether that is executing…

Recent Transactions

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  • Sep 2023 Acquired Lamm Food Service
  • Aug 2023 Invested in Safety Marking
  • Jun 2023 Invested in B&R Auto
  • Sep 2022 Acquired Armstrong’s Restoration

Northern Lakes Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Northern Lakes Capital makes control equity investments in leading family owned private companies with revenues typically ranging from $15 million to $150 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) between $3 million and $20 million. We will look at smaller companies as add-on acquisitions.

Recent Transactions

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  • Apr 2026 Acquired Gary O’Brien Property Services
  • Apr 2026 Acquired Collins Brothers Towing of St. Cloud
  • Mar 2026 Acquired True Access Security
  • Jan 2026 Acquired Cones & Barrells

Martis Capital

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
With offices in Palo Alto, CA, and Washington, DC, CHSO is a private investment firm focused exclusively on the healthcare and wellness industry. We target middle-market companies and growth situations in North America where our team has an edge in understanding the opportunity, performing due diligence and adding value post close. Our investment team possesses over 50 years of combined investment and medical experience, and leverages an extensive network of relationships with healthcare executives, clinicians, scientists and regulators. We provide flexible, patient capital in partnership…

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  • Oct 2022 Invested in Alcanza Clinical Research
  • Nov 2021 Invested in Lighthouse Lab Services
  • Sep 2021 Acquired Community Based Care
  • Nov 2020 Acquired DCN Dx

Mangrove Equity Partners

27 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Mangrove Equity Partners' founding principals enjoy a national reputation as uncommonly effective, fair, flexible and honorable partners to company owners and managers. We have the captive financial resources (including bridge capabilities) and deal experience to efficiently close transactions. We also have substantial operating experience and a collaborative approach to building value at the companies with whom we partner. Mangrove's three person internal operating team affords our fund the ability to help owner/operators maximize the value of their retained ownership, and allows Mangrove to…

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  • Oct 2022 Invested in Atlas Greenhouse
  • Feb 2022 Acquired STCR
  • Dec 2021 Invested in Vintage Air
  • Jan 2021 Invested in Seaside Waste Services

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Silver Oak Services Partners, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Silver Oak Services Partners is a lower-middle market private equity firm focused exclusively on service businesses. We seek to partner with exceptional management teams to build industry leading business, consumer and healthcare service companies.Silver Oak utilizes a proactive, research-led investment process to identify attractive services sectors and seek out the best potential management teams and investment opportunities. We bring extensive services industry expertise and relationships to our investments and work closely with our management teams to drive long-term value creation.Silver…

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired VASA Fitness
  • Dec 2022 Acquired Vecta Environmental Services
  • Dec 2020 Acquired Geriatric Medical
  • Nov 2020 Acquired Launch Family Entertainment

Rockbridge Growth Equity

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Rockbridge Growth Equity is a Detroit-based private equity firm with a commitment to helping exceptional companies accelerate growth and build long-term, sustainable value for its stakeholders.Since 2007, Rockbridge has built a track record of success helping both burgeoning entrepreneurs and established businesses successfully navigate their next stage of growth. We believe in a relationship-based investment perspective that builds lasting strategic partnerships focused on long-term results.

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  • Oct 2010 Acquired Protect America, Inc.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Quicken Loans Inc.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Ready Financial Group, Inc.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Rock Companies, LLC

Capitala Financial Advisors, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Capitala Group is an asset management firm that has been providing private credit and private equity capital to lower- and middle-market businesses throughout North America for over twenty years. Since our inception in 1998, Capitala has invested over $2.2 billion into small businesses and strives to make an impact through responsible investing and a unified mission to support social impact initiatives. We seek to partner with strong management teams to create value and support growth through strategic partnerships, operational expertise, and a shared vision for success.

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  • Jan 2025 Provided debt financing to Newbury Franklin Industrials
  • Dec 2024 Provided debt financing to The Stonewall Group
  • Oct 2024 Invested in Stueve Construction, LLC
  • Sep 2024 Acquired Better Car People

Halifax Group

25 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
The Halifax Group is a private investment firm dedicated to partnering with founders and managers of lower middle-market businesses with total enterprise values generally between $50 million and $300 million.

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  • Nov 2019 Acquired AAMP
  • Sep 2019 Acquired Prairie Industries
  • Jun 2019 Acquired StrataTech
  • Apr 2018 Acquired ChanceLight

Tonka Bay Equity Partners

24 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Tonka Bay Equity Partners acquires and invests in small and midsized companies that are pursuing the next level of success. Our patient, personalized and collaborative approach has yielded superior returns for investors and management partners alike.Since 1998, Tonka Bay has raised more than $550 million of capital in four funds, composed of contributions from institutional investors, endowments, pensions, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. We seek to partner with and support management teams in established, profitable businesses that serve a specific niche. We do not consider…

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  • Jan 2023 Acquired Corporate Technologies
  • Jan 2022 Acquired Standard Locknut
  • Jan 2021 Acquired Professional
  • Jan 2021 Acquired Orange Tree

Ronin Equity Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
About Ronin Equity PartnersBased in New York City, Ronin Equity Partners represents a new type of investment firm, powered by an operationally-focused value creation strategy. Ronin makes control equity investments exclusively in the Industrial and Consumer sectors, where the team has prior investment and operating expertise. The group invests in market leaders with highly defensible market positions, strong demonstrated cash flows, and in situations where Ronin’s operating playbook can add value through enhanced systems, processes, and talent recruitment. The Ronin team embeds into each…

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  • Sep 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jun 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Sep 2023 Acquired North Country Packaging
  • Apr 2023 Acquired Brewmation

Lightview Capital LLC

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Lightview Capital is a private equity firm that invests in profitable, capital efficient Business Services and Tech-Enabled Services companies in North America. We principally target bootstrapped and founder-owned companies, corporate divestitures and recapitalization transactions with EBITDA between $2m-$15m.

Recent Transactions

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  • Dec 2025 Acquired Integral Solutions
  • Dec 2025 Acquired The Social Element
  • Oct 2025 Acquired FSS Technologies
  • Jul 2025 Acquired Vermana

Granite Creek Capital Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Granite Creek manages SBIC funds providing flexible debt and equity capital to lower middle market companies. Target check sizes are $15mm to $25mm (with flexibility to scale to $50mm+ with partners) with a focus on targets with $4mm to $12mm of EBITDA. We partner with management teams to help grow their businesses and be their institutional capital partner, even when we are in a minority position. We also partner with independent sponsors. Our capital is flexible and we can invest in a wide variety of debt (senior, subordinated, mezzanine) and equity securities (preferred, common, other) to…

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  • Jan 2026 Invested in Confidential Company
  • Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Nov 2024 Acquired Ritchie Industries
  • Sep 2024 Acquired Global Animal Products

Kainos Capital

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Kainos Capital, a middle market private equity firm focused on the food and consumer sector, was recently formed by Andrew Rosen, Robert Sperry and Sarah Ashmore Bradley. The Kainos Partners have invested and collaborated together in the food and consumer space over the past 20 years and their deep industry knowledge is complimented by an experienced team of investment professionals.The Kainos Team has extensive investment and operating experience in the industry, having invested more than $2 billion of equity in more than 52 transactions in the food and consumer sector with a total…

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Good2Grow
  • Feb 2023 Invested in CellCore
  • Jan 2023 Acquired Evriholder
  • Aug 2021 Acquired Muenster Milling Company

Artemis Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Artemis is a highly specialized private equity firm focused on partnering with differentiated Industrial Tech companies that contribute to a healthier, safer, and more productive world. Focusing exclusively on manufacturers of highly engineered products with mission-critical applications, Artemis' vision is to buy and build deeply impactful Industrial Tech businesses that enhance global health, security, and productivity.These products enable some of the most important technologies to serve the most pressing human demands: Diagnostic lab equipment enabling health &…

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  • Nov 2025 Acquired Antenna Associates, Inc.
  • Sep 2025 Acquired Millrock Technology
  • Mar 2025 Acquired Athena AI
  • Jan 2025 Acquired Richland Glass

ScaleCo Capital

21 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Investors Scaling Companies LocallyScaleCo Capital is a Cleveland-based lower middle market private equity firm that focuses on control-oriented leveraged buyout and growth equity investments in fast-growing companies based primarily in the Great Lakes region. ScaleCo partners with companies in the verticals of business services, tech-enabled services, value added distribution and assembly, and training, compliance, and education, bringing operational expertise and strategic resources to scale their growth potential and build long-term value.ScaleCo is the Proud Capital Investment Partner of…

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  • Mar 2023 Acquired Safety Controls Technology
  • Oct 2022 Acquired TPI Efficiency
  • Apr 2021 Acquired InnoPlast
  • Feb 2021 Acquired PSP Metrics

Excellere Partners

21 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Excellere Partners is a Denver-based private equity investment firm, specializing in partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams - building enduring value with a spirit of partnership and excellence. With $2.3 billion of committed capital across its four funds, Excellere Partners employs a proven research-driven, top-down investment strategy, and supports its entrepreneurs and management teams with a proprietary value creation process designed to enhance corporate and operational infrastructure for scalability and growth. Excellere's investments are focused on emerging companies…

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  • Feb 2019 Invested in SePRO
  • Jan 2019 Invested in Concord TECHNOLOGIES
  • Aug 2017 Invested in BioCare Medical
  • Jun 2017 Invested in Medlogix

Montage Partners

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Montage Partners is a lower-middle-market private equity firm investing in established U.S. and Canadian companies with $1.5M–$7M of EBITDA.Since 2004, we have completed 20 platform investments (14 successfully exited, 6 current) across four core sectors: Industrial Products & Services, Technology & Professional Services, Consumer, and Healthcare. Our portfolio companies collectively represent more than 1,700 employees and $400M+ in combined revenue.Montage Partners manages $80M of capital with committed capital available to deploy in 2026. We specialize in founder liquidity and…

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  • Aug 2024 Acquired Military Fasteners
  • Jun 2022 Acquired RDD Associates
  • Oct 2021 Acquired Solly Baby
  • Apr 2020 Acquired United Right-Of-Way

Arcapita Group

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
Arcapita is a global investment firm focused on middle-market private equity and real estate transactions, with offices in Atlanta, Bahrain, London, and Singapore.Over the past 20 years, Arcapita has completed over 70 investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.Our flexible investment mandate and hold period allow for creative structuring solutions and the ability to partner with founders, executives, family offices, fundless sponsors, and institutional investors.

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  • Jul 2025 Acquired C&K Paving
  • Apr 2025 Acquired Trustpoint.One
  • Jan 2022 Acquired Nationwide Property & Appraisal Services
  • Dec 2019 Acquired Waste Harmonics

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Private Equity Funds in this directory ordered?

Firms in the Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

What information is included in each Private Equity Fund profile?

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

What company sizes are most common for Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds is $3M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $800K-$4M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

How important is Financial Services experience when evaluating Private Equity Funds?

Relevant Financial Services experience can be an important consideration when evaluating a firm. Familiarity with the sector can provide a stronger understanding of its business models, market dynamics, valuation considerations, and transaction environment. The 234 firms included in this directory provide a starting point for identifying firms with relevant experience and activity in Financial Services.

Do all Private Equity Funds in this directory focus exclusively on Financial Services?

Not necessarily. Many firms are active across multiple industries, so inclusion in the Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds directory reflects relevant experience or activity in Financial Services, rather than an exclusive sector focus. Individual profiles provide additional context on each firm’s areas of focus and activity within the sector.

How do I compare Private Equity Funds with experience in Financial Services?

When comparing Private Equity Funds with experience in Financial Services, consider factors such as size range, geographic reach, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 234 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds?

Axial can help you identify and connect with firms based on your objectives and what you are looking to accomplish. The process varies depending on your role and transaction needs. If you are interested in connecting with firms in the Specialized Finance Private Equity Funds directory, you can request information here.


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