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Forged Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 19 Total Closed Deals
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
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Feb 2021
acquired
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Jan 2020
acquired
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Jul 2014
acquired

Transition Capital Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 17 Total Closed Deals
Transition Capital Partners (“TCP”) is a Southlake, TX based private equity investment firm. Founded in 1993, TCP has successfully invested in over 50 middle market companies spanning a diverse array of industries. TCP partners with management teams to build sustainable value in businesses over the long-term, without the artificial constraints fundraising cycles create for traditional private equity funds. With more than thirty years of proven success, we have a long track record of collaborating with our partners to accelerate the growth of middle market companies.
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Nov 2024
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Feb 2024
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Jan 2024
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Jan 2023
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Surge Private Equity Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 16 Total Closed Deals
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
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Dec 2023
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Sep 2023
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Mar 2023
acquired

Rock Gate Partners, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 15 Total Closed Deals
Rock Gate Partners, LLC ("RGP") invests in lower middle market companies that have created unique market positions, resulting in customer "mind share" leadership and providing the basis for organic growth while offering a platform for acquisitions. RGP partners with management teams and family owners in buyouts, corporate divestitures, recapitalizations, industry consolidations and later stage growth capital investments in companies typically generating $10 to $100 million in revenue. RGP is primarily focused on acquiring companies that design, engineer, market and distribute products or…
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Weinberg Capital Group Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 15 Total Closed Deals
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
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Mar 2025
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Apr 2024
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Dec 2023
acquired

Pleasant Bay Capital Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 15 Total Closed Deals
Pleasant Bay Capital Partners (“Pleasant Bay”) is a merchant banking firm focused on acquisitions, recapitalizations, and minority investments in lower-middle market companies. We partner with management teams and co-investors to maximize the long term value of our portfolio companies. Our opportunistic approach provides us the flexibility to invest in a broad range of opportunities and utilize innovative equity and debt structures to fit the specific needs of company owners and management teams.  We have investment experience in multiple industries with particular expertise and focus…
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Sep 2021
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Borgman Capital LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 15 Total Closed Deals
Borgman Capital is a private equity firm focused on acquiring successful, privately-held, lower-middle market businesses that are poised for growth. With a track record of successful acquisitions of both broadly marketed and off-market companies, we are ready to explore deals in a fair, flexible, and creative manner.
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May 2024
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Feb 2024
acquired
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Jan 2023
acquired
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Jan 2023
acquired

RedCloud Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 12 Total Closed Deals
RedCloud Capital is a Denver-based private equity firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs and management teams to build market leading companies. Founded in 2004, RedCloud Capital has more than twenty years of experience investing in entrepreneur-owned companies with differentiated growth strategies. We invest in businesses generating between $3mm - 10mm of EBITDA that have a compelling value proposition.
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Jan 2022
acquired
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Dec 2017
acquired
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Apr 2016
acquired
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Sep 2015
acquired

Grand Valley Holdings, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 12 Total Closed Deals
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
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired

Snowdon Partners GP Inc. Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 11 Total Closed Deals
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
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired

Rising Point Capital Management, LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
We are a Chicago-based private investment firm that provides partnership and capital to transform and grow your business. We primarily invest in business and consumer services companies in the lower middle market.
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Jan 2025
acquired
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Nov 2024
acquired
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Oct 2024
acquired
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Aug 2024
acquired

Bounds Equity Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
Bounds Equity Partners is a private equity investment firm that invests in well-managed, entrepreneurial businesses with EBITDA in excess of $1 million. The principals of BEP have partnered with entrepreneurs to take their businesses to the next level since 1989. We invest in good businesses and help management build larger, more successful companies. Nearly all of our investment transactions have been with private company entrepreneurs seeking liquidity, who almost always have reinvested with us to share in the future value creation. We are an experienced private equity group; we have…
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired
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Aug 2023
acquired

TJM Capital Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
TJM Capital Partners is a boutique, operationally-focused private equity firm based in Chicago. The firm was founded in 2008 and is led by Tom McDonough (Founder and Managing Partner), Scott Witt (Partner), Bill Van Sant (Operating Partner) and Dan Cleary (Operating Partner). TJM seeks high growth potential middle market manufacturing and services businesses with $10-40 million revenue and $0-7 million EBITDA, and typically invests $2 to $20+ million of equity per transaction.Our firm primarily invests in, and serves as counselors to, companies in the following sectors:Industrial…
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Jul 2019
acquired
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Mar 2019
acquired
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Dec 2018
acquired
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Mar 2018
acquired

Nordlys LLC Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 10 Total Closed Deals
We are operators at heart who have successfully closed 10 acquisitions across industrial, manufacturing, and business services sectors. In each case, we stepped into the business post-close and took responsibility for running and improving it, not just owning it. Through hands-on operational execution and focused growth initiatives, we have increased sales by approximately 50% on average. Our experience across specialty manufacturing, industrial equipment and rentals, infrastructure-related services, and recurring-service models gives us strong pattern recognition around how these businesses…
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Jun 2024
invested in
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Jun 2024
acquired
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Jun 2022
acquired
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Aug 2021
acquired

Phoenix Strategy Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 9 Total Closed Deals
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
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Nov 2014
acquired
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Dec 2013
acquired
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Nov 2009
acquired

New Heights Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 9 Total Closed Deals
New Heights Capital is a NYC-based private equity investment firm focused exclusively on buyouts and recapitalizations of profitable, lower middle market companies. Our firm is comprised of entrepreneurs, executives, and investors whose careers have been dedicated to working with privately-held businesses across a wide range of industries in the lower middle market. The mission of New Heights Capital is to build value by investing in people dedicated to growing exceptional niche companies. The foundation is a partnership with business owners, management teams, and entrepreneurs. We approach…
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
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Aug 2023
invested in

Queens Court Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 9 Total Closed Deals
Queens Court is a private investment firm with a track record of success in building championship-winning companies across multiple proprietary platforms.Queens Court is an “operator-first” investment firm, and we have built companies and organizations at the founder level with entrepreneurial DNA in our heritage.The Queens Court team specializes in providing creative capital solutions to complex special situations. We specialize in time-of-essence transactions where speed and certainty of close are paramount.We provide capital, financial expertise, and deep operating experience to…
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Mar 2023
acquired
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Sep 2022
acquired
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Dec 2021
invested in
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Apr 2020
acquired

Lapa Capital Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 8 Total Closed Deals
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
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Sep 2023
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Sep 2022
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Jul 2022
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Woodlawn Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
Woodlawn Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm that is focused on people, not transactions. Our primary responsibility is to provide stability for employees and customers. Rather than simply replacing a business owner with a new manager, we first become directly involved with a business to educate ourselves and to earn the trust of its people. We then work collaboratively to build a team that can drive self-sustaining growth. We help a business owner to tailor a succession strategy around their personal and financial needs. We take a hands-on approach to shepherding a business…
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Jul 2022
acquired
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Jan 2021
acquired
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May 2018
acquired
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Jun 2017
acquired

Chrysalis Growth Partners Actively Sourcing Deals

Independent Sponsor
  • Actively Sourcing Deals
  • 7 Total Closed Deals
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
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Jun 2024
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Mar 2023
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Jun 2022
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