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Clearview Capital

45 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We are a private investment firm specializing in control and non-control investments of North American companies with operating profits of $4 - $20 million.Since the firm’s founding in 1999 by Jim Andersen, Calvin Neider and Pete Doolittle, Clearview has single-mindedly remained dedicated to investing in and supporting the development of lower middle market companies. Working collaboratively with our portfolio company management teams, we provide targeted strategic and operational assistance, as well as capital, to fuel organic and acquisition growth initiatives.Since inception, the…

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• Jan 2025 Acquired Loss Prevention Services
• Dec 2023 Acquired AdCellerant
• May 2023 Acquired Inventive
• Apr 2023 Acquired Capitol Services

Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Company

44 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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HKW is evolving with clarity and purpose, while honoring the vision of the firm’s founders and our 100 plus year history. We focus on specific sectors in which we can utilize our skills and perspective, leveraging technology as part of a data-driven methodology to power our “Four Pillar” structure. HKW has developed processes that support our strategy to find, create, and sustain value in our companies while trusting and appreciating that our approach is what sets us apart.

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• Jan 2023 Acquired CMIT Solutions
• Dec 2022 Acquired dominKnow
• Sep 2022 Acquired Golden Country Oriental Food
• Mar 2022 Invested in Draup

Blue Point Capital Partners, LLC

44 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Blue Point Capital Partners is a private equity firm managing over $1.5 billion in committed capital. With offices in Cleveland, Charlotte, Seattle and Shanghai, Blue Point’s geographical footprint allows it to establish relationships with local and regional entrepreneurs and advisors, while providing the resources of a global organization. The Blue Point partner group has a 21-year track record of partnering with lower middle-market businesses to build processes and capabilities to achieve dramatic growth, specializing in ownership recapitalizations, corporate divestitures and buyouts,…

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• Mar 2018 Acquired FM Sylvan (FMS)
• Mar 2018 Acquired Spector & Co.
• Nov 2017 Acquired Italian Rose Gourmet Products
• Aug 2017 Acquired SASE Company

Stonehenge Partners

42 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Stonehenge Partners ("Stonehenge" or the "Firm") is a middle-market private equity firm with a highly successful 25+ year track record. The Firm directs the investment activities for approximately $1 billion in capital commitments. Stonehenge's investment professionals have extensive experience executing a broad range of transactions including:Management and leveraged buyoutsAcquisitionsRecapitalizationsGrowth capital investmentsStonehenge Partners has the flexibility to invest in a variety of structures including common equity, preferred equity and subordinated debt (or combinations…

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• Jun 2019 Invested in Carolina Restaurant Group, Inc.
• Apr 2019 Invested in Weil Foot & Ankle Institute
• Jan 2019 Acquired PPM Technologies
• Sep 2018 Acquired EMX Industries, Inc.

Rockwood Equity Partners

41 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Rockwood Equity Partners:B2B manufacturing, service providers, distribution in industrials and regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, aerospace & defense, environmental, waste, rail, water, others)Transaction types: First institutional capital partner, majority, minority, growth, independent sponsor and operator partners, management buyout, corporate divestitureTarget company size: $10-$75 million in revenues and $2-$7 million EBITDA, add-ons of any size.Private equity investment firm for lower middle market companies, with a track record spanning 25+ years.Approach:Focused on growing…

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• Dec 2025 Acquired Wright's Hydroseeding
• Dec 2025 Acquired Utility Locating Services in Ohio
• Nov 2025 Acquired Sealer Equipment Business serving Medical and Pharmaceutical
• Sep 2024 Acquired SafeSite

The Brydon Group

38 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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The Brydon Group is a veteran-led $500M+ private equity fund focused on acquiring recurring revenue small businesses with $1-$5M EBITDA. To date we've closed 39 transactions. We are an ideal solution for owners looking to transition their legacy to the next generation of small business owner as we bring in one of our industry-focused entrepreneurs-in-residence as CEO.We have a focus on software and B2B, government, & healthcare services.Investor team consists of Alex Mears (two decades in large cap private equity at Blackstone and Carlyle and five years in Special…

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• Jan 2026 Acquired Confidential Company
• Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
• Dec 2025 Acquired Confidential Company

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Garnett Station Partners

35 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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…

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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

Industrial Opportunity Partners

35 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Industrial Opportunity Partners, LLC ("IOP"), based in Evanston, IL, is a private equity investment firm. With $910 million of committed capital since its inception, IOP is focused on acquiring and managing middle-market manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses. Utilizing its operations-focused approach and dedicated Board of Operating Principals, IOP has a track record of stabilizing, growing and enhancing the value of its acquired businesses having invested in over 20 platform companies.

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• May 2024 Acquired Transcendia
• May 2024 Acquired Forte Opening Solutions
• May 2023 Acquired HARVEST FOOD GROUP
• Apr 2022 Acquired VIAFLEX

Fulcrum Equity Partners

32 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Fulcrum Equity Partners is an Atlanta-based growth equity firm focused on providing expansion capital to rapidly growing companies. We have been successfully investing in high growth businesses since 2000. The senior team all has significant operating experience in companies of the size and type in which we invest that had successful exits. We have been involved in over 400 transactions and know how to position businesses to be attractive acquisition candidates. Additionally, our investor base includes 100 current and former CEOs. In short, we look to investment in businesses where we can…

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• Aug 2016 Acquired CarePlus
• May 2016 Invested in iHealth
• Jan 2016 Invested in QASymphony
• Nov 2015 Invested in Phish Labs

Argosy PE Investments, LLC

32 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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,…

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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

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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…

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

Capitala Financial Advisors, LLC

26 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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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

Eureka Equity Partners, L.P.

25 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Eureka Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in and building niche-market leaders at the lower end of the middle market. Eureka’s core focus is partnering with exceptional management teams to acquire businesses with up to $100 million in revenue across industry segments in which Eureka brings significant experience and operating resources, including business services, health care services, specialty manufacturing and consumer products. Eureka leads buyouts that bring significant ownership to the operators driving the success of the business. With this core principle…

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• Nov 2014 Acquired Jansy Packaging, LLC
• Feb 2013 Acquired West Academic Publishing
• Dec 2012 Invested in Creative Co-Op
• May 2011 Invested in Project Leadership Associates

Tonka Bay Equity Partners

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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

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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

Heartwood Partners

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Heartwood Partners (formerly Capital Partner, Inc.) was formed in 1982. Since then, its principals have invested in more than seventy five companies. We believe in doing what we say we will do and being patient and disciplined investors who support exceptional management teams as they develop their businesses. On average, we have held our investments for over five years and have supported management through the acquisition of complimentary businesses. As supportive capital partners to exceptional management teams, together we have created substantial value.In January of 2014, we raised our…

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• Sep 2020 Acquired Patten Seed
• May 2020 Acquired MicroCare, LLC.
• Oct 2019 Acquired Allentown, Inc.
• Apr 2019 Acquired Universal Woods