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Granite Creek Capital Partners

23 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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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

GenNx360 Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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GenNx360 is a private equity firm driving value through Operational Engagement and Investment Excellence.We invest exclusively in North America-based business-to-business middle market industrial services and manufacturing companies in fragmented markets having structural tailwinds and sustainable competitive advantages in sectors we know well. We provide the talent and expertise of our in-house operational talent and the expertise and transaction experience of our investment team. Together, we accelerate value creation.

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• Oct 2020 Acquired B2B Industrial Packaging
• Dec 2019 Acquired AeroRepair Corp.
• Sep 2019 Acquired Schneider Packaging Equipment
• Mar 2019 Acquired Miller Environmental Group

Artemis Capital Partners

22 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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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

Montage Partners

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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Arcapita Group

20 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

Albaron Partners

19 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Founded in 2017, Albaron is an operationally focused, lower-middle-market investment firm focused on the healthcare services sector. Our dedicated team of healthcare investors and operators helps founders create significant value, providing capital, operational expertise, and strategic support to founder-led healthcare companies.Albaron is focused on a diverse range of healthcare sub-sectors. We seek to foster collaborative, high-engagement partnerships with founders and management teams looking to scale their businesses. Our experienced team has a successful record of investing in both…

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• Dec 2025 Acquired Vital Care Infusion Services
• Jan 2025 Acquired IR MSO
• Aug 2024 Acquired Austin Psychiatric Consultants
• Dec 2023 Acquired Michigan Foot and Ankle

GreyLion

19 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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GreyLion focuses on investing in high-growth businesses in the lower middle market. We seek to partner with existing owners and management teams across the Industrial, Healthcare, Software and Services sectors to deliver capital in tailored and flexible minority and control structures. GreyLion invests $25-$125 million of capital per investment, primarily within the United States. We currently manage private equity funds with aggregate commitments of $1.9 billion.

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• Jul 2024 Acquired Birdseye Security
• Aug 2022 Acquired 360 Training
• Aug 2022 Acquired Trifecta Collective
• Aug 2021 Acquired Norwood Sawmills

Altus Capital Partners

18 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Altus Capital Partners is a private equity firm that makes control investments in middle market manufacturing businesses. We believe that our exclusive focus on manufacturing provides us with a unique understanding of the opportunities and challenges faced by companies in the sector. We utilize a patient, thoughtful investment approach and seek to partner with the management teams of our operating companies to achieve growth.The Altus investment team has experience in all phases of making and managing investments in middle market manufacturing companies. The firm’s partners have worked…

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• Mar 2022 Acquired Winsert
• Mar 2021 Acquired Thomson Plastics
• Mar 2019 Acquired Thermal Solutions Manufacturing
• Feb 2017 Acquired MAX Environmental Technologies, Inc.

Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners

18 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We acquire companies that have a dominant position in their niche sub-sectors of B2B services, distribution, highly engineered manufacturing, and industrial/operational technology. We focus on companies or corporate carve-outs based in the US or Canada.We target companies that benefit from many of the leading trends impacting industrial markets including productivity enhancing technology solutions, factory automation, robotics, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), advanced manufacturing and the increasing importance of B2B services.

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• Dec 2022 Acquired Sani-Matic
• Dec 2021 Acquired WorkforceQA
• Dec 2021 Acquired Signal Control Products
• Mar 2021 Acquired Zone 4

Northrim Horizon

17 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Northrim Horizon has funding committed for decades, unburdening us from short-term pressures. Our structure and strategy enable us to protect sellers' legacies and build exceptional businesses the right way. Since inception, Northrim Horizon has raised over $440 million in capital. Our most recent fund, NH Fund III, is a $235 million fund announced February 11, 2025.

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• Mar 2026 Acquired Cressy Door and Fireplace
• Aug 2025 Acquired ACG Systems
• Jun 2025 Acquired Solutions360
• Apr 2025 Acquired FacilityONE Software

Slack Water Capital

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Slack Water Capital makes minority and control equity investments in small and medium-sized businesses. The Firm's primary focus is providing equity capital to acquisition entrepreneurs. 

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• Feb 2025 Invested in Atlantic Waters
• Jan 2025 Acquired Dot Palm Landscaping
• May 2024 Invested in iMold
• Feb 2024 Invested in Jones Skips (Wolverhampton)

Peak Rock Capital

17 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We make equity and debt investments in companies in North America and Europe. Peak Rock’s equity investment platform focuses on opportunities where it can support senior management to drive rapid growth and profit improvement, with expertise in corporate carve-outs and partnering with families and founders seeking first-time institutional capital. Peak Rock’s credit platform focuses on providing bespoke primary financings and making investments in secondary loans for corporate debt and commercial real estate. Peak Rock’s principals have deep expertise in complex situations and…

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• Apr 2019 Acquired Turkey Hill
• Oct 2018 Acquired Pretzels, Inc.
• Oct 2018 Acquired Louisiana Fish Fry Products
• Sep 2018 Acquired TNT Crust

CAI Capital Partners

16 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Having invested $1.6 billion in private equity over three decades, CAI has partnered with companies across North America. We are focused on Canada, a region where our connectivity offers a definitive edge.Our longstanding Canadian roots make us alive to the possibilities in the Canadian lower middle market and a phone call away from the experts and partners who can accelerate growth for each of our portfolio companies.

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• Jul 2026 Acquired ATS Scientific
• Nov 2024 Acquired Kintera
• Sep 2022 Acquired LineStar Utility Supply
• Nov 2021 Acquired GreenArrow

Traction Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Traction Capital is a Minnesota-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and scaling businesses located in the Upper Midwest.Traction seeks buyouts in essential industries with strong, defensible market positions, target control investments in lower middle market companies with $1–3.5M of EBITDA, Traction is also very interested in ecommerce, product, and SaaS opportunities.Traction prioritizes industries with recurring demand, low cyclicality, and meaningful barriers to entry, enabling sustainable value creation and attractive exit optionality.

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• Jun 2025 Invested in PARQA
• Jun 2025 Invested in Blank Metal
• Feb 2025 Acquired Superior Decks and Railings
• Dec 2024 Invested in Atlasticity

Hadley Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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We work with founders/owners, families and management teams in need of ownership transition, management succession, and / or growth support. We primarily focus on companies with revenue between $5 million and $80 million, and a cash flow between $1 million and $10 million. We consider a wide range of industries and look for companies with potential to build on past successes and open to new ideas.

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• Sep 2014 Acquired Brushy Mountain Bee Farm
• Sep 2013 Acquired Centare
• Dec 2012 Acquired Bluff Manufacturing
• Sep 2012 Acquired W.C. Rouse

Blue Sage Capital

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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Blue Sage Capital is an Austin, Texas-based private equity firm that has been investing in profitable, growing, lower middle-market companies since 2002. Blue Sage currently has over $400 million of assets under management and seeks to partner with founders, families, and management teams as the first round of institutional capital for businesses that enjoy leadership positions in niche manufacturing, environmental solutions, or specialty services industries. Blue Sage typically invests $20 million to $40 million in control buyout investments and recapitalizations of companies with $20…

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• Apr 2023 Invested in NexGen Financial
• Jan 2023 Invested in Clearly Clean
• Jul 2022 Invested in Baker Manufacturing Company LLC
• Apr 2021 Acquired Purpose Legal

Third Century Management, LLC

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Third Century Investment Associates, LP ("TCIA") manages private equity capital for significant investments in small businesses. We invest actively in partnership with operating companies and carefully selected management teams located in the United States. Our team targets proven businesses in specialized sectors where we work to become advantaged investors through existing or acquired expertise. We are a disciplined, process-driven partnership, focused on long-term fundamentals. Our mission is to build sustainable business value, earn a superior return and develop a best-in-class reputation…

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• Apr 2026 Acquired Mobile IV Medics
• Sep 2025 Acquired BlackJet Marketing
• Jul 2025 Acquired Local Web Leads
• Oct 2024 Acquired Mobile RN Management

Warren Equity Partners

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Warren Equity Partners ("WEP") is a private equity firm that invests in small and middle market operating companies primarily in North America. WEP invests in established companies where additional capital and operating resources can accelerate growth. We are primarily targeting products and services companies in the infrastructure, industrial, and building sectors. WEP invests in the form of buyouts, growth equity, and recapitalizations. We are value-added investors with a strong emphasis on partnering with seasoned managers and operating executives. Importantly, we seek to generate return…

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• Apr 2021 Acquired ADB Companies
• Apr 2021 Acquired Magnolia River
• Nov 2020 Acquired Integrated Facility Solutions
• Oct 2020 Acquired USA Water