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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

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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

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

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

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Tulcan

8 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals

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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

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

Percheron Investment Management, LP

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Percheron Capital is a private investment firm with $3+ billion in AUM that is focused on partnering with strong management teams to build market-leading essential services businesses.

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• Oct 2023 Acquired SafeBasements
• Mar 2023 Acquired Lookout Pest Control
• Sep 2022 Acquired Blue Cardinal Home Services Group
• Dec 2021 Acquired Animal Dermatology Group

MKH Capital Partners LP

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MKH Capital Partners is a Miami, FL-based private equity firm. Founded by entrepreneurial families and professional investors. MKH offers a combination of long-term family capital and large-scale private equity expertise and resources.We actively partner with business owners and leading management teams to create stronger companies that become regional/national leaders.We manage our business using three guiding principles:• Be flexible, straightforward, and supportive partners• Prioritize people, culture, and values• Move quickly and decisivelyThe capital for MKH’s private equity…

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• Jan 2022 Acquired Fertilitas Ventures
• Jun 2021 Acquired Fertilitas Ventures
• May 2021 Acquired Wax Center Partners
• Mar 2021 Acquired Allied Universal

American Pacific Group

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American Pacific Group is a San Francisco-based private equity firm targeting control equity investments in lower-middle-market companies, typically with EBITDA from $0 to $40 million. We focus on complex businesses and transactions across technology, consumer, business services, industrial, and healthcare. We are growth-oriented investors, and together with our in-house operating partners, seek to implement our proprietary value creation model to drive sustainable growth in our portfolio companies. 

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• Aug 2022 Acquired Concisys
• Dec 2021 Acquired Gym Launch & Prestige Labs
• Nov 2021 Acquired Fellers
• Mar 2021 Acquired Aesop

The Blackstone Group

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The Blackstone Group Inc. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management, and financial services firm based in New York City. As the largest alternative investment firm in the world. Blackstone specializes in private equity, credit, and hedge fund investment strategies.This sourcing profile is specifically on behalf of Blackstone's Tactical Opportunities (Tac Opps) fund, an opportunistic investing platform seeking to capitalize on global investment opportunities that are time-sensitive, complex, or in dislocated markets where we believe risk is fundamentally…

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• Aug 2023 Acquired Transmission Developers Inc.
• Jun 2023 Acquired Emerson Climate Technologies
• Aug 2021 Acquired Hello Sunshine
• Dec 2020 Acquired Ancestry

Tecum Capital Partners

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Tecum Equity is an operationally oriented growth investment firm focused on supporting family and founder owned businesses within the precision manufacturing, high value-added distribution, and nondiscretionary B2B service sectors. We target industrial end markets where we can leverage our past operational and investment experience. We seek to support first time ownership transitions where our resources and experiences can augment the existing team’s culture and capabilities. Since 2006, our team has invested over $1B of growth capital and served as leaders and advisors to over 100…

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• Aug 2025 Acquired A&D Manufacturing Company
• Jun 2025 Acquired Industrial Supply Company
• Aug 2024 Acquired Kadon Precision Machining
• Oct 2023 Acquired Basement Waterproofing Company

Crossplane Capital

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Crossplane Capital is a private equity firm based in Dallas investing control equity in industrial business services, niche manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses. The firm invests in companies with up to $200 million of revenue and significant value creation upside through prudent net working capital management, rigorous cost optimization and thoughtful revenue growth.Our team has decades of collective experience transforming industrial companies as senior executives, operational improvement consultants, strategy consultants, restructuring advisors and private equity…

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• Sep 2022 Invested in Viking Fence
• Sep 2022 Invested in Kaemark
• Mar 2022 Invested in Hunter Leasing
• Dec 2020 Invested in Empower Rental Group

NCA Partners

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NCA Partners is a leading Pacific Northwest based Private Equity Firm with over 20 years of experience in successfully partnering with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams. Since 1992, NCA has consistently built value by making investments in leveraged buyouts, consolidations, turnarounds, recapitalizations and growth financings of smaller middle market companies, defined as companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Since its founding, NCA has invested over $200 million of equity capital. NCA has built a strong regional franchise based on an…

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• Jul 2019 Invested in Doolittle
• Aug 2017 Acquired Apply A Line
• Aug 2014 Acquired Central Water
• Apr 2014 Acquired PTW Energy Services

GVC Americas

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GVC Americas is a private equity firm established in 2021 by the co-founder and managing principal of Driehaus Private Equity, Eli Boufis. The firm is currently deploying capital from a $100mm fund. We support founders and owner-operators seeking capital for personal liquidity and growth. Our partners retain a significant ownership stake in their businesses and continue to play a vital leadership role.Our focus:Reinvesting excess cash flow to accelerate profitable growthUtilizing minimal to no debtConstructing meaningful employee incentive plans that align the organization and generate wealth…

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• Aug 2023 Invested in Hawkes Learning Technology
• Mar 2023 Invested in SxanPro
• Jan 2023 Invested in Encore Medical Device Repair
• Jul 2014 Invested in Force Management / Growth Play

Crux Capital

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Crux Capital is the ideal partner for owners seeking liquidity, generational transition, capital for growth or recapitalization. The firm is committed to preserving the legacy of the companies we invest in, recognizing that people and culture are the key determinants of long-term success. In addition to providing capital, we leverage the expertise of our team and limited partner investors to support management teams in reaching their growth objectives. While we do not participate in the day-to-day management of our companies, we do serve as active advisers and provide additional…

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• Apr 2025 Acquired Pool Works
• Dec 2023 Acquired Uncommon Brands
• Jan 2023 Invested in HTeaO
• Mar 2022 Acquired Woody's Brands