Based in Louisville, KY, Venture First is an Investment Platform firm that manages multiple alternative asset investment strategies, including an independent sponsor buyout strategy. We actively seek to work with business owners looking for a trusting partner that can build on the strong foundation of their company. We are proud Kentuckians who understand the importance of values and preserving a legacy. Venture First has more than a $100mm under management across asymmetric investment opportunities in VC, Private Equity, Real Estate, and other opportunistic alternatives such as bourbon…
Catalus Capital is a multi-strategy private equity firm founded in early 2011. The flexibility of the firm’s investment mandates sets it apart from its peers. The firm invests out of two strategies: Catalus Growth Partners, a buyout fund focused on acquiring majority stakes in growing middle market companies, and Catalus Special Opportunities, a fund focused on finding deep value in corporate, real estate, and esoteric assets.
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 $3.5MM. 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.
Traverse Pointe Partners is a private investment firm focused on control investments in lower middle market companies. Our investment professionals, advisory board and operating partners work collectively, offering a unique array of skill-sets and expertise to enhance the value of our platform investments. We partner with strong management teams, providing capital and a level of operational, financial and strategic support to enable organizations in transition to maximize their potential.
Bronco Ventures hopes to bring grit, energy and a sense of adventure to its portfolio companies. We are seeking small, service-related acquisitions where we can differentiate on our customer service and offering quality. Small business is hard. Dealing with people is messy. It can be lonely and defeating without the right support structure. Business is also where life-change and personal impact happens. It’s where thorny issues are addressed and overcome. Generations can be improved through opportunity and commitment. This is what we are passionate about.
Software Growth Partners’ (SGP’s) primary mission is to build great software companies. We do this by being very selective about where we invest, and being very engaged where we do. Unlike the traditional private equity approach, we engage with our portfolio companies as true partners with only one goal: To help them achieve their full potential.When we achieve our primary mission, we generate winning outcomes for everyone that is a part of the journey.
Since 1991 Provident Realty Advisors and The Backes Family Office has invested in and developed over $5 Billion of real estate projects. We are disciplined and focused on executing deals that offer the best risk adjusted returns for PRA and our investor partners. While our original business has been commercial real estate development we have used our capital and investment discipline to successfully invest in multiple operating companies.Currently, we own two general contracting companies specializing in different areas of multifamily as well as a specialty lighting distributor. Additionally,…
Rebus Capital, LLC is a private equity company historically focused on commercial real estate with over $85,000,000 in assets under management, headquartered in Lubbock, Texas. The company has in-house capabilities in acquisitions, financing, and asset management. Currently seeking Biz acquisitions in and around West Texas and Eastern New Mexico.
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…
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.
D2 Equity Capital is executing a focused, private equity investment strategy which leverages significant transactional, financial and operating experience. The strategy targets investments in lower-middle market businesses as more fully described below.D2 is led by Dennis Dunn, a former Managing Director of Carlisle Enterprises, LLC, a highly successful private equity firm based in San Diego, California. During Dunn’s tenure from 1992 to 2012, Carlisle invested in over 30 platform companies, with aggregate annual sales in excess of $5.0 billion, operating in a wide variety of industrial…
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…
Elm Creek Partners has a history of successfully collaborating with uniquely talented management teams to fully realize opportunities within niche industries or pursue opportunistic situations. These investments are typically smaller than what a traditional middle market investor will consider and do not fit the criteria of the traditional venture capital; limiting access to institutional capital. Situations may include teams interested in spinning off a corporate orphan or out of a corporate parent, reentering a consolidating/expanding market they have previously participated in or pursuing…
We look to acquire control of successful, niche-leading companies and taking them to the next level. This is accomplished by partnering with management teams to instill best practices, refine operational efficiencies, support organic growth initiatives, and complete add-on acquisitions. We will create value for all stakeholders by instilling tried and true management principles, tireless work ethic, and integrity in all that we do and say.
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…
Since 2013, Pillsman Partners has invested selectively in seven platform businesses and additional add-on acquisitions. Pillsman focuses on industries where we have direct prior experience whether it be from operating companies where we have worked or industries in which we have either advised or invested. We also invest in adjacent industries that share common characteristics and dynamics, leveraging the breadth of our knowledge, experience and relationships. We are active members of the board of directors supporting our teams to augment and advise management teams as they refine and…
InfraNext Partners is a team of seasoned investors who have created a differentiated strategy to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns. We seek to actively collaborate with management teams and financial sponsors to provide them with bespoke capital solutions tailored to their needs and objectives.Investments range between $25-150mm, and can be structured as debt, equity, or something in between. Our focus is on finding the best risk-adjusted returns for our investors, rather than executing on a narrow mandate.Target companies must conform to ESG frameworks, and societal impact comprises…
Great River Capital Partners (GRCP) is a private equity investment firm with a narrow focus on acquiring mid-sized Industrial Technology and Services companies. That is all we do. Leveraging 30 years of collective investing experience, we partner with business owners to create long-term value both through organic growth initiatives and strategic add-on acquisitions.
Socius Capital provides financing to closely-held middle market companies seeking a partner to replace an outgoing equity holder or to fund an acquisition strategy. From offices in San Francisco, Tampa and Ketchum, Idaho, Socius works with companies throughout the western and southern United States. Over the course of extensive careers managing and investing in closely-held address the needs of selling shareholders of closely-held businesses and then becoming the new partner that remaining owner/managers desire and deserve. We work hard to help drive significant increases in equity value for…
Kaho Partners is a thesis-driven investment firm focused on building market-leading companies through organic and acquisition-driven growth. Kaho is based in Dallas, TX and Miami Beach, FL. For more information on Kaho Partners, please visit www.kahopartners.com.
