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United States Independent Sponsors

1,985

Active Firms

34,628

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$15M

Core Revenue Range

$500K-$3M

Core EBITDA Range

Top Sectors by Activity

Industrials 47%
Technology 10%
Healthcare 10%
Business Services 9%
Consumer Goods 7%

Key Attributes

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Deal-By-Deal Financing | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

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Pleasant Bay Capital Partners

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Invested in VisualDx
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Optimos
  • Aug 2023 Advised TechBooks on an investment from American Capital
  • Sep 2021 Advised Memorial MRI & Diagnostic in its sale to Panos Partners

Borgman Capital LLC

15 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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.

Recent Transactions

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  • May 2024 Acquired Buck Bone Organics
  • Feb 2024 Acquired Technical Products, Inc.
  • Jan 2023 Acquired Minnesota Tile and Stone
  • Jan 2023 Acquired K.G. Stevens

Validor Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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Validor Capital is a private investment firm that provides liquidity to family and founder owned industrial, manufacturing, and service businesses in the lower middle market. We have 14 active investments and seek situations where we can partner with management teams to leverage our combined expertise and deep industry relationships to create significant value. Our investment criteria is outlined below.- Industry: Industrials, Manufacturing, and Industrial Services- Transaction Type: Buyouts, Recapitalizations, & Corporate Divestitures- Size: EBITDA of $3 to $15 million​​​​-…

Recent Transactions

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  • Sep 2023 Acquired Summit Stairs & Millwork
  • Aug 2023 Acquired MBP Group
  • Apr 2023 Acquired RE Metal Finishing
  • Dec 2022 Invested in Kennedy Insulation Group

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RedCloud Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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.

Recent Transactions

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  • Jan 2022 Acquired Twelve South
  • Dec 2017 Acquired Offen Petroleum
  • Apr 2016 Acquired Willowood
  • Sep 2015 Acquired Jacent

Liberty Lane Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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Liberty Lane Partners is a firm that invests in businesses that can benefit from the operating, financial and transaction experience of its founding principals. We seek to partner with outstanding management teams to generate meaningful growth in value.Liberty Lane Partners focuses on transforming and building successful companies for the long term. Our operating strategies are designed to generate above-market absolute-dollar returns through strategic realignment, organic growth initiatives, cash flow management and acquisitions.Liberty Lane Partners is a private equity investment firm…

Recent Transactions

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  • May 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jan 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jul 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jul 2024 Acquired Confidential Company

Grand Valley Holdings, LLC

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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 Idaho Timber
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Epic Gas Shipping Company
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Café Rio
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Liberty Oilfield Services

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Dry Fly Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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The partners at Dry Fly Capital are passionate about fueling business growth. We are looking to partner with owner/operators that are making a move to transition into their next phase of life, yet would like the legacy of the company they’ve built to carry on. We look for companies with a passionate, committed workforce that could use an injection of business development and digital marketing expertise. We are operators that have built multiple companies with organic growth and strategic acquisition. We are intimately involved in the operations of each business we acquire because we love…

Recent Transactions

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  • Jun 2025 Acquired Serpentix Conveyor Inc
  • Feb 2024 Acquired PSA Worldwide
  • Oct 2022 Acquired Square Scrub LLC
  • Jan 2022 Acquired Robert and Sons Aluminum

Traverse Pointe Partners

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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.

Recent Transactions

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  • Jul 2025 Acquired Windward Way Recovery
  • Mar 2025 Acquired Soma Therapy
  • Dec 2024 Acquired Children’s Campus and Premier Children’s Center
  • Apr 2024 Acquired Three Points Child Care Center

Sagepeak Capital

12 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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We bring an extensive and successful track record with investing in small to mid size companies in various industries. Sagepeak Capital (SPC) has patient, long term committed capital that allows us to work with management teams to grow the business both through organic means and via add-on acquisitions. We have flexible capital and transaction structures that allow us to work closely with management teams to accomplish their growth objectives. Given the private nature of our capital, we can act on investment decisions quickly.Our investment focus is on companies with sales between $5 million…

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired BakeFresh
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Imperial Laundry Systems
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Fire Suppression Systems
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Lind Equipment Ltd.

The Pine Street Group

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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The Pine Street Group is an investment holding company focused on investing in middle and lower-middle market businesses in a variety of industries. Our primary industries of focus include healthcare services, chemicals, financials, business services, franchise businesses, media, and agriculture. We have a highly flexible mandate enabling us to invest across capital structures and deal types. The Pine Street team has experience executing well over $1 billion in transaction value with over a decade of combined experience.

Recent Transactions

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  • Jun 2023 Acquired Right Choice In-Home Care (Right Choice)
  • Mar 2023 Acquired Midsouth PICCs
  • Dec 2022 Acquired Achieve Beyond (California Assets)
  • Jul 2022 Acquired Coastal Care

Ventoux Holdings

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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Ventoux is a broad-based manufacturing and industrial investment firm with a long term buy-and-hold strategy. We focus on steady organic growth for each of our portfolio companies to bring maximum value to all stakeholders. Our Partners are the lead investors in the companies we buy. We don’t have a board to answer to, private investors to impress, nor investment benchmarks to beat. We take a common sense, team-oriented approach to our investments to bring the highest and most long-term value to our holdings and the employees that depend on us. While we typically seek companies with…

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  • Nov 2025 Acquired Everfab
  • Aug 2025 Acquired D&E Machining
  • Apr 2021 Acquired HN Precision
  • Apr 2021 Acquired JBK Manufacturing

KWCP

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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We are looking for acquisitions within the technology space, distribution and meaningful products within both the hardware and software realms to build upon our existing AI and IoT platform. Also, always looking to add technology distribution.We have deep experience in the capital markets (Nasdaq) and look to grow companies to their full potential, and also have projects utilizing Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) arenas to foster development and growth, in which we seek to build synergies with existing companies looking for growth pathways. In addition to providing a platform to plug into, we…

Recent Transactions

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  • Oct 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jun 2025 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Sep 2023 Invested in Kinnected AI
  • Nov 2022 Acquired AT Tech Systems

Software Growth Partners

11 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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.We are focused on B2B software and tech enabled services core areas of interest. Investment Criteria: 3-25M in ARR 1M+ in EBITDA 10%+ growth rate 90%+ GRR 90%+ Logo Retention 100%+ NRRWhen we achieve our primary mission, we generate winning…

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  • Apr 2025 Acquired ClientSavvy
  • Mar 2023 Acquired ClearlyRated
  • Sep 2022 Acquired MeshIQ (Nastel)
  • Jul 2021 Acquired Stackify

Lumea Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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Lumea Partners is a Dallas-based private equity firm specializing in healthcare. We collaborate with business owners seeking a partner for their next phase of growth, while preserving the culture and values of their company. We look for healthcare sectors with both organic tailwinds and fragmentation for strategic M&A. Lumea leverages our expertise to focus on growth, whether through add-on acquisitions, de novo locations, or new customers, products, services, or technology. Our goal is to work with high-integrity business owners to make healthcare a better place for patients,…

Recent Transactions

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  • Jun 2022 Acquired Acute Behavioral Health
  • Feb 2022 Advised Elevated Venture Group on an investment from Exaltare Capital Partners
  • Sep 2019 Acquired Buda Woodworks
  • Jan 2018 Invested in Liberty Paper Acq. Greenleaf Paper

Bounds Equity Partners

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Rocktops Granite & Stone Fabrication
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Hollinee
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Torstenson Glass
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Sportcraft

Nordlys LLC

10 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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 Confidential Company
  • Jun 2024 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Jun 2022 Acquired Confidential Company
  • Aug 2021 Acquired Confidential Company

Socius Capital, llc

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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…

Recent Transactions

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired On the Scene Productions Inc.
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Bell Home Solutions
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Western Machine Works
  • Dec 2014 Acquired Pioneer Recycling Services

Phoenix Strategy

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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 ExamSoft
  • Nov 2014 Acquired PI Worldwide
  • Dec 2013 Acquired Predictive Index
  • Nov 2009 Acquired Exam Soft

InfraNext

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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…

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  • Aug 2023 Acquired Diamond State Generation Partners LLC
  • Aug 2023 Acquired FLS Energy
  • Aug 2023 Acquired Modus
  • Aug 2023 Acquired System One

New Heights Capital

9 Total Closed Deals Actively Sourcing Deals
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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 Invested in Payment Works
  • Aug 2023 Invested in Priority Bicycles
  • Aug 2023 Invested in DryBar
  • Aug 2023 Invested in On the Right Track

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Independent Sponsors in this directory ordered?

Firms in the United States Independent Sponsors directory are ordered based on recent deal activity on Axial. The default order reflects observed market signals rather than a subjective ranking of firm quality.

What information is included in each Independent Sponsor profile?

Each profile provides information about the firm’s areas of focus, transaction criteria, and relevant activity on Axial’s M&A platform. Together, these details provide a clearer view of where a firm is active and the types of companies and opportunities most relevant for it.

What company sizes are most common for United States Independent Sponsors?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for United States Independent Sponsors is $3M-$15M, with a core EBITDA range of $500K-$3M. Company size can be an important indicator of fit, as firms often concentrate their experience, resources, and transaction activity within particular segments of the market.

How important is location when evaluating Independent Sponsors?

Location can be an important consideration, but it does not necessarily define where a firm is active. Firms based in United States may bring regional knowledge, local relationships, and experience with businesses in the area, while many also pursue opportunities across a broader geographic footprint. Geography is best considered alongside sector focus, company size, and relevant transaction activity.

Do all Independent Sponsors in this directory operate exclusively in United States?

Not necessarily. A firm’s location does not always define its geographic reach. Many Independent Sponsors based in United States are active across multiple regions, while firms based elsewhere may also participate in the United States market. Location can provide useful context, but it should not be interpreted as a firm’s geographic boundary.

How do I compare Independent Sponsors in United States?

When comparing Independent Sponsors in United States, consider factors such as sector focus, size range, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 1,985 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with United States Independent Sponsors?

Axial can help you identify and connect with firms based on your objectives and what you are looking to accomplish. The process varies depending on your role and transaction needs. If you are interested in connecting with firms in the United States Independent Sponsors directory, you can request information here.

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