Adam Napoletano is a New York–based investor focused on acquiring and operating small businesses. With a strong technical background, he helps manage capital at a private equity firm pursuing a buy-and-build strategy in the lower middle market , identifying durable, founder-led companies and partnering with operators to scale them.
American Gridwork Partners is an operator-led, permanent capital vehicle focused on acquiring and scaling profitable, family-owned American infrastructure businesses. The company specializes in mission-critical site development for hyperscale data centers and advanced manufacturing infrastructure, with expertise in earthwork, underground utility, and water/site infrastructure. Their operations span the fiber-optic, data, and electrical sectors, aiming to power the next generation of AI, electrification, data, and compute. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, American Gridwork Partners…
Greystone Industrial Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm dedicated to investing in lower middle market industrial businesses. Greystone leverages over 40 years of combined private equity experience to drive value creation and growth. The firm specializes in sectors such as packaging, building products, manufacturing, distribution, and industrial services. The firm is committed to partnering with exceptional founders and management teams to scale and transform businesses, ensuring efficient transaction execution and strategic growth. Greystone targets buyouts, management-led…
Lead origination for Aquiline's family of funds including our lower middle market fund, middle market fund, credit fund, and venture fund. We invest in anything that touches the financial services ecosystem.
Carlyle, based in Washington, DC with 29 offices globally, is a leading global alternative asset manager with $447 billion of assets under management across 612 active investment vehicles. Carlyle invests across three segments – Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Global Investment Solutions – in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Since its founding in 1987, Carlyle has invested over $146 billion in more than 785 private equity transactions. Carlyle conducts its investment activities through focused industry groups that leverage the extensive operating and…
About UsSince 1989, L Catterton has made more than 300 investments in leading consumer brands across all segments of the consumer industry. With over $30 billion dedicated to growing middle market companies and emerging high-growth enterprises, we are the largest and most experienced consumer-focused private equity group in the world.How We Foster GrowthOur Operations Team is comprised of in house functional and strategic leaders, our focused team of expert project leaders and associates and an eco-system of partners with expertise in key supplemental functions (e.g. digital, market research,…
SCP & CO is a Southeastern US based private investment firm focused on investing in lower middle market businesses where we can provide capital and strategic resources to accelerate growth and build stronger companies
Golden Gate Capital is a leading private equity firm with $9 billion in capital under management. We generate superior returns for our investors through buyout and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. We partner with world-class management teams to make equity investments in situations where there is a demonstrable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's value. Although we are a multi-sector fund and opportunistic in our approach, industry areas in which we have a particular interest include:
Founded in 1986, Nautic Partners is a middle-market focused private equity firm and has managed over $2.5 billion of assets over its 28-year history. Nautic primarily targets equity investments of $25 million to $75 million for majority ownership, with a focus on companies with $5 million to $40 million in EBITDA in the business services, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. Examples of focus sub-sectors for business services and manufacturing include specialty chemicals, specialty coatings, energy services, building products, petrochemical services, petrochemical infrastructure, aerospace…
Frontenac Company was founded in 1971 with the belief that people are the driving factor behind successful businesses. Nearly 20 years ago we developed a “CEO1ST Investing” strategy to partner with outstanding business leaders and together identify, acquire and build leading businesses. Our CEO1ST partners are leaders in their fields and provide strategic and operational insight to our portfolio companies.Together with our CEO1ST partners, we provide the capital, network and resources to enable our portfolio companies to respond to opportunities, grow and succeed.We focus on lower…
WELLSPRING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, founded in 1995, is a middle-market private equity firm that has approximately $3 billion of private equity capital under management. The firm’s objective is to bring partnership, experience and value creation to each investment. By teaming up with strong management, Wellspring is able to unlock underlying value and pursue new growth opportunities through strategic initiatives, operating improvements and add-on acquisitions. The firm functions as a strategic rather than tactical partner, providing management teams with top-line support, M&A experience and…
Founded in 2003, Kinderhook Industries is a private equity firm that manages $1.25 billion of committed capital. The firm was established to capitalize on the principals' expertise acquiring middle market companies. Kinderhook primarily makes control investments in companies with transaction values of $25-$100 million where the firm can achieve significant financial, operational and growth improvements. The firm targets orphaned non-core subsidiaries of corporate parents, existing small capitalization public companies lacking institutional support and management-led recapitalizations of…
Cortec Group is a private equity firm with ~40 years of experience working alongside founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams of leading middle-market companies in the U.S. and Canada.Our team shares decades of real-world business experience to help good companies grow and thrive. We collaborate with management to drive commercial success and operational excellence, generating attractive results for all stakeholders.
A unique model—tailored to the needs of owner-managers.Lineage was founded on the core values of trust, respect, teamwork, and commitment—ideals that provide a foundation for our strong partner relationships. For business owners who share these values, the uncommon structure of a Lineage partnership can be a way to comfortably achieve short- and long-term business and personal objectives.For nearly two decades, we’ve partnered with owner-managers who desire liquidity while continuing to benefit from the future financial success of their business. Our investment model allows…
See www.sagemount.com for full portfolio and further informationBregal Sagemount is focused on investing in and acquiring growth companies in the tech-enabled services and software spaces. We have a specific mission to back recurring-revenue businesses with strong unit economics that are propelled by strong sector tailwinds.We are investing out of our $2.6 billion Fund IV raised in 2022.We spend 100% of our time in the growth economy. We are domain experts in the investments we target. When we seek to have a meaningful conversation with a company, it is only after we have identified it as a…
BelHealth Investment Partners (“BelHealth”), based in New York, is a healthcare private equity firm focused on lower middle market companies. BelHealth has a unique combination of investing, executive management and entrepreneurial experience. BelHealth acquires majority positions in entrepreneur-owned companies that it believes would benefit from its extensive operating and private equity investment expertise. The firm typically invests $20-40 million per platform company across three healthcare segments: Services, Products and Distribution. Collectively, the BelHealth Team, consisting…
Typical Equity Check Size: $10M - $50M Trident Capital is a venture capital and growth equity firm investing in Software, Services and Internet. Trident focuses on companies addressing the major technology challenges facing today's enterprise, including IT security, Healthcare IT, Cloud computing, and online and mobile customer interaction. The firm targets growth equity investments up to $50 million in rapidly growing companies, often as the first institutional investor. Trident also leads select venture investments based on its unique sector insight and expertise, founder and network…
Performant Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on majority control buyout investments in technology-driven companies. We acquire businesses across software, technology-enabled services, and data intelligence products and services. Our investments focus on businesses where our depth of investing and operating expertise can accelerate growth and drive outsized performance.Performant Capital typically invests in founder-owned businesses and prefers to be the first institutional capital. Software platforms typically have $3-10MM in ARR and tech-enabled services business…
Azalea Capital partners with entrepreneurs, management teams, and family-owned companies with revenues of at least $10 million. We provide growth capital, operating expertise, and industry experience to significantly enhance the long-term value of our investments. Azalea is a pro-active investor with a defined value creation strategy. In every investment, we partner with a proven industry executive to enhance our operationally focused approach. We invest in manufacturing, distribution, and business services companies in a variety of industries with a particular interest in the following…
We are business builders. We are dedicated to, and passionate about, finding differentiated companies and fundamentally improving them. We back this strategy with our own personal capital.Our approach starts with seeking opportunities to improve selected businesses within the lower middle market. It includes a willingness and ability to offer flexible and creative solutions to business owners looking for liquidity.Our process continues with due diligence focused on crafting tailored strategies to build winning businesses with strong growth prospects. We begin with an end in mind and exit when…
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