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Top United States Private Equity Funds

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United States Private Equity Funds

695

Active Firms

18,739

TTM Deal Inquiries

$3M-$19M

Core Revenue Range

$800K-$4M

Core EBITDA Range

Top Sectors by Activity

Industrials 44%
Technology 13%
Business Services 11%
Healthcare 10%
Consumer Goods 7%

Key Attributes

Focus: Control Investments | Capital Source: Committed Capital | Operating Approach: Scale & Exit

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Aquitaine Capital

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We partner with founders and family-owned companies in their next stage of growth, taking businesses from good to great. We are not just flippers, consolidators, or cost-cutters. We want your business and your team to survive and thrive for the long run.

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EnTrust Global

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We are a $16 bn asset management firm with offices globally. We make investments across capital structure, with a focus on hybrid capital. We prefer businesses with an EV over $50 mn, though our sweet spot is anywhere from $200 mn to $500 mn.

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This member has no reported closed transactions.

Author Capital Partners, LLC

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Author Capital is a private equity firm that empowers highly entrepreneurial family- and founder-led businesses with flexible capital, strategic advice, and long-term partnership.

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National Diversified Funding Corporation

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National Diversified Funding Corporation (NDFC) is a private investment firm that has been acquiring and partnering with businesses since 1969. We focus on lower middle market companies across a wide range of industries and are known for presenting fair, well structured offers that close.We approach transactions as growth partners rather than operators. Our typical model allows owners to take meaningful liquidity while continuing to lead the business and participate in the next phase of growth. Sellers remain responsible for day to day operations, while we support expansion through capital,…

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Broadcrest

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Broadcrest is an investment partnership based in Winter Park, Florida, founded in 2015 on the conviction that investment returns, over the long-term, mimic business performance. We invest in a concentrated portfolio of high-quality businesses and take a partnership approach towards their growth.

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Liberty Partners Holdings

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Liberty Partners is an investment firm founded by entrepreneurs who are passionate about creating long-term value and shared economic success.We invest in search funds as well as direct majority investments with a focus on Healthcare, B2B Services, and Financial Services. Our purpose is to create great entrepreneurial stories by buying and building category leading businesses alongside operators and entrepreneurs.

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American Gridwork Partners

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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…

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Greystone Industrial Partners

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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…

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Aquiline Capital Partners

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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.

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This member has no reported closed transactions.

The Carlyle Group

287 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Oct 2010 Acquired Permian Tank Manufacturing, Inc.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Philosophy.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Phoenix Exploration Company LP
  • Oct 2010 Acquired PixelOptics, Inc.

L Catterton

91 Total Closed Deals
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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,…

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  • Feb 2024 Invested in AmaWaterways
  • Feb 2023 Invested in Confidential Company
  • Nov 2021 Invested in Alliance Animal Health
  • Jul 2021 Invested in Beauty Industry Group

SCP & CO

69 Total Closed Deals
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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

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  • Apr 2014 Advised Pearce Services, Inc in its sale to Willcrest Partners
  • Dec 2012 Advised Harmony Healthcare on an investment from a Private Equity Investor
  • Dec 2012 Advised GBD Healthcare on an investment from a Revolving Line of Credit
  • Dec 2012 Advised Quality Lease Services in its sale to Rocaceia

Golden Gate Capital

65 Total Closed Deals
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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:

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  • Oct 2010 Acquired Petersen Publishing, L.P.
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Pinnacle Security LLC
  • Oct 2010 Acquired PlantCML
  • Oct 2010 Acquired Rocket Dog Brands, LLC

Frontenac Company

46 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Apr 2018 Acquired TPC Training
  • Sep 2017 Invested in Schlotterbeck & Foss
  • Aug 2017 Invested in Industrial Color Brands
  • May 2017 Invested in Colorado Timberline

Wellspring Capital Management

35 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Oct 2016 Acquired Hoffmaster Group
  • Nov 2015 Acquired Bellwether Behavioral Health
  • Aug 2015 Acquired Ampac Holdings, LLC
  • Oct 2014 Acquired Qualitor

Kinderhook Industries

35 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • May 2015 Acquired American Accessories
  • Mar 2015 Acquired Superwinch
  • Feb 2015 Acquired CSDVRS
  • Jun 2014 Acquired ThermaCell Mosquito Repellent

Cortec Group

27 Total Closed Deals
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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.

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  • Oct 2024 Acquired Duggal Visual Solutions
  • May 2023 Acquired NorthStar
  • Jan 2023 Acquired A1 Garage Door Service
  • Nov 2022 Acquired Four Seasons

Lineage Capital

27 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Jun 2024 Invested in GIK Acoustics
  • Feb 2024 Invested in Flutterbee Education Group
  • Feb 2024 Invested in Quality Glass & Mirror
  • Oct 2023 Acquired Concept Agritek

Bregal Sagemount

24 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Aug 2022 Acquired BuildingLink
  • Aug 2022 Acquired Optima Partners
  • Aug 2022 Acquired Solo
  • Aug 2021 Acquired Allen Media Group

BelHealth Investment Partners

23 Total Closed Deals
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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…

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  • Nov 2021 Invested in American Health Staffing Group
  • Sep 2018 Acquired Gemini Bio
  • Jun 2018 Acquired NavaDerm Partners
  • Jun 2018 Acquired BelHealth Investment Partners

Frequently Asked Questions

How are Private Equity Funds in this directory ordered?

Firms in the United States Private Equity Funds 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 Private Equity Fund 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 Private Equity Funds?

Based on activity on Axial’s M&A platform, the core revenue range for United States Private Equity Funds is $3M-$19M, with a core EBITDA range of $800K-$4M. 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 Private Equity Funds?

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 Private Equity Funds in this directory operate exclusively in United States?

Not necessarily. A firm’s location does not always define its geographic reach. Many Private Equity Funds 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 Private Equity Funds in United States?

When comparing Private Equity Funds in United States, consider factors such as sector focus, size range, and recent transaction activity. These characteristics vary across the 695 firms included in the directory and can help identify firms that align with your needs.

How do I connect with United States Private Equity Funds?

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 Private Equity Funds directory, you can request information here.

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