Private Equity Midwest US
Investment firms with an interest in Midwest US Opportunities
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TA Associates is a private equity firm that targets investments in middle-market and large companies around the world. TA looks for control investments in profitable companies and looks to commit between $50 and $600 million per transaction. TA currently manages approximately $12 billion of capital... |
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Brentwood Associates is a private equity firm focused on long-term investments in middle-market growth companies. Brentwood typically target investments in consumer-related businesses. Specific areas of interest include action sports/outdoor lifestyle products, business services, consumer produ... |
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Accel-KKR is a private equity firm that seeks control investments in middle-market technology companies. The Firm targets investments in public and private companies with revenues ranging from $15 to $150 million. Accel-KKR pursues transactions across multiple segments of the technology industry, i... |
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Founders Equity is a private equity firm that targets lower middle-market company investments. Founders looks to invest up to $10 million of equity in companies with revenues between $20 and $150 million and cash-flow between $2 and $15 million. Sectors of interest include business and marketin... |
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Berkshire Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in businesses with strong management and that lead their respective markets. Berkshire will consider investments in both public and private companies. Prospective transactions for private companies include leveraged buyouts, recapital... |
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LNK Partners is a private equity investment firm that focuses exclusively on the consumer and retail sectors. LNK looks to commit $20 to $100 million of equity capital in a variety of transactions, including growth capital financings, recapitalizations, buyouts, and PIPEs. LNK looks to partner ... |
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Saw Mill Capital is a private equity firm focused on middle-market company investments valued up to $200 million. Sector areas of interest include manufacturing, specialty distribution and services. Saw Mill looks to commit between $10 and $75 million per transaction in companies with at least ... |
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Stanwich Partners LLC is a private equity firm focused on acquiring small to middle-market manufacturing and value-added distribution companies. Stanwich has a particular interest in family owned companies and corporate divestitures. Stanwich looks for opportunities valued between $5 and $35 mill... |
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North Peak Capital is a small private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare services and education companies. Within healthcare services, specific areas of interest include physician support services, dental products and services, medical providers, managed care, worker's comp insurance,... |
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Elevation Partners is a private equity firm that makes investments in media, entertainment, and consumer related companies. The Firm focuses on investing in intellectual property and content oriented businesses, as well as traditional media and entertainment assets. Elevation seeks to invest be... |
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JP Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in profitable small-to-medium sized companies. Targeted transactions include management buyouts of private companies, take privates, recapitalizations, acquisitions, control transactions of family or entrepreneur owned businesses, an... |
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ONCAP is the mid-market private equity business of Onex Corporation. ONCAP invests in small and mid-sized North American businesses valued between $50 and $500 million. ONCAP considers investment opportunities in a wide range of industry sectors. Situations of interest include, "complete or partial... |
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Lake Capital is a private equity firm focused on investing in service-oriented companies. Lake typically commits at least $40 million of equity per transaction, however the Firm has the ability to invest up to $100 million. Specific service-based sectors the firm pursues include marketing servi... |
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FdG Associates is a private equity investment firm that looks to invest in middle market companies valued between $40 and $200 million where the Firm can commit $15 to $50 million of equity capital. FdG prefers investment candidates located in the United States or Canada with significant growth pot... |
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Monitor Clipper Partners (MCP) is a private equity firm formed by consulting firm, The Monitor Group, and investment firm, The Clipper Group. MCP targets private equity investments in middle-market companies in North America and Europe and looks to commit $20 to $100 million of equity per transacti... |
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JEN Partners is private equity firm that makes investments in "operating real estate companies and other real estate situations". Specific areas of interest include homebuilding, public storage, industrial/office, brokerage, land entitlement, senior care residences, medical offices, construction se... |
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Praesidian Capital is a mezzanine debt provider for US based middle-market companies. Praesidian looks to provide $5 to $15 million of junior capital to companies with revenues between $5 and $200 million and operating cash flow between $5 and $20 million. Funds are typically used to support ac... |
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Calera Capital is a private equity firm that targets investments in middle market North American businesses valued up to $1 billion. The Firm seeks businesses with strong free cash-flow, strong organic revenue growth, and attractive margins. Calera looks to invest a minimum of $75 million in equit... |
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Cordova, Smart & Williams (CSW) is a private equity investment firm specializing in buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth capital financings of middle-market companies. CSW targets private companies as well as divestitures from larger public companies with revenues between $25 and $350 million. C... |
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Battery Ventures is a private investment firm focused on opportunities in technology and related-sectors. Battery will invest at all company stages, from seed and early-stage capital situations to leveraged buyouts, PIPEs, spin outs, rollups and take-privates of established companies. Battery's pri... |
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Metalmark Capital is an independent private equity focused on large company transactions in a wide range of industries. Metalmark is a hands-on investment firm looking to build long-term value in its portfolio companies. Broad areas of interest include natural resources/energy, healthcare servi... |
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JMH Capital is a private equity firm that targets companies with proven technologies, sound market strategies, and singular product lines. JMH will consider investing across a wide range of transactions. Prospective situations include recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures... |
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Wynnchurch Capital is a private equity firm focused on middle-market company investments in the US and Canada. Wynnchurch looks to commit $5 to $75 million of equity per transaction in industries spanning manufacturing, business services, logistics, and value-added distribution. Wynnchurch pref... |
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Rockbrook Advisors ("Rockbrook") is a private equity firm focused on investing in companies in the insurance industry. The members of Rockbrook’s team have experience in the Property & Casualty insurance sector and have the ability to leverage this experience in providing assistance to businesses i... |
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Platinum Equity is a private equity firm focused on acquiring divestitures of larger public companies primarily in North America and Europe. Historically, Platinum targeted technology/software related businesses, however, the firm has since branched out beyond tech and will consider acquisitions in... |
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Bison Capital is a private equity firm which makes non-control investments in middle-market companies. Bison looks to provide capital to fund growth needs, balance sheet restructuring, and/or recapitalizations. Bison's target investment size is between $10 and $30 million in businesses with annual... |
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Benford Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of smaller, lower middle market companies. Areas of interest include niche manufacturers, unique service companies and specialty distributors. Benford targets businesses generating at least $3 mill... |
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Avista Capital Partners is a private investment firm formed by a group of professionals with roots from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Avista makes controlling and minority investments in US based energy, healthcare, and media companies. Avista generally looks to invest in businesses generating at... |
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Blue Point Capital Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused on investments throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. The Firm looks to commit $15 to $50 million of equity capital in companies generating sales of $25 to $250 million and EBITDA of at least $5 million. Blue Point looks for... |
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Blackford Capital is a private investment firm that acquires, manages, and grows middle-market manufacturing, distribution, and service companies. We believe that the best opportunities to create significant value are found in companies in need of new capital and new ownership structures. Our goal ... |
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) is a global investment firm founded by Jerome Kohlberg, Henry Kravis, and George Roberts. The Firm is separated into three business segments which include private equity, fixed income, and strategic initiatives. KKR's private equity practice invests in management... |
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Lindsay Goldberg is a large private equity firm that targets investments in traditional, basic industries. Lindsay looks to commit $50 to $250 million per transaction in sectors that include basic & commodity manufacturing, financial services, and distribution. Lindsay looks to partner with managem... |
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Brockway Moran is a Southeast US-based private equity firm that targets investments in privately held businesses, small cap public companies or subsidiaries and divisions of larger enterprises. Sectors of interest include consumer products and services, industrial manufacturing, health/fitness, hea... |
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Charlesbank Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in companies at various stages of development; including private and public companies, distressed situations, as well as later-stage, high growth businesses. Charlesbank typically invests $25 to $125 million per transaction ... |
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Francisco Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services. Specific areas of interest within technology include semiconductors, capital equipment, electronics components, systems and manufacturing, IT services and business process o... |
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Clarity Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in the communications and media sectors. Specific areas of interest include wireless, wireline and broadband services and applications; communications infrastructure; traditional and emerging media; information technology; ... |
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ABRY Partners is a media and communications focused private equity investment firm, targeting businesses with high barriers to entry, and predictable/recurring revenue streams. Specific areas of interest include television, publishing, convention/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitor... |
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HIG Capital Management is a private investment firm that targets investments in private equity, venture capital, distressed debt, and public equities. HIG Private Equity is the private equity arm of HIG Capital and focuses on management buyouts, growth equity investments, and recapitalizations ... |
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Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on investments in growth technology companies. TCV looks to provide capital for growth, recapitalizations, acquisitions, and buyouts of technology companies. Sectors of interest include internet, financial tec... |
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Park Avenue Equity Partners is a private equity firm that seeks investments in North American middle-market companies operating in basic industries. Areas of interest include construction, solid waste services, transportation, recycling, healthcare and financial services. Park Avenue looks to i... |
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Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that targets middle market investments in defense, aerospace, government services, media/telecommunications, consumer products, and specialty manufacturing companies. Veritas generally partners with management when pursuing investments. Prospe... |
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TPG Capital is a global private investment firm that manages a family of funds focused on private equity, venture capital, public equity and debt investing. TPG invests in companies across a broad range of industries and geographies. TPG generally seeks to invest in established businesses that ca... |
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HM Capital is a private equity firm that seeks investments in middle-market companies valued between $100 million and $1 billion. HM Capital's investments include acquisitions of large corporate divestitures, acquisitions or recapitalizations of privately owned or publicly traded businesses, and ac... |
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Chicago Growth Partners (CGP) is a Midwest US based private equity firm that provides expansion and buyout capital to middle-market companies. For expansion capital financings, CGP will invest $5 to $25 million of equity in companies generating at least $10 million in revenue and growing at least 1... |
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Friedman Fleischer & Lowe (FFL) is a private equity group focused on controlling or minority investments in North American middle-market companies. Prospective businesses generally have revenues of $30 to $400 million and are valued between $30 and $500 million. Transactions of interest include own... |
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Founded in 1987, TSG Consumer Partners (formerly known as The Shansby Group) is a leader in the US in acquiring and building leading middle market branded consumer companies. TSG invests in private and publicly traded companies, and will consider both majority and minority equity positions. TSG loo... |
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Generation Partners is a private equity firm focused on growth companies at various stages of development. Generation looks to commit $10 to $30 million of equity capital per investment. Areas of interest include business, information, and consumer services; media, communications and entertainment;... |
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Quad Partners is a specialist private investment firm that makes investments in the education industry. Quad will invest in a broad range of transactions, including buyouts, growth capital financings, recapitalizations, and refinancings. Quad generally seeks businesses that are cash-flow positive a... |
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Quad-C is a generalist private equity firm that makes control investments in middle-market companies operating in a wide range of industries. Targeted sectors include building products, business to business services, consumer products, distribution/logistics, equipment rental, financial services, h... |
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The Wicks Group of Companies is a private equity firm focused on selected segments of the communications, information and media industries. Wicks targets privately held or non-core divisions of large corporations with high-margins, limited competition, and strong cash flow potential. Specific areas... |
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Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a large, specialist private equity firm focused on investments in growth-oriented companies operating within the healthcare and information/business services industries. WCAS will consider small and large transactions; including early-stage transactions, grow... |
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Providence Equity Partners is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in media, entertainment, communications, and information companies. Specifically, Providence seeks investments in wireless and wireline telephony, cable television content and distribution, music, film, publishi... |
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ArcLight Capital Partners is private equity firm that invests in energy assets and businesses. Specific areas of interest include power generation; oil, natural gas, coal extraction and production; midstream gathering, processing, storage and transportation of oil, natural gas, coal; energy trans... |
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San Francisco Equity Partners (SFEP) is a private equity investment firm focused on providing expansion-stage capital to companies within the information technology, media, consumer, and service industries. SFEP's target investment size is $5 to $20 million in companies generating $10 to $50 milli... |
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Silver Lake Partners is a private equity firm focused solely on investments in established technology companies with "attractive growth prospects". Silver Lake looks to commit $100 to $500 million of equity capital in transactions valued up to $10 billion. Typical investment structures include l... |
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MidOcean Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring control interests in middle-market companies located in the US and Europe. Target industries include consumer and leisure, media and communications, business services, financial services, industrials, transportation, and healthcare. M... |
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Irving Place Capital is an independent private equity firm focused on making investments in middle-market companies located in North America and Western Europe. Irving primarily looks for opportunities in the retail, financial services, consumer products and packaging sectors, but will also co... |
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CIVC Partners is a private equity firm that provides capital to support buyouts, growth needs, and recapitalizations of middle-market businesses located in the US and Canada. Sectors of interest include business services, distribution, financial services, marketing, information services, media, ed... |
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Linsalata Capital Partners is a middle-market buyout firm that targets equity investments in businesses operating in a broad range of industries. Linsalata looks to invest $10 to $50 million in businesses generating at least $7 million in EBITDA. The Firm will consider transactions valued up to $... |
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Dominus Capital is a leading middle-market private equity partnership with an operating focus. Drawing on the experience, knowledge and network of its founders and a team of in-house operating executives, Dominus works hand-in-hand with exceptional management teams to unlock the untapped potential ... |
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TCW/Crescent Mezzanine is a provider of mezzanine capital to support leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, project financings, and growth capital needs. The Firm considers investments across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and service industries. TCW's typical investment size is betw... |
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Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) is a West Coast US based private investment firm that targets mezzanine and other structured equity investments in middle-market companies. The Firm has several funds, each with different strategies. LLCP's larger fund targets subordinated debt, preferred eq... |
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Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm that primarily invests in US based middle-market businesses. Prospective transaction situations include take-privates, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity financings. Target companies generally have a history of profitabil... |
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Norwest Mezzanine Partners (NMP) is an independent investment firm focused on providing junior capital to support transactions initiated by private equity sponsors. NMP looks to commit up to $50 million per investment. Prospective transaction situations can include buyouts, acquisitions, leveraged ... |
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Golden Gate Capital is a large private equity firm that makes buyout and growth equity investments across a wide variety of industries. The Firm partners with management teams to make equity investments in situations where there is a demonstrable opportunity to significantly enhance a company's val... |
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American Industrial Partners (AIP) is a private equity firm focused on investments in North American manufacturing and industrial service companies. AIP looks for businesses valued between $50 and $500 million where the firm can invest up to $70 million of equity capital. Operating characteristics ... |
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Eos Partners is an investment firm with strategies covering private equity, public equity, and the credit markets. EOS Private Equity invests in management buyouts, recapitalizations, shareholder liquidity needs, and growth capital financings. Target businesses typically generate sales of $30 to $... |
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Greyrock Capital Group provides mezzanine debt and equity capital to finance buyouts, recapitalizations and growth needs of lower middle-market companies. Greyrock looks to invest between $3 and $15 million of equity and/or junior capital in companies with minimum revenues of $10 million and at lea... |
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Alta Communications is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in media and communications companies. Alta prefers later-stage opportunities with positive cash flow, but will consider earlier-stage investments to fund businesses seeking growth capital. Alta typically partners with... |
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Tailwind Capital is an independent private equity firm focused on making control investments in companies operating in the healthcare, media/communications, and business services sectors. Tailwind's target investment size is $15 to $100 million in businesses valued up to $250 million. The Firm seek... |
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Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. (CD&R) is a large private equity firm that that generally looks to acquire non-core divisions of large corporations, as well as businesses facing significant strategic challenges. CD&R seeks companies in North America and Western Europe and will consider opportunities... |
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JLL Partners is a private equity firm that invests alongside management in mid-sized companies. JLL prefers control investments in sectors such as healthcare services, medical products, food and consumer products, chemicals, broadcasting, transportation, automotive, industrial manufacturing, and di... |
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Freeman Spogli is a private equity firm focused on investments in retail, direct marketing and distribution companies located in the US. The Firm prefers partnering with management when pursuing acquisitions and acts as a hands-on investor throughout the investment. Freeman Spogli generally pur... |
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Seaport Capital is a private equity firm that targets investments in private middle-market companies in need of capital to support late stage growth opportunities, buyouts, or recapitalizations. The Firm prefers businesses with high margins and recurring revenue. Sectors of interest include marke... |
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Gridiron Capital is a private equity firm focused on acquiring and building middle-market manufacturing, service and specialty consumer companies in the US and Canada. Gridiron looks to invest a minimum of $10 million of equity in companies generating sales of $50 to $250 million. Gridiron Capital ... |
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Nautic Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in middle-market companies with proven business models, defensible market positions, and strong growth potential. Nautic looks to invest $25 to $100 million of equity in businesses generating at least $10 million in cash-flow. Naut... |
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Halyard Capital is a private equity firm that focuses exclusively within the media, communications and business services industries. Halyard looks to commit between $15 and $40 million of equity per transaction in companies valued up to $250 million. Investments are typically made to support le... |
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Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in growing, profitable companies with a preference for businesses generating recurring revenues. Target sectors include services, media, and communications. Housatonic looks to commit $5 to $20 million per transaction to support buyo... |
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Alinda Capital Partners is a private investment firm specializing in the acquisition of infrastructure assets in North America and Europe. Alinda looks for assets with predictable cash flows, strategic competitive advantages, and limited commodity or merchant risk. Specific areas of interest in... |
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Celerity Partners is a private equity firm that targets middle-market company investments. Target transactions include growth equity, de-leveraging investments, management buyouts, corporate divestitures and recapitalizations. Celerity looks for companies with EBITDA between $2 and $20 million. Man... |
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Tuckerman Capital is a private investment firm that targets smaller manufacturing companies, with a specific interest in companies that manufacture highly-engineered, non-commodity products. Tuckerman will also consider investments in niche service and distribution businesses. The Firm prefers comp... |
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The Gores Group is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses. Gores considers investments across Europe and North America. Prospective companies typically have at least $30 million in revenue and are often non-core assets of public corporation... |
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Littlejohn & Co. is a private equity firm that makes control investments in mid-sized companies undergoing change; either in capital structure, strategy, operations, or growth. Littlejohn looks to commit $50 to $100 million of equity capital in companies generating up to $800 million in annual sale... |
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Lovell Minnick Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in North American financial services companies. Specific areas of interest include asset management, financial planning, financial product distribution, outsource providers, specialty finance, and related administration and b... |
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Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in the media, communications, education, and information services sectors. VSS looks for opportunities with valuable brand franchises, stable cash flows, and proper business infrastructure to support add-on ... |
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Kohlberg & Company is a private equity firm which seeks investments in middle-market companies operating in basic industries. Kohlberg looks for businesses where the firm can increase profitability through operational improvements. Kohlberg's target investment size is $50 to $125 million in opport... |
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Wafra Partners is a private equity firm that seeks control and minority investments in middle-market businesses. Wafra focuses its efforts on specialty services, niche manufacturing and consumer-driven companies. Prospective businesses generate at least $20 million in revenue and $4 million in c... |
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Parallel Investment Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring North American middle-market companies in a variety of industries. Parallel looks for companies generating revenues of $10 to $100 million and valued between $15 and $75 million. The Firm's target investment size is $5 to ... |
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VMG Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in marketing-driven, branded consumer products companies. VMG has a specific interest in the lifestyle, wellness, food/beverage, personal care, pet, and leisure sectors. VMG looks for growth-oriented businesses generating $10 to $100 mi... |
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JH Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in consumer products/services companies. The Firm has a specific interest in growth-oriented, marketing-driven companies with sustainable competitive advantages. JH Partners looks for companies generating $10 to $300 million in reven... |
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Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP) is a large private equity firm that targets buyouts of private or publicly held companies, divestitures of larger companies, recapitalizations of family-owned or closely-held companies, acquisition-oriented financings, and financings to fund internal growth. MDP's t... |
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Peterson Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in lower middle-market growth companies located in the Western US. Peterson looks to commit between $3 and $10 million of equity in companies generating sales of at least $10 million. Peterson generally partners with management... |
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Centerfield Capital Partners is a private investment firm that provides subordinated debt and equity capital to mid-market companies. Prospective transactions include acquisition financings, management buyouts, shareholder liquidity needs, recapitalizations, corporate divestitures, ESOP financings,... |
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Paine & Partners is a large private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for management buyouts, going private transactions, as well as company expansions and growth programs. Sectors of interest include insurance and financial services, defense, industrial products, communications, food... |
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LFE Capital is a private investment firm that provides junior capital to support growth, acquisitions, and liquidity for shareholders. LFE generally looks to invest in businesses located in the upper Midwest US. Sectors of interest include consumer products and services, health related products a... |
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Catterton Partners is a specialist private equity firm that targets investments in consumer-related companies located throughout North America. Catterton looks for businesses with identifiable brands, defensible market positions, and strong management in place. Specific areas of interest inclu... |
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ICV Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on making equity investments in US based middle-market companies. ICV looks for control positions in businesses generating annual revenues between $25 and $200 million and at least $8 million of EBITDA. ICV prefers businesses with proven man... |
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WHI Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in North American mid-sized companies. WHI prefers businesses with a long operating history, loyal customers, consistent performance, strong managment, and defensible market positions. WHI generally looks to invest $5 to $15 million of eq... |
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Industrial Opportunity Partners, (IOP), is a private equity firm focused on acquiring and managing middle-market companies operating in basic industries. The Firm has a particular interest in manufacturing and value-added distribution businesses generating sales of $30 to $350 million. The Firm g... |
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Prairie Capital is an equity/mezzanine finance investment firm focused on providing capital to companies undergoing an ownership change. Prairie generally invests $10 to $20 million alongside management or other private equity investors to support buyouts, recapitalizations, or growth capital need... |
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Lake Pacific Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in businesses operating in the food, consumer products, consumer services, and distribution sectors. The firm pursues North American public or private companies with revenues between $20 and $500 million. Lake Pacific wil... |
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Svoboda Capital Partners is a private equity firm that seeks buyout, recapitalization, and growth capital investments in mid-sized companies with leading market positions, strong customer relationships, and high margins. Svoboda generally looks to invest up to $25 million in businesses generat... |
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Waud Capital Partners is a private equity firm that generally pursues investments in mid-sized manufacturing, distribution and service companies. Waud looks for businesses with proven management, while operating in well defined markets with demonstrating strong growth potential. The firm typicall... |
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Centre Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in North American middle-market companies with strong growth prospects, predictable cash-flows, and defensible competitive positions. Prospective transactions include investments in privately owned companies, growth capital financings... |
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GTCR is a private equity firm that typically partners with management when pursuing acquisitions. The Firm looks to grow companies through build-on acquisitions, consolidations, and internal growth. GTCR will consider both equity and mezzanine capital commitments and concentrates its investment a... |
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Larsen MacColl Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in established, profitable companies with proven management and strong growth potential. The Firm has a particular interest in cash-flow positive, smaller companies, looking to invest in businesses with annual sales of $5 to... |
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Skyview Capital is a private investment firm that targets divestitures of larger public corporations. Skyview focuses primarily on legacy, mature businesses in technology, business services, software, and niche manufacturing. Other areas of interest include networking solutions, information s... |
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Frontenac Company is a Midwest private equity firm that seeks investments in mid-sized service based businesses. Frontenac generally seeks companies valued up to $200 million and typically partners with management when pursuing acquisitions. The Firm has a particular interest in businesses ma... |
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Transportation Resource Partners Transportation Resource Partners (TRP) is a private investment firm that seeks investments in growth-oriented manufacturing and service businesses within the transportation industry. Areas of particular interest include, specialty manufacturing and assembly, logistics/freight management, value-adde... |
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Sterling Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in small to medium-sized companies positioned for growth, either organically or through acquisitions. Sterling has a strong interest in businesses with differentiated products, defensible competitive positions, recurring revenues, and... |
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Granite Equity Partners is a private equity firm that invests in established companies operating in the upper Midwest. Granite will consider opportunities in a wide range of industry sectors and looks to invest alongside management to support buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth capital financing... |
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Kubera Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in companies with "cross-border" business activity between North American/Europe and Asia/India. Kubera manages the Kubera Cross-Border Fund and specifically looks for businesses where the Firm can help bridge the gap in terms of reachi... |
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Castanea Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in established, small to mid-sized companies valued up to $250 million. The Firm looks for businesses with strong management and significant competitive advantages. Sectors of interest include publishing, information services, edu... |
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Jacobson Partners is a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on acquiring non-core divestitures and other underperforming mid-sized companies in the US and Canada. Jacobson generally targets opportunities in basic industries such as manufacturing and services. The Firm seeks to invest bet... |
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Summer Street Capital Partners Summer Street Capital is a private equity firm that targets investments in lower middle-market companies. Summer Street seeks to invest in platform companies generating revenues of $20 to $100 million, and portfolio add-ons with at least $2 million in sales. Target industries include niche ma... |
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CCP Equity Partners is a private equity firm that looks to invest in growth companies operating in the healthcare and financial services sectors. CCP looks to invest up to $20 million in North American based companies with revenues between $5 and $100 million. Target companies should have strong ... |
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Silverfleet Capital is an independent private equity firm that invests in market leading businesses in growing sectors. Silverfleet looks to acquire companies headquartered in Western Europe or US-based businesses with a substantial European presence. Target companies are typically valued between... |
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Dolphin Equity Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on investing in technology-enabled service based companies. Specific areas of interest include software as a service, on demand software, mobile-enabled technology, communication services, and new media/internet. Dolphin looks fo... |
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Metapoint Partners is a private investment firm focused on acquiring and growing small to medium-sized manufacturing companies. Metapoint specifically targets low-tech manufacturing companies with differentiated products. Prospective businesses generally have sales of $8 to $30 million and operat... |
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Mistral Equity Partners is a consumer/media focused private equity firm. The Firm specifically looks to invest in North American retail, consumer products/services, food, and advertising opportunities. Mistral's target equity investment size is $25 to $50 million in businesses valued up to $300 m... |
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The Mustang Group is an East Coast US-based private equity firm focused on investing in profitable mid-sized companies with revenues of $10 to $200 million. Mustang looks to fund management buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate carve-outs, and growth capital financings. Areas of interest include ... |
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Trimaran Fund Management is the private equity investment arm of Trimaran Capital Partners. Trimaran seeks long-term capital appreciation by making privately negotiated equity or equity-oriented investments in niche middle-market companies. Trimaran generally looks to invest $25 to $100 million of ... |
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Tricor Pacific Capital is a private equity firm that invests in mid-sized companies in Canada and the US. The firm concentrates its investment efforts in the Western and Mid-western regions of both countries. Target businesses generally have enterprise values of $25 to $250 million. The firm pur... |
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Friend Skoler & Co. is a private equity firm that invests in profitable middle-market companies across a range of industries. The Firm looks to commit $10 to $40 million of equity capital in businesses valued between $20 and $150 million. Generally, target companies have at least $20 million in s... |
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Channelstone Partners is a private investment firm that makes control equity investments in small, privately-held US-based companies with revenues between $10 and $50 million. The Firm generally looks for businesses with recurring revenues, a history of profitability, and that operate in the consu... |
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Post Capital Partners is a private investment firm that targets smaller middle-market businesses in traditional, basic industries. Prospective companies generally have revenues of $10 to $150 million and at least $2 million of EBITDA. Preferred company criteria include businesses with recurring o... |
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Riverstone is a large specialist private equity firm focused on opportunities in the energy and power industry. Specific sectors of interest include oil & gas exploration, midstream transportation/logistics, electric generation, energy & power service, and energy & power technology. Riverstone wa... |
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Flexpoint Ford is a private equity firm focused on investments in healthcare and financial services companies. Specific areas of interest within financial services include specialty lenders, insurance companies, transaction processing businesses, asset management firms and related outsourcing busi... |
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MVP Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing growth capital investments in later stage businesses as well as equity financing to support acquisitions and recapitalizations. MVP generally looks at US-based opportunities valued up to $125 million. Target sectors include aviatio... |
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Wind Point Partners is a private investment firm focused on acquisitions of mid-sized companies operating in the business services, consumer products, healthcare services, and industrial products sectors. Wind Point targets businesses with revenues between $100 and $500 million and looks to invest... |
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Greenbriar Equity Group is a specialized private equity firm focused on investing in the global transportation industry. Companies of interest include traditional carriers, such as railroads, cruise lines, airlines, air freight, shipping, and trucking, as well as ancillary manufacturers and servi... |
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Pacific Horizon Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage opportunities in the life science and healthcare sectors. Specific areas of interest include drug development, therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices, computational biology and other selected healthcare. Pacific Horizon... |
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Wingate Partners is a turnaround investment firm that purchases controlling stakes in troubled manufacturing, distribution and service businesses headquartered in the US. Wingate looks to acquire under-performing companies, profitable businesses in changing or out of favor industries, and companie... |
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Apprise Media is a specialist private equity firm focused on making investments in lower middle-market niche media and information companies. The Firm generally targets businesses that provide targeted information versus general entertainment. Apprise has strong interest in media companies where ... |
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Pilgrim Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in change of ownership and growth equity transactions. Pilgrim looks for established, middle-market companies operating in defensible markets. Prospective companies generally have sales of $10 to $100 million and operating profits of ... |
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BankCap Partners is a private equity firm that targets investments in the commercial banking sector. BankCap looks to form and fund mid-sized banks focused on serving middle-market businesses. BankCap will partner with experienced management teams in completing transactions and seeks to initially... |
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Jefferson Capital Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of growing companies. Jefferson generally looks to invest between $2 and $7 million in companies with up to $75 million in annual revenue. Sectors of interest include c... |
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FTV Capital is a multi-stage private equity firm focused on providing capital to high-growth companies. FTV generally seeks to invest in software, business services, and financial services companies which enable financial institutions to expand and to operate more efficiently. Investment proceeds... |
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Blue Sage Capital is a private investment firm that invests in lower middle-market companies that have the potential to become market leaders. Target businesses typically generate sales of $5 to $100 million and are valued up to $100 million. Blue Sage is a generalist firm with broad industry int... |
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Crystal Ridge Partners is a private equity firm focused on buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity transactions of lower middle-market companies. Crystal Ridge looks for opportunities in the manufacturing, value-added distribution, consumer products, traditional media, and specialty services... |
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First Atlantic Capital is a private equity firm that seeks investments in medium sized US-based businesses valued between $100 and $500 million. Sectors of interest include business services, industrial and consumer goods, packaging, plastics, food processing, general manufacturing, and value-adde... |
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GFI Energy Ventures is a specialist private investment firm focused on businesses surrounding the energy industry. GFI generally looks to acquire a controlling or significant interest in private companies or business units of public companies. Energy sub-sectors of interest include power quality/... |
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Gryphon Investors is a private equity firm focused on making $25 to $75 million equity or equity-linked investments in middle-market companies. Prospective transaction situations include traditional buyouts, leveraged build-ups, and growth capital financings. Gryphon will consider both control an... |
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Ironwood Capital is a private investment firm that makes equity and subordinated debt investments in lower middle-market companies. Investment proceeds are generally used to support leveraged buyouts, growth financings, and recapitalizations. Investments typically range from $4 to $12 million in ... |
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Equifin Capital Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on privately negotiated, structured investments in the financial services sector. Areas of interest include consumer finance, commercial finance, capital asset management, and other areas of the financial services industry. Equifi... |
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JMI Equity is a specialist private equity firm focused on investments in software and business service companies. Target businesses typically help automate and optimize business and information technology processes. The Firm will consider investments at all stages of development, including early-... |
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Hancock Park Associates is a private equity firm that targets control investments in lower middle-market companies. Hancock seeks to acquire interests in companies with annual revenues between $25 and $200 million and EBITDA up to $20 million. The Firm will consider investments across a range of ... |
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Seidler Equity Partners is a mid-market private equity firm focused on partnering with business owners and management to help build market-leading companies. Seidler will consider funding growth financings, family business transitions, owner-operator recapitalizations, management buyouts, liquidit... |
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Weston Presidio is a private investment firm focused on providing capital to later-stage growth companies. The Firm looks to commit $10 to $75 million per investment to support growth initiatives, recapitalizations, and management-led buyouts. Sectors of interest include consumer products/servi... |
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Lightyear Capital is a specialist private equity firm that pursues buyout and growth capital investments in the financial services industry. Specific areas of interest include specialty finance companies, insurance, re-insurance, capital markets, leasing, banking/brokerage, and financial technolog... |
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Cornerstone Equity Investors is private equity firm focused on mid-market control investments. Target transaction situations include corporate divestitures, closely-held company acquisitions, and small-cap take privates. Prospective companies typically are market leaders with defensible market pos... |
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Pfingsten Partners is a private equity firm focused on investments in niche manufacturing, distribution, and business services companies. The Firm targets platform companies headquartered in the US although add-on acquisitions can be located outside the US. Prospective companies typically have reve... |
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Thayer Hidden Creek is a private equity firm that targets investments in North American industrial products and service businesses that can benefit from the firm's operational expertise. Thayer looks for middle-market companies that generate sales of $20 to $200 million. Specific areas of interest ... |
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Northstar Capital is a mezzanine finance firm that provides junior capital to mid-market US and Canadian companies. Northstar is a generalist firm, however the group has a special interest in value-added distribution, light manufacturing, business services, financial services, education, and speci... |
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Cressey & Company is a specialist investment firm focused on buy-and-build opportunities in the healthcare sector. Areas of interest include hospitals (acute care, rehab, LTACH, pscyhciatric facilities), homecare (hospice, home nursing, home infusion), outpatient services (physical therapy, dialysi... |
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Lincolnshire Management is a private equity firm focused on acquiring small and mid-market companies in partnership with management. Lincolnshire looks for businesses with strong opportunities for growth (either organically or through acquisitions), high margins, competitive advantages, and with a ... |
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Hampshire Equity Partners invests in buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, consolidations, and corporate restructurings of established public and private companies. Hampshire seeks companies with annual sales of $25 to $150 million and EBITDA of $3 to $15 million. The Firm generally seeks ... |
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Stonehenge Partners is a private investment firm that seeks equity and junior capital investments in lower middle-market companies with proven management and defensible market positions. Stonehenge looks to invest up to $25 million of equity/junior capital to support management buyouts, leveraged ... |
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Swander Pace Capital (SPC) is a private equity firm focused on investing in North American middle-market consumer products companies. SPC looks for companies exhibiting strong growth potential and currently generating sales of $20 to $300 million. Specific areas of interest include food/beverage, h... |
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Rosewood Capital is a private equity firm that targets investments in consumer related industries. Examples include branded consumer products and services, retail, restaurant chains, financial services, and outsourced business services. Rosewood generally looks to invest $10 to $40 million in busin... |
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Churchill Capital Mezzanine Finance Churchill Capital Mezzanine Finance (CCMF) is the subordinated debt investing arm of financial services group, Churchill Capital. CCMF provides mezzanine financing and equity co-investment capital to support mid-market leveraged buyouts backed by private equity sponsors, growth/acquisition financin... |
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Navigation Capital Partners (NCP) is a private equity firm that makes growth and buyout investments in established mid-market companies with longstanding customer relationships, proprietary manufacturing processes, and mission critical services. Target companies typically have annual sales of $10 t... |
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Milestone Partners is a lower middle-market private equity firm specializing in investments in manufacturing, distribution and service companies. Investment funds are used to provide liquidity to shareholders of privately-owned businesses, facilitate the transition of ownership to key managers, and... |
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Patriot Capital is a private investment firm that provides equity and junior capital to support acquisitions, growth capital financings, management buyouts, and recapitalizations of middle-market companies. The Firm's target investment size is $3 to $15 million in businesses with revenues of $10 to... |
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Harren Equity Partners is an East Coast US-based private equity firm focused on mid-sized acquisitions, recapitalizations, and growth capital financings. Harren is a generalist firm and will consider companies in a broad range of industries, including aerospace/defense, automotive, business service... |
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SPP Mezzanine Partners is a private investment firm focused on providing equity/junior capital to help finance leverage/management buyouts, growth capital financings, and recapitalizations. SPP generally looks to fund established businesses with stable cash-flows, low technology risk, and reasonab... |
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Sterling Investment Partners is a mid-market private equity firm focused on acquisitions of growth companies in a variety of industries. Sterling looks for businesses with $50 to $300+ million in sales and EBITDA of at least $10 million. Prospective companies should have sustainable competitive a... |
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Brazos Private Equity Partners Brazos Private Equity Partners is a private investment firm that specializes in recapitalizations of family owned businesses, CEO led buy-and-build situations, non-core divestitures, and small cap take privates. Target companies generally have growing free cash-flow, sustainable competitive advant... |
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Cowen Capital Partners is the investment arm of investment bank and advisory firm Cowen Group. Cowen Capital generally invests in North American leveraged buyout and growth equity transactions. For leveraged buyouts, Cowen looks to invest $5 to $40 million in established businesses valued from $3... |
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Ascent Equity Capital is a private equity firm that looks to partner with a proven CEO when starting or acquiring a company. When making an acquisition, Ascent is particularly attracted to businesses with high-margins, low customer attrition/concentration, and recurring revenues where new leadersh... |
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Lenox Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in late-stage, mature companies. Lenox looks for privately-held companies as well as non-core divestitures and is willing to invest across the capital structure, including common/preferred equity commitments and mezzanine debt. T... |
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Kelso & Company is a private investment firm focused on large company acquisitions, as well as equity investments in corporations with employee stock ownership plans. The Firm looks to partner with management when pursuing opportunities and generally prefers control ownership positions. Sectors of ... |
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Transition Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on leveraged recapitalizations of entrepreneurial service-based businesses. Transition generally looks for high-growth companies with $2 to $8 million of EBITDA where the firm can help position the company for the next level of growth... |
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WestView Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle-market companies. WestView looks to commit between $5 and $25 million in a variety of recapitalization, growth financing, buyout and consolidation transactions. Prospective companies generally exhibit consiste... |
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Spire Capital Partners is a private equity firm that targets buyout investments in mid-sized information services, media, communications, and business service companies. The Firm looks for cash-flow positive, US based businesses with high barriers to entry. Spire seeks to commit $15 to $30 million ... |
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Element Partners is a specialist private equity firm focused on late-stage investments in alternative energy and clean technology companies. The Firm looks to invest $10 to $40 million in businesses with trailing revenues of $5 to $100 million. Target businesses are at or near profitability with ex... |
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Jaguar Capital Partners is a China focused private equity firm, investing in "cross border opportunities between the developing Chinese market and the US financial markets". Jaguar looks to invest in highly-scalable businesses with recurring revenues and mission-critical products/services. The Fi... |
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Hammond Kennedy Whitney & Company (HKW) is a private equity firm focused on making control investments in mid-sized, market leading companies generating sales of $20 to $200 million. HKW looks for companies with low risk for technological obsolescence, defined growth strategies, and talented manag... |
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CrossHarbor Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on opportunistic investments in real estate, distressed debt, and private equity. Within real estate, CrossHarbor will invest in single property transactions, multiple property portfolios, real estate-related operating companies, and... |
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Persimmon Tree Capital is a private equity firm focused on early and expansion stage investments in energy and energy related technology/infrastructure businesses. Persimmon looks to invest in technology and service companies that can provide cost-effective, energy-efficient solutions, whether new... |
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Hadley Capital is a private equity firm focused on acquiring smaller, established companies operating in traditional, basic industries. Hadley generally partners with management when pursuing acquisitions and targets companies with revenues of $5 to $20 million and cash-flow of $1 to $3 million. P... |
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Apposite Capital is a UK based private investment firm focused on opportunities in the healthcare services and life science sectors. Within life science, Apposite tends to prefer biotechnology companies developing new therapeutics and novel technologies. Within healthcare services, the Firm looks ... |
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Virgo Capital is a private equity firm focused on making control investments in established technology-enabled service companies. Virgo seeks profitable businesses with strong customer relationships and domain expertise. The Firm acts as a hands-on investor, looking to leverage the team's ext... |
