Private Equity Publishing
Investment firms with an interest in Publishing 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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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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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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Archer Capital is an independent private equity firm that targets buyout opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. Archer looks for growth companies with strong market positions. The Firm operates through two funds, one targeting smaller companies valued between AU$20 and $100 million, and a seco... |
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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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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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D2K Equity Partners makes private equity investments in small US-based companies operating in the lower middle-market with sales of $5 to $50 million. Prospective businesses typically operate in defensible markets, have a history of profitability, diverse/loyal customers, as well as identified gro... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Topspin LBO is the buyout arm of investment firm Topspin Partners. Topspin LBO looks to invest in established businesses with growing revenue and cash-flow of $2 to $7 million. Prospective companies generally have proven management in place and operate with defensible business models. While, T... |
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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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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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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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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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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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Endless LLP is an independent private equity firm that targets management buyouts and turnaround investment opportunities in a variety of industries. Endless invests in UK based companies with annual revenues between £10 an £250 million. Endless can commit up to £25 million GBP for each transacti... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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... |
