Private equity firms

Lewis & Clark Capital is a private equity firm investing the capital of its Managing Partner Thomas Hillman. Mr. Hillman and his associates have built Lewis & Clark Capital into one of the preeminent boutique private equity firms in the Midwest. Lewis & Clark Capital’s selective approach to investing enables it to focus its resources solely on those business opportunities with the potential to go “beyond success to significance.”

cadence.capital is an experienced investor with a long time transaction advisory team dedicated toward prompt, discrete closings. Our banks, attorneys and accountants understand the sensitive nature of private equity investment as well as the various issues often present with family businesses. We are experienced M&A professionals and able to work quickly and decisively under mutually agreeable terms to facilitate an investment.

Greybull Stewardship is a private equity firm based in Cody, Wyoming. The firm prefers both majority and minority ownership and invests in businesses located in the western United States. It does not invest in turn-around situations, unproven business models or unproven technology, companies without management or where management will leave post-investment, very capital-intensive businesses, or restaurants or retail businesses.

Ironwood Capital is a private equity firm based in Avon, Connecticut and was founded in 1986. The firm invests in support of recapitalization, refinancing, generational transition, buyouts and other types of transactions. Ironwood invests the majority of its capital in middle market companies in the form of mezzanine capital, typically subordinated debt with warrants and often complemented with an investment in preferred stock.

Wellfleet Capital Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1995 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm typically invests in companies with an enterprise value between $10 million and $50 million, minimum operating profit of $1.5 million, revenues between $10 million and $100 million, and EBITDA between $2 million and $10 million. It prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Monitor Clipper Partners is a middle-market private equity firm which seeks to invest in companies based in North America and Western Europe, focusing primarily on partnering with founders and owners of middle-market companies. The firm prefers to invest in the natural and organic foods, specialty retail, health care services, gaming, logistics, mortgage technology, marketing services, financial services and metal sectors.

FS Investors is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Jolla, California with an additional office in San Mateo, California. The firm makes both control and minority investments and seeks to invest in the manufacturing, energy, food & agriculture, consumer products & services, software & technology, real estate, business services, education, healthcare services & medical devices and telecommunications sectors.

Ethos Capital Partners is a growth capital provider for Southeastern companies, investing in both debt and equity securities. Ethos invests out of a committed fund. Ethos is focused on providing risk capital in a variety of securities to strong management teams and a proven revenue model. Working across sectors and structures, Ethos believes a people-first investment approach delivers superior returns over the long term.

Aries Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm was established in 2007 and prefers to invest in the building products and construction services, chemicals, and plastics, consumer products, industrial technology, social media, life sciences, education and training, e-commerce, food and beverage, market research, recycling and waste, technology, media and telecommunication sectors.

Mesa Capital Partners was established in 2003 as an early stage private equity firm focused on high-potential small businesses in industries and geographic areas under-served by other capital providers. It targeted small businesses across a wide variety of manufacturing and services industries, typically outside sectors commonly considered high-tech. The firm was established in 2003 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Carrick Capital Partners is an investment firm focused on investing in and acquiring privately held business services and software companies. The firm specializes in the technology enabled service offerings, business process outsourcing, transaction processing, software as a service and enterprise software sectors. The firm was founded in 2012 and has offices in San Francisco, California and Newport Beach, California.

Catterton was a private equity firm that specialized in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and growth capital investments in middle-market companies. The firm focused on investing in companies that operated in the food and beverage, consumer products and consumer services, retail and restaurants sectors. The firm merged with LVMH and Groupe Arnault to form L Catterton, a global consumer-focused private equity firm.

Primus Capital Funds is a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in leading healthcare, software, and technology-enabled services companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada, operating in the healthcare, software/technology and tech-enabled service sectors. It was founded in 1984 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia.

Psilos Group Managers is a healthcare investment firm focused on providing growth capital and late stage venture capital to companies operating in the healthcare economy. It seeks to invest in the healthcare information technology, healthcare services, oncology, medical technology, life sciences, nanotechnology and manufacturing sectors. The firm was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Quetzal/JPMorgan Partners is a private equity firm based in New York. It invests in growth equity capital in communications companies with an ethnic individual and/or a woman in the senior management or a significant shareholder position. It invests in sectors such as radio and TV broadcasting, broadband and cable, IT, telecommunications, services and equipment, wireless, services and equipment and internet.

Aeon Funds is a private equity investment firm established in 2012 and is currently based in Middletown, New Jersey. The company is constantly on the look-out for investment opportunities into companies for direct investment. Aeon Funds provides capital to early and growth stage private companies, as well as publicly listed and reporting companies in the healthcare, life sciences or technology sectors.

Ares Capital is a private equity firm that specializes in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in the manufacturing, business services, consumer products, healthcare and information technology sectors. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Middleburg Capital Development is a private equity investment firm based in Middleburg, Virginia and was founded in 2012. The firm invests in the new technologies, data and information sectors, service sectors, core manufacturing and natural resources sectors. It also offers equity and debt financing solutions as well as leasing solutions assistance to help businesses enhance their enterprise value.

Mosaic Health Solutions was a venture capital and private equity firm that partners with investors and other stakeholders to drive growth for innovative companies across the healthcare ecosystem. The firm was founded in 2014 and was based in Durham, North Carolina. The firm is combining their investment teams and resources to create a new strategic investment company called Echo Health Ventures.

Duff Ackerman & Goodrich is a private investment firm formed in 1991 and is based in Palo Alto, California. DAG manages investment funds that provide equity capital for management buyouts, acquisition platforms and ventures. The firm makes private equity investment through its subsidiary DAG Private Equity in the specialty manufacturing, communications, media and information technology sectors.

Crofton Capital is a growth private equity firm that invests in and provides strategic resources to small and midsize businesses based primarily in the northeast. The firm acquires majority control of stable businesses with its investment partners and supports the growth of these businesses over the long term through collaboration with the management team. It is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Madison Parker Capital is a Menlo Park, California-based private equity firm. The firm primarily seeks to invest in middle-market growth stage enterprises operating in the advanced materials and enabling technology, business services, consumer products, retail and restaurant, and manufacturing sectors. It advises, manages and invests in companies between $10 million and $150 million in sales.

BIGR Ventures is a growth equity fund providing value-added, strategic partnership and capital to promising early-stage natural and organic products. Headquartered in Boulder, CO, and boasting 70+ years of combined natural product experience between its founders, BIGR Ventures leverages unparalleled industry relationships and experience to maximize the potential of promising young companies.

Opportunity Capital Partners was a private equity firm that used to provide equity capital to later stage companies for acquisition and expansion. The firm's investments were primarily in the areas of communications – principally media broadcasting and wireless services and equipment. The firm also focused on businesses that are primarily owned or managed by minority and women entrepreneurs.

Abundant Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the manufacturing, construction, distribution, healthcare, real estate and service sectors. The firm also provides financing services, such as asset based lending, commercial lending, customer financing and debtor-in-possession financing. It is based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and was founded in 2002.

Spring Lake Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm seeks to invest equity capital in later-stage, technology-oriented companies with a focus on the technology sub-sectors such as software, digital media, mobile, data center infrastructure, healthcare IT, and financial services sectors. The firm was spun out of Tudor Investment Corporation in 2013.

Eastside Partners is a private equity investor and makes growth equity investments in fast growing Information Technology and Healthcare companies primarily based in the southeastern United States. The firm's typical investment size is between $1 and $5 million, with the potential to invest $10 million or more in a single transaction through co-investors and our limited partner network.

Orange Growth Capital (“OGC”) is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the summer of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues. Our investments range from EUR 250k to EUR 10 million over the lifetime of the company, which typically represents a minority stake.

SCG Partners combines the value-added resources of a strategic partner with the customized approach to deal making of an equity sponsor. Who We Are SCG Partners is a private investment firm focused exclusively on business services companies. We seek to create high-impact partnerships with entrepreneurial management teams to build exceptional businesses through extensive sector expertise

Intuitive Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that prefers to make growth capital and later stage investments. The firm seeks to invest in the information technology, healthcare, oncology, life science, e-commerce, 3D printing, security, entertainment, diagnostic, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and business software sectors. It is headquartered in New York, New York.

Steelhead Capital Management is a private equity firm founded in 2008 and is located in Fort Worth, Texas. The firm invests in early seed opportunities as well as later stage growth companies, with a primary focus on the technology, energy, pharmaceuticals and consumer packaged goods. They strive to grow companies through acquisitions, operational excellence and through organic growth.

Founded in 2001, Wasserstein & Co. is an independent private equity and investment firm, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The firm specializes in seed or startups, early, mid, late, and mature stage, middle markets, leveraged buyouts and add-on investments. It seeks to invest in the media and communication, consumer products, water, information technology and software sectors.

RNS Capital is a privately held and internally funded private equity group focusing on investments in clean technology and service businesses both domestically and internationally. The firm is run by partners with deep private equity experience and the firm only invests in positions of substantial influence with companies with high growth prospects, often in areas with social benefit.

Most of our investments will be in early-growth stages, in and around Series B. We are looking for gritty founders with 20+ year missions in breakthrough, deep-tech fields rooted in real-world problems. We inquire deeply, listen generously and look for IPO-scale potential. We help Indian entrepreneurs take their businesses to their boldest, global version as co-founders not investors.

Expansion Capital Partners is focused on investing through expansion capital to companies in the clean technology sector. Within the clean-tech sector the firm focuses in the areas of energy, water and waste-water, manufacturing and industrial processes, advanced materials, transportation and clean-tech resources. The firm was founded in 2002 and is based out of Darien, Connecticut.

GSV Capital is a Woodside, California based business development fund specializing in growth capital investments in later stage venture-backed private companies. The firm primarily seeks to invest in the technology sub-sectors of social mobile, cloud computing, big data, social media, mobile computing and applications, software, e-commerce, green technology and education technology.

Palisades Growth Capital is an investment firm that makes growth stage investments in the technology, media and telecommunications, and business services sectors encompassing a wide variety of industries including healthcare, consumer/retail, environmental services, financial services and manufacturing services. The firm was founded in 2001 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

SR Capital Partners was a private equity management firm investing in private companies across North America, including the United States, Mexico and Canada. Their investment professionals typically serve on the boards of directors of their portfolio companies. Their key services include: M&A advisory, corporate finance advisory, access to capital markets, and strategy consulting.

Albion Investors is a private equity firm based in New York, New York with an additional offices in Chicago, Illinois and Palm Beach, Florida. The firm was established in 1995 and manages funds on behalf of institutional and family-office investors. It specializes in lead investments in micro-cap deals, mezzanine and private equity co-investments and private equity fund of funds.

Fort Washington Capital Partners Group is a private equity and funds-of-funds manager that is active in both primary and secondary markets. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare, business service, energy, technology, consumer and financial sectors. It is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and is an institutional private equity division of Fort Washington Investment Advisors.

Fulcrum Equity Partners is a growth equity fund based in Atlanta, Georgia, that focuses primarily on healthcare services, information technology and technology enabled business service companies. The firm provides equity financing to meet a wide range of needs, including internal growth initiatives, acquisitions, management buy-outs, shareholder liquidity and recapitalization.

Atlantic Merchant Capital Investors is a private merchant bank focused on the origination of proprietary private equity transactions. The firm invests in the United States businesses in the banking, insurance, financial services and other sectors. The firm also makes venture capital investments through Atlantic Inspire. It is based in Tampa, Florida and was founded in 2009.

BuildGroup is a private investment firm that makes early-stage and growth equity investments in technology companies at the expansion stage. The firm's model is based on a long-term investment approach that helps companies scale their current business while building the foundation for significant future growth. The firm was founded in 2015 and is based in Autin, Texas.

Lee Munder Capital Group is an investment management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides a range of investment strategies to institutional and private clients including corporate and public pension plans, foundations, endowments, family offices, mutual funds and individuals. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios.

Second Alpha Partners is a New York based private equity firm that makes secondary investments in private companies, purchasing shares from existing shareholders like founders, executives, angels, venture capitals or corporate investors. The firm focuses its investments towards US and Canada based companies within the telecommunications, media and technology sectors.

Chicago Growth Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm seeks to invest in the mobile, financial and technology, manufacturing, life sciences, oncology, media, retail, transportation, healthcare services, energy, consulting services, financial services and information technology sectors. The firm was founded in 2004.