Investing in strong, American, legacy entrepreneur-built businesses - for the future

What we do

We invest in private middle-market businesses with the goal to operate them long-term as an engaged investor and operator. We bring over 20 years of experience working with world-class companies to unlock potential and drive growth in our portfolio companies. We are focused on buying strong businesses and transforming them into great businesses, unlocking value by:

  • Building capabilities to enable scale-up: Investing in future talent, technology/automation, and modernizing core processes

  • Disciplined organic growth: Taking a structured, data-driven approach to growth, leveraging existing technology and engineering know-how 

  • Targeted acquisition and thoughtful integration: Looking across the value chain and competitive landscape to integrate undifferentiated parts of the business operations for scale

What we invest in 

We look to invest in businesses with the following characteristics:

  1. $2M+ EBITDA in size, with 15+ years of steady performance

  2. Differentiated technology and/or engineering expertise

  3. Niche specialized applications that are mission-critical to customer end products

  4. Strong leadership team and culture that fits with our values

We look for investments that have clear standalone growth potential and with M&A opportunities across the value chain that can accelerate growth and scale-up.

What sets us apart

We bring our deep experience, extensive business network, and knowledge of world-class business process and practices to build upon the legacies of founding entrepreneurs.

  1. 20+ years experience successfully growing and transforming industrial technology businesses and managing people

  2. Long-term ambition and focus on building a great business of which we can be proud over the next two decades

  3. Focus on people and culture as vital components when evaluating and subsequently managing businesses

  4. Experienced board of advisors and investors who share our vision and who have founded and successfully led industrial businesses

  5. Playbook to scale and grow industrial businesses, developed based on our experience helping world-class companies unlock their full potential