We are Growth Investors.
Building Best-in-Class Companies
We provide the experience, resources, and patient capital to help lower-middle market companies reach their full potential.
Our goal is to help our partner companies grow exponentially through investments in infrastructure, organic initiatives, and add-on acquisitions, to build them into sustainable market-leading companies.
Supporting Transformational Growth
We leverage a toolkit of best demonstrated practices (BDPs) developed over hundreds of acquisitions and decades of investing to support transformational growth at our partner companies.
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Strategic Planning
Defining our ambition, and developing a sequenced plan with specific initiatives, required investments, and supporting resources to ensure we can achieve our collective ambition.
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Sales & Marketing Optimization
Identifying, prioritizing, and resourcing opportunities to accelerate long-term organic growth and market share capture.
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Operational Excellence
Identifying, prioritizing, and resourcing opportunities to enhance technology, process, and structure to improve operating efficiency, employee morale, and customer satisfaction.
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M&A Execution
Defining the acquisition criteria, and developing a repeatable process to source, integrate, and accelerate growth at add-on acquisitions while also enhancing the strategic profile of the underlying company.
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Talent & Organizational Design
Ensuring the organizational structure is built to scale and continuously investing in talent to support business initiatives, rapid growth, and career advancement opportunities for employees.
Core Sectors
We pursue investments across four Core Sectors where our experience, relationships, and investing approach align to enable us to be value-added partners and achieve differentiated outcomes.
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Business Services
• Tech-Enabled Services
• Commercial Services
• Distribution & Logistics
• Professional Services
• Software as a Service -
Industrial
• Engineered Products
• Electronic Components
• Motion & Flow Control
• Industrial Services -
Consumer
• Residential Services
• Automotive Aftermarket
• Food & Ingredients
• Consumer Products -
Medical Technology
• Components & Systems
• Consumables
• Life Science Instruments
Transaction Structures
Control investments in:
Growth equity
Management buyouts
Seller liquidity events and recapitalizations
Divestitures and carve-outs
Geographies
Platforms based in the U.S. or Canada
Add-ons worldwide