Business Services Private Equity Firms
66 mid-market firms that invest in business services companies. Each profile covers check size, target EBITDA, strategy, and add-on appetite, sourced from the firms' own published criteria.
- Align Capital Partners
Align splits its team between Cleveland and Dallas and buys lower-middle-market companies across business services, industrial services, specialty manufacturing, and software.
- Argosy Private Equity
Argosy has been buying $3M to $10M EBITDA manufacturing and business services companies from its Philadelphia-area base for decades, with roughly $3.8B under management across its platform.
- Audax Private Equity
One of the most prolific buy-and-build investors in private equity, with roughly $19B in AUM.
- Bertram Capital
A Bay Area firm with an unusual in-house engineering group, Bertram Labs, that builds technology directly into its portfolio companies.
- Blue Point Capital Partners
Blue Point runs offices in Cleveland, Charlotte, and Seattle plus a Shanghai supply-chain team, which it uses as a genuine operating advantage for industrial companies with Asian sourcing.
- Blue Sea Capital
West Palm Beach firm investing $30M to $250M in healthcare services, healthcare IT, and outsourced services businesses with $5M to $30M of EBITDA.
- Boyne Capital
A Miami firm targeting $3M to $15M EBITDA companies under $100M of revenue across business services, healthcare, consumer, and niche manufacturing.
- Braemont Capital
A relationship-driven growth investor in Dallas with a ~$525M debut fund spanning business services, technology, and financial services.
- Bregal Partners
The North American lower-middle-market arm of the Bregal family, backing founder-owned consumer, multi-unit, food, and business services companies up to $75M of EBITDA.
- BV Investment Partners
One of the older tech-focused mid-market firms, Boston-based with a $2.5B latest fund, investing in tech-enabled business services, software, and IT services companies with $5M to $30M of EBITDA.
- CenterOak Partners
A Dallas firm investing $20M to $100M in industrial growth, specialty distribution, and outsourced industrial services companies with $5M to $35M of EBITDA.
- CIP Capital
A New York firm investing $25M to $125M in tech-enabled business services, business information, and knowledge services companies with $5M to $25M+ of EBITDA.
- Clearview Capital
A Stamford firm running a classic buy-and-build model on $5M to $25M EBITDA companies in business services, niche manufacturing, and distribution, with $30M to $125M of equity per platform and smaller checks for add-ons..
- Coalesce Capital
A newer New York firm with a $900M debut fund focused on human-capital-driven and tech-enabled services: compliance, facility services, HR outsourcing.
- Council Capital
A Nashville healthcare growth investor with a CEO Council model: several dozen proven healthcare executives who co-invest and open doors for portfolio companies.
- Excellere Partners
A Denver firm with an $875M fourth fund and a partnership-heavy model for founder transitions, spanning healthcare, business services, and industrials.
- Falfurrias Capital Partners
A Charlotte firm founded by former Bank of America executives, running both buyout ($5M to $50M EBITDA) and growth ($4M to $20M ARR) strategies across software, fintech, and information services.
- Frontenac Company
A Chicago firm investing through a CEO1ST model: it identifies proven executives first, then buys companies for them to run.
- Gallant Capital Partners
A Los Angeles firm founded by Gores Group alumni, taking control positions in technology, industrials, and business services companies up to $40M EBITDA.
- Gauge Capital
A Dallas-area firm that showed up in four of the five sectors this directory covers, which tells you what a true generalist looks like at this size.
- GenNx360 Capital Partners
A New York firm buying industrial services, manufacturing, transportation, and logistics companies with $5M to $35M of EBITDA.
- Growth Catalyst Partners
A Chicago firm buying information, marketing, and tech-enabled services companies with $3M to $7M of EBITDA.
- Gryphon Investors
A San Francisco firm with $9B+ AUM investing $50M to $500M across consumer, business services, healthcare, industrial growth, and software.
- Hidden Harbor Capital Partners
A Boca Raton firm with an $800M third fund buying industrial and business services companies with $5M to $30M of EBITDA.
- High Road Capital Partners
A New York firm buying niche manufacturing, distribution, and services companies with $1M to $10M of EBITDA.
- Huron Capital
A Detroit firm known for its ExecFactor model: partnering with executives to consolidate fragmented services industries.
- ICV Partners
A New York firm investing in business services, non-discretionary consumer services, and food companies with $5M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Iron Range Capital
A Chicago firm buying niche manufacturing and value-added distribution platforms with $3M to $20M of EBITDA, add-ons any size.
- L2 Capital Partners
A Devon, Pennsylvania firm buying consumer products and niche manufacturing businesses with $4M to $15M of EBITDA and $15M to $150M of revenue.
- LLR Partners
A Philadelphia growth firm investing $10M to $200M in software and tech-enabled companies across healthcare IT, fintech, edtech, and vertical SaaS.
- Marlin Equity Partners
A Los Angeles firm with $2.5B in recent commitments across a flagship and a dedicated lower-mid-market Heritage fund.
- Mason Wells
Milwaukee's mid-market standard-bearer, buying outsourced business services, engineered products, packaging, and consumer packaged goods companies with $5M to $30M of EBITDA and $25M to $300M of revenue.
- MidOcean Partners
A New York firm with $11B+ AUM investing $50M to $300M+ in consumer and business services companies with enterprise values from $150M to $750M+.
- Montage Partners
A Scottsdale firm investing in technology, industrial, healthcare, and consumer businesses with $1.5M to $7M of EBITDA.
- Mountaingate Capital
A Denver firm with $1.4B AUM building platforms in data-driven marketing services, analytics, and business services from $5M to $25M of EBITDA, with add-ons any size.
- New MainStream Capital
A New York firm (often shortened to NMS Capital) investing $25M to $75M in healthcare and business services companies with $5M to $25M of EBITDA.
- NMS Capital
A Beverly Hills firm (not to be confused with New York's New MainStream Capital) taking control of business services and healthcare services companies with $5M to $25M of EBITDA, investing $25M to $75M per deal..
- Pamlico Capital
A Charlotte firm with a $1.75B sixth fund investing $50M to $200M in software, information services, healthcare, and business services companies with $10M to $150M of revenue.
- Peninsula Capital Partners
A Detroit firm providing junior capital and equity: subordinated debt of $5M to $50M and equity up to $30M for companies from $3M of EBITDA.
- Pfingsten Partners
A Chicago firm that has run the same operationally-driven playbook on $3M to $12M EBITDA manufacturing, distribution, and services companies for thirty years, now on a $435M sixth fund.
- Pike Street Capital
A Seattle firm buying industrial technology, distribution, and specialty manufacturing companies with $4M to $20M of EBITDA.
- Renovus Capital Partners
A Wayne, Pennsylvania firm with $2B+ raised, buying knowledge and talent businesses: education, technology services, healthcare services, and professional services with entry EBITDA under $10M.
- RiverGlade Capital
A Chicago healthcare firm investing $15M to $100M in services businesses up to $20M of EBITDA: outsourced services, home-based care, behavioral health, pharma services.
- Riverwood Capital
A Menlo Park firm investing $25M to $250M+ in technology companies with $10M to $100M of ARR, global in reach with deep Latin America roots.
- Rotunda Capital Partners
A Bethesda and Chicago firm with $1.6B AUM buying value-added distribution, asset-light logistics, and industrial services platforms up to $50M of EBITDA.
- Sheridan Capital Partners
A Chicago healthcare firm with a $575M third fund buying provider services, healthcare IT, and outsourced services businesses.
- Shore Capital Partners
The most prolific microcap investor in the country, with ~$17B AUM and dedicated healthcare, food and beverage, business services, and industrial funds.
- Silversmith Capital Partners
A Boston growth firm with a $1.7B fifth fund investing $15M to $50M in SaaS, information services, and healthcare IT companies.
- Sole Source Capital
A Dallas firm founded by an ex-TPG industrial partner, targeting recession-resistant industrial subsectors.
- Southfield Capital
A Greenwich firm investing $20M to $125M in outsourced business services companies with $4M to $20M of EBITDA: commercial services, environmental services, logistics, and professional services.
- Spectrum Equity
A Boston and San Francisco growth firm with a $1.5B ninth fund investing $25M to $150M+ in internet-enabled software and information services businesses.
- Spire Capital
A New York firm investing $15M to $125M in tech-enabled business services, media, education, and communications companies from $2M of EBITDA.
- Stonehenge Partners
A Columbus firm investing $10M to $50M of flexible capital in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and business services companies.
- Sverica Capital Management
A Boston and San Francisco firm with a $750M sixth fund investing $25M to $75M in technology, business services, healthcare, and advanced industrial companies under $25M of EBITDA.
- Svoboda Capital Partners
A Chicago firm investing $10M to $25M in professional services, industrial and commercial services, and logistics businesses with $3M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Tecum Capital
A Pittsburgh-area firm running SBIC funds that provide mezzanine debt ($5M to $20M) and control equity for manufacturing, distribution, and services businesses with $2M to $10M of EBITDA.
- Tenex Capital Management
A New York firm with a $1.9B fourth fund investing $25M to $125M in industrials, services, and healthcare companies with $3M to $40M of EBITDA.
- The Capstreet Group
A Houston firm buying outsourced business services and industrial services companies with $3M to $15M of EBITDA.
- The Halifax Group
A Washington DC firm investing $40M to $80M in franchising, health and wellness, and outsourced services businesses with $8M to $30M of EBITDA.
- The Riverside Company
One of the largest small-company investors in the world, with strategies spanning micro-cap (under $10M EBITDA), capital appreciation ($10M to $35M), flexible capital, and software acceleration.
- Tonka Bay Equity Partners
A Minnetonka firm with a $200M fourth fund buying highly engineered manufacturing, distribution, and business services companies with $2M to $8M of EBITDA.
- Tregaron Capital
A Palo Alto firm investing $3M to $10M of equity and mezzanine in California-and-westward services, distribution, and mature software businesses.
- Trinity Hunt Partners
A Dallas growth firm with a $700M seventh fund investing $15M to $70M in services businesses with $2M+ EBITDA across healthcare, business, and consumer services.
- Trivest Partners
A Coral Gables firm and the oldest PE shop in the Southeast, with a strict rule: founder- and family-owned businesses only, no institutional sellers.
- TZP Group
A New York firm managing ~$2B across strategies, investing $10M to $100M in consumer and business services companies with $2M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Wind Point Partners
A Chicago firm buying consumer products, industrial products, and business services companies with $10M to $75M of EBITDA.