Consumer Private Equity Firms
64 mid-market firms that invest in consumer companies. Each profile covers check size, target EBITDA, strategy, and add-on appetite, sourced from the firms' own published criteria.
- AUA Private Equity Partners
AUA invests $40M to $75M in family-owned consumer companies, with a stated focus on businesses serving the U.S.
- Audax Private Equity
One of the most prolific buy-and-build investors in private equity, with roughly $19B in AUM.
- Benford Capital Partners
A Chicago firm buying $3M to $20M EBITDA food, consumer, and ingredients businesses, including categories like pet food and confections that bigger funds overlook.
- 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.
- Brand Velocity Group
A New York consumer specialist that buys brands with $10M+ EBITDA and applies a marketing-led playbook.
- Branford Castle Partners
A New York firm hunting below the radar: specialty manufacturing, industrials, and transportation companies up to $15M EBITDA with a $3M to $10M sweet spot.
- 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.
- Brookside Equity Partners
A Stamford holding-company-style investor in manufacturing, food ingredients, and services businesses with $5M to $25M+ of EBITDA.
- Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. (BRS)
BRS has been doing consumer and multi-unit deals in New York since 1995, from restaurant groups to specialty distribution, across a wide $1M to $25M EBITDA range.
- Brynwood Partners
Brynwood buys orphaned and under-loved food and consumer brands from large corporates, then rebuilds them, with enterprise values from $25M up to $1B.
- CapitalSpring
Nashville-based and restaurant-obsessed.
- Castle Island Partners
A Newton, Massachusetts firm buying industrial manufacturing, distribution, and logistics companies from $1M to $20M of EBITDA.
- Center Rock Capital Partners
Chicago industrial specialists with an appetite for complexity: Center Rock will underwrite up to $50M EBITDA including negative-EBITDA turnarounds in $50M to $500M revenue industrial businesses.
- Centre Partners
One of New York's veteran mid-market shops, focused on founder- and family-owned consumer and healthcare companies with $5M to $40M 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..
- Consumer Growth Partners
A White Plains specialist in specialty retail and branded consumer products with at least $2M of EBITDA.
- Encore Consumer Capital
A San Francisco consumer specialist investing $5M to $50M in food, beverage, personal care, and pet businesses with $10M to $150M of revenue.
- Forward Consumer Partners
A Greenwich consumer specialist with a $500M second fund covering food, beverage alcohol, personal care, pet, and enthusiast brands.
- Frontenac Company
A Chicago firm investing through a CEO1ST model: it identifies proven executives first, then buys companies for them to run.
- Garnett Station Partners
A New York firm built on multi-site consumer: restaurants, car washes, health services, franchise platforms.
- 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.
- Gryphon Investors
A San Francisco firm with $9B+ AUM investing $50M to $500M across consumer, business services, healthcare, industrial growth, and software.
- High Road Capital Partners
A New York firm buying niche manufacturing, distribution, and services companies with $1M to $10M of EBITDA.
- ICV Partners
A New York firm investing in business services, non-discretionary consumer services, and food companies with $5M to $15M of EBITDA.
- InvestBev
A Chicago specialist in adult beverage: brands, infrastructure, and even inventory financing for aging spirits.
- Kainos Capital
A Dallas firm managing ~$2B exclusively in food and consumer products.
- KarpReilly
A Greenwich growth firm investing $10M to $25M in consumer brands, restaurants, and omnichannel retail.
- Kian Capital
A Charlotte and Atlanta firm with $1.1B under management, investing $15M to $40M in consumer, services, and distribution businesses with $3M to $15M of EBITDA.
- 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.
- Mangrove Equity Partners
A Tampa firm with an internal operating team that works alongside founders of $3M to $10M EBITDA manufacturing, service, and distribution companies.
- Martis Capital
A Washington DC and San Francisco healthcare-only firm with a $779M fourth fund covering services, technology, and consumer wellness.
- 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+.
- Monogram Capital Partners
A Los Angeles consumer and retail specialist investing up to $50M+ in category-leading brands with $5M to $250M of revenue.
- Montage Partners
A Scottsdale firm investing in technology, industrial, healthcare, and consumer businesses with $1.5M to $7M of EBITDA.
- NexPhase Capital
A New York firm with $2.6B raised, running thesis-driven plays across healthcare, software, and consumer.
- Nonantum Capital Partners
A Boston firm with a $575M second fund buying consumer, restaurant, and diversified lower-middle-market businesses with enterprise values of $50M to $500M.
- North Castle Partners
A Greenwich firm that has spent 25 years on one theme: healthy, active, sustainable living.
- Palladium Equity Partners
A New York firm with ~$3.6B AUM investing $50M to $150M in consumer, services, industrial, and healthcare companies with $10M to $75M of EBITDA.
- PCG Investors
A Los Gatos firm investing $5M to $50M in consumer health, wellness, and healthy-living businesses with roughly $10M to $100M of revenue.
- Peak Rock Capital
An Austin firm with $7B+ AUM writing equity checks from $50M up to $1.5B across consumer, technology, industrial, and healthcare deals, including complex carve-outs and family transitions.
- Prairie Capital
A Chicago firm with a $450M seventh fund investing $25M to $45M+ in consumer, food, packaging, and restaurant businesses with $4M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Prelude Growth Partners
A New York consumer growth firm with a $600M third fund, investing $15M to $75M in high-growth beauty, wellness, and food brands.
- Prospect Partners
A Chicago firm buying niche manufacturing, distribution, and specialty services companies with $3M to $10M of EBITDA.
- Riata Capital Group
A Dallas firm with $1B+ AUM investing $25M to $150M in consumer, business, and healthcare services companies with $5M to $30M of EBITDA.
- Savory Fund
A Salt Lake City restaurant specialist that partners with emerging fast-casual brands and scales them with an in-house team covering everything from site selection to supply chain.
- Saw Mill Capital
A Briarcliff Manor firm investing $15M to $100M per platform in engineered products, specialty distribution, and industrial services companies with $3M to $25M of EBITDA.
- Sheridan Capital Partners
A Chicago healthcare firm with a $575M third fund buying provider services, healthcare IT, and outsourced services businesses.
- Silver Oak Services Partners
An Evanston firm investing $15M to $150M per platform exclusively in services: healthcare, business, and consumer.
- Stellex Capital Management
A New York and London firm investing $75M to $150M in industrial, consumer, and food businesses, with real appetite for operational complexity, carve-outs, and turnarounds.
- Swander Pace Capital
A San Francisco consumer specialist that has bought food, wellness, and home products companies for three decades across seven funds.
- 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.
- Thompson Street Capital Partners
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- Topspin Consumer Partners
A Mamaroneck firm investing $10M to $50M in consumer companies across wellness, personal care, food, pet, and children's products with EBITDA up to $25M.
- 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.
- VMG Partners
A San Francisco consumer growth firm that backed Justin's, KIND, and Quest at early institutional stages.
- Wind Point Partners
A Chicago firm buying consumer products, industrial products, and business services companies with $10M to $75M of EBITDA.
- Yellow Wood Partners
A Boston consumer specialist with ~$2.6B AUM buying personal care and beauty brands with $15M to $100M of EBITDA, including corporate carve-outs like Chapstick and Suave.