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.
Consumer and branded-products sponsors underwrite on retention, repeat rate, and channel economics, not just top-line growth. Buyers will test whether your active-customer number means the same thing across DTC, wholesale, and marketplace, and whether promotions are propping up the revenue line. Reconciling customer and revenue data by channel is the difference between a clean process and a repriced one.
Most are headquartered in New York, Illinois, California. Published EBITDA targets: 3 at Under $5M, 20 at $5M-$15M, 14 at $15M-$40M, 7 at $40M+. 44 state an active add-on programme.
- 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.
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