Food & Beverage Private Equity Firms
31 mid-market firms that invest in food & beverage companies. Each profile covers check size, target EBITDA, strategy, and add-on appetite, sourced from the firms' own published criteria.
- 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.
- Boyne Capital
A Miami firm targeting $3M to $15M EBITDA companies under $100M of revenue across business services, healthcare, consumer, and niche manufacturing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Entrepreneurial Equity Partners
Chicago food and beverage specialists with $1.7B under management, investing $25M to $150M in private label, contract manufacturing, and foodservice businesses.
- 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.
- 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.
- Guardian Capital Partners
A Wayne, Pennsylvania firm taking control of food and beverage and non-discretionary services companies with $4M to $20M 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.
- LaSalle Capital
A Chicago firm concentrated on lower-middle-market food and beverage: manufacturing, B2B supply chain, and agriculture-adjacent businesses with $2M to $15M of EBITDA.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sequel Holdings
A Dallas firm making control investments in profitable lower-middle-market food and beverage businesses above $5M of EBITDA.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.