Private Equity Firms in Illinois
31 mid-market firms headquartered in Illinois. Sector focus, check size, and investment criteria for each, drawn from the firms' own published materials.
- Akoya Capital
Akoya runs a sector-leader model out of Chicago, pairing executive partners with industrial, distribution, specialty chemicals, and packaging deals.
- Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company (BPOC)
BPOC is one of Chicago's longest-running pure-play healthcare investors, managing $1.7B.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chicago Pacific Founders
A healthcare investor built by former operators around two themes: care delivery and serving the aging population.
- CORE Industrial Partners
A Chicago firm with $1.58B raised, buying manufacturing, industrial technology, and industrial services companies up to $20M EBITDA.
- Cressey & Company
A Chicago healthcare institution.
- 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.
- Frontenac Company
A Chicago firm investing through a CEO1ST model: it identifies proven executives first, then buys companies for them to run.
- Growth Catalyst Partners
A Chicago firm buying information, marketing, and tech-enabled services companies with $3M to $7M of EBITDA.
- Industrial Opportunity Partners
An Evanston firm deploying $15M to $100M into manufacturing and value-added distribution companies with $5M to $50M of EBITDA.
- InvestBev
A Chicago specialist in adult beverage: brands, infrastructure, and even inventory financing for aging spirits.
- Invision Capital
A Chicago firm investing $2M to $50M in manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses generally under $30M 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.
- 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.
- May River Capital
A Chicago firm investing $30M to $90M in industrial growth businesses: flow control, instrumentation, precision equipment, and technical services with $4M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Merit Capital Partners
A Chicago firm with $2.5B+ invested, providing junior capital and equity to manufacturing, distribution, and services companies from $4M of EBITDA, with checks starting at $20M.
- New Harbor Capital
A Chicago firm investing $10M to $40M in tech-enabled services, healthcare, and education companies with $2M to $15M of EBITDA.
- Onward Capital
A Chicago-area firm investing in industrial manufacturing and value-added distribution companies with $4M to $15M of EBITDA.
- ParkerGale Capital
A Chicago firm buying founder-owned B2B software companies with $2M to $10M of EBITDA and $10M to $30M+ of ARR.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prospect Partners
A Chicago firm buying niche manufacturing, distribution, and specialty services companies with $3M to $10M of EBITDA.
- 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.
- 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.
- Silver Oak Services Partners
An Evanston firm investing $15M to $150M per platform exclusively in services: healthcare, business, and consumer.
- 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.
- Tercera
A Chicago growth firm built for one niche: cloud consulting and IT services firms that implement major SaaS platforms, investing $5M to $20M in companies with $5M to $50M of revenue.
- TJM Capital Partners
A boutique Chicago firm doing operationally intensive deals in manufacturing and services companies up to $7M of EBITDA, investing $2M to $10M+ per transaction.
- Wind Point Partners
A Chicago firm buying consumer products, industrial products, and business services companies with $10M to $75M of EBITDA.