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Latest vehicle n/a
0 vehicles · 4 principals · 12 observations
Mandate updated Sep 22, 2026
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In the firm's own words, from r•••••••••.com.
Why this kind
- for Independent sponsor firm: 1 announced transaction as buyer
before the classifier: Sponsor candidate
What they claim, and what they have done
Observed
- 0 platform or control deals
- 0 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
- 1 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
Claimed on its own website
- Sectors: Industrial manufacturing, Business services, Specialty distribution“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- EBITDA: $3M to $15M“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- Revenue: $10M to $125M“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- Enterprise value: $10M to $100M, $3M to $50M“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- Geography (unaudited quote): United States, Canada“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- Control (unaudited quote): yes“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
- Add-ons (unaudited quote): yes“••• Locked” r•••••••••.com
What the filings and deals add up to
- Sectors transacted
- Industrial manufacturing (1)Factvertical of the acquired targets· 85%· DFX's own graph
How do we know
Verified sponsor. Evidence identifies a firm: a publisher named it as the buyer in an announced transaction, a law firm or capital partner page names it as an independent sponsor, or its own site says so.
Nothing on this page comes from a website claim unless it is labelled as such with the URL.
Who has financed themWhat these counts meanCounts are the financings DFX has read in announcements. Most come from lenders' own deal archives, which list a lender's repeat deals with a sponsor but not the sponsor's deals with other lenders, so a repeat relationship shows where one lender publishes and is not a rate at which sponsors return to a lender. Counts undercount and record past financing; DFX does not predict who will finance a deal.
No capital provider has been observed financing this sponsor in an announcement yet.
Who finances deals like theirsHow this is rankedRanked by deals read in these sectors, not by fit: this is the capital that shows up in announcements around firms like this one, which is a place to start a list and not a prediction about who will finance the next deal.
DFX has not observed these firms together on any transaction in our coverage. That is a statement about what DFX has read, not about the firms: a deal that was never announced, or announced without naming its capital, cannot appear here.
Coverage behind this list: 10 providers observed financing sponsors in this sector · 1 of this firm's own deals read in them · most recent of theirs observed Sep 9, 2026.
- seen as capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider, lender
- seen as lender, mezzanine
- seen as capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider, lender
- seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, senior debt
- seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, mezzanine
- seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, senior debt
- seen as equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, mezzanine
- seen as lender, senior debt
- seen as capital provider, equity provider, lender, mezzanine
- seen as capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider, lender
Read from the sectors this firm has actually bought in: manufacturing (1).
What have they done
Recapitalizations (1)
- Jan 23, 2025Recapitalizationconfidence 90%
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DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) myemail.constantcontact.com
No vehicles linked.
What appears to be their current activity
No vehicle filed in the last 12 months; latest filing n/a, first observed n/a.
Principals, from the firm's own site
- K•••••• L• A••Founder & Managing Director
- C••• A• S••••••Partner & Managing Director
- J•••••• S• B••••Vice President
- S•••••• K• F•••••Chief Administrative Officer
Team, as the firm lists it
- J••• O•••••Senior Associate
Advisors and operating networkWho these people areNamed on the firm's site under an advisor, board or network heading, or with a title at another organisation. They advise the firm; they do not run it.
- J••• A• S••••••Retired SVP, Strategy & Development W.W. Grainger
- R•••••• E• B•••••President, Chief Executive
- L••• B•••••Founder, YOLO Partners
- M••• A• B••••••Managing Partner, MAB Capital Management
- M•••••• C•••Advisor, Corporate Development
- F•••• S••••••Founder, Principio Capital, LLC
- J•••• T• D••••••••Founding Partner Next Stage Trajectory
- T•• B••••Founder, VillageMD
- J• P•••• G••••••Founder, Agromeris
- L•••• M•••••Founder, M••••• HR Consulting
Identity linksWhat an identity link isEntities that may be this sponsor under another name, each with the confidence and the signals behind it. A link is not a merge: nothing on this page is borrowed from a linked entity.
Evidence
| Fact | Value | Class | Source |
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| Description | ••• Locked | Fact | Independent sponsor firm websites (the firm's own contact and team pages) r•••••••••.com |
| Entity kind | Unknown investment entity | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Hq location | Chicago, IL | Fact | Independent sponsor firm websites (the firm's own contact and team pages) r•••••••••.com |
| Investment thesis | ••• Locked | Fact | Independent sponsor firm websites (the firm's own contact and team pages) r•••••••••.com |
| Mandate | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Mandate | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Stated buy box | ••• Locked | Fact | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) r•••••••••.com |
| Stated buy box | ••• Locked | Fact | DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) r•••••••••.com |
| Website | ••• Locked | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) r•••••••••.com |