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Latest vehicle n/a
0 vehicles · 1 principal · 17 observations
Mandate updated Sep 22, 2026
Why this kind
- for: 7 announced transactions as an independent sponsor
before the classifier: Independent sponsor
What they claim, and what they have done
Observed
- 5 platform or control deals, Sep 1, 2015 to Feb 1, 2022
- 1 add-ons bought by its portfolio companies
- 1 recapitalizations, 0 minority stakes
- Platform targets by state: WA 1, CO 1, MN 1
Claimed on its own website
No buy criteria were read from its website.
What the filings and deals add up to
- Sectors transacted
- Specialty distribution (2); 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.
- Repeat relationshipM•••• C•••••• P••••••• has financed 4 observed A••••• C•••••• M••••••••• transactions (2017 to 2022).Roles: capital provider, equity coinvest, equity provider, lender, mezzanine, subordinated debt and equity
- Feb 1, 2022P••••• F•••••••• I••meritcapital.com
- Apr 11, 2019C•••••• B•••••• L••meritcapital.com
- Jun 16, 2017N••••• H••••••• L••outdoorsportswire.com
- N••••• H••••••no URL
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.
The most recent deal of theirs we could classify by sector closed Feb 1, 2022, outside the two-year window this list reads.
Read from the sectors this firm has actually bought in: specialty distribution (2), manufacturing (1).
What have they done
Platform and control deals (5)
- Feb 1, 2022Platform acquisitionconfidence 90%M•••• C•••••• P••••••• · Equity providerM•••• C•••••• P••••••• · Lender
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) meritcapital.com - Apr 11, 2019Platform acquisitionconfidence 75%M•••• C•••••• P••••••• · Equity providerM•••• C•••••• P••••••• · Lender
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) meritcapital.com - Sep 1, 2015Platform acquisitionconfidence 90%A••••• C•••••• M••••••••• acquired C••••••••• L••••• C•••••• ••••• A•• B••••••• C••••••• (Stillwater, MN)
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) republicaneagle.com - n/aPlatform acquisitionconfidence 65%
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) outdoorsportswire.com - n/aPlatform acquisitionconfidence 65%
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) outdoorsportswire.com
Add-ons (1)About add-onsBought by one of its portfolio companies. The announcement names the portfolio company as the buyer; these are not presented as deals the sponsor selected.
- Aug 6, 2025Add onconfidence 80%
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) businessnc.com
Recapitalizations (1)
- Jun 16, 2017Recapitalizationconfidence 90%M•••• C•••••• P••••••• · Capital provider
••• Locked
DFX analyst research (General-assisted, every claim URL-cited) outdoorsportswire.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
- R•••••• G••••••Managing Partner
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Entity kind | Independent sponsor firm | Inference | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL |
| Entity kind | Unknown investment entity | 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 |
| 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 |
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