May River Capital
MediumFirm Overview
May River Capital focuses on lower middle-market industrial growth businesses, targeting high-performing companies that can benefit from operational and strategic resources. The firm invests in businesses with differentiated value propositions, niche market leadership, and high engineering content or proprietary processes.
May River Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm that has focused exclusively on lower middle-market industrial growth businesses since 2012. The firm targets platform investments with EBITDA between $4 million and $15 million, and equity investment sizes ranging from $30 million to $90 million.
The firm seeks to partner with companies exhibiting differentiated margins, global revenue growth prospects, and strong customer value propositions. Its approach emphasizes a culture of partnership and collaboration to help businesses scale, optimize, and thrive through the application of operational and strategic resources.
Core focus areas include engineered products, systems, and instrumentation; advanced manufacturing; technical industrial services; and specialty industrial distribution. The firm typically looks for companies with demanding end-market requirements, such as certification or regulatory compliance, and those operating in sectors with strong macroeconomic tailwinds.
Leadership
Portfolio on record
- Unclassified15 of 15
15 portfolio companies on record in the index, grouped by sector hub.
15 companies on record, more than 28% of the 405 firms in the index.
Portfolio Companies
| Company | Sector | Status | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akona Process Solutions | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Boston Centerless | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Cashco | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Dickson | Not on record | Exited | Not on record |
| GCM | Not on record | Current | Not on record |
| Hunt Valve | Not on record | Current | Not on record |
| Industrial Flow Solutions | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| NSL Analytical | Not on record | Current | Not on record |
| PaperTech | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Parameter | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Precision Roll Solutions | Not on record | Current | Not on record |
| Pride Engineering | Not on record | Current | Not on record |
| Security Engineered Machinery | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Tusk Industrial | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
| Unibloc Hygienic Technologies | Not on record | Current | Visit ↗ |
Firms that also back May River Capital's companies
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Arcline1 shared company
Avista Capital Partners1 shared company
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