Gainline Differentiators
We Strive to be the Easy Button for Founder and Family-owned Businesses
Comfort with Complexity
Performance Driven by Professionalization
Primarily
<$250MM
Enterprise Values
Primarily
$5MM - $50MM
EBITDA
Primarily
U.S.
Geography
Transaction Types
- Buyouts and Management Buyouts
- Recapitalizations
- Growth Equity
- Corporate carveouts and divestitures
- Add-on acquisitions
Representative Industries
- Business Services
- Niche Manufacturing
- Consumer
- Logistics and Transportation Services
The Gainline Strategy
Strong Fundamentals
Focus on businesses with strong fundamentals with attractive end markets.
First institutional capital
Emphasis on opportunities where our involvement can make a difference. We seek to professionalize businesses using our value creation playbook.
Control-oriented investments
Business services, consumer, and niche manufacturing sectors.
Middle market platforms
Generally, North America-based middle market platforms with $5-50 million in EBITDA.
Intermediaries
We’re a reliable, trustworthy partner for you and your clients—bringing deep experience across a wide range of transactions and situations. We strive to be the “easy button” for founders and families looking for a capital partner. We pride ourselves on being responsive, honoring our commitments, and delivering certainty of close.
Executives & Founders
We take a true partnership approach when backing founders, entrepreneurs, and operators. With a 30-year track record of helping exceptional management teams build lasting equity value, our results are both distinguished and referenceable.
Limited Partners
We are disciplined stewards of capital, guided by a clearly defined and differentiated investment strategy. We apply it with conviction to grow both our limited partners’ capital and our own.
