Bison Capital makes growth equity investments in fundamentally strong middle-market companies, to finance their growth, balance sheet restructuring, and/or recapitalization. Our primary focus is to invest in situations in which the founding entrepreneur or management team retains a significant ownership interest.  We use a flexible approach in structuring our investments in order to best meet the goals of our management partners.
The principal characteristics of companies we seek to invest in include:

  • Entrepreneurial management teams looking to grow their businesses
  • Revenues of $20 million to $500 million
  • EBITDA greater than $5 million
  • Capital requirements of $10 million to $30 million
  • Attractive free cash flow dynamics
  • Limited risk of technological obsolescence
  • Significant on-going management ownership