Align Capital Partners

What is Align Capital Partners?

Align Capital Partners (ACP) is a growth-oriented private equity firm headquartered at 3401 Tuttle Road, Suite 250, Shaker Heights, Ohio, 44122, United States.

They focus on partnering with business owners and management teams to create shared success and drive substantial growth.

ACP manages $1.7 billion in committed capital and operates with investment teams in Cleveland and Dallas, showcasing expertise in equity with specialties including expansion, management buyouts and leveraged buyouts (MBO/LBO), recapitalization, corporate divestiture, and ownership transition.

As a private equity fund, ACP has assets under management totaling approximately $325 million and targets lower-middle market companies for control investments. Their preferred sectors encompass software and tech-enabled services, professional business services, industrial services, specialty manufacturing, and distribution.

By investing in these sectors, ACP seeks to accelerate data and technology adoption, offer outsourced technical or performance-oriented advisory services, necessary maintenance, repair, safety, or compliance services, as well as the production or distribution of technical products with consumable or recurring demand profiles.

They aim to be great partners while creating great outcomes by investing strategically in people, processes, and technology early in the partnership.

ACP prides itself on bringing decades of big-firm experience with a tailored approach to small company growth needs, serving as an active partner to help drive exceptional shared outcomes. Their strategy involves making strategic investments in companies to help them grow far beyond what they could achieve on their own, often in business services, technology, specialty manufacturing, and distribution.

What they say:

We are a private equity firm focused on fostering business expansion.

What we look for: We invest in growth-oriented companies.