Guardian Capital Partners

About The Fund

Guardian Capital Partners is a private equity firm that specializes in control investments in the lower middle market, targeting manufacturing and service companies primarily in suburban Philadelphia. They focus on partnering with management teams and offering both business solutions and liquidity solutions to sellers, often dealing with family-owned businesses or non-core divisions of larger corporations. They typically look for companies with revenues ranging between $20 million and $100 million and an EBITDA of $3 million to $9 million. Their investment strategy zeroes in on U.S.-based companies in industries such as Consumer Products, Niche Manufacturing, and Specialty Business Services. Guardian's approach emphasizes partnership, value creation, and achieving a competitive advantage through investment in people and business processes. They adhere to core principles that include being disciplined and strategic, resolute in their mission, flexible and fair in dealings, active and empowering towards management, accountable for results, and patient yet opportunistic when making investment decisions. The firm has grown substantially, as evidenced by the successful closure of its second fund, Guardian Capital Partners Fund II, L.P., which was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap of $153.5 million in less than a year, a sizeable increase from the debut fund of over $50 million. The firm's investment sectors now span a wide range including Software (Web Marketplace SaaS, etc.), IT & TMT, BioTech, Business Solutions, FinTech &, Financial Services, Hardware & Manufacturing, Energy, Retail & E-Commerce, CleanTech, AI & Big Data, HealthTech & Fitness, Blockchain & Cryptos, Food & Beverage, Material Science, Medical Devices & Hospital Services, Aerospace & Defense, Investment Management, and Mobile.