Evolution Capital Partners is a small business private equity fund investing growth equity nationwide in Second Stage Companies generating annual free cash flow of at least $500,000. Evolution specializes in helping entrepreneurial businesses transform their organizations by providing a foundation for growth through its process, The Five Pillars of Business FreedomSMSM, leveraging the time and energy of the business owner.
Typical Investment Situations
- Management has a vision for the company, but the current owners may be tired and happy with a profitable lifestyle business (Management buyout)
- A partner may not share the vision you have for the company, so looking for capital to buyout your partner so that you can scale the business to its full potential
- Insufficient working capital to hire identified “dream team” to scale the business
- Too much debt prohibiting the growth of the company
Characteristics of the business and visionary/owner/management
- At least $500K of EBITDA on a TTM basis
- Vision and Plan to grow the business to at least $5,000,0000 in EBITDA over the coming 3-5 years
- Willingness to hire a cohesive team
- Willingness to give up board control (at least temporarily)
- Desire to implement an operating process to implement a culture of transparency and accountability
- Desire to develop great financials and reporting processes
- Commitment to have a partner
A Different Kind of Private Equity