AFM Capital Partners

Overview

AFM Capital Partners is an operationally driven private investment firm specializing in control investments in middle-market companies across the United States. The firm partners with growth-oriented businesses and experienced management teams to provide strategic guidance, capital resources, and deep operational expertise, aiming to create significant long-term value. AFM Capital focuses on sectors such as Advanced Industrials, Consumer Goods, and Business Services, targeting companies with revenues between $10 million and $125 million and EBITDA between $3 million and $12 million. The firm's investment approach emphasizes control equity investments, private company buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and divestitures, with a preference for family or founder-owned businesses, distressed or underperforming businesses, and those with a differentiated product or service offering. AFM Capital's team comprises seasoned executives with decades of leadership experience and a proven track record in middle-market investing, collaborating closely with management teams to set strategic goals and priorities, generate incremental value creation, and provide opportunities for participation in equity ownership. The firm's flexible transaction structures emphasize speed, certainty, and transparent relationships, aiming to unlock long-term value and pursue growth through strategic planning, operational excellence, commercial excellence, financial sponsorship, and add-on acquisitions. AFM Capital's portfolio includes investments in companies such as True Essence Foods, Inc., a food technology firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, which utilizes the firm's support to scale its technologies and expand its footprint by licensing innovative food and beverage solutions. The firm's investment criteria include North American headquarters, EBITDA between $3 million to $12 million, revenues between $10 million to $125 million, a growing or underserved market, an identifiable value creation plan, and sustainable, recurring revenues. AFM Capital's approach is to make long-term control investments, partnering with management teams to provide hands-on support in order to accelerate value capture and competitive advantage, working closely with management to set strategic goals and priorities to generate incremental value creation, while providing the opportunity for participation in equity ownership. The firm's team has multiple decades of combined experience building, operating, and growing world-class companies to achieve significant long-term value, collaborating with leadership to achieve the company's vision, competitive advantage, and market potential, and building value through an industry-driven thesis and value creation playbook. AFM Capital's value-added expertise spans strategy, sales & marketing, operations, finance, human capital, and supply chain, with flexible transaction structures emphasizing speed, certainty, and transparent relationships, aiming to unlock long-term value and pursue growth through strategic planning, operational excellence, commercial excellence, financial sponsorship, and add-on acquisitions.

Investment Focus

• North American headquarters
• EBITDA between $3 million and $12 million
• Revenues between $10 million and $125 million
• Growing or underserved market
• Identifiable value creation plan
• Sustainable, recurring revenues

Portfolio Companies