Bram Capital Partners

Bram Capital is a private investment firm focused on partnering with exceptional businesses in the lower middle-market.

Partners in Growth

We are passionate about building, advising, and investing in exceptional companies. Bram Capital’s founders are seasoned owner-operators and investors who understand what it means and takes to serve as trusted advisers and value-added partners.

As collaborative partners, we bring unique advantages to our portfolio companies and management teams – flexible capital, deep expertise and industry relationships, and transformative strategic and operational capabilities.

Investment Strategy

We leverage our world-class industry experience and domain expertise to invest in and partner with high-potential businesses on a selective basis.

General Characteristics

We target privately-held companies in the United States and Canada. Ideal target opportunities include those with potential for sales growth and operating improvements. We will also assess special situations, including distressed assets and carve-outs, on a selective basis.

Financial Characteristics

Bram Capital typically invests in controlling-equity or influential minority positions in companies with revenues of $20M – $150M. We will evaluate and invest in larger opportunities on a selective basis.

Operating Parameters & Dynamics

We routinely target opportunities with potential for sales growth and operating improvements, ideally those that can benefit from our expertise in financial management, analytics, and operations. We focus on sustainable industry dynamics and avoid industries with short product life cycles, such as leading-edge technologies and high fashion.

Sector Focus

Bram Capital invests in differentiated businesses that are well-positioned to compete and grow. While we invest in lower middle-market companies across a range of sectors, we have considerable experience across the healthcare, consumer, and industrials and distribution sectors.

Healthcare

Our team has deep industry experience and expertise in healthcare services. We believe in enduring industry dynamics that support investments, including increased consumerism, demographic shifts, and insulation from economic shocks. We focus across a broad set of attractive sub-verticals and business models, including multi-unit retail healthcare (dental, vision, veterinary, physical therapy, dermatology, urgent care, and fertility), physician group practices and ambulatory surgical centers, healthcare staffing firms, healthcare IT, and telehealth.

Consumer

We seek to partner with management teams to build category leaders in a number of consumer-oriented industries. We believe in the staying power of innovative brands that are synchronized with emerging industry trends and well-positioned to capitalize on the continuous changes in consumer trends. Our team has experience in branded consumer products and services, multi-unit retail and restaurants, home service providers, and education, including independent schools, e-learning, training, credentialing, and certification services.

Industrials & Distribution

We have an established track-record of investing in, advising, and managing value-added wholesale trade and distribution businesses, particularly those that benefit from our deep expertise in complex data management and analytics to support profitable growth. We believe that well-run and well-led distribution businesses can identify and deliver insightful solutions for both their suppliers and their customers.

Our Team

Bram Capital was founded by experienced founders, operators, and buy-and-build investors. Our team is deep and diverse – our professionals have significant experience as founders, CEOs, CFOs, operators, investors, advisers, and industry experts. From expertise in complex data management and analytics to robust experience executing and integrating add-on acquisitions within platforms, our team is well-equipped to support our portfolio companies in realizing their full potential. Additionally, our proprietary network of operating partners and experts brings significant expertise and experience to our portfolio company management teams.

Leadership Team