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73 Best & Most Active Ohio Private Equity Firms

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Private Equity Firms play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Ohio Private Equity Firms. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.

This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.

Top Ohio Private Equity Firms

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.


River Cities Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

River Cities is a growth equity firm investing in healthcare at the lower end of the middle market.


Fort Washington Capital Partners Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed

Fort Washington Capital Partners Group, a private equity and venture capital firm, invests in seed-, early-, and late-stage companies.


Primus Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Primus is a growth-oriented private equity firm focused on investing in leading healthcare, software, and technology-enabled companies.


Evolution Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Evolution Capital operates as a private equity fund investing growth equity nationwide.


Resilience Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Resilience invests in niche-oriented manufacturing, value-added distribution and business service companies.


Equity

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Equity specializes in providing complete, professional real estate development, brokerage, construction, and property management services.


Morgenthaler Private Equity

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Morgenthaler Private Equity focuses on lower middle market leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and build-up investments.


Cyprium Investment Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Debt, Private Equity

Cyprium Partners (Cyprium) is a private investment firm that provides mezzanine and equity capital to profitable, middle-market companies.


The Walnut Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

The Walnut Group consists of several diversified investment capital enterprises organized.


Orchard Holdings Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Orchard Holdings Group is an investment firm that invests non-institutional, private, family capital in businesses with long term potential.


Vora Ventures

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

Vora Ventures is a equity group that specializes in building innovative IT companies worldwide


George Gund Foundation

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

George Gund Foundation focuses on art, economic development, and community revitalization, education, environment, and human services.


RockWood Equity Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

RockWood Equity Partners is a private investment firm that focuses on investing in lower middle market companies.


Hauser Private Equity

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

Hauser Private Equity seeks direct co-investments and funds with strategic investment models that add operating leadership to its portfolio.


Edgewater Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Edgewater Capital is a private equity firm focused on the acquisition of lower, middle-market performance materials companies.


Kirtland Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Kirtland Capital Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.


MCM Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

MCM Capital Partners is a microcap private equity firm


CapitalWorks

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

CapitalWorks is a Midwestern and family-focused private equity firm that encourages knowledgeable investors to partner with us in finding.


White Oak Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

White Oak Partners is a private equity firm specializing in market sponsor of multifamily real estate investment funds.


Timber Bay Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Their flexible approach recognizes that every situation is unique.


Neyer Properties

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Neyer Properties is a real estate investment, land, and commercial development firm focusing on commercial real estate solutions.


Portal Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture

Portal Capital is a Cleveland-based private equity investment firm that specializes in small-market private equity investments in Life


Stonehenge Partners Inc.

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Stonehenge Partners directs the investment activities for approximately $700 million in mezzanine and equity commitments.


Synergy Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Synergy Capital Partners is a real estate acquisition and development specialists.


RKCA

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Investor Type: Angel Group, Investment Bank, Private Equity Firm, Syndicate, Venture Capital

Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture

RKCA is a comprehensive advisory and financing services for companies at any stage.


Brantley Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Brantley Partners is a middle market private equity firm focused on an investment strategy of making equity investments.


Qey Capital

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture

Qey Capital is a private equity firm that makes long-term investments with businesses that want to manage their multiple risks.


Kassel Equity Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Kassel Equity Group is a private equity and real estate investment firm.


Last Mile Investments

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Last Mile Investments is a real estate investment manager that is 100% focused on the retail real estate sector.


Oxer Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Oxer Capital is a lower middle market private equity mezzanine firm


Linsalata Capital Partners

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Linsalata Capital Partners is a private equity middle-market buyout firm.


The Connor Group

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

The Connor Group is a real estate investment firm that owns and operates luxury apartment communities.


Brixey & Meyer Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Brixey & Meyer Capital intersects financial services expertise, transactional experience and entrepreneurial passion to succeed.


Boyd Watterson Asset Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Boyd Watterson Asset Management is an independent investment advisor that specializes in fixed income, real estate, and equities.


Weinberg Capital Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

The Weinberg Capital Group is in the business of control investing in well-positioned middle market companies.


Premier Development Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Premier is a real estate firm that designs, builds, constructs, and develops commercial real estate properties.


Watervale Equity Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Watervale Equity Partners is a private equity investors dedicated to partnering with owners and management teams in the lower middle market.


Kaulig Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Kaulig Capital is a Private equity and real estate investment firm


Liberty Development Company

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Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Liberty Development Company is a real estate development, management, and construction company.


East Chop Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

East Chop Capital is a Black-owned private equity firm.


ASMC Holdings

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

ASMC Holdings is one of the leading companies in commercial real estate.


Nationwide Mutual Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Late Stage Venture, Private Equity

Nationwide Mutual Capital, a private equity firm based in Columbus, invests in enterprise software, BPO, insurance, and financial services.


Ninth Street Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Ninth Street Capital is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in emerging growth and middle market companies.


Infinite Capital LLC

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Commerical real estate investment banking that provides private financial consulting and strategic advice to corporations and associations.


Blue Olive Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Blue Olive Partners is an investment, development, and growth acceleration.


PNC Erieview Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

PNC Erieview Capital seeks investments in the form of subordinated debt, preferred equity, common equity, or a combination.


Cleveland International Fund

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

CiF is a private equity fund that offers qualified foreign investors for a significant investment into a job-creating, domestic project.


MavenHill Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

MavenHill Capital is a lower middle market private equity firm that makes control investments in healthcare and industrial companies.


Capital Equity Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Capital Equity Group focuses on real estate ownership including acquisition analysis, capital formation, and property management.


Great Oak Funding

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Debt

Investment Stage:

Great Oak Funding is a financial service lender focused on providing funding to help businesses grow and expand.


Austin Capital Corporation

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Austin Capital Corporation is a private investment management company.


RedNest Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

RedNest assists small business owners and entrepreneurs in building companies and achieving their aspirations.


3Stone Advisors LLC

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

3Stone Advisors serves as general partner of the 3Stone Inflection Fund.


Eubel Brady & Suttman Asset Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Eubel Brady & Suttman Asset Management manages equity, balanced, and fixed income separate account strategies.


Green Harvest Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Green Harvest Capital provides investors with real estate exposure to compelling opportunities.


Freeland Ventures

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Freeland Ventures is a full-service real estate private equity fund that addresses the needs of modern investors nationwide.


Little Mountain Industries

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm, Venture Capital

Investment Stage:

Little Mountain Industries is a private equity firm that invests in manufacturing and industrial distribution companies.


Canal Holdings

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Canal Holdings is a private equity firm.


Sunder Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Sunder Capital provides financial management services and online securities trading.


Nascent Group Holdings llc.

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed

The mission of Nascent Group Holdings, LLC. is to focus on business ventures related to Energy, Technology and Real Estate.


Core Real Estate Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Core Real Estate Capital provides access to real estate investment opportunities to investors.


Solomon Global Holdings

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Solomon Global Holdings is a venture capital firm.


JWI Capital

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

JWI Capital, LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 2009 to acquire and actively manage microcap market companies.


Bruml Capital Corporation

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

BCC is one of Cleveland’s most experienced independent investment banking firms.


Cleveland Capital Management

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Cleveland Capital Management provides investment and advisory services to qualified investors and seeks to deliver above average returns.


JMTD Holdings

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed

JMTD Holdings is a private equity firm which provides growth capital and value-added partnership toe-commerce company’s.


Gates Group Capital Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Gates Group Capital Partners is a Cleveland, Ohio−based private equity firm that invests in lower middle market operating businesses.


Danville Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Danville Partners is a private equity firm.


Schueler Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage:

Schueler Group provides services in the areas of real estate, construction, development, and property management.


University Circle Investments

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Angel Group, Private Equity Firm, Syndicate

Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Non Equity Assistance, Post-Ipo

UCI actively manages long-term, risk-adjusted returns focusing on publicly traded equities.


Knowledge Investment Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Knowledge Investment Partners is a private equity firm specializing in investments in acquisitions.


SeedTrust Capital Group

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture

SeedTrust Capital Group is a VC firm focused on real estate, energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and etc startups.


Main Market Partners

Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter

Investor Type: Private Equity Firm

Investment Stage: Private Equity

Main Market Partners is a private equity and debt capital firm.

Written by Mark Kendall

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