CID Capital

CID Capital's Private Equity Group makes majority investments in lower-middle-market companies with a strong history of consistent performance. Their focus is on companies that have the potential to grow significantly but have been constrained by lack of capital, operating systems, or management experience. CID provides the resources and capital to overcome these critical constraints.

Steve Cobb

Managing Director

37 past transactions

Wiseway Supply

Acquisition in 2022
Wiseway Supply is a distributor of electrical, plumbing, and lighting supplies, primarily serving small and midsize contractors in the Midwest. The company focuses on proactive order management and Jobsite product management, ensuring that customers receive the necessary materials efficiently. Additionally, Wiseway Supply offers lighting and energy audits, helping clients optimize their projects and reduce costs. Through a commitment to quality products and competitive pricing, Wiseway Supply aims to meet the diverse needs of its customer base.

LumiSource

Private Equity Round in 2022
LumiSource is a designer and supplier of home furniture, established in 1997 and headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The company focuses on Mid-Century, Industrial, and Modern designs, offering a diverse range of products across living, dining, office, and lighting categories. LumiSource caters to both retail chains and independent as well as online retailers, providing affordable furnishings suitable for various budgets.

Park Supply

Acquisition in 2022
Park Supply is a supplier and service provider specializing in plumbing products for both residential and commercial markets. The company offers a diverse range of products, including plumbing essentials, hardware, electrical supplies, pet supplies, and lawn and garden tools. By catering to homeowners, builders, and contractors, Park Supply aims to enhance kitchen and bath infrastructure, providing essential materials that meet the needs of various construction and renovation projects.

Corvette America

Acquisition in 2019
Corvette America is a manufactures auto interior components and parts. The Company offers brakes and brake lines, belts, cooling and fuel systems, doors, roof panels, steering wheels, tires, and wheels, as well as interior products, including armrests, headliners, mats, convertible tops, door panels, and seat backs.

Giftcraft

Private Equity Round in 2019
Giftcraft Ltd. is a Canadian company based in Brampton that specializes in designing, manufacturing, and distributing a wide range of decorative and giftware products. Their diverse product offerings include jewelry, seasonal items, outdoor and home decor, health and wellness products, and gourmet goods. Giftcraft aims to create joyful memories through its original and artist-driven items, which reflect customer tastes and current trends. The company serves retailers worldwide and operates showrooms in both Brampton, Canada, and Atlanta, Georgia.

ProSource Plumbing Supply

Private Equity Round in 2018
ProSource Plumbing Supply is a retailer of plumbing fixtures and related products catering to both commercial and residential markets in the United States. Founded in 1996 by Grover and Tonya Martin, the company started with a small team and has since expanded its operations to an 86,000-square-foot headquarters in Greenville, South Carolina. ProSource offers a range of products including faucets, gourmet kitchen fixtures, luxury bathroom accessories, cabinet hardware, and lighting fixtures, sourcing from reputable brands in the industry. With additional store locations in Spartanburg and Anderson, South Carolina, and Hendersonville, North Carolina, ProSource serves builders, decorators, contractors, and homeowners, providing high-quality products that enhance the aesthetics of homes and businesses.

Grandview Gallery

Acquisition in 2017
Grandview Gallery, LLC is a wholesale lighting company based in Memphis, Tennessee, specializing in residential lighting products and home decor. Founded in 2006, the company offers a diverse range of lighting styles, including traditional, glam, coastal, and farmhouse designs, along with related home accessories such as fixtures and pendants. Grandview Gallery caters to specialty retailers, online stores, and furniture retailers across the United States, providing them with curated product groups suited for retail and hospitality markets. The company operates showrooms in Memphis, Southaven, Mississippi, and High Point, North Carolina, showcasing its extensive lighting offerings to potential business partners.

BigMouth

Venture Round in 2016
BigMouth Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of unique lifestyle products, specializing in novelty items that cater to various occasions such as birthdays, graduations, holidays, and weddings. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, the company offers an extensive range of products, including drinking accessories, gnomes, inflatable pool toys, humorous gifts, and prank items. BigMouth products are designed to bring joy and laughter, making them popular choices for gifting. The company distributes its offerings through retail and online channels in the United States and works with international sales representatives to reach a broader audience.

BigMouth

Acquisition in 2016
BigMouth Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of unique lifestyle products, specializing in novelty items that cater to various occasions such as birthdays, graduations, holidays, and weddings. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Glastonbury, Connecticut, the company offers an extensive range of products, including drinking accessories, gnomes, inflatable pool toys, humorous gifts, and prank items. BigMouth products are designed to bring joy and laughter, making them popular choices for gifting. The company distributes its offerings through retail and online channels in the United States and works with international sales representatives to reach a broader audience.

Classic Accessories

Acquisition in 2016
Classic Accessories Inc. is a manufacturer based in Kent, Washington, specializing in protective coverings and outdoor furnishings for a variety of uses. Founded in 1983, the company produces a wide range of products, including covers for patio furniture, boats, recreational vehicles, golf carts, and motorcycles. Its offerings extend to accessories for automotive and garage equipment, as well as pet products and snowmobile gear. Classic Accessories aims to provide high-quality solutions that protect and preserve outdoor gear from the elements. The company distributes its products through sporting goods stores, superstores, and online retailers, catering to consumers with active lifestyles who seek reliable protection for their outdoor investments.

Fit + Fresh

Acquisition in 2015
Fit + Fresh, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of insulated lunch bags and boxes, catering to health-conscious consumers. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, the company sells its products through various retail channels and online platforms. Originally known as VitaMinder Inc., Fit + Fresh focuses on providing practical solutions for meal storage and transportation, emphasizing both functionality and design.

Rite in the Rain

Private Equity Round in 2013
Rite in the Rain is a manufacturer of all-weather writing paper and related products, serving various industries such as tactical, agriculture, construction, public safety, and underwater operations. Established nearly a century ago by Jerry Darling in the forests of the Great Northwest, the company was born out of a need for durable writing materials that could withstand harsh weather conditions. Jerry developed a special coating that provides a unique moisture shield for the paper, which is still produced in Tacoma today. Rite in the Rain offers a diverse range of products, including pocket calendars, spiral books, hardcover books, notebooks, writing instruments, and planners. Its mission remains focused on providing innovative solutions for professionals and outdoor enthusiasts who require reliable writing tools in challenging environments.

Scale Computing

Series D in 2012
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions tailored for midsized companies. The company’s flagship product, the HC3 platform, consolidates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, integrated system that simplifies management and enhances application performance. By leveraging self-healing and automation technologies, HC3 minimizes downtime and reduces the complexities associated with traditional IT infrastructure, such as separate virtualization and disaster recovery software. This approach allows organizations to improve application uptime while lowering overall costs. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, Scale Computing aims to enable clients to focus on application management rather than infrastructure concerns.

ABC Industries

Acquisition in 2012
ABC Industries is a maker of ventilation solutions and technical fabrics.

Matilda Jane Clothing

Acquisition in 2012
Matilda Jane Clothing is a designer and retailer based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, specializing in clothing and accessories for girls, boys, women, and adults. Founded in 2005, the company offers a diverse range of products, including dresses, tops, bottoms, pajamas, and various accessories such as blankets and doll clothes. Matilda Jane Clothing is recognized for its whimsical approach to design, incorporating playful textures, patterns, and colors that resonate with the spirit of childhood. The brand aims to bring happiness to its customers, ensuring that each piece reflects a youthful and expressive style. Products are available for purchase online, catering to the needs of customers seeking fun and stylish clothing options.

ABC Industries

Private Equity Round in 2012
ABC Industries is a maker of ventilation solutions and technical fabrics.

Chef’n Corporation

Private Equity Round in 2011
Chef’n is a leading global housewares products business that provides inventive, fun and highly functional products sold through retailers and distributors who are leaders in their categories. Product offerings include kitchen gadgets, kitchen tools, measuring and baking equipment, grinders, cleaning utensils, strainers and steamers, salad preparation tools, beverageware, and other accessories sold under the Chef’n® and Vibe® brands as well as through private label brands for select customers.

Celleration

Series E in 2011
Celleration Inc. is a medical device company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, founded in 1999. The company specializes in developing and commercializing therapeutic ultrasound technologies for wound care. Its flagship product, the MIST Therapy System, employs low-frequency ultrasound delivered through a saline mist to promote healing by penetrating the wound bed and stimulating cellular activity. Unlike traditional wound treatments, which primarily address the surface, MIST Therapy targets deeper layers to enhance the healing process. Celleration received FDA clearance for this therapy in 2005 and has successfully introduced it to the U.S. market, demonstrating significant clinical and economic benefits across numerous healthcare facilities. To date, over one million MIST Therapy treatments have been administered, positively impacting the lives of more than 65,000 patients. The company operates as a subsidiary of Alliqua BioMedical, Inc.

Salon Grafix

Venture Round in 2010
Salon Grafix offers travel-sized products to fit hectic schedules, aerosol hair spray, and products catered to specific hair types and styles. In addition to the chronological collection, which was created especially to retain, strengthen, and protect color-treated hair, they also have a line of products free of sulfates and parabens.

Evriholder

Private Equity Round in 2008
Evriholder Products is a housewares company that manufactures a diverse range of household, kitchen, and personal care items. The company specializes in various categories, including kitchenware, baking, barware, and storage solutions, as well as products for cleaning, pet care, and seasonal needs. Evriholder offers both branded and licensed products, catering to a broad customer base in North America and internationally. By providing a comprehensive assortment of innovative products, Evriholder effectively serves both brick-and-mortar and online retail channels, ensuring customers have access to specialized solutions for their everyday needs.

RedSky Technologies

Venture Round in 2008
RedSky Technologies, Inc. specializes in providing on-premise and cloud-based E911 solutions designed to enhance emergency response capabilities for organizations in the United States and Canada. Their flagship product, E911 Manager, offers real-time location tracking for IP phones, which includes modules such as WiFi E911 for tracking Wi-Fi phone locations, MyE911 for mobile softphone users, and Emergency On-Site Notification to monitor outbound 911 calls. Additionally, RedSky offers E911 Anywhere, a cloud-based solution that routes 911 calls and sends location data to emergency dispatchers. The company also provides Horizon Mobility, a platform that supports the implementation of the NENA i3 Next Generation 911 architecture. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, RedSky Technologies focuses on elevating safety standards and ensuring effective emergency responses through innovative technology and user-centric design.

GT Exhaust

Private Equity Round in 2007
GT Exhaust is a manufacturer specializing in industrial silencers and mufflers, catering primarily to the North American energy, power, and heavy transportation sectors. The company produces a range of products, including silencers, catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters (DPFs), emissions monitoring systems, and related accessories. These products are designed for sound and emissions control in both new installations and retrofits for large diesel and natural gas engines. Over time, GT Exhaust has established itself as a recognized name in acoustics and emissions solutions, and it is now part of Nelson Global Products.

Club Colors

Acquisition in 2007
Club Colors is a marketing and advertising company that offers brand and business management solutions.

Endocyte

Series C in 2007
Endocyte, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing receptor-targeted therapies for cancer and inflammatory diseases. Headquartered in West Lafayette, Indiana, the company creates innovative small molecule drug conjugates (SMDCs) and companion imaging agents. Among its key products, Vintafolide is in Phase IIb clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer, while EC1456 and EC1169 are in Phase I trials for advanced solid tumors and metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, respectively. Additionally, Endocyte is developing several pre-clinical candidates, including EC2629 for cancer treatment and EC2319 for inflammatory diseases. The company has established collaborations with Purdue Research Foundation and other organizations to advance its pipeline. Founded in 1995, Endocyte operates as a subsidiary of Novartis AG.
RedPath Integrated Pathology, LLC is a reference laboratory based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that specializes in oncology diagnostics. Founded in 2004, the company provides support services to pathologists, clinicians, and patients through its innovative PathFinderTG testing platform. This platform is designed for the early and definitive diagnosis of cancer, utilizing genetic analysis to extract objective and quantitative information from small tissue biopsies, cytology samples, and fluid specimens. RedPath's approach aids in resolving diagnostic challenges, particularly in cases where cancer does not respond as expected to treatment.

EKOS

Series C in 2006
EKOS Corporation is a pioneering company focused on the clinical application of ultrasound accelerated thrombolysis for the treatment of vascular thrombosis. Since its inception in 2005, EKOS has developed innovative technologies, including the EkoSonic Endovascular System, which utilizes microsonic technologies for the controlled and selective infusion of fluids specified by physicians. This system is employed by interventional radiologists, cardiologists, and vascular surgeons at leading medical institutions worldwide, enabling faster, safer, and more complete dissolution of thrombus, thereby enhancing patient outcomes in vascular care.

FLA Orthopedics

Private Equity Round in 2004
FLA Orthopedics has introduced several unique lines over the last several years to upgrade its product offering.

Maxon

Private Equity Round in 2004
Maxon manufactures a range of industrial combustion valves, burners, and systems, and has experienced significant growth, which it attributes to its technology and solutions that help customers meet increasing demands around energy efficient operations, increasing environmental regulations and the industrialization of emerging economies.

Hetsco

Private Equity Round in 2004
Hetsco is synonymous with providing highly skilled, emergency, specialty welding and construction services to the natural gas processing, petrochemical and air gas separation industries. Having completed site repairs across 44 states and more than 35 countries, Hetsco boasts a proud heritage of getting customer plants back on-line quickly and safely.

Denver Biomedical

Private Equity Round in 2004
Denver Biomedical, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of specialized medical products.

Victor Oolitic Stone

Private Equity Round in 2003
Victor Oolitic Stone is a raw material supplier of dimensional limestone including blocks, slabs, and sills.
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