Heron Capital

Heron Capital Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with an additional office in Carmel, Indiana. The firm specializes in buyouts, recapitalizations, and investments in emerging growth and expansion-stage companies, primarily focusing on small to middle market businesses. Heron Capital is largely industry agnostic but places a strong emphasis on precision manufacturing and healthcare-related sectors while avoiding retail investments. The firm concentrates its efforts within the United States and Canada, particularly in the Midwest, and prefers to invest in private companies located within 250 miles of Indianapolis. Heron Capital typically invests between $1 and $10 million in companies with revenues of at least $2 million and earnings between $0.5 million and $4 million, seeking a controlling interest and the potential for a gross margin exceeding 35%. The firm is committed to long-term investments and aims to take board seats in its portfolio companies, leveraging insights from a network of advisors in science, medicine, and business leadership.

Kevin Etzkorn

Managing Director

Greg Maurer

Founder & Managing Director

Past deals in Indiana

Scale Computing

Series D in 2012
Scale Computing, Inc. specializes in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions tailored for midsized businesses. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, the company offers its HC3™ platform, which integrates servers, storage, and virtualization into a single, user-friendly system. This all-in-one appliance enhances storage speed and capacity while simplifying datacenter management. HC3 continuously monitors virtual machines and hardware components to ensure application availability and efficiently address infrastructure events. In addition to its core platform, Scale Computing provides services such as infrastructure refresh, virtual-to-virtual migration, physical-to-virtual migration, and disaster recovery solutions. As a result, the company is increasingly favored by IT departments across various industries looking to maintain high availability and scalability of their applications.