Dogwood Equity

Dogwood Equity is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, middle market, late-stage growth, and mezzanine investments. It targets small cap companies in the manufacturing, consumer products, distribution, and business services. The firm focuses its investments on smaller metropolitan and non-urban markets in the Southeastern United States, specifically from Maryland to North Florida and east of the Mississippi River. It invests between $1 million and $10 million in equity per transaction. The firm invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $75 million and EBITDA between $1 million and $10 million. It seeks to make both control and non-control investments. The firm seeks board membership in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for a period of five years. Dogwood Equity was founded in 2002 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina with an additional office in Charlotte, North Carolina.