Carlson Private Capital Partners

Carlson Private Capital Partners is a private investment firm established in 2018 and based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Founded by the Carlson family, the firm focuses on investing family capital in middle-market companies across various sectors, including healthcare, financial services, industrial, consumer, distribution, and business services. Carlson Private Capital Partners aims to create long-term value by partnering with exceptional management teams, leveraging their entrepreneurial legacy and operational expertise to foster business growth and success.

Andrew Cantwell

Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Emma Gergen

Principal

Stephanie Johnson

Senior Associate

Lindsey Main

Vice President

Taylor O. Moore

Partner

Cory M. Petersen

Vice President of Finance and Administration

Ali Stewart

Associate

4 past transactions

Millennium

Venture Round in 2022
Millennium is a telecommunications company that offers fiber optic cable, conduit, pipe, and fusion splicers.

Pattern

Series A in 2020
Pattern is a growth intelligence organization for e-commerce, offering a full suite of monitoring, compliance, sales, advertising, fulfillment, and growth services for hundreds of customers across six continents. Pattern operates multiple global distribution centers offering support to retailers and other consumer brands who want to sell online around the world.

Street Smart Rental

Private Equity Round in 2020
Street Smart Rental, Inc. distributes, rents, and repairs traffic control and safety products. The company distributes and rents advertising trailers, arrow boards, automated flaggers, portable rumble strips, steel barriers, traffic signals, and water barriers. Street Smart Rental, Inc. provides repair services for portable message signs, portable traffic signals, arrowboards, attenuators, portable camera trailers, wavetronix sensors, and ITS devices. Street Smart Rental, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Lino Lakes, Minnesota with additional offices in Commerce City, Colorado and Austin, Texas.

Lakeshirts

Private Equity Round in 2020
Lakeshirts is a company that provides custom garment and apparel printing services to customers in the resort and college markets. It designs, manufactures, and distributes a selection of customized apparel, as well as provides merchandising products to the resort and college-licensed apparel and accessories markets. The company's production floor includes 48 automatic screen print presses, 32 multi-head embroidery machines, six 60-foot laser appliqué bridges, and three sublimation presses. Mark Fritz and Mike Hutchinson established the company in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota in 1984.