HCI Equity Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2003 and based in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Minneapolis and Northbrook, Illinois. The firm specializes in leveraged buyouts within the lower middle market, focusing on growth-oriented, family or founder-owned companies across various sectors, including industrial manufacturing, aerospace and defense, automotive components, and B2B services. HCI Equity Partners typically invests between $15 million and $75 million in companies with enterprise values ranging from $20 million to $150 million, and annual revenues between $20 million and $200 million. The firm seeks majority ownership but is open to minority stakes, emphasizing a partnership approach with management teams to drive operational improvements and support growth initiatives. The investment team comprises professionals with extensive operational and leadership experience, enabling a deeper understanding of industry trends and enhancing the performance of portfolio companies.
Summit Interconnect, Inc. specializes in the design and manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCBs), offering a range of services that include quick-turn, prototype, and production. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Anaheim, California, with additional offices in Santa Clara, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam, the company serves diverse industries such as aerospace, defense, space, medical, networking, telecom, and semiconductors. Summit Interconnect provides high-density rigid, rigid-flex, RF/microwave, and semiconductor test PCBs, focusing on complex and advanced prototypes as well as high-mix, low-to-mid-volume production. The company is recognized for its expertise in various materials, including high-speed digital and RF constructions, catering primarily to high-performance commercial and defense sectors in North America.
Express Packaging is a provider of outsourced contract packaging and contract manufacturing services to global consumer brands. With three SQF Level 3 certified facilities in West Chicago, IL, Columbus, OH, and Newcomerstown, OH, Express has both primary and secondary manufacturing capabilities across a broad range of product types including food, candy, and pet food.
Mistras Group specializes in asset protection solutions that assess the structural integrity and reliability of critical energy, industrial, and public infrastructure. Established in 1978 and headquartered in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, the company offers a range of services, including non-destructive testing, field inspections, consulting, and maintenance. Its operations are mainly concentrated in North America, particularly the United States and Canada. Mistras Group also provides online monitoring of critical assets, mechanical integrity services, destructive testing, and enterprise inspection data management through its proprietary software. By integrating these diverse offerings, Mistras Group delivers comprehensive and competitive solutions from a single source.
Sunburst Digital is the leading provider of digital education resources to schools for more than 25 years. They are made up of software developers, instructional designers, sales, service, and classroom specialists who are knowledge experts in delivering and connecting educators with digital content solutions designed to enhance academic achievement outcomes and transform classrooms. They sell, support, and provide ongoing services for their digital curriculum solutions to districts, schools, teachers, classrooms, and parents in the United States and abroad.
Renaissance Interactive Holding Corporation
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Renaissance Interactive Holding Corporation was founded in 1995 in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Concours Group believes that addressing today’s most important business problems and opportunities demands innovative and productive combinations of human, technological, and business assets. Their services include developing business strategies and new business models, accelerating core business processes, and building the technical infrastructure and organizational capacity for high performance and rapid change. Their clients develop the capabilities and confidence to thrive in challenging times.