Rotunda Capital Partners

Rotunda Capital Partners is a private equity firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, founded in 2009. It focuses on making equity investments in established and profitable lower middle-market companies, primarily within the sectors of specialty finance, logistics and distribution, government, and business services. As an independent deal sponsor, Rotunda Capital raises capital from its principals, family offices, and high net worth individuals on a deal-by-deal basis. The firm employs a rigorous investment strategy to identify market-leading companies with growth potential and capable management teams. Since its inception, Rotunda Capital has completed six platform investments and achieved two exits, with its partners collectively investing over $1.6 billion in more than 30 companies. The firm leverages its extensive industry and financial relationships to effectively implement the strategic plans of its portfolio companies.

Ryan Aprill

Managing Director

Rohit Dhake

Principal

John Fruehwirth

Managing Partner

Ellen Kim

Operating Partner

Bob Wickham

Managing Partner

Wickham, Robert

Managing Partner

12 past transactions

Refrigeration Sales Corp

Acquisition in 2021
Refrigeration Sales Corporation is a fourth-generation family-owned wholesale distributor of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration equipment. RSC today is still primarily a wholesaler, but it defines its mission as much more than just providing the right inventory at wholesale prices. As WholeServer, all of us are focused on the very best service delivered with the highest efficiencies for the benefit of customers, employees, and stockholders.

Storm Smart

Acquisition in 2021
Storm Smart one of the largest vertically integrated direct-to-consumer marketers, manufacturers, and installers of storm protection products in the state of Florida. Storm Smart is an Impeccable service, industry-leading products, and perfect installations, all delivered by a specialized team of professionals.

Trinity3 Technology

Acquisition in 2019
Trinity3 Technology is wholly immersed in serving the technology needs of the education market.

MacQueen Emergency

Acquisition in 2018
MacQueen Equipment, Inc. is a distributor of municipal and contractor equipment, established in 1961 and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company specializes in selling a range of products, including Elgin street sweepers, Vactor trucks, Pierce fire trucks, Oshkosh snow removal equipment, and Heil refuse trucks, catering to municipalities, fire departments, and commercial clients. In addition to product sales, MacQueen provides comprehensive parts and service support across its five locations in St. Paul and Apple Valley, Minnesota; Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin; Ankeny, Iowa; and Lincoln, Nebraska.

StreetShares

Series B in 2018
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

StreetShares

Series B in 2018
StreetShares, Inc. is a peer-to-peer small business lending marketplace that connects small business owners with retail and institutional investors. Based in Reston, Virginia, the company offers a lending-as-a-service platform that enables community banks and credit unions to efficiently provide loans to small businesses. Its product offerings include term loans, business bonds, and both secured and unsecured small business loans. StreetShares facilitates an accessible and streamlined lending experience, allowing financial institutions to connect with borrowers through a digital platform featuring quick underwriting processes. Founded in 2013, the company has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions in small business financing.

Indianapolis Fruit Company

Acquisition in 2017
IF&P Foods was formed in 1997 through the merger of Indianapolis Fruit (founded 1947) and Piazza Produce (founded 1970), two leading produce distribution companies with a combined 118 years experience serving the grocery and foodservice industries. Garden Cut, a fresh cut processing company, and leading food service produce distributors, Circle City Produce and Papania Produce, complete the IF&P group of companies. The company has grown to include a fleet of over 340 refrigerated trucks servicing over 14 states in the Midwest and beyond from five facilities totaling over 225,000-square-feet of warehouse space. Today, IF&P is a category leader in providing both the food service and retail industries with fruit, vegetables, dairy and floral products.

Microf

Venture Round in 2015
Microf is a relationship-based company that gives priority to the wants and needs of its customers. It offers rental purchase financing options to a wide range of consumers. Its innovative rent-to-own strategy provides flexibility to consumers through limited declinations, quick response times, multiple payment options, and various contract term choices. Microf was established in 2010 to accommodate the growing demand for more flexible options for the replacement of residential heating or cooling systems.

Munch's Supply

Acquisition in 2015
Munch’s Supply is a third generation family business operating six branches in the Chicago and NW Indiana markets. We distribute from over three hundred fifty thousand square feet of warehouse space and have over forty trucks supplying area contractors.

Amware Fulfillment

Venture Round in 2014
Amware Logistics is a 3rd Party Logistics Company that is dedicated to craftsmanship in delivering customer-focused, quality-driven, cost-appropriate logistics solutions for our customers. We provide logistics solutions through our domestic warehouses throughout the US and in the Toronto, Canada area. Our 3rd party logistics (3PL) services include warehousing, transportation, handling, B-to-B and B-to-C order fulfillment, and many more. We have a vast array of specialty warehousing solutions for industries including food grade certified facilities, NACD hazmat certified chemical storage facilities, and pharmaceutical industries.

Discount Ramps

Private Equity Round in 2014
Discount Ramps is an online retailer of loading, hauling and transportation products. Offering more than 11,000 products, the company primarily services the powersport, medical, recreational, commercial, transportation, military and industrial markets. Discount Ramps offers many well-known brands, including Rage Powersports, Black Widow, Big Boy, Kill Shot and Summit. Discount Ramps has been recognized by Internet Retailer as one of the top 500 revenue grossing sites in the U.S. for the last five years and has also been recognized as one of Milwaukee’s fastest-growing firms by the Milwaukee Business Journal

Rubicon

Series A in 2012
Rubicon is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling. They provide innovative software-based products for businesses and governments. They focus on developing software solutions that bring new transparency to the waste and recycling industry, encouraging customers to make data-driven decisions that lead to more efficient and effective operations as well as more sustainable outcomes.
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