Traverse Pointe Partners

Traverse Pointe Partners, LLC is a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois, established in 2013. The firm specializes in control investments in lower middle-market companies, focusing on areas such as turnarounds, family-owned business transitions, management buyouts, and private recapitalizations. Traverse Pointe Partners targets sectors including business and professional services, building products, financial services, manufacturing and industrials, media and telecommunications, consumer products, and logistics. It typically invests between $2 million and $12 million in companies with revenues ranging from $10 million to $100 million and enterprise values from $10 million to $40 million. The firm favors investments where existing management or ownership participates alongside them, although it is open to investing in non-profitable turnarounds. Traverse Pointe Partners primarily concentrates its efforts on companies headquartered in North America.