Gryphon actively seeks companies where strong growth results can be achieved when the right management team is combined with Gryphon’s focused industry approach and operational expertise.
Our market focus is on the attractive, lower-end segment of the middle market — a market segment that includes over 81,000 companies, excluding non-core divisions of major corporations. As investors, we seek companies with attractive risk-adjusted returns that are not overly-reliant on frothy debt and equity capital markets. In evaluating an investment opportunity, the industry factors we seek include industry fragmentation, scale advantages, strong underlying demographics, and demand drivers. We also search for “contrarian” plays within cyclical businesses.
Gryphon’s Investment Criteria:
- $50 to $300 million investment range
- Companies with EBITDA of up to $60 million
- Traditional buyouts, leveraged build-ups, and growth equity investments
- Control or shared-control positions
- Three- to five-year investment holding periods
Gryphon’s Industry Groups:
- Business Services
- Consumer Products & Services
- Healthcare
- Industrial Growth
- Software
Gryphon’s five dedicated industry specialty groups will consider investments across a broad range of sub-sectors. Areas of specific focus or significant interest include the following:
- Business Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- Home Services
- Industrial & Infrastructure Services
- Information Services
- E-Commerce/Internet Services
- “Next Gen” IT Services
- Professional Services
- Consumer Products & Services
- Beauty/Personal Care
- Better-For-You Food
- Beverage
- Consumer Health & Wellness
- Functional Apparel
- Pet
- Healthcare
- Behavioral Health
- Healthcare IT
- Ophthalmology
- Payor Services
- Retail-Oriented Medicine
- Specialty Pharma Distribution
- Industrial Growth
- Food Processing & Agribusiness
- Industrial Technologies
- Infrastructure and Utility Products
- Materials, Chemicals, and Packaging
- Transportation and Logistics
- Value-Added Distribution
- Software
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Education & Training
- Field Services
- Financial Services
- Industrial Manufacturing
- Transportation & Logistics