Summit Avenue Partners is a Minneapolis-based private investment firm formed to invest the personal capital of its partners. Summit Avenue’s investment strategy is to acquire privately-held, lower middle-market family and operator owned businesses. Our firm is led by its two founding partners.
We are patient, long-term capital investors with no predetermined holding period and no pressure from institutions to invest capital or monetize our portfolio company investments. We are experts in responsible balance sheet capitalization. We specialize in assisting founders, business owners and multigenerational families with monetizing their ownership, transitioning company leadership and continuing their legacy.
We provide strategic leadership, growth strategy and equity capital resources to businesses with a strong potential for growth and long-term value creation.
We have experience investing in large businesses (more than $1 billion in revenue) and challenging corporate situations. Today, that expertise benefits companies operating on a smaller scale.
Our firm is led by two partners with over 15 years of experience investing together.