Blackford Capital
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Blackford Capital is a private equity firm based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that invests in lower middle market companies, typically family- or founder-owned, in manufacturing, distribution, and services sectors. It seeks majority control positions and focuses on operational improvements to drive growth.
Blackford Capital is a private equity firm headquartered in Grand Rapids, United States. It invests directly in companies, at buyout, in manufacturing, distribution and services. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our focus is on investing majority control positions in family- and founder-owned lower middle market businesses in manufacturing, distribution, and services.”
— Blackford Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Buyout
- Headquarters
- Grand Rapids, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- manufacturing, distribution, services
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Blackford Capital publishes it
- Martin Stein Founder and Managing Director
- Jeff Johnson Managing Director
- Rick Lopez Managing Director
- Carmen Evola Managing Director
- Rob Leonard Operating Partner
- Steve Parker Operating Partner
- Chris Wilson Operating Partner
- Paul Doyle Operating Partner
- Rishabh Mukherjee Vice President of Deals
- Kristen Muir Vice President of Portfolio Operations
- Kameron Norwood Senior Analyst
- Christian Folkert Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on blackfordcapital.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 5 co-investors found.
- Energy Impact Partners 1 shared company: outova.com
- LongWater 1 shared company: grandequipment.com
- Graycliff Partners LP 1 shared company: custom-profile.com
- LoneTree Capital, LLC 1 shared company: keyhealth.net
- Tilia Holdings, LLC 1 shared company: ebakery.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Blackford Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.blackfordcapital.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.blackfordcapital.com/investors/stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.blackfordcapital.com/people/people
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Record 2918 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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