Gen Cap America, Inc.
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Gen Cap America is a private equity firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, specializing in buyouts and recapitalizations of middle-market and lower-middle-market companies. It focuses on established businesses with strong cash flows and quality management teams.
Gen Cap America, Inc. is a private equity firm headquartered in Nashville, United States, founded in 1988. It invests directly in companies, at buyout, in manufacturing, distribution and basic services. 23 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“GCA seeks to invest in companies that have the following basic characteristics: Middle-Market/Lower-Middle-Market Transactions – GCA targets private businesses or divisions of larger corporations typically with revenue between $10M and $200M and EBIT of $2M to $15M.”
— Gen Cap America, Inc., own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Private equity
- Stage
- Buyout
- Headquarters
- Nashville, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- manufacturing, distribution, basic services
- Founded
- 1988
- Portfolio
- 23 companies
Team, as Gen Cap America, Inc. publishes it
- Barney D. Byrd President and CEO
- Donald D. Napier, III Executive Vice President
- James E. Caldwell Byrd Director
- Joseph Griggs Vice President
- Wes Quarles Vice President of Finance
- Cade T. Bosch Associate
- Stephen E. Blackmon Operations Advisor
Names and roles exactly as listed on gencapamerica.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. 6 co-investors found.
- AE Industrial Partners, LP 1 shared company: atcphx.com
- GMB Capital Partners 1 shared company: cpsdistributors.com
- Rosser Capital Partners 1 shared company: rebath.com
- AEA Investors 1 shared company: daytonparts.com
- Centerfield Capital Partners 1 shared company: aseaero.com
- LNC Partners 1 shared company: narcote.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Gen Cap America, Inc. publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://gencapamerica.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, founded, status, confidence
- https://gencapamerica.com/investment-criteria/stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page
- https://gencapamerica.com/portfolio-companies/portfolio_count
- https://gencapamerica.com/team/people
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Record 4488 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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