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Castanea Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management buyouts, sales of private companies, industry consolidation opportunities, mature, growth and acquisition equity, turnaround, industry consolidation, buyout, growth capital and operationally challenging situations. It invests in small to middle market companies. The firm invests in professional publishing and information content and services; education, training, and testing; human resources and business services; branded consumer products; specialty retail; and marketing services. Within the publishing and information services sector, it prefers to invest in business-to-business databases, produc...

Castanea Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in management buyouts, sales of private companies, industry consolidation opportunities, mature, growth and acquisition equity, turnaround, industry consolidation, buyout, growth capital and operationally challenging situations. It invests in small to middle market companies. The firm invests in professional publishing and information content and services; education, training, and testing; human resources and business services; branded consumer products; specialty retail; and marketing services. Within the publishing and information services sector, it prefers to invest in business-to-business databases, products and services, mission critical industry information and analysis, scientific or technical publishing, market leading niche publishing. In education, training, and testing sector, the firm seeks to invest in K-12 and post secondary; supplementary education publishing; testing and assessment; core and supplemental content and services; and continuing education and recertification. Within the human resource and business services sector, it invests in corporate training, testing and assessment, and human resource management, outsourcing, and consulting. In the branded goods sector, the firm invests in strong under-penetrated brands, emerging brands, vertical integration opportunities in wholesale and retail. Within the Specialty Retail it invests in multi- channel store-based and direct-to-consumer, Catalog or Internet, and niche concepts. In marketing services, it seeks to invest in direct to consumer marketing services; consumer relationship management information; and database marketing. The firm seeks to invest in United States and Canada based companies. It seeks to invest between $15 million and $75 million in equity per deal, enterprise values up to $250 million, sales over $10 million, and EBITDA of between $3 million and $30. It prefers to acquire a controlling stake in its portfolio companies but can share control with a private equity sponsor as well. Castanea Partners, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

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