We help small businesses accelerate growth
About Us
Northern Yard Partners was founded in 2024. We started Northern Yard Partners because traditional private equity isn’t built to help small business. As former private equity professionals ourselves, we understand that small business owners face unique challenges around succession, scale, staffing, culture, and legacy.
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Our approach is custom-built for investing in small business. With guiding principles grounded in honesty and transparency; a focus on long-term growth; and a unique, partnership-driven approach; we are built to work exclusively with small businesses and help them compete in rapidly changing times to protect their brands, legacies, and employees.
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We are proud to be backed by BellTower Partners, a private holding company with permanent capital. BellTower shares many of Northern Yard’s core principles, including investing for the long-term, driving returns through sustainable growth, and serving as true partners to its portfolio companies.
Our Approach
Small business owners struggle with the decision to bring in outside investors because of trust, which forms the foundation of every successful relationship. These are the principles at the heart of our approach to partnership.
Long-Term Perspective
We are focused on achieving lasting growth that can be measured over generations, not fiscal quarters. We do not believe in generating returns through cost shortcuts, debt, or financial engineering. We win together as your business grows.
Partnership Approach
We are proud to stand alongside our partners as joint-owners. We emphasize collaboration and collective problem-solving; we do not dictate. Owner-operators often have decades of experience running their businesses, and their active involvement and leadership is good for business.
Honesty & Transparency
All successful and lasting relationships are grounded in trust. We believe in overcommunication and transparency. We treat everyone fairly. Our word is bond.
Preserving Legacy
We invest to expand and support your legacy, not to replace it. Together, we can take your business to new heights.
Our Strategy
We look for visionaries with a strong competitive advantage who are looking for a strategic partner on the next stage of their growth journey.
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Entrepreneurial leaders that are motivated to grow
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Large, growing, and fragmented industries where M&A creates value
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Size: <$1 to $7 million of EBITDA
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Sectors: Business services, residential services, consumer, industrial, & distribution
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Geography: United States
Our Team
