Talisman Capital Partners

Talisman Capital Partners is an investment firm owned by the Walter family and operating out of Columbus, Ohio. It invests only its own capital and has no outside investors or fee streams, which it says lets it focus solely on building the businesses it backs. The firm looks to partner with the right people in attractive, growing industries, aiming to build on a business's existing strengths and use its own resources to help remove obstacles to growth. It describes itself as structured for long-term alignment with its partners rather than around the fixed timeframes typical of private equity funds, and says it makes only a handful of investments each year, aiming to combine the performance discipline of a structured private equity fund with the flexibility of a permanent business owner.