HCAP Partners

HCAP Partners is an impact investor that supplies growth capital to established small and medium-sized companies across the United States. It works in the lower middle market, which it describes as underserved by institutional capital, and aims to help portfolio companies improve results while creating good jobs.

Products and services

• Growth financing: flexible debt and equity structures shaped around each company's needs.
• Board involvement: participation as a director or board observer.
• Planning support: help with strategic and budget planning.
• Recruitment: assistance finding key managers and board members.
• Introductions: access to outside consultants and service providers, plus customer and strategic partner contacts.
• Capital and exit help: support with raising capital, banking, exit planning, company sales and M&A.

Who it serves

Established small and medium-sized businesses that want funding to grow. Portfolio company chief executives and operating advisors feature on the firm's website to explain how it works with them.

Key facts

• Focus: lower middle market companies throughout the United States
• Mission-driven investing: since 2000
• Approach: a job-quality method it calls the Gainful Jobs Approach, applied with portfolio companies