Buyout PE
Carlson Private Capital Partners
Carlson Private Capital Partners acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Minnetonka, USA. It states a focus on education, industrials & manufacturing and software & internet.
Stated investment criteria
What Carlson Private Capital Partners says it buys
Read from Carlson Private Capital Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Carlson Private Capital Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Carlson Private Capital Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMAG Technology | — | — | — |
| Aksels | — | — | — |
| EMI Sportswear | — | — | — |
| Elite Fan Shop | — | — | — |
| Enlisted Design | — | — | — |
| Lakeshirts/Blue 84 | — | — | — |
| LindFast Solutions Group | — | — | — |
| Millennium | — | — | — |
| Pattern | — | — | — |
| Quantum Design International | — | — | — |
| Stelfast | — | — | — |
| Street Smart | — | — | — |
| Superior Traffic Services | — | — | — |
| Thermo Systems | — | — | — |
| Trophy Skin | — | — | — |
| Yesterdays | — | — | — |
| Zephyr | — | — | — |
Compiled from Carlson Private Capital Partners’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Valuation context
Transaction values in Education
What companies have actually sold for in education, across 81 recorded transactions.
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