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Salem Investment

Salem Investment acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Greensboro, North Carolina. It states a focus on business & professional services, healthcare & life sciences, industrials & manufacturing and consumer & retail.

Capital raised$173macross 3 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2023filing since 2014
HeadquartersGreensboro, North Carolina
Stated cheque size2000000

Stated investment criteria

What Salem Investment says it buys

Read from Salem Investment’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.

Minimum revenue it states$10m1
Minimum EBITDA it states$1m1
Transaction typesAdd-on, Recapitalisation1

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. Salem Investment states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. Nothing here is a commitment by Salem Investment to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Salem Investment has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed3
Total capital raised$173m
Largest single vehicle$64m
Filing history2014 to 2023
Smallest accepted commitment$40k
Filed fromNORTH CAROLINA

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Salem Investment is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised4 · $425m gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 325193

An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Business & Professional Services

What companies have actually sold for in business & professional services, across 668 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$55m
Middle 50%$11m-$200m
Revenue multiple1.2×
EBITDA multiple8.5×

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