Buyout PE
Swander Pace Capital
Swander Pace Capital acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from San Francisco, United States. It states a focus on food & beverage, healthcare & life sciences and consumer & retail.
Stated investment criteria
What Swander Pace Capital says it buys
Read from Swander Pace Capital’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.
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SEC filings
What Swander Pace Capital 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 filed | 1 |
| Total capital raised | Not disclosed in filings |
| Largest single vehicle | Not disclosed in filings |
| Filing history | 2022 |
| Smallest accepted commitment | None stated |
| Filed from | CALIFORNIA |
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 Swander Pace Capital is registered
From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.
| Adviser status | SEC registered |
| Regulatory assets under management | $960m |
| Employees | 18 |
| Private funds advised | 5 · $960m gross |
| SEC adviser number | CRD 157259 |
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Swander Pace Capital lists on its own website. No investment years are published.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applegate | — | — | — |
| Boulangerie St-Méthode | — | — | — |
| Bragg | — | — | — |
| CAPTEK® Softgel | — | — | — |
| Café Valley | — | — | — |
| Fine Choice Foods | — | — | — |
| Inovata Foods | — | — | — |
| Kicking Horse Coffee | — | — | — |
| Maple Donuts | — | — | — |
| Merrick Pet Care | — | — | — |
| Mighty Spark | — | — | — |
| Mighty Spark Food | — | — | — |
| Mommy's Bliss | — | — | — |
| Oakrun | — | — | — |
| Oregon Ice Cream | — | — | — |
| Purely Elizabeth | — | — | — |
| biggerthanpackaging.com | — | — | — |
| swansonvitamins.com | — | — | — |
Compiled from Swander Pace Capital’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.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Swander Pace Capital is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 5 recorded exits, most recently in 2019.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voortman | Sold | Hostess Brands | 2019 | $323m |
| Kicking Horse Coffee Co. Ltd. | Sold | Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. | 2017 | $163m |
| ReNew Life Formulas | Sold | The Clorox | 2016 | $290m |
| Applegate Farms LLC | Sold | Hormel Foods | 2015 | $775m |
| Insight Pharmaceuticals Corp. | Sold | Prestige Consumer Healthcare | 2014 | $750m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
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