Platte River Equity

Building Partnerships with Lower Middle Market Businesses Since 2006

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Company Overview

Platte River Equity

Based in Denver, Colorado, Platte River Equity is a private equity firm that brings differentiated industry experience and insights to businesses in the lower middle market.

Platte River’s principals have served as senior executives, board members and investors in a wide breadth of successful companies. We leverage these experiences and build lasting partnerships with management teams to help drive transformational growth.

2006

Founded

20+

Team Members

$1.7B

Equity Commitments Raised

$200M+

General Partner Commitment

70+

Acquisitions

About platte river

“We were a family-owned company for more than 40 years. Despite the change in ownership, Platte River partnered with us and became part of our family.”

Chris Moreau, CEO

GLOBAL X-RAY

“Platte River did everything they said they would do and more. We could not have achieved the success we did without their involvement.”

Luis Gomez, CEO

WELLMARK

“I developed into a better manager and our team became a stronger unit under Platte River’s mentorship.”

Sam Willard, President

HETSCO

“We collaboratively established a strategic plan and Platte River assisted us in executing it, every step of the way.”

Richard Wood, CEO

PRV AEROSPACE

“The Platte River team showed great faith in us from day one. They supported us in developing an aggressive growth plan, allowed us to execute on it, and helped us along the way to become a better management team.”

John Schoch, Executive Chairman

PROFILE PRODUCTS

Testimonials and endorsements reflect Platte River’s and portfolio company management’s opinions and beliefs regarding the company and the investment. Such opinions and beliefs are subjective, do not represent a complete assessment of the company, the market or Platte River’s overall investment performance and cannot be independently verified. Such statements are being offered as references for purposes of demonstrating the benefits of working with the Platte River team and not for the purpose of soliciting investors. Portfolio company executives receive/received a salary and economics from the portfolio company. No executives were paid for their testimonial or endorsement. There is a conflict of interest in these unpaid testimonials and endorsements in that all speakers stand to benefit from Platte River’s success, and they work/worked for a Platte River portfolio company.

Investment Focus

Investing in Three Target Sectors

Since our founding, we have consistently focused on three target sectors, which enables us to become more of a strategic partner to businesses in these markets.

Industrials

Automation

Motion & Flow Control

Infrastructure Services

Safety & Components

Aerospace

Chemicals

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Portfolio

Current Investments

Dec 2023

TIPCO Technologies ("TIPCO")

TIPCO is a value-added distributor of fluid conveyance and sealing solutions, operating from 30 strategic locations across the United States. The Company serves a variety of end markets including infrastructure, manufacturing, transportation, government, agriculture/forestry, and energy.

Feb 2023

Womack Group

Womack Group is a value-added industrial distributor of components and solutions for hydraulic, pneumatic and automation control systems serving a diverse customer base across 13 facilities.

Aug 2022

Belt Power

Belt Power is a full-service, value-added distributor and fabricator of conveyor system components, including conveyor belts, equipment and accessories.

Dec 2021

Turf Care Supply, LLC

Turf Care Supply is a formulator and blender of coated nitrogen and other fertilizer products serving the turf and ornamental market throughout the eastern United States.

Oct 2021

Municipal Emergency Services, Inc. (“MES”)

MES is an equipment supplier and service provider to first responders throughout the United States.

Apr 2018

Dealers Transmission Exchange ("DTE")

DTE provides powertrain and transmission repair and maintenance services for customers in the energy, industrial and mining end markets.

Jun 2017

MFG Chemical, LLC

MFG is a specialty chemical manufacturer with a differentiated position in chemistries based on maleic anhydride and glacial acrylic acid.

Dec 2016

Tiger-Sul Products, LLC

Tiger-Sul is a manufacturer of sulphur bentonite, sulphur bentonite micronutrients technology, and other crop performance products.

Sep 2015

Spartaco Companies

Spartaco is a provider of professional-grade tools and equipment used in the electric utility, telecom, arborist, military and industrial end markets.

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Team

One Team, Rooted in Partnership

The Platte River team and culture has remained consistent since our founding. We value integrity, transparency and continuous improvement.

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News

The Latest News and Portfolio Activity

Nov

2024

Platte River Equity Portfolio Company Womack Machine Supply Rebrands as Evolution Motion Solutions

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Oct

2024

Platte River Equity Named to Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investors List

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Oct

2024

Platte River Equity Portfolio Company Municipal Emergency Services, Inc. Acquires Frontline Outfitters

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