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We are passionate about helping management teams build organizations that create enduring value for the lives of their customers, clients and employees

ABOUT

C9 Partners LLC is private investment firm focused on identifying niche opportunities at the intersection of specialty lending and financial, legal, and healthcare services

We are industry experts leveraging over 50 years of institutional lower-middle market corporate finance experience and over $3.0 billion in completed corporate finance transactions

We have a track record of creating realized equity value as both professional investors and CEOs and CFOs of high growth businesses

Given our directly relevant experience, we seek to establish non-intermediated relationships with business owners who see value in partnering with us—it’s rare that we invest in management teams that we haven’t known for quite some time

C9, headquartered in Los Angeles, was founded in 2018 by Benjamin Kaplan and Michael Stone

Investment Strategy

We make control equity investments in growth businesses with
revenues of $5 to $50 million

We invest in businesses that are profitable or are on a proven path to achieving profitability

We focus on niche segments that are young, growing, fragmented and undermanaged

We seek to back passionate management teams that have worked together for more than two years

We don’t shy away from sub-scale businesses with clearly defined go-to-market strategies that can create sustainable competitive
advantages

How We’re Different

Companies often reach an inflection point in which they know what needs to be done, but they lack the resources or support to do so on their own—these are the special situations where C9 thrives

We seek to partner with management teams that want hands on involvement from their capital partners, not just board meeting check ins

We can fill interim executive roles, build leadership teams, and design and implement multi-year succession plans to maximize value and liquidity for owners

We are intimately familiar with the operational, financial and strategic challenges faced by middle market companies in the sectors we focus on

We have distilled this experience into our “C9 Manifesto” that we provide to our portfolio companies as a helpful framework for growth

SECTOR
FOCUS

Financial Services
Healthcare Services

Specialty Finance
Legal Services

Team

The C9 Partners team possesses deep financial services, specialty lending and healthcare services domain expertise as both professional investors and business owners and executive managers

Our industry-specific experience affords us key insights into the competitive, regulatory and operational dynamics of the space, as well as established capital markets relationships