With over a decade of experience developing effective working partnerships with entrepreneurs, we understand the unique role the founder and management team play in the success of a business. Our focus is to provide resources to transition the company to the next level of growth, and to maximize its opportunities by combining the company’s management team with the extensive operating experience of the TCP principals.

As a boutique size firm, we are able to provide quick, definitive answers on investment decisions. Our clear partnership objectives allow us to expediently complete transactions, communicate with management, and execute upon growth strategies.   

Transition Capital Partners specializes in transitioning high growth, entrepreneurial companies into established entities operated by professional managers. We add value to the process by identifying additional human resources, financing add-on acquisitions and providing strategic direction and advice to management. 

Transition Capital is affiliated with Patterson Thoma Investments, a private Family Office. Its principals make investments in private equity, distressed debt, real estate, venture capital, and also make charitable contributions through the Patterson Thoma Foundation.

With a fifteen-year track record of success, Transition Capital Partners has developed a network of relationships that can be utilized to enhance each portfolio company’s strategic plan. TCP can readily tap into its network to enhance growth, provide “best in class guidance”, and create value for all portfolio company stakeholders.

TCP has always focused on leveraged recapitalizations of entrepreneurial service businesses in partnership with founders and management teams. After 15 years of investing together, we have established a broad network of financial partners and developed a refined investment model, both of which allow us to efficiently complete transactions.

TCP’s specific expertise lies in our proven ability to transition entrepreneurial companies into professionally managed organizations. Our focus on strategic growth, additional management resources, and financial reporting eliminates the key man risk typically prevalent in founder run companies - ultimately, the transition to a professionally managed organization substantially increases shareholder value while at the same time creates a much larger universe of potential buyers at the point of exit.

The partners and principals of TCP invest their own capital alongside founders of companies we have acquired or invested with in the past. Unlike many institutional investment funds with restrictive parameters, Transition Capital Partners maintains a flexible investment horizon.