Slate Capital Group

Slate Capital Group is a private equity firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, established in 2004. The firm specializes in investments throughout a company's life cycle, ranging from growth equity to leveraged buyouts. It primarily targets light manufacturing, distribution, and service businesses, including sectors such as business services, healthcare services, for-profit education, niche software, direct marketing, food and beverage, and consumer and retail markets. Slate Capital Group focuses on companies located in the Mid-Atlantic region and considers those based east of the Mississippi River. The firm typically invests in companies with cash flows between $0.5 million and $5 million and EBITDA ranging from $3 million to $15 million. While it prefers to acquire controlling interests, the firm is also open to minority investments.