Sound Growth Partners

Sound Growth Partners (SGP) is a Seattle-based private equity firm that focuses on investments within the lower middle market. The firm employs a distinctive "One-Stop Buyout®" approach, providing all necessary capital, including both debt and equity, to facilitate transactions. This strategy aims to simplify the closing process, increase certainty, and ensure capital structure alignment, thereby allowing management teams to concentrate on business growth rather than financial engineering. SGP targets clear market leaders operating within protected niches, emphasizing companies with compelling market share in their respective segments.

The firm was founded in 2023, built upon two fundamental principles. First, SGP believes that the inherent friction between lenders and equity holders often impedes value creation, a challenge their integrated capital approach seeks to overcome. Second, they operate on the conviction that securing a large market share within a smaller, protected niche is more advantageous than holding a minor share in a larger, more competitive market. This philosophy guides their investment criteria, which typically includes companies with $2 million to $15 million of EBITDA, a history of steady cash flow, and low capital expenditure and net working capital requirements.

Sound Growth Partners has made several notable investments across various industries. Their portfolio includes companies such as Hydro-Vac Holdings, a provider of roof preparation services in the construction and engineering sector; Sports Attack, a designer and manufacturer of premium sports training equipment; The BARS Program, operating in commercial services; LPi; Stueve, also in construction and engineering; Sunny Communications; and ATEK Access Technologies, which manufactures innovative products for access control and data storage. These investments reflect SGP's focus on business services, consumer products, distribution, and light manufacturing sectors.

The SGP team is composed of experienced investors who have collaborated extensively over many years, successfully identifying, supporting, and scaling niche companies in the lower middle market. The leadership team includes Managing Partners Kyle Largent and Peter Roushdy, Partners David Glazer and Travis Steele, and Chief Financial Officer Vera Feinhaus. The firm maintains offices in key U.S. locations, including Seattle, Washington D.C., and Dallas, underscoring its regional focus on the North American market.