United States · What does Blackford Capital invest in?
Blackford Capital says it invests in Manufacturing, Distribution and Services.
What they do
Our focus is on investing majority control positions in family- and founder-owned lower middle market businesses in manufacturing, distribution, and services.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Buyout
- Sectors
- ManufacturingDistributionServices
- Based in
- Grand Rapids, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
No rounds observed yet. That is a limit of the sources we read, not a finding about the firm. If it has invested, a round will put it here. Know a round it was in? Tell us.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration6 named
CACarmen A EvolaManaging DirectoriForm ADV
JWJeffrey Whatley JohnsonExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
KEKenneth E WagnerChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
MWMartin Wade SteinManager of the General PartneriFiling they signed
PIPaul Ignatius DoyleManaging PartneriForm ADV
RNRick N/A LopezExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 25 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$126Mgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Blackford Capital, Inc.
- SEC number
- CRD 298823
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 28 we have independently watched raise
Ace ControlsAirheadAqua LeisureArtificial Turf SupplyBurgaflexnaCustom-profileData Science AutomationEbakeryElectrictransformersEmpire DistributingGrandequipmentHabcoHalltechavIndmoldIntltonerInyo PoolsKeyhealthLTD OnlineMopecgroupOnlinetechstoresOutovaPACIVQualityaluminumSecurityfiresystemsStagingconceptsStarfire DirectTexasinjectionmoldingYukon Charlie's
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
Dickinson PressUndisclosedAug 2015