Tracked deals
12
12 tracked deals across 2016-2025.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago-based, sector-focused private investment firm focused on the lower end of the middle market. Akoya partners with founders and CEOs of privately held businesses and invests in industrial and consumer sectors, supporting platform investments and add-on acquisitions.
Tracked deals
12
12 tracked deals across 2016-2025.
Recent pace
0
0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Buyout
8 buyout · 4 addon
Last 5 years
Supporting Data
Star Plastics, the Akoya Capital Partners-backed engineered thermoplastics compounder, has merged with Trivalence Technologies, LLC, a custom thermoplastic compounder based in Evansville, Indiana. The merger is an add-on to the Star Plastics platform intended to expand technical capabilities, product offerings, geographic reach, and tolling services for OEM and molder customers.
Akoya Capital led an investment in Devansoy, Inc., a Rock City, Illinois-based manufacturer of soy, oat, and pea protein ingredients, to establish its Specialty Ingredients platform. The transaction was financed with partners Trinity Investors, Slawek Family Holdings, Lightspring Capital, and Wintrust Bank; Devansoy CEO Deb Wycoff made a significant reinvestment and Dinan Capital served as Devansoy's exclusive financial advisor.
Akoya Capital has partnered with Thayer Bancroft, PNC Mezzanine Capital, and Mertor to acquire Alinabal, a Milford, Connecticut-based contract manufacturer of precision machined, stamped and molded metal components. The deal provides a succession solution for Alinabal’s longtime owners while establishing Alinabal as an Akoya platform to accelerate growth and pursue add-on acquisitions.
Akoya Capital Partners, alongside Trinity Investors and NewSpring Mezzanine, has acquired WePackItAll, a contract packaging, filling, fulfillment, and warehousing provider based in Duarte, California. The investment (supported by mezzanine financing) establishes WPIA as the anchor platform for Akoya's industrial packaging strategy and aims to accelerate growth and national expansion of its contract packaging capabilities.
Akoya Capital Partners acquired Star Plastics, a Ravenswood, West Virginia-based custom plastics compounder, as the anchor investment for a new compounds buy-and-build platform. The transaction was supported with mezzanine subordinated debt and common equity from NewSpring Mezzanine and involved Trinity Investors as a partnering investor; Star Plastics (≈140 employees) will pursue organic growth and M&A to expand its capabilities and geographic reach.
Beacon Manufacturing Group, backed by Akoya Capital and Trinity Private Equity Group, acquired Built-Rite Tool & Die from founder and CEO Craig Bovaird. NewSpring Capital provided subordinated debt and equity support and Fifth Third Bank provided senior debt financing; the acquisition expands Beacon's precision molded-products and medical-market platform.
Akoya Capital and Trinity Investors formed Beacon Manufacturing Group as a platform to acquire Donnelly Custom Manufacturing Company, a custom short-run plastics injection molder based in Alexandria, Minnesota. The acquisition is the inaugural investment for the Beacon platform and is intended to support a buy-and-build strategy to expand manufacturing capabilities and pursue additional acquisitions across North America.
Akoya Capital Partners and Tecum Capital Partners acquired Primetac Corporation in partnership with the company's founders and management. The private equity investors plan to grow Primetac — a distributor of industrial packaging materials — by expanding sales coverage, service and product offerings and pursuing add-on acquisitions to build a national platform.
Akoya Capital Partners and Landon Capital Partners, in partnership with current management, have acquired TTG, Inc. (Trinity Technology Group), a Higginsville, Missouri-based manufacturer of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) membranes. The investors plan to support growth of TTG’s product lines and expand the company’s customer relationships and geographic footprint into new end markets such as apparel and electronics; Wintrust Bank provided senior debt for the transaction.
Green Cuisine, a San Fernando, California private-label food manufacturer owned by the Sanderson family, was sold to Fresh & Ready Foods, a San Fernando-based portfolio company backed by Akoya Capital, Balance Point Capital and Plexus Capital. KROST acted as exclusive financial advisor to Green Cuisine; the deal value was not disclosed and represents an add-on to Fresh & Ready Foods' platform to expand its prepared-food manufacturing capabilities.
Akoya Capital Partners, in partnership with Marquette Capital Partners, Merion Investment Partners and Indigo's management, has acquired Indigo Signworks, a Fargo, North Dakota-based manufacturer of exterior and interior signage. The investor group plans to work with existing management to expand product lines, customer relationships and the company’s geographic footprint.
Food Evolution LLC, a platform backed by Akoya Capital Partners with partners Balance Point Capital and Plexus Capital, has acquired Fresh & Ready Foods, Inc. as the first add-on to the Food Evolution platform. The transaction expands Food Evolution's geographic footprint and capabilities in the fresh prepared, grab-n-go food category across the Western United States.
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