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Blue Sea Capital

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Blue Sea Capital is a private equity firm specializing in growth-oriented lower middle market companies. It targets opportunities in large, dynamic, secular growth manufacturing and service industries with special focus on aerospace & defense, healthcare, and industrial growth, partnering with managers and differentiated companies to provide strategic and operational value-add.

Focus Areas
Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Industrial Growth

Tracked deals

47

47 tracked deals across 2017-2025.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Addon

32 addon · 8 buyout · 6 growth capital

Blue Sea Capital Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 9 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 9 years for Blue Sea Capital. 1 2017 2 2018 7 2019 3 2020 11 2021 6 2022 7 2023 9 2024 1 2025

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

Showing the 12 most recent of 47 tracked deals for Blue Sea Capital.

  • Buyer
    Blue Sea Capital, LLC
    Target
    MicroCare Holdings, LLC
    Seller
    Heartwood Partners III, LP (Heartwood Partners)
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Buyout

    Blue Sea Capital has acquired MicroCare Holdings, LLC, a New Britain, Connecticut-based maker of precision cleaning consumables for healthcare, aerospace & defense, data centers, electronics and other critical markets. Terms were not disclosed; the transaction represents an exit by Heartwood Partners (Fund III) and positions MicroCare for accelerated product development, organic growth and complementary add-on acquisitions under Blue Sea's ownership.

  • Buyer
    Rhino Tool House, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    UWBA Design
    Seller
    Scott Nolan, Uwe Banaschak
    Type
    Addon

    Rhino Tool House, a PE-backed value-added distributor headquartered in Concord, North Carolina, has acquired Columbus, Indiana-based automation controls firm UWBA Design. Backed by Blue Sea Capital, the acquisition expands Rhino Tool House's controls and programming capabilities and is the fifth add-on completed during Blue Sea Capital's partnership with the platform.

  • Buyer
    Flagger Force, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    NTC Traffic Control
    Seller
    Robin Hall, Michelle James
    Type
    Addon

    Flagger Force, a Hummelstown, Pennsylvania–based short-term traffic control operator, has acquired Louisville, Kentucky–based NTC Traffic Control to expand its operations into Kentucky and the Midwest. Flagger Force is a portfolio company of private equity firm Blue Sea Capital; the transaction brings NTC's traffic management, emergency response and equipment rental capabilities into Flagger Force's platform.

  • Buyer
    Flagger Force, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Florida Temporary Traffic Control (Florida TTC)
    Seller
    Joseph Marsal
    Industry
    Infrastructure
    Type
    Addon

    Flagger Force, a Blue Sea Capital portfolio company headquartered in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, has acquired Florida Temporary Traffic Control (Florida TTC), a Boca Raton-based provider of short-term traffic control services and equipment rentals. The add-on acquisition expands Flagger Force's footprint in South and Central Florida and enhances its capabilities serving utilities, telecommunications, government and event customers.

  • Buyer
    Plasma Processes, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Metaltech Machine & Tool
    Industry
    Manufacturing
    Type
    Addon

    Plasma Processes, a Huntsville-based provider of ultra-high temperature materials, coatings and propulsion systems, has acquired Metaltech Machine & Tool, a Scottsboro, Alabama wire EDM-focused machine shop that has supported customers for 27 years and supplied Plasma for over 15 years. The purchase vertically integrates key machining and metal-finishing capabilities into the Plasma Processes platform, which is backed by private equity firm Blue Sea Capital.

  • Buyer
    Apex Physics Partners, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Spectrum Medical Physics Inc.
    Type
    Addon

    Apex Physics Partners (APP), the largest outsourced medical physics services organization in North America and backed by Blue Sea Capital, announced a partnership with Spectrum Medical Physics Inc., a leading provider of therapy medical physics and dosimetry consulting in western Ohio. The deal expands APP’s footprint and clinical capabilities in Ohio and the broader Midwest and brings Spectrum’s CAMPEP‑approved therapy residency program into APP’s national network.

  • Buyer
    ProSource, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Southern Distributing Co. of Lake City
    Seller
    Robbie Steele / Steele family (President and Owner)
    Type
    Addon

    ProSource, a Greenville, South Carolina-based wholesale distributor backed by Blue Sea Capital, has acquired Southern Distributing Co. of Lake City, a family-owned plumbing and electrical supplies distributor founded in 1972. The acquisition will rebrand Southern Distributing as ProSource and expand ProSource's product offerings and geographic reach across the Southeast.

  • Buyer
    Rhino Tool House, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    MP Industrial
    Type
    Addon

    Rhino Tool House, a PE-backed value-added distributor based in Concord, North Carolina, has acquired MP Industrial, a Tacoma, Washington-based provider of assembly tools, material handling solutions and calibration services. The add-on expands Rhino Tool House’s Western U.S. footprint and boosts its repair, maintenance and calibration capabilities as part of the platform backed by Blue Sea Capital.

  • Buyer
    Rhino Tool House, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Power Tools & Supply, Inc.
    Seller
    Jeff McClure
    Type
    Addon

    Rhino Tool House, a value-added distributor headquartered in Concord, North Carolina and backed by Blue Sea Capital, has acquired Power Tools & Supply, Inc., a Walled Lake, Michigan-based distributor of assembly tools and material handling solutions. The acquisition expands Rhino Tool House's presence in Michigan and Northern Ohio and increases local service capabilities for automotive and automation integration customers.

  • Buyer
    Apex Physics Partners, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Medical Physics Consulting, Inc.
    Type
    Addon

    Apex Physics Partners (APP), a PE-backed national provider of outsourced medical physics services, has partnered with Medical Physics Consulting, Inc. (MPC), a therapy medical physics and dosimetry consulting firm serving Missouri, Illinois and Oklahoma. APP, backed by Blue Sea Capital, will provide business and operations support to help MPC scale while MPC’s founder Russell Gerber and his team continue to lead regional clinical services.

  • Buyer
    Rhino Tool House, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    BoMar Pneumatics, Inc.
    Type
    Addon

    Rhino Tool House, a PE-backed value-added distributor based in Concord, North Carolina, has acquired BoMar Pneumatics, Inc., a provider of assembly tool and material handling solutions based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The acquisition expands Rhino Tool House's geographic footprint in central Indiana and strengthens its ability to serve local manufacturing and OEM customers; Blue Sea Capital is the platform sponsor backing Rhino Tool House.

  • Buyer
    Specialty Smile Partners, Blue Sea Capital
    Target
    Albany Braces, Where Smiles Grow, Battiste Orthodontics, Schenectady Pediatric Dentistry
    Industry
    Dental
    Type
    Addon

    Specialty Smile Partners, a doctor-led management services organization backed by Blue Sea Capital, announced strategic partnerships with four New York specialty dental practices: Albany Braces, Where Smiles Grow, Battiste Orthodontics, and Schenectady Pediatric Dentistry. The affiliations expand Specialty Smile Partners' footprint into New York and bring the practices access to centralized business services and operational support from the MSO and its PE backer.

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