Piedmont Partners Group Ventures, LLC (“PPGV”) is a private equity investment firm founded with a mission to be advocates for business leaders with transformational ideas. Founded in 2009 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, PPGV seeks to partner with entrepreneurs and management teams who hold unique insights in their sectors and provide a long term view of creating value. Our goal is to bring these leaders our energy, creativity, activism, capital, and resources.  We tend to avoid me-too strategies and prefer to back businesses that break ground with original business models, strategy and products. 
What We Look For

Well thought-out business models with attractive growth prospects

Enterprise Value: $40MM to $950MM

EBITDA: $4MM to $90MM

Focus Sectors: Technology, Retail & Consumer, Healthcare, Entrepreneurial Finance, Professional Services, Cleantech and Industrials
What We Offer

Transaction Types: Growth Capital, LBO, MBO, Carve-out, Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Recapitalization, Ownership Transition

Bottom up and top down Business Re-engineering & Consulting 

Advisory and Transaction Services

Financial Modeling, Operations Review, Due Diligence and Strategy
Perspective

PPGV is passionate about structuring solutions to business challenges and working with management teams to realize growth or unlock hidden potential. Through our network of capital partners and consultants we are able to bring an eclectic portfolio of resources to management teams. From time to time, PPGV will explore and select ideas outside of our general parameters when opportunity knocks. We are a small team and cover only a limited number of industries, but we go extraordinarily deep in our research. Our history gives us a wealth of experience in international businesses focused on East and Southeast Asia, UK/Europe, as well as those closer to home in the Western U.S.

PPGV never expects deals to waltz in our front door.  Our day-to-day involves heading out to meet with managers and examine operations.  We prefer to act as both investors and advisors in transactions whenever possible.  

For early stage start-ups and small-cap companies in need of critical thinking,  PPGV supports innovative entrepreneurs through mentoring and affiliation with several Bay Area business incubators.