Empowering. Strengthening. Enabling.

A Southern California-based investment firm with a proven track record of investing in companies and accelerating their growth and evolution through partnership, resources, and support.

Welcome To Solis

Solis” — the Latin word for “sun” or “of the sun” — not only symbolizes our name. It describes the ethos of the firm, which is fundamental, reliable, consistent, and empowering.

Our Difference

Founded in 2002, Solis Capital Partners has been creating value in lower middle market and middle market businesses for over two decades. What makes us unique is the way in which we collaborate with and support leaders of those companies to help them maximize their growth and potential.

Solis not only provides the capital necessary to build enterprise value, but also the strategic, operational, and financial support needed to propel companies to the next stages of their evolution.

Our Philosophy

Underlying everything we do is our core belief that leadership is the most important aspect of any company, and our role is to support our leaders any way we can in developing and executing their plan. As a result, our transactions typically are structured as partnerships so that everyone’s interests – company, leaders, stakeholders and Solis – are aligned.

Preferred Partner Profile

We typically invest up to $25 million in established companies generating revenues between $5 million – $100 million. Although we are agnostic, most of our acquisitions are in:

Services

Niche Manufacturing

Software

Value-added distribution

Services

Niche Manufacturing

Software

Value-added distribution

Preferred investments are headquartered in the United States in defensible niches with broad customer bases.

Our emphasis is on organic growth, along with strategic and accretive acquisitions where appropriate. Solis invests with a long-term view targeting a “next event” for all parties.

Key Investment Criteria

While each opportunity is evaluated based on its merits, Solis companies generally feature most or all of the following attributes:
Strong leader or leadership team with the desire and capability to grow the business
Proven business model with a growing, fragmented, domestic market size of at least $200 million
Intellectual property (IP), business processes or capabilities that create barriers to entry
Secure market position not subject to technological obsolescence
Revenues between $5 million and $100 million
Potential for significant growth.