Exaltare Capital Partners

Managing Partner Omar Simmons leads the firm's investment decisions, supported by Partner Benjamin Kahn and Vice President Chris Crouse. Simmons founded Exaltare in 2012 and has structured the team around a small group of investment professionals rather than a large partnership committee, which is common in the lower middle-market. The firm's website lists this as the complete investment team alongside four Operating Affiliates who contribute to diligence and portfolio oversight.

Exaltare targets companies with $2 million to $25 million of EBITDA that operate multi-unit or franchise business models. The firm is industry-agnostic within consumer and services, having invested across food and beverage, health and wellness, industrial services, personal care, and business services. It prefers control investments — buyouts or recapitalizations with management rollover — and actively pursues add-on acquisitions for portfolio companies regardless of size, a strategy that has produced 17 platform and add-on deals representing over 250 locations.

Exaltare maintains a formal roster of Operating Affiliates — four individuals with deep operational backgrounds — who are listed alongside the investment team on the firm's website. These affiliates work directly with portfolio company management on strategic planning, acquisition execution, IT implementation, and market expansion. The model differs from conventional PE operating partner setups in that the affiliates appear to be dedicated to Exaltare's portfolio rather than hired on a deal-by-deal basis, though the exact structural arrangement has not been publicly detailed.

Exaltare has not publicly disclosed its fund structure, whether it raises blind-pool funds from institutional LPs or deploys capital through deal-by-deal vehicles. The firm's website describes completing 17 transactions since 2012 with over $900 million of capital deployed, which implies a private equity fund model or a series of committed capital pools rather than a single-family office balance sheet. No fund names, vintage years, or LP details have been made public.

Exaltare invests primarily in North American companies and supports those portfolio companies through global acquisition programs. The firm is headquartered in Dedham, Massachusetts, outside Boston, and maintains no additional offices. Operating from a single location aligns with the lower middle-market specialization, where proximity to portfolio companies in fragmented franchise sectors often matters more than a multi-city footprint.