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Gold Ridge Asset Management
Gold Ridge Asset Management helps small businesses primarily along the east coast of the United States grow through providing capital and business expertise.
Gold Ridge Asset Management
Gold Ridge Asset Management helps small businesses primarily along the east coast of the United States grow through providing capital and business expertise. It is a private equity and investment firm focused on micro cap companies with positive cash flow and valuations typically less than $10 million. The firm provides funding for acquisitions, growth capital and ownership changes, primarily via convertible securities or debt with warrants, and also acts as a business broker representing buyers.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2005
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Mount Pleasant
Corporate office
Mount Pleasant, SC, United States
Principals
Michael G. Knox
CFA, President
Manish Aggarwal
Managing Partner
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What is Gold Ridge Asset Management's investment stage focus?
Gold Ridge invests across expansion, growth, and succession stages. The firm's strategy encompasses providing growth capital to founder-led businesses, funding generational ownership transitions, and executing buy-and-build strategies where a platform company can consolidate fragmented regional industries through add-on acquisitions. All of its deal activity remains centered on privately held operating companies, not startups or venture-stage entities.
Where does Gold Ridge Asset Management invest geographically?
The firm concentrates its investments in the Southeastern United States, with its headquarters in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, positioning it to cover the Carolinas, Georgia, and adjacent markets. This regional specialization is designed to reduce competition from national funds that rely on intermediated auctions and to build a local network that surfaces off-market opportunities in family-owned industrial businesses.
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