KCM Capital Partners

Kent McCarthy, the firm's founder and managing partner, chairs the investment committee and leads all investment decisions. His prior experience includes founding Jayhawk Capital, a multi-strategy investment firm, giving him a cross-asset perspective that informs KCM's concentrated private equity strategy.

KCM focuses on control buyouts and significant minority growth-equity investments in the lower middle market. The firm typically writes equity checks between $10 million and $50 million, targeting companies with $3 million to $15 million of EBITDA. This stage focus reflects a preference for businesses large enough to have proven unit economics but small enough to benefit from operational transformation.

KCM operates as an institutional asset manager and private equity firm, not a family office. While founder Kent McCarthy invests personal capital alongside external backers, the firm is structured to manage institutional and high-net-worth commitments through traditional commingled fund vehicles or deal-by-deal co-investment structures.

Jayhawk Capital is the earlier investment platform founded by Kent McCarthy, known for a multi-asset approach spanning public equities and private holdings. KCM Capital Partners represents McCarthy's dedicated private equity vehicle, drawing on relationships and sector expertise developed during the Jayhawk era but operating with a distinct lower-middle-market buyout and growth-equity mandate.

KCM sources opportunities primarily through proprietary networks built over McCarthy's multi-decade career. The firm's sector concentration in enterprise software, business services, and healthcare services allows it to develop repeat relationships with sub-sector intermediaries and founders. By avoiding broad auction processes, KCM aims to access transactions where operational expertise commands a seat at the negotiating table.