Pacific Growth Investors

PGI sources opportunities across the Western US, focusing on Precision Manufacturing, Business Services, Technology, and General Industrial sectors. The firm targets companies with at least $20 million in revenue and an experienced management team that wants to remain in place. Co-founders Mark Sampson and Thomas Webster lead sourcing, leaning on a three-fund track record and operating-partner relationships to access off-market lower-middle-market situations.

The firm structures flexibly, combining common equity, preferred equity, senior secured debt, and subordinated debt with warrants. Ticket sizes run $5 million to $25 million per transaction. The structure is designed to provide growth capital, acquisition financing, or recapitalization liquidity without forcing founders to cede operating control — a feature the firm highlights as central to its model.

PGI takes majority or significant minority equity positions but explicitly leaves operating control with existing management. It acts as the control financial sponsor while positioning itself as a collaborative board-level partner rather than an operator. Operating Partners Robert Thompson and Timothy Dowd supplement portfolio-company teams with strategic and operational support on an as-needed basis.

PGI frames its sustainability work around three pillars — Profits, People, and Planet — and ties value creation to reinvestment in employee training, benefits, facility upgrades, and energy reduction. At Spectra Aerospace, the firm partnered with management to rebuild two manufacturing facilities with more efficient equipment and processes. The framework is not a separate impact fund but an operating philosophy embedded in standard deal work.