TGP Investments

TGP Investments

TGP Investments was founded in 2005 by David Atterbury and Mark Fursa, who brought together operating and financial experience to target a narrow band of the US private equity market that larger firms routinely bypass. Headquartered in Kansas City, the firm focuses on control investments in lower middle market companies, typically those with meaningful potential for operational improvement. The firm's origination relies centrally on the operating backgrounds of its partners rather than auction processes. The firm writes equity checks that give it governance control, then deploys operational resources to professionalize family-founded businesses. Target sectors have consistently included business services, niche industrial manufacturing, healthcare services and consumer products. TGP has completed platform acquisitions and add-on integrations across the Midwest and Southeast, with known historical investments including packaging, logistics and facility-services companies. The geography often means these companies sit in secondary or tertiary markets where the firm's on-the-ground presence and relationships with regional intermediaries drive a proprietary deal funnel. TGP's team operates from a single office with a lean investment and operating-partner bench designed around the demands of majority positions. The firm's historic fund structures are traditional closed-end private equity vehicles raised from institutional limited partners, family offices and high-net-worth individuals. While the firm does not openly report total headcount, the partner-led model suggests a tightly integrated group in which senior investment professionals manage due diligence, deal structuring and post-close value creation directly. TGP's structural differentiator is its insistence on combining principal-level operating capabilities with a geographic focus on the center of the country. That dual mandate — invest only where the partnership can materially change operations, and only in regions where the firm's local network generates off-auction opportunities — shapes a portfolio that much institutionally concentrated capital never sees.