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Your partner in
next-level growth.

Erie Street brings strategic capital and transformational partnership to highly disrupted, changing business environments to unlock next-level growth.

For more than 30 years, our team of business-builders have partnered with founders, management teams, and investors growing business services companies to maximize potential and deliver outsized outcomes.

Purpose-built for founders looking for more than capital.

 

An alternative to traditional private equity, Erie Street provides founders a unique blend of strategic capital and transformational guidance creating a new kind of partnership model for growth.

Founder experience

In today’s transformational environment, high-growth companies need an empathetic partner who has been there, done that. Founders also often need a fresh injection of the entrepreneurial courage they had when they first started out.

Boundless partnership

We are fully committed to knowing your business inside and out. From the co-creation of a future vision to side-by-side activation, it’s a level of engagement that spans whiteboards to board rooms. 

Warm, patient capital

Backed by our network of 50+ family offices, we define a future vision and work to realize outsized outcomes — even if that’s outside typical time frames. Transforming services-led companies takes time, but also results in more lasting advantages. 

Cultural alignment

Our team of business-builders bring kindness, curiosity and courage to our work. We see the people inside the organization as partners — and that means spending time with and making decisions with those same people.

Four ways we help partners
create next-level value.

Leadership and talent:
Investing in people

We specialize in business services organizations — so people are at the center of everything. Working closely with our partners at Lacey Lake Leadership, we unlock business potential by identifying possibilities, attracting talent, and retaining and inspiring teams.

  • Talent strategy
  • Executive search
  • Human capital management

Revenue enhancement:
Designing for growth

Growth by design starts with a vision for what success looks like for the business – both quantitatively and qualitatively. Based on a shared vision, we build a strategy and prioritized roadmap, as well as help build the teams and programs to get there.

  • Growth vision and strategy
  • Go-to-market and business development strategy
  • Marketing communications advisory

Operational efficiency:
Driving excellence

Sound operations are the foundation of any growing organization. We partner to ensure your teams, systems, and processes are fit to scale efficiently as your business grows.

  • Finance and accounting infrastructure
  • Client delivery model
  • IT optimization

M&A:
Increasing market share

We bring 30+ years of experience successfully starting, buying, and selling businesses. Our partnerships with institutional investors and family offices provide the capital, resources, and expertise to drive growth and support management.

  • M&A strategy and target development
  • Due diligence, financing, and transaction services
  • Integration advisory

Erie Street by the numbers.

2018

Founded

20

Employees

6

Partner companies

50+

Investor families

Testimonial

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Erie Street’s value extends far beyond capital – they bring battle-tested strategic and operational expertise that has turbocharged our growth in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. What truly sets them apart is their collaborative approach – they respect our technical mastery while pushing us to envision a bolder future for our business.

With Erie Street as our partner, we embrace our innovative DNA and entrepreneurial spirit while implementing a scalable foundation to enable our growth trajectory.

Alex Kelleher

CEO of QuantumRise

Ready to talk growth?