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 45+ 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
7
Partner companies
55
Investor families
We considered more than 180 potential partners along our journey and from the start, Erie Street was the one to beat. With Erie Street, you begin to transform from day one. They listen to your hopes and dreams and learn about your obstacles, then put together a transformation plan to unlock that next level of growth.
Jim Misener
President, 50,000feet