We create value from disruption
in service-led businesses.
Erie Street was created to provide founders of service-led businesses with strategic capital and hands-on operational guidance. We believe disruption has the power to create transformational growth for organizations and people alike.

Seekers of disruption.
Investors in service expertise.
Disruptive growth
Technology, cultural shifts, and market movements continue to disrupt the way business is done — and the way value is created and perceived. These disruptions have the power to create transformational growth opportunities for organizations and people alike.
In a world where disruption is the new normal and the drivers of value continue to change, we believe it’s time for new types of value creation partnerships as well. Our partnerships are designed to turn disruption into transformational growth.
Service expertise
In today’s transformational environment, business services organizations need a partner with the operational experience to see beyond risk and the entrepreneurial courage to capture growth.
Erie Street’s team of business-builders has partnered with founders and management teams of service-led businesses for over 30 years, growing companies in consulting, strategic communications, digital and marketing services — spanning start-up through initial public offering.
Our approach to growth
spans four focus areas.
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
Our people make an extraordinary partnership experience possible.
Chairman and CEO
President
Managing Director, Investments and Value Creation
We seek partners and investors
that share our values.
Kindness
We treat everyone with the respect and kindness we expect for ourselves. Services-led businesses are essentially people helping people, and we ensure kindness is at the center of every interaction.
Curiosity
Finding new ways to unlock next-level growth demands thinking beyond the expected and obvious. We seek to constantly question concepts and processes in order to improve — and uncover the next opportunity.
Courage
Overcoming continuous waves of disruption requires an inner strength to remain steadfast, to ask the tough questions, to ensure honesty and integrity in everything, and to attack challenges on the way to next-level growth.
Erie Street by the numbers.
2018
Founded
20
Employees
7
Partner companies
55
Investor families
Disruption is the new normal — it has the power to create transformational growth opportunities for founders, investors, and teams alike.
Terry Graunke
Chairman and CEO
Exclusive investment opportunities for family offices.
Erie Street exclusively serves family investment offices — providing the patient capital and access needed to get founder-led businesses to the next level.
Ready to talk growth?
An alternative to traditional private equity, our partnerships are designed to turn disruption into transformational growth.