Investment Criteria
Pacific Community Ventures, LLC is a generalist fund but we place special emphasis on small, high-growth California businesses in the following industries:
- Specialty food products
- Ethnic products and services
- Health and wellness
- Custom, low-capital intensity manufacturing
- Environmentally-friendly focused products
Additionally, businesses actively employing “green” and sustainable business practices are of particular interest to us.
Opportunities that are a good fit for Pacific Community Ventures, LLC will typically share the following characteristics:
Investment Size
Company Size
- $5 million to $50 million
Company Characteristics
- Seasoned and proven management team
- Strong revenue growth
- Substantial gross margins
- Near or beyond operating profitability
- Defensible competitive advantages
- Portion of workforce from low/moderate income communities
We are flexible in terms of the types of transaction we support, with our investments typically falling into one of the following categories:
- Growth equity
- Management led buy-outs
- Liquidity for family-owned or closely-held companies
- Recapitalizations/restructurings to facilitate growth