Rural American Fund Mergers and Acquisitions Summary

Private Equity Firm Profile

In the last 3 years, Rural American Fund has invested in 1 company.

Rural American Fund’s most common sectors for investment arechemicals (50%) and marketing (50%) . The Firm’s most common investment types include growth capital (100%). In total, Rural American Fund has invested in 2 US states.

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M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity2
    • M&A Buy Activity2
  • Total Sectors Invested 2
  • Total Countries Invested 1

Rural American Fund

115 South LaSalle Street, Suite 2920,
Chicago, Illinois 60603
United States
(312) 750-0662
www.raflp.com

Rural American Fund is a private equity firm that specializes in lower middle-market companies operating in agriculture or ag-related industries. The Firm will consider a variety of transaction situations including recapitalizations, acquisition financings, growth financings, and other liquidity needs. Rural American prefers control situations where it can commit $5 million per transaction. Specific ares of interest include agronomic testing, crop nutrients/fertilizers, crop production, food security, irrigation, protein production, seeds, agriculture chemicals, and agriculture equipment/machinery. Rural American was formed in 2007 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.


Investment Criteria

Sectors of Interest: Agriculture, Chemicals, Food

Target Transaction Types: Buyout (LBO, MBO, MBI), Growth Capital, Recapitalization, Acquisition Financing

Geographic Preferences: East US, Midwest US, South US, West US

Transaction Criteria Min Max
Target Revenue 10 -
Target EBITDA 2 -
Investment Size 5 10
Enterprise Value - -
values in millions of USD

M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 T
Buy (0.2/yr) # 1 - 1 - - - 2
Sell (0.0/yr) # - - - - - - 0
  2

Most Recent M&A

Company Date Value Type
Firehouse Strategies 2022-09-28 - Growth Capital
Washington, District of Columbia · www.firehousestrategies.com
Aquatrols Corporation of America, Inc. 2015-05-01 - Growth Capital
Paulsboro, New Jersey · www.aquatrols.com
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M&A by Sector

Sector Current # Value All-time # Value
Chemicals 1 (50%) - 1 (50%) -
Marketing 1 (50%) - 1 (50%) -
Total 2 - 2 -

Acquisitions By Geo

State/Country Current # Value All-time # Value
United States 2 (100%) - 2 (100%) -
  New Jersey 1 (50%) - 1 (50%) -
  District of Columbia 1 (50%) - 1 (50%) -
Total 2 - 2 -

Acquisitions by Deal Type

Type Current # Value All-time # Value
Growth Capital 2 (100%) - 2 (100%) -
Total 2 - 2 -

Investor Summary

Investor Type

Private Equity Firm

Size

Small

Established

2007

Specialist/Generalist

Specialist

Leadership

Mia Koch

Founding Member & Principal

Thomas Karlson

Founding Principal

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