AIMPERAis a private investment firm founded in 2018 by Managing Partners Matt Carbone, Ryan Barnes, and Ed Leung. The AIMPERA team has worked to develop a results-driven, entrepreneurial, and forward-thinking culture underpinned by partnership, collaboration, and transparency. AIMPERA manages over $650 million in capital commitments[1] across its flagship fund, a single asset vehicle, and coinvestment funds.
AIMPERA generally seeks majority stake investments, often in family-owned infrastructure businesses. These businesses are typically pre-institutional in the North American lower middle market.
[1] As of July 2024.
Investment Strategy
Essential services over the
long-term
North American lower middle
market investments
$50-150m of equity per platform,
inclusive of add-on acquisitions
and development opportunities
Downside protection through
asset coverage and
recurring cash-flows
Partnership with meaningful
roll-over from management and owners
Repeatable process-driven
value creation model
Building sustainable companies
with a focus on improving ESG factors*
* While AIMPERA seeks to integrate certain ESG factors into its overall investment management processes, including certain of the standards and stratagies described herein, there is no guarantee that AIMPERA will be able to successfully apply such strategies of will be able to successfullly implement its ESG policy. Applying ESG factors to investment decisions is qualitative and subjective by nature, and there is no guarantee that the criteria utilized by AIMPERA or any judgement excercised by AIMPERA will reflect the beliefs or values of any particular investor.
Sector Focus
Targeted investment characteristics include downside protection, upside opportunity through owning operations and consolidation, current yield, low correlation, stable often contracted cash flows and high barriers to entry.
AIMPERA is rebranding to ERA Partners to better reflect our firm's identity,
investment focus, and value-creation process. Our new website (www.erapartners.com) is under development and we look forward to sharing it with you soon.