Axel Diego Quintero Marmol Ramos

Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is an investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrial challenges

Founded by Jasper Lau, Era is an investment firm backed by leading closely-held family enterprises across 19 countries and 25 industries. Era brings together the collective expertise, industry intel, and strategic capital of the firm’s families to invest in category-defining technology companies solving civilization’s biggest industrial challenges

Gauge Capital is a private equity firm that partners with owners, managers and equity stakeholders of successful middle-market companies to maximize their potential. Gauge’s primary aim is long-term, sustainable value creation through alignment of interests, transformational change and organic and strategically acquired growth. The Gauge team collaborates with management and its network of advisors and influencers and primarily focuses on four things: (1) optimizing the strategy and value creation agenda; (2) ensuring the right talent exists at the management and board levels; (3) creating alignment among all stakeholders; and (4) providing sufficient capital to achieve the company’s vision. Gauge invests in high-potential businesses in the United States and Canada with $5-50 million in EBITDA. Typical transactions include management buy-outs, recapitalizations, divestitures, consolidation, and growth investments.

We partner with experienced operators and entrepreneurs to offer business owners an operational succession plan alongside a financial exit. One of our Entrepreneurs in Residence takes a full time leadership role within each business we acquire and is committed to growing it for the long-term. This allows us to provide business owners a way to transition out of daily management responsibilities and know their legacy is going to be preserved and nurtured to further prosperity. We acquire businesses out of a committed fund, so there is no risk in our ability to close. Our team includes highly experienced entrepreneurs, operators and investors focused on long-term growth. Please visit our website at https://nextgengp.com to learn more.