Prospect Partners
The Firm
Prospect Partners has been buying genuinely small companies since 1998, more than 175 investments across dozens of industries, with a stated target of $3 to $10 million of EBITDA on revenues of $15 to $100 million, a range it names the pre-middle market. Fund V closed at $225 million, small by design, because the firm's whole thesis lives below where larger funds can afford to look.
Its self-described selection filter is Entrepreneurial IQ, the ability to understand and resource entrepreneurs, and the target is a passionate management team at an inflection point, often taking institutional capital for the first time. The registry deals show the model in miniature: two managed-service providers bought into its Entech platform within four months.
This is the firm a self-funded searcher most literally competes with, because the bottom of Prospect's EBITDA range overlaps the top of a searcher's. A searcher's counter is speed and personal commitment against a firm that has run this exact play 175 times. For an interview, the load-bearing facts are the 1998 founding, the pre-middle-market coinage, the EIQ language, and the deliberately modest fund size.
Read again in September 2026: the IT platform's newest addition is a partnership whose release never says acquire, though the brand is retired and its owner joined as an employee, which is what a purchase looks like in the platform's own words. The sponsor's page reprints its platforms' releases under its own byline days later, so the platform's dateline is the day.
What It Buys
Chicago, Illinois. Calls its target the pre-middle market, which is genuinely small: the range where a self-funded searcher is a real rival bidder. Fund V closed at $225M.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
4 deals traced to announcements by Prospect Partners, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Florida Technology Specialists (into Entech) · September 9, 2026
A Florida managed IT company taken as a partnership; the brand retires this year and its owner joined the platform.
- C2 Computer Services (into Entech) · February 10, 2026
A Coral Springs managed-cybersecurity and IT provider, extending Entech across South Florida.
- INOVATIV (into ProClip) · January 22, 2026
A premium equipment cart and workflow brand bought by the firm's mobile mounting platform; not managed IT.
- LAN Infotech (into Entech) · November 10, 2025
An award-winning South Florida IT services firm folded into the Entech platform.