# Shore Search Partners

The search arm of a prolific microcap buyer.

The search fund arm of a Chicago microcap private equity firm, with its own section, its own six-person team and a second dedicated fund that closed at almost two hundred and twenty-five million dollars. It backs experienced executives pursuing acquisitions in what it calls the traditional search investment range, and offers an accelerator program, network and toolkit rather than a published search budget. The parent has executed more than a thousand microcap transactions.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://shorecp.com
- Last verified: 2026-09-09

## At a Glance

A route into a large buyout platform's resources, and one where a searcher should be clear that the parent also bids.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees. No fee is charged to a searcher; what the firm publishes about its own side is in the row.

## Best For

A searcher who wants the resources of a large microcap buyer behind them, and is comfortable that the same parent may be the other bidder.

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Backed by a firm with more than a thousand microcap transactions behind it, which is a resource no independent backer matches
- Pro: Its second dedicated search fund is sized publicly at almost $225 million
- Pro: Publishes a named team for the search arm specifically rather than folding it into the parent
- Con: Publishes no search budget: the support it names is an accelerator program, a network and a toolkit rather than money during the search
- Con: Calls its searchers executives and asks for experienced ones, which reads close to a bar without stating one
- Con: The parent is an active acquirer in the same size range, so a searcher may meet it on the other side of a deal

## What Searchers Say

The parent firm is already on this site's acquirer shelf, where its searcher program flag was wrong until this reading corrected it.

## Sources

- https://shorecp.com

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/shore-search-partners