About
What We Do
At Tenth Street Group, we invest in cash flowing small businesses that do real, essential work — the kind of businesses that keep the economy running but don’t make headlines.
These are often companies in industrials, manufacturing, building materials, paper and packaging, specialty distribution and services. They’re not flashy — but they’re durable, profitable and deeply embedded in their local communities.
Our approach is to acquire businesses with strong operating cash flow and hold them for the long term. Rather than relying on a buy-and-flip strategy, we focus on steady operations and disciplined reinvestment, allowing investors to participate through regular cash distributions.
This approach resonates with business owners who care about what happens after the sale to their employees, customers and legacy — not just the price they receive.
It also resonates with investors who want exposure to real businesses that generate income, compound over time, and are insulated from the noise and volatility of public markets.
We view ourselves as longterm owners and stewards of American small businesses — focused on durability, cash flow, and responsible growth. Check out our investment criteria page.
We buy family owned, founder owned and small group of operating partner companies.
We build security around the business you’ve built over time through caring what happens to your company next.
Build Security
We offer an environment were exceptional talent at your company could build a lasting career post acquisition/investment.
Lasting Career
With our experience and toolbox of value creation methods, building your company stronger is our bread and butter.
Build Strong Businesses
Caring for PEOPLE, day in and day out.
We’re proud that the acquisitions and investment solutions we provide help bring many of life’s daily necessities - toilet tissue and wet wipes, corrugated boxes, cans of soft drinks, bags of dog food, containers of yogurt, pharmaceuticals, envelopes and more - to people across the globe. But that’s just what we do.
What truly defines us as a business is how we do it, and that’s by fostering a caring, trusting, nurturing organizational culture through which people feel safe to express their ideas and share their gifts and talents. We understand that most fundamental of human needs: to know that who we are and what we do matter. Through our business, we have the unique opportunity to let our team members know that they do. And when they feel valued and cared for at work, they return home and enjoy better relationships with their loved ones, friends, neighbors and others.