About Dogwood Equity

Dogwood Equity was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina with a satellite office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dogwood Equity is a private equity fund that makes equity investments in control buyouts and select non-control investments in closely-held companies located in the Southeastern United States. Dogwood focuses exclusively on the small cap market, which Dogwood defines as companies with less than $75 million in revenues.

Dogwood's first fund was $74 million and focused on companies in North Carolina. The principals executed 11 investments in Fund I. Dogwood II targets companies in the Southeastern United States, specifically from Maryland to North Florida and east of the Mississippi River.  The principals at Dogwood possess a unique combination of skill sets with over 85 years in economic development, commercial banking and high risk lending, traditional private equity, leveraged finance and investment banking.