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Prepared for Brooks Burgum
LongWater · Custom Assets
Prepared for Brooks Burgum
This is what we see working best right now for lower middle market PE firms raising from accredited investors. Inside you will find a dedicated landing page and 4 image ads with paired scripts that LongWater can launch as a paid accredited LP acquisition test for the SBIC fund.
We built this landing page so the first paid traffic you ever send to it converts accredited investors into booked calls automatically, without your team having to write copy or build a funnel from scratch.
We built these 4 ads to put your $800M track record in front of accredited LPs, without you needing to test 20 variations to find a winner.
We wrote these 4 ad scripts in the same language LongWater already uses with accredited LPs, so you can run them without rewriting a single line.
Accredited Investors:
LongWater Opportunities has spent 16 years investing only in the lower middle market across the American Heartland, and we manage $800M today across 5 asset classes from offices in Fargo, Dallas, St. Louis, and Boston.
For you as an accredited investor, this is one of the few simple ways to get into founder-owned and family-owned industrial businesses with $4M+ EBITDA without buying and running deals on your own. The same team that opened the Fargo office in 2009 still finds every deal and still votes on every deal we close.
Ark PES handles our back-office paperwork, which is the same firm that most large LPs require before they invest in a private fund.
Book a 15-minute intro call to walk through the active portfolio and the next open fund window.
Accredited Investors Only. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
Accredited Investors:
The right way to pick a lower middle market manager is to look at what they have actually returned to LPs. LongWater Opportunities has 18 active portfolio companies bought between 2018 and 2025, sitting next to 6 realized exits that we have already bought and sold. Those exits include Fox River, Circuitronics, Lewis Cabinet Specialties, M3 Glass Technologies, San Benito Shutter, and AstreaX.
For you as an accredited investor, having both an active book with current vintages and a closed loop of realized exits across several credit cycles is the rare setup that lets you see what we are buying today and what we have already sold, before you put money into a new fund or co-investment.
The first deal closed in 2009. The first exit closed in 2014. The same 2 co-founders still sign every quarterly investor letter that leaves the Fargo office.
Book a 15-minute intro call to walk through the realized track record and the active portfolio.
Accredited Investors Only. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
Accredited Investors:
LongWater Opportunities opened our first SBIC fund in 2025 and made our first investment in July 2025 with Valley Lighting. The SBIC structure adds SBA loan capacity on top of investor money, which can lift returns on lower middle market industrial deals.
For you as an accredited investor, this is a fresh open window into a fund type that most lower middle market managers never get approved to run. It sits on top of 16 years of track record at LongWater, not a brand-new team trying out a new product.
The SBIC fund buys the same founder-owned and family-owned industrial businesses across the American Heartland that we have been investing in since 2009. Same investment committee. Same fund administrator. Same rules.
Book a 15-minute intro call to walk through the SBIC fund and the accredited steps.
Accredited Investors Only. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
Accredited Investors:
The LongWater private equity strategy buys control positions in private, founder-owned and family-owned North American industrial businesses with $4M+ EBITDA. We invest in industrial services, power, distribution, building products, transportation, infrastructure, specialty manufacturing, and farm-related companies.
For you as an accredited investor, control investing at this size is one of the few private equity strategies where the manager actually runs the business. We hold the controlling stake and sit on the board, rather than riding along as a minority next to a bigger sponsor that calls the shots.
The American Heartland focus is on purpose. LongWater goes after a part of the market that big private capital firms tend to skip, run out of our Fargo, North Dakota headquarters with 3 more offices in Dallas, St. Louis, and Boston.
Book a 15-minute intro call to walk through the active portfolio and the next deals in our pipeline.
Accredited Investors Only. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
In the call we will walk through the landing page and the 4 ads with their paired scripts together, and we will lay out the budget, audience, and timeline that LongWater can use to test paid accredited LP acquisition for the SBIC fund.