Mammen Partners

Mammen Partners is a Houston-based investment firm specializing in partnering with small business founders and owners to enhance financial returns and operational efficiency. They focus on sectors such as industrial services, industrial software, tooling manufacture, and tooling distribution. Their investment approach emphasizes supporting founders and business operators by leveraging cross-sector global markets and business growth experience. The firm's primary purpose is to invest responsibly, focusing on underlying economic fundamentals, benefiting local community stakeholders, and generating liquidity for shareholders. Their core principles include investing based on fundamentals and economics, integrity and fair dealing, a long-term perspective, and acquiring overlooked businesses. Mammen Partners seeks to work with small business founders and owners aiming to elevate their companies by implementing proven best practices to improve financial returns, product throughput, and brand expansions. They believe that emerging small businesses are underserved by current capital sources, allowing them to strategically place capital with meaningful investment returns. The firm's investment philosophy blends the proprietary equity ownership approach employed by family office investors with the downside hedge provided by private debt, offering capital cross-tranche solutions. They have a proven history of guiding business owners and C-level executives on business planning, corporate development, and capital formation, with extensive experience in guiding management teams with operational turnaround, liquidity management, inventory optimization, manufacturing throughput, and cost efficiency improvements.