Tipton Equity Partners is a middle-market private equity firm investing in promising enterprises in the US and in select emerging markets globally. Tipton Equity Partners primarily focuses on investments in healthcare, software and business services.Tipton Equity Partners invests buy-out and growth capital in privately held companies that have the potential to be niche market leaders, demonstrate a sustainable competitive advantage and a track record of profitability and steady cash flow. Overall, we partner with the existing management team and leverage our extensive backgrounds and energy to create value by contributing to strategic planning, operational improvement, organizational development, business development, and strategic sales and marketing.Tipton's principals are investors and operators, who bring their experience to bear from the strategic investment level down through active support of portfolio companies at the operational and business planning level. Tipton's leadership and advisors bring many decades of experience executing transactions in media, software, direct marketing, healthcare and knowledge process outsourcing.