Northwest Capital Appreciation has been acquiring and growing companies since it was founded in 1992 by Brad Creswell and Donald Tisdel. NCA has consistently built value by making investments in leveraged buyouts, consolidations, turnarounds, recapitalizations and growth financings of smaller middle market companies, defined as companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $250 million. Since its founding, NCA has invested and committed over $190 million of equity capital in ten investments.

NCA is one of the leading providers of private equity capital to Northwest-based companies, having invested $80 million of equity through over $200 million in total transaction value in the region. NCA has built a strong regional franchise based on an investment philosophy centered on sourcing smaller middle market investment opportunities that have certain identified inefficiencies where NCA can add incremental value through its expertise. The NCA team brings to each investment opportunity its combined sector knowledge and expertise in private equity, operations, investment banking and corporate governance to source, execute, manage and eventually exit regionally based, smaller middle market opportunities.