Businesses Built to Last
Businesses, Built to Last: Aguad Capital Partners seeks to acquire one exceptional business and steward it through its next phase of growth. Our founder first approach is intended to preserve what works, strengthen operations, and build lasting value.
About Us
Aguad Capital Partners is a private investment firm formed to acquire, operate, and grow one exceptional lower-middle-market business in the United States. Structured as a traditional search fund, we pursue a disciplined, thesis-driven approach with a long-term ownership mindset.
Aguad Capital Partners focuses on businesses in food manufacturing and distribution—particularly frozen baked goods, specialty foodservice distribution, B2B catering components, and private-label packaged foods—where operational excellence, resilient cash flow, and strategic add-on growth can drive durable value creation.
Aguad Capital Partners is led by Juan Pablo Aguad, an experienced operator with a proven track record of building and scaling real operating businesses. We hope to partner with founders, employees, and investors to steward companies through their next phase of growth.
About the Principal
Juan Pablo Aguad is a Columbia University MBA recipient and and founder with a scaled P&L, proven in real manufacturing and distribution. In addition to his MBA, Juan received a Masters in Economics from the University of San Andres on a full tutition merit scholarship.
Most search principals highlight complementary backgrounds in finance and consulting; Juan brings what is scarce in this ecosystem: a founder-CEO who has already led a 180-person industrial operation at scale, delivered growth through shocks, and institutionalized a culture of accountability. That “owner-operator” DNA—combined with real M&A exposure and formal economics training—translates into day-one credibility with frontline teams, lenders, and sellers.