Newtown Square’s Graham Partners has raised $645.1 million for a new investment fund, continuing its mission to fund small and mid-size manufacturing businesses, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Graham invests in businesses across the United States that are seeking capital to perfect and market automation and other factory improvements.

It is one of a few Graham family-backed funds based in the Newtown Square office complex on the grounds of the former Charles Ellis School.

Graham Partners was founded by ex-Goldman Sachs and RAF Group investment banker Stephen C. Graham in 1988.

Companies Graham Partners bought or financed this fall include:

• Low Voltage Systems Inc., San Leandro, Calif.;
• Flexographic Packaging Co., Waupun, Wis.;
• Damping Technologies Inc., a South Bend, Ind., company that engineers aerospace vibration and noise control applications;
• Gatekeeper Systems, Foothill Ranch, Calif., which fights the national “increase in organized retail crime,” with “smart cart technologies that minimize loss and reduce asset and labor expenditures.”;
• VPET USA LLC, Fontana, Calif., a manufacturer of custom and stock PET plastic containers for food and beverages.

Read more about Graham Partners investment activity here.

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