Chase Stiffler

Chase Stiffler is an investment professional at New Capital Partners (NCP), a Birmingham, Alabama–based lower middle-market private equity firm founded in 2001 that manages roughly $225 million across its private equity and economic development funds. He first joined NCP as a summer intern for two seasons while in school, then came on full-time in 2019 as an Analyst on the transaction team, where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and managing prospective investments in the firm's target sectors and for identifying strategic add-on acquisition opportunities for portfolio companies. NCP later listed his role as "CxO," reflecting his hands-on operating work with portfolio companies.

He earned a BBA in Finance and Real Estate, along with a certificate in Entrepreneurship, from the University of Georgia Honors Program.

Stiffler's work became especially focused on DotCom Therapy, an NCP healthcare portfolio company, where he took on finance and operational initiatives. In December 2023 he formally joined that company to lead its financial strategy and operations, and he now serves as its Chief of Staff and Interim Chief Financial Officer. In April 2024 the company rebranded from DotCom Therapy to Huddle Up, a national pediatric digital health company delivering therapy, IEP/504, RTI, and student mental-health services in schools and at home. This trajectory — evaluating an investment at NCP and then moving into an operating C-suite role at the portfolio company — is characteristic of NCP's operator-partner model.

• Invests through New Capital Partners in founder-owned, lower middle-market companies where the firm can partner closely with management — NCP describes itself as "dedicated to building great companies by creating true partnerships with management teams and serving customers' needs better than anyone else."
• Sectors: healthcare technology & services, fintech/financial services, and business technology & services.
• Financial criteria (firm-level): roughly $5M–$150M revenue, ~$3M+ EBITDA, market leaders in a niche with recurring revenue and scalable models; check sizes of about $5M–$100M for lead investments.
• Deal types: majority recapitalizations, minority growth investments, and co-investments in U.S.-based companies, with a Southeast/Texas geographic tilt.
• Emphasis on operational value-add and add-on M&A rather than purely financial engineering — Stiffler personally embodies this by taking operating roles inside portfolio companies.