Colin North

Colin North is an Associate Director at Peninsula Capital Partners, a Detroit-area private equity firm founded in 1995 that provides customized "junior capital" — subordinated debt, preferred stock, and equity — to middle-market companies in management buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, and independent-sponsor transactions. Peninsula has raised roughly $2.4 billion across eight funds and invested about $2.1 billion into 150-plus portfolio platforms since its founding.

Before Peninsula, North spent about six years at Shore Capital Partners, the Chicago-based (with a Nashville office) lower-middle-market/microcap private equity firm known for building healthcare and multi-industry platforms. He joined Shore as an intern in 2017 and came on full-time in 2018, working on dozens of transactions across healthcare, food & beverage, business services, and industrial sectors. His work there centered on identifying and diligencing acquisition targets, supporting portfolio-company initiatives, and assisting with special projects — the analyst/associate-level deal work that the original stub reflects (his [hidden] email and 312 area-code phone date from this period).

North earned a BS from the University of Notre Dame. Outside of work he lists spending time with his family and dog, traveling to Northern Michigan, and following Detroit sports.

Because his career to date has been in institutional private equity (control and structured-capital investing), the stub's characterization of him as an "Angel Investor" writing "Seed Round" checks does not match the verifiable record and appears to be a mis-tag.

• Invests through Peninsula's flexible-capital mandate: mezzanine/junior debt and equity in middle-market companies, as either a control or non-control (minority) investor.
• Deal types: independent-sponsor deals, management buyouts, and leveraged recapitalizations — i.e., established, cash-flowing businesses rather than early-stage startups.
• Firm check sizes: ~$5M–$40M mezzanine; ~$2M–$20M equity.
• Company profile Peninsula backs: businesses with at least ~$3M EBITDA and roughly $10M–$100M revenue, to whom the firm offers operational, strategic, and financial guidance alongside capital.
• Sector fluency built at Shore Capital across healthcare, food & beverage, business services, and industrials — a generalist, multi-industry lower-middle-market lens.