Tal Weiss

Tal Weiss is a private equity investment professional based in the Los Angeles area. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California (USC) and built his career executing middle-market private equity transactions.

Weiss spent the early part of his career as an Investment Professional at Ocean Avenue Capital Partners, an independent private equity firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. Ocean Avenue focuses on the lower middle market and special-situation investments, frequently partnering with independent sponsors across North America. There, Weiss "focused on executing middle-market private equity transactions across various end markets" — sourcing, diligence, and deal execution work typical of an analyst/associate-level investor rather than a check-writing principal.

In 2025 he moved to Bison Capital Asset Management, LLC, a Los Angeles–based lower-middle-market private equity firm, where he currently serves as a Senior Associate. Bison provides flexible equity and debt capital to proven lower-middle-market companies for growth, acquisitions, and recapitalizations, allowing existing owner-operators to retain meaningful equity.

Note on the source record: the stub profile labels Weiss an "Analyst / Angel Investor / Seed Round." That characterization is not supported by any primary source. Both firms he has worked at are control-oriented lower-middle-market private equity managers investing in established, profitable companies — not seed-stage angel investing. Founders seeking seed capital are unlikely to be a fit.

• Operates within lower-middle-market private equity, not venture — target companies are established and cash-flow-positive, not pre-revenue startups.
• Bison Capital (current firm) criteria: investment sizes of ~$7.5M–$60M; companies with revenue of $20M–$500M and EBITDA greater than $5M; attractive free cash flow, limited technological-obsolescence risk, and significant ongoing management ownership.
• Bison is willing to invest in both equity and debt of a company to meet its capital needs while letting existing managers keep meaningful equity ("we do not manage companies; we work in collaboration with management teams").
• Ocean Avenue Capital (prior firm) thesis: targets "inefficient markets, as defined by either the size or the complexity of the transactions" — small-cap and complex situations, founder-owned businesses with EBITDA of ~$3M–$15M in fragmented, defensible markets; equity checks of ~$10M–$25M, majority or minority, US/Canada.
• Sector approach is industry-agnostic with a bias toward durable, low-tech-risk business models (business services, healthcare services, industrials, tech-enabled services).