Your legacy
- We protect the name you've built with primes and customers
- Your team, your certifications, your standards — preserved
- Flexible structures: full sale, majority, or recapitalization
- Owners stay involved as long as it's right for them
Active thesis · Tier-2 / Tier-3 mission hardware
A partner who understands quals, primes, and what your certifications are worth.
Emko partners with aerospace and defense suppliers behind the primes — aerostructures, electronics, precision machining, and specialty materials — where AS9100, ITAR, and program history are the moat, not buzzwords on a teaser.
01 — Why Emko
We've already invested in this supply chain.
A&D transactions turn on qualified-supplier status, multi-year backlogs, and relationships with primes that can't be reconstituted overnight. Through Solestra and related work, we already operate in that world — so diligence stays focused, credible, and respectful of the programs you support.
Your sector
- 100% focused on industrial manufacturing
- Aerospace, defense, naval, and marine systems
- Aerostructures, electronics, components, materials
- Engineered, mission-critical products and services
Your business
- $0–10M EBITDA
- $10–100M revenue
- Family-owned, succession plans, complex carve-outs
- Healthy & growing or underperforming
- Certainty to close — investing out of committed funds
02 — Where we invest
Mission-critical hardware suppliers, not broad industrials.
We concentrate on Tier-2 and Tier-3 businesses with real A&D content — structures, electronics and optics, munitions-adjacent components, specialty materials, and precision machining tied to flying or fielded platforms.
01FAA · DFARS
Aerostructures & Assemblies
Engineered aerostructures and complex assemblies for commercial and defense platforms.
02ITAR
Defense Electronics & Optics
Defense electronics, sensors, and precision optics for mission-critical systems.
03Tier 2
Ground Vehicle & Munitions
Components for ground-vehicle, weapons, and munitions programs.
04Mil-Spec
Specialty Materials & Coatings
Specialty materials, coatings, and processes qualified to military specifications.
05AS9100
Precision Machining
Tight-tolerance machining for flight-critical and defense hardware.
06MRO
Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul
Aftermarket MRO and sustainment work tied to long program lifecycles.
03 — By the numbers
The Emko Capital portfolio.
Platforms
05across the portfolioTransactions
15+completed to dateYears Investing
09operating since 2017Employees Supported
1000+across the platformSq/ft Manufacturing
800K+production capacity04 — For owners
We've sat in your chair.
Most of our partners have built and run manufacturing businesses themselves. We know what it feels like to weigh decades of work against what comes next — for your family, your team, and the prime contractors and programs who depend on you.
Every conversation is confidential, direct, and free of investment-bank theater.
- Deep experience with aerospace, defense, and naval supply chains — primes and Tier 2/3 suppliers
- We speak AS9100, ITAR, DFARS, and qualified-supplier language fluently
- A team of engineers, operators and entrepreneurs — not just financiers
- Real experience with family-business complexity and corporate carve-outs
- Focused on doing right by sellers, employees, and the programs you support
- Certainty to close — investing out of committed funds, not searching for capital
05 — What to expect
A process built for owners, not bankers.
01
Confidential conversation
A direct call with a partner — no analysts, no decks. We listen, you decide if we should keep talking.
02
Indication of value
Within 2–3 weeks of receiving basic financials, we share a clear, written view on value and structure.
03
Diligence done right
Focused, respectful diligence run by our team — not outsourced. We protect your customers, certifications and clearances throughout.
04
Closing & continuity
Funded from committed capital, certainty to close. Day one, your team, customers and programs continue uninterrupted.
06 — News
Stay in the know.
Apr 5, 2026AerospaceSolestra Group expands A&D platform with acquisition of AeroFabFeb 20, 2026PortfolioScotchman Industries featured on Magnolia NetworkJul 31, 2025AerospaceSolestra Group expands North American aerospace platform with LHM TechnologiesApr 21, 2025IndustrialSMX Industrial Solutions announces acquisition of Preston Eastin
07 — Engage
Confidential. Direct.
If you own a business in the aerospace & defense supply chain and are thinking about what's next, send a note. Every message reaches a partner — usually with a reply within 48 hours.