Parker O'Shea
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Parker — been working on outbound origination with automotive & residential services funds and Etium Capital has been on my radar. would be good to connect.
Parker — though we both spent time in PE, I've seen first-hand how challenging early proprietary origination can be. Jealous of what you've built at Etium. Been helping funds like Mentmore and Wingman with their outbound origination — curious what email infrastructure you're using these days — still mostly on shared IPs like Instantly, or have you moved to private/dedicated senders? Happy to share what's working best for similar automotive & services funds if useful. — Russ
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Parker — Saw you went from Goldman to Silver Point to launching Etium — and caught the Empires podcast on the Meineke investment. Auto aftermarket is a great space to roll up. I had a similar arc — Credit Suisse, then Greenhill in London, then deploying €10-30M growth tickets at Treis. The investing was the fun part, the sourcing was brutal — so I built SearchLoop to fix it. Backer Group in the UK uses it to source service and light manufacturing businesses — map targets across a sector → score on acquisition fit → reach owners and book meetings. Everything's custom-built to their thesis and plugs into their CRM. With Etium focused on auto aftermarket and similar industrials, there's a version of this that maps well to your acquisition criteria — worth a quick call to walk through what a pipeline like that looks like? Russ searchloop.ai linkedin.com/in/russellt23
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## PROSPECT INFORMATION: Name: Parker O'Shea Title: Senior Partner Fund: Etium Capital Background: Please provide the Profile Data and Posts Data you would like me to analyze. I am ready to extract the focus, background, skills, and specific post quotes as soon as the information is pasted. Fund details: - Description: Founded in 2023, Etium Capital is a New York–based private equity firm focused on lower middle-market buy-and-build opportunities within resilient, service-based industries. In September 2023, Etium launched Velocity Automotive, which is now a 23+ unit Meineke platform and top-three franchisee in the system, recognized by Driven Brands as 2024 Multi-Unit Operator of the Year. By investing in strong management teams, best-in-class technology, and proven operational processes, Velocity Automotive has achieved consistent double-digit organic growth across its portfolio. Now in 2025, with a newly committed pool of capital, Etium is pursuing additional majority-control acquisitions. Target sectors include towing, automotive, residential & commercial services, health & wellness and food & beverage. The name Etium is a derivation of the suffix of the Latin word for “of the thing growing,” symbolizing the firm’s focus on continual growth. - Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/etiumcapital - Location: New York, New York, United States - Lead qualification: Research: - Query: =Etium Capital Parker O'Shea recent investments fund thesis - Answer: Etium Capital recently invested in majority-control acquisitions in towing, automotive, and other sectors. Parker O'Shea is associated with the O'Shea Center for Credit Analysis at Fordham University. Otium Capital, formerly Smart & Co Ventures, focuses on leisure industries and recently invested in Comet Software.