1812 Brewing Company Inc. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in, early venture, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth and restructuring investments. It also specializes in management buyouts, leveraged buyouts and growth capital transactions. The firm makes equity, equity-related, and debt investments in companies that require expansion capital and in companies pursuing acquisition strategies. It primarily focuses on retail, restaurant, beverages, consumer products, hospitality, media, business services, technology, agriculture-related business, energy and manufacturing industries. It typically invests companies with majority of operations in North America, with a particular focus on Northern New York, but it also considers investments in the Caribbean and in Central America & Mexico. It seeks to exit its investments after two to five years. 1812 Brewing Company Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Gouverneur, New York.