Specialty Chemicals · Industrials and Industrial Services · Essential B2B Services
Modernization
is our thesis.
Most private equity treats modernization as one line item on a long list of improvements. We built our strategy around it.
We acquire the businesses that keep industry running: specialty chemicals, industrials and industrial services, and essential B2B services. We give them the capital, capabilities, and time to become something greater.
*Prior-firm transactions led by a HarborWind partner. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Three words. One thesis. Decades of execution.
We acquire founder-led businesses generating $2.5M–$12M EBITDA in specialty chemicals, industrials and industrial services, and essential B2B services. We move quickly, pay fair prices, and close without drama.
We modernize businesses through financial leadership, digital transformation, AI, and process redesign. Sean built and ran a software company and led a technology consulting division, so this is work we have done from the inside, accountable for results. We work inside the business with management, putting these systems in place ourselves.
We hold. We don’t flip. We partner with management to grow through add-ons, improve margins, and compound enterprise value over years, not quarters. Your legacy stays intact.
Our Edge
Operating experience and an investor’s discipline, in one partnership.
Sean has transformed businesses from the inside: financial leadership, operational redesign, and technology implementation. ERP systems, CRM platforms, AI-driven process automation, deployed by an operator accountable for the P&L. Rocky brings the investor’s discipline that decides where that work pays off. Together we put both inside the companies we acquire. The result is stronger gross margins, a better competitive position, and businesses built to last.
For Business Owners
A permanent home for the company you built.
We buy good businesses and hold them for years, not quarters. There is no fund deadline forcing a resale. We grow what you built, with your people, in your town, under your name.
They’re a large part of why we’re buying. We invest in people and systems, and your team will see it.
No. However you picture your next chapter, whether that’s a clean handoff or a longer partnership with a stake you keep, we build around it.
Often, the team you already built. We back proven leaders and invest behind them.
As long as we’re the right owners for it. We buy to hold for the long term and plan around the next generation of the business.
Selling starts with a quiet conversation.
Confidential, unhurried, and without obligation.
An honest number in plain English, with terms you can take straight to your attorney.
Your people stay. Your name stays. We stay.
Send us one good deal. We intend to earn the next ten.
We are long-term holders building a long-term reputation, and it starts with how we treat your process.
01Five business days
Every CIM gets a real answer from a principal within five business days. When it isn't a fit, we say so quickly, so you can move on.
02Three weeks to LOI
We underwrite before we sign, with equity and debt lined up behind the number. On deals that fit, you have our LOI within three weeks.
03Terms that hold
What we sign is what we close. No retrades, no financing surprises, and no committee between the LOI and the wire.
04Your fee, protected
Your economics are fixed on every deal, every time. We put it in writing up front.
Advising an owner who isn't ready for a full process? Start with how we work with owners.
Built to be the buyer you call first.
Exclusivity is a risk you take on your client’s behalf. Our process is built to reward it: a real answer on every CIM in five business days, an LOI within three weeks on deals that fit, and terms that hold from signature to wire.
Send us one good deal and we intend to earn the next ten.
Send Us a Deal
What happens when you send us a deal.
A real answer from a principal: fit or pass, with reasons.
An LOI on deals that fit, underwritten with equity and debt lined up.
Terms unchanged from the LOI, and your fee fixed and protected.
If you’re thinking about selling, start here.
Then read what buyers are paying in your market, and where technology pays back in your sector. Every piece is public, and every piece is the same work we bring to a first conversation.
Start here
What actually happens between deciding to sell and closing the deal.
A founder’s guide to the 12 to 18 months of a sale: what buyers will ask, what surprises first-time sellers, and how to keep the process on your terms.
Read the founder’s guideWhy we buy founder-led businesses, and hold them.
Founder-led companies outperform. We wrote down why they do, and why we intend to hold the ones we buy.
Read our thesisWhat buyers are paying in 2026