Building greatness.
A Houston private equity firm partnering with founders and owners of business services companies since 1990.
Start a conversation$3 to $15 million of EBITDA. Primarily majority investments.
Is your company a fit?
Four questions, checked against Capstreet’s published criteria. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Answer the four questions to see how your company compares with Capstreet’s published criteria.
- Capstreet’s published range starts at $3 million of EBITDA.
- Inside Capstreet’s range: $3 to $15 million of EBITDA.
- Capstreet’s published range tops out at $15 million of EBITDA.
- Capstreet invests in business services companies, including software and tech-enabled services.
- Capstreet’s published focus is business services companies.
- Capstreet looks for entrepreneur-owned businesses.
- Capstreet’s published criteria describe entrepreneur-owned businesses.
- That is Capstreet’s model: primarily majority investments, with entrepreneurs reinvesting alongside Capstreet.
- Capstreet makes primarily majority investments.
- In Capstreet’s model, entrepreneurs reinvest alongside Capstreet.
Your answers match all four published criteria.
Criteria are a guide, not a rule. Every company is different.
Start a conversationThesis-Driven Investors for Scalable Growth
We are dedicated to identifying and investing in opportunities that we expect will drive transformational change, leveraging our Capvalue Framework® to build scalable platforms and fuel meaningful business transformation.
- Years Experience Driving Transformational Growth
- 30+Years Experience
- Platform Acquisitions
- 50+Platform Acquisitions
- Add-on Acquisitions
- 200+Add-on Acquisitions
Creating Value Using a Time-Tested Framework
The Capvalue Framework® helps accelerate business transformation. It provides industry best practices, access to subject matter experts, technologies, and human and capital resources, to help companies scale quicker and create value faster. The framework is flexible. It’s adaptable to the needs of companies based on specific stages in their evolution.
Research
We conduct deep research to identify promising markets, gain market knowledge, and build relationships with key entrepreneurs.
Build a Scalable Platform
We invest in talent and technologies, apply industry best practices, and provide expert functional support for scaling.
Drive Business Transformation
We aim for success with a strategic roadmap, buy and build strategy, and lasting value for stakeholders.
Industries where we invest
We are thesis-driven investors. Each industry page explains what we look for and the companies we have backed.
All industriesCurrent portfolio
Companies we partner with today.
* The current and select prior investments have been included for illustrative purposes only and have been selected in order to provide examples of the types of investments previously made by Capstreet and do not purport to be a complete list of investments. A complete list of prior investments is available upon request.
In their words
The Capstreet culture is driven by performance and positive outcomes, but is genuinely centered in value creation and building great businesses.
Working with a private equity firm can be a daunting prospect. Capstreet has developed a really strong partnership approach. It’s comfortable for founders and surrounds them with a model for success that enables their business to thrive.
If you want to strengthen your organization and partner with a group that has proven operational experience, and can bring expertise and talent to bear, then I would strongly recommend partnering with Capstreet.
After partnering with Capstreet, I have unequivocally emerged from the other side a much more accomplished operator than when I went in.
Testimonials and endorsements of portfolio company executives and/or business owners are provided to demonstrate the benefits of working with the Capstreet team. They are not provided to solicit investors or to illustrate investment experience with Capstreet. Executives featured in the testimonials and endorsements receive a salary and economics from their respective portfolio company. No executives were paid for their testimonial or endorsement. There is a conflict of interest in these unpaid testimonials and endorsements in that all executives stand to benefit from Capstreet’s success and their company is owned or partially owned by a Capstreet fund and is thus incented to provide favorable references.
The people you would work with
George KellyCo-Founder / Senior Advisor
Neil KallmeyerManaging Partner
Paul De LisiPartner
Adrian GuerraPartner
Kevin JohnsonPartner
Mary Anne CapoChief Financial Officer / Chief Compliance Officer
Rick PleczkoChief Executive Officer, Operating Executive Group
Elliot AntonAnalyst
For owners thinking about what is next
Plain answers on selling, recapitalizing and growing with a private equity partner.
All guides- How to sell your business to private equitySelling to private equity means a firm buys most of your company, usually with a mix of cash at close and equity you keep.
- Recapitalization: take cash out and keep a stake in what comes nextA recapitalization is a partial sale.
- Business Succession and Exit Options: How to Choose the Right Next Step for Your CompanyOwners have five main exit paths: transfer to family, sell to management, sell to employees through an ESOP, sell to a strategic buyer, or partner with private equity.
- Buy and Build Strategy: How a Platform Company Grows Through Add-On AcquisitionsA buy and build strategy starts with one well-run platform company and adds smaller businesses to it over time.
- Capstreet deal criteria: the companies we look forCapstreet looks for entrepreneur-owned business services companies with $3 to $15 million of EBITDA.
- Lower middle market private equity: what owners should knowLower middle market private equity means investing in smaller private companies, often founder-owned, with a few million dollars in earnings.
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