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The Guy Buying Up America's Water Guys
Peter Brooks left the Marines, studied water policy at Harvard, and decided the least glamorous corner of American infrastructure was the best place to build something that lasts. His pitch to the family businesses that keep the water running: sell to us and we will never sell you.
The Payroll Company That Grew Up by Buying the Neighborhood
ConnectPay bet that small businesses still want a human on the phone, not a support ticket - then bought dozens of local payroll shops to build a company around that promise.
The Body Shop Roll-Up Betting Everything on Doing It the Carmaker's Way
Jerod Guerin left a decade at Service King to build Quality Collision Group - 100-plus OEM-certified collision centers across 13 states, assembled shop by shop, with new manufacturer parts and no shortcuts.
The Anti-Private-Equity Home for Accounting Firms That Refuse to Lose Their Name
Backed by patient family-office money, this Utah firm partners with small CPA shops across the Intermountain West - and stakes its pitch on the one thing private equity usually takes away: the name on the door.
Upland Software
The Austin roll-up that bought its way to two dozen software products now wants to be the trusted knowledge layer underneath every enterprise AI agent.
Annie Aesthetic
Annie Aesthetic is a medical-aesthetics holding company that partners with and acquires leading medical spas across the United States. Incubated by Tucker's Farm Corporation in May 2022 with roughly $30 million of equity capital, it provides its partner clinics with growth capital, operations, marketing, recruiting, technology and legal/regulatory support while keeping founders and operating teams in place. By late 2025 the platform had grown to about $65 million of revenue across 12 medical-aesthetics brands, backed by InterAlpen Partners, Brookside Equity Partners and Plexus Capital.
Equal Parts
Equal Parts is an Austin-based insurance company that acquires established independent insurance agencies and equips them with shared infrastructure and AI-driven automation. Founded in March 2025 by Mike Witte, Graham Yennie and Mike Meller, it positions itself as a growth network - preserving each agency's identity and local relationships while standardizing back-office workflows so agents can focus on clients. The company raised a $23M Series A led by Inspired Capital in February 2026 and aims to become a top-5 insurance distributor by acquiring 25 agencies in 2026 and reaching $1B in premiums.