PROVIDING A
CLIMATE TO GROW
Threefold is a low-leverage, permanent equity firm that partners with and grows specialty contracting companies serving the built environment.
PRESERVE. PROTECT. BEAUTIFY.
Threefold invests primarily in existing businesses and supports the leadership team with proven processes and systems that enable growth. We have successfully grown service companies that preserve, protect, and beautify commercial and residential assets for over 25 years.
“…a threefold cord is not easily broken.”
Our name comes from the belief that working together and empowering one another increases the good in the world through an unmatched strength that is not easily stopped.
THREEFOLD
ADVANTAGE
The leadership of Threefold has been systematizing and growing contracting businesses for over 25 years. We come from understanding the operations of these businesses, so we know the customers, sales processes, and labor partnerships needed to be successful.
Threefold's focus is to help our operating partners develop strong executive teams, clear revenue growth strategies, and financial excellence - all while being a force for good in the world through INTRINSIC IMPACT.
THREEFOLD’S
PORTFOLIO STRATEGY
Threefold invests in existing, specialty contracting services that PRESERVE, PROTECT, and BEAUTIFY the built environment. Our investment and portfolio strategy is founded on three core principles.
HIGHLY SCALABLE
NICHE CONTRACTING
CONTRACT LABOR
BUY. BUILD. GROW.
We believe that focus leads to growth. With experience in launching new ventures and scaling existing businesses, we look to partner with single-trade or niche contracting businesses serving the built environment.
We look for companies in growing industries with revenues between $5M-$50M, healthy gross margins above 40%, and strong EBITDA performance between 10%-15%.
INVESTMENT APPROACH
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Permanent Capital
We have always known that good things take time. With a long time horizon, we feel we can make the best decisions possible for the health of our teammates and enduring success of the business.
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Low Leverage
We believe in a low leverage approach to buying and growing businesses with a focus on generating cash flow for returns. A good business shouldn’t require the use of debt to juice returns and we want to avoid the debt structure to alter decision making in the long-term. Instead, we want to structure deals with a high equity approach and to accelerate cash flow for long-term durability.
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Operating Partnership
Our approach is to always invest or start new companies with an equity partner as the operator. At Threefold we focus on alignment first and then performance. We are always looking to create partnerships with people who are seeking long-term growth and want to make a positive impact in the world.
BEYOND FINANCIAL RETURNS
INTRINSIC IMPACT
We believe all companies should be built with their INTRINSIC IMPACT in mind. Where the good we hope to bring to the world is a necessary outcome of the business operations and not just a secondary step of charity.
Not only should the impact be intrinsically built in….but we believe we should be looking to be redemptive with the way we interact with the world. We believe that REDEMPTIVE actions, taking risk for a greater good, restores the world to a place where all can flourish.
This is not just an act of good but look to build strategies to COMPETE ON THE IMPACT that the businesses creates.
HOW WE BEHAVE
Three Core Principles
Driving Threefold
In order to fully live our purpose, we live by these three principles that propel personal and professional growth among our team in each brand. These three principles anchor our behaviors and drive our actions forward every single day.
Establishing trust allows us to build respect between partners, teammates, and customers. We tackle conflict head-on through transparent, respectful, open communication.
This is about innovation - we celebrate an environment of continuous improvement and challenging assumptions. This is a place where we break things and make them better.
We have a team mentality, meaning that we do not win at the cost of others. Everything we do is in the spirit of collaboration and shared purpose.
THE THREEFOLD WAY
EMPOWER THE OTHER
At Threefold, our success is only possible through helping others succeed. This is not only a business strategy but a worldview where the highest expression of care is from continued self-emptying and the empowerment of others. We live this out first with how we empower our operating partners to have full entrepreneurial control of the business they operate.
Our
Portfolio
