Fincastle Holdings
Operator-led ownership of trades and service businesses.
Fincastle partners with founders, families, and management teams of enduring businesses across the Southeast.
We focus on skilled trades, recurring services, and small industrial companies. The kind of businesses where the work is real, the customers took years to earn, and the people in the field are the asset.
Fit
What we look for.
- Size
- Roughly $1 M – $5 M of annual profit
- What we know
- Skilled trades such as plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and fencing along with adjacent residential and commercial service businesses
- Where
- Southern United States
- How we structure
- We buy a controlling interest while the founder stays involved on terms that work for both sides. Rollover equity, seller notes, and earnouts where they make sense.
- How long we hold
- Set by the business and the situation, not a fund clock.
Approach
Four ideas we hold to.
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We look at it the way an operator would.
Durable customer relationships, the quality of the people in the field, and local reputation matter more than presentation decks or adjusted margins. We have run trades businesses ourselves; we know what the numbers can and cannot show.
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We price honestly.
We focus on businesses with simple economics and steady demand, and we make offers we can stand behind.
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We build the deal around the founder.
Every situation is different. Rollover equity, seller notes, earnouts, and transition periods are tools we use to keep everyone pulling in the same direction, not boxes we tick. Your timing and priorities shape the structure, not the other way around.
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Owners, not flippers.
We buy businesses to operate, strengthen what is working, and protect the culture and the people who made the business worth buying in the first place. We are not on a fund clock.
Founder
An operator at the helm.
- Experienced Construction, HVAC/Plumbing/Electrical Owner-Operator
- Virginia Class A Residential Building Contractor (Unlimited Project Size)
- Virginia Tech BA
- Stanford MBA
Tyler grew up around construction and the skilled trades in Appalachia and has spent his career working across building construction, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and related service businesses. He spent time in private equity and real estate before acquiring and operating a Virginia-based HVAC company.
Contact
Get in touch.
Whether you are a founder thinking about what comes next, an advisor representing one, or someone who knows a business that fits, write to tyler@fincastleholdings.com.