Established companies with a manager in the seat and an owner ready to step back. We take on the owner's work, back the manager, and give the business what it needs to grow.
We are a Washington holding company. We acquire established small businesses and hold them. Where it fits the business, we hold the property too.
Someone other than the owner runs the day to day, has for years, and is paid to. That person stays, and is paid to stay.
Contracts, memberships, routes, inspections on a calendar, or a location people come back to. Not a project pipeline.
Pricing reviewed every year, the bank and insurance renegotiated, a second hire above the crew lead, a new truck when it pays for itself. The running of the business stays with the people who run it.
We look across service businesses that already have a manager in the seat: routes, contracts, the calendars regulators set, the trades homeowners call, and the back office behind them. Service first. Project work is welcome as part of a business, not the whole of it.
Furnace, heat pump, air conditioning and plumbing service for homeowners, with maintenance plans that bring the same households back every season.
Panel upgrades, EV chargers, generators and repairs for homeowners and small landlords, booked through a service desk rather than sold by the owner.
Carpet cleaning, window and gutter cleaning, septic pumping, pool care and similar services on a recurring schedule, paid in advance or at the visit.
Access control, cameras, alarm and monitoring accounts that renew every year, with a service desk already answering the phone.
Testing, reporting and permit work that regulators require on a calendar, done for the same industrial and municipal clients year after year.
Sprinkler, alarm, extinguisher and backflow inspection and testing that a code requires on a calendar, and contract operations for small water systems.
Most owners sell once. Here is what you should expect from us.
Your crews, your trucks, your vendors, your name on the door if you want it there. We are not folding it into anything.
The person who runs it today runs it tomorrow, with a stay agreement and a pay increase that comes out of the price, not out of them.
Six months or a year. You stay involved as long as you want to, and you are paid for it.
One person to deal with, one point of contact, an answer within days at every step.
Send the teaser or just describe the business. You get a straight answer fast, and a buyer who shows up prepared.
Every conversation is confidential and starts with a signed NDA if you want one.
deals@tennaxventures.com