Align Capital Partners Makes Growth Investment in Strata Landscape Services; Strata Acquires Boulder Landscaping

BlueAlly Acquires Strata Consulting

August 2, 2023

IT Services

BlueAlly Technology Solutions, a Source Capital portfolio company, has acquired Strata Consulting, a San Francisco Bay Area consulting firm specializing in security, compliance, DevOps and AWS cloud services. The add-on deal expands BlueAlly's capabilities in security, compliance and cloud engineering and integrates Strata's consulting and managed-services expertise into BlueAlly's national IT services platform.

Shoreline Equity Partners Acquires American Landscaping Partners

September 11, 2023

Environmental Services

Shoreline Equity Partners has acquired American Landscaping Partners, a portfolio company of Cold Bore Capital. The transaction transfers ownership of the landscaping and lawn care platform (six branches serving residential and commercial customers) from Cold Bore Capital to Shoreline as a PE-to-PE secondary sale.

Shoreline Equity Partners Recapitalizes American Landscaping Partners; ALP Completes Seven Add-on Acquisitions

July 11, 2024

Environmental Services

Shoreline Equity Partners partnered with and made an equity investment in American Landscaping Partners (ALP) in August 2023, providing capital and senior financing (Apogem Capital and NXT Capital) to support ALP's growth while management retained an ownership stake. Since the partnership, ALP (headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee) has completed seven add-on acquisitions—Landscape Detail; Ultralawn; Ready Field Solutions; Maxalea; Swift Lawn & Land; Precision Landscape Management; and Appalachia Landscaping—expanding its footprint across Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Maryland, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Capitala Group Invests in American Landscaping Partners to Back Cold Bore Capital Platform

January 19, 2021

Environmental Services

Capitala Group originated a $35.9 million senior secured debt facility and minority equity investment to support Cold Bore Capital in forming American Landscaping Partners, LLC (ALP). Based in Nashville, Tennessee, ALP is an owner-operator of residential and commercial landscaping businesses and will use the capital to fund growth and add-on acquisitions across the United States.

Kian Capital Partners Invests in Diamond Landscaping

July 1, 2024

Environmental Services

Kian Capital Partners made a strategic growth investment in Diamond Landscaping, partnering with founder and CEO Brian Diamond in December 2021 to build a luxury residential landscaping platform. Since the partnership, Diamond Landscaping has nearly tripled revenue and EBITDA and completed five strategic add-on acquisitions to expand its footprint in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the Hamptons and Jackson Hole.

Capitala Group Makes $23M of Follow-on Growth Investments in Three Portfolio Companies

February 22, 2022

Professional Services

Capitala Group provided approximately $23 million of additional growth capital across three existing portfolio companies — American Landscaping Partners, Fremont-Wright, and Linden Lab — to support continued strategic growth and future add-on activity. The funding is intended to support operating growth, potential accretive add-on acquisition activity, and ongoing partnership with management teams.