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BlackGold Equity PartnersHouston, TX
For Business Owners

We Buy Good Businesses
and Make Them Great Ones.

If you have spent years building a business and are considering your next chapter, we want to hear from you. We acquire lower middle market companies with strong fundamentals and grow them into institutional-grade platforms. We move fast, keep it confidential, and treat founders the way they deserve to be treated.

What We Look For

We are not looking for perfect businesses. We are looking for good businesses with strong fundamentals, loyal customers, and clear potential for improvement. The founder does not need to stay. Management teams do not need to be perfect. We are buyers who can operate what we acquire.

Revenue$5 million to $75 million annually
EBITDA$500 thousand to $12 million, normalized
Entry Multiple5.0 times EBITDA or below
Business Age3 or more years of operating history
Customer BaseNo single customer above 30 percent of revenue
Revenue TypeRecurring, repeat, or contractual revenue preferred
GeographyUnited States based, all regions considered

Industries We Know

We focus on businesses where we have genuine operating experience. We are not generalists who evaluate everything. These are the industries where our team has worked, built, and operated companies firsthand.

Business Services
Industrial Services
Manufacturing
Digital and Technology
Construction and Infrastructure
Healthcare Support
Banking and Fintech
Aviation and Private Mobility
Our Commitment

What Every Founder Gets From Us.

01
Confidentiality First

Every conversation is completely confidential. We sign NDAs before any financial details are shared and never contact your employees, customers, or lenders without your explicit permission.

02
A Fair Process

We present offers based on real financial analysis at honest multiples. We do not make lowball offers to test the market. If we make an offer, it reflects what we believe the business is genuinely worth.

03
Respect for What You Built

We have worked with founders who spent 20 years building their business. We honor that. We protect culture, retain key employees, and continue the relationships that made the company successful.

04
Speed and Certainty

We move quickly. First call within 24 hours. LOI within two to three weeks if there is fit. We use our own capital and committed lender relationships — no fundraising delays, no committee approvals after the fact.

Selected Transactions

Representative Investments.

A cross-section of our acquisition and value-creation work across industrial services, business services, and technology.

Industrial Services
Gulf Coast HVAC Platform

Roll-up of fragmented regional operators into a unified commercial and residential services platform.

Entry
Revenue
$14M
EBITDA
$2.8M
Multiple
4.1×
Exit — 38 months hold
Revenue
$34M
EBITDA
$7.1M
Value Creation
Consolidated 3 regional HVAC providers under a single brand and operations infrastructure
Implemented service contract renewal system, lifting recurring revenue to 64% of total
Added commercial division targeting property management and light industrial accounts
Business Services / Staffing
Mid-South Business Services Group

Technology-enabled workforce platform expanded from regional to multi-state through organic growth and vertical additions.

Entry
Revenue
$22M
EBITDA
$3.4M
Multiple
4.6×
Exit — 42 months hold
Revenue
$48M
EBITDA
$9.2M
Value Creation
Deployed proprietary workforce management software, reducing placement costs and improving client retention
Expanded geographic footprint from 2 to 5 states through targeted branch openings
Added healthcare and logistics staffing verticals, diversifying revenue mix
Technology Services / MSP
Texas Digital Infrastructure Co.

Transition from transactional break-fix model to high-margin recurring managed services with cybersecurity overlay.

Entry
Revenue
$8M
EBITDA
$1.6M
Multiple
4.8×
Exit — 52 months hold
Revenue
$19M
EBITDA
$4.8M
Value Creation
Migrated customer base to monthly recurring managed services agreements over 18 months
Raised net revenue retention from 91% to 118% through expanded service tiers and upsell discipline
Built cybersecurity and compliance practice, which reached 22% of revenue at exit

Transactions represent representative examples of our investment strategy. Financial details have been rounded for confidentiality. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Submit Your Business

Tell Us About Your Business.

Fill out the form with basic information about your business. We will respond within 24 hours. All submissions are completely confidential. No obligation, no commitment, just a conversation.

What Happens Next
01We review your submission and respond within 24 hours
02If there is initial fit we schedule a 30-minute introduction call
03We sign a mutual NDA before any financials are shared
04If we proceed we present a non-binding letter of intent within 2 to 3 weeks

Completely confidential. We do not contact your employees, customers, or lenders without your permission.