Matlack Partners is a private investment firm focused on partnering with founder-led businesses in essential services industries
Initial Focus Area
Towing and recovery is an essential service that motorists, commercial fleets, insurers, and municipalities depend on around the clock, every day of the year. The industry is large and highly fragmented, served predominantly by independent, owner-operated businesses, which creates a compelling opportunity to partner with best-in-class operators and build scale together.
Investment Criteria
Mission-critical services customers cannot defer, postpone, or perform themselves
Industries where disciplined consolidation creates density and scale
Cultures built on integrity and trust, with an eagerness to grow and improve everyday
U.S.-based businesses with annual earnings <$5M and consistent results over time
Partnership Approach
Every partnership is built around your goals. Whether you want to remain deeply involved, step back gradually, or fully exit, we can provide a solution for each. Our diligence focuses on what matters, so the process never pulls you away from running your business.
What your customers and employees value about your business stays intact. We take on the work owners typically would rather not do, including HR, payroll, insurance, and accounting.
Together, we identify the two or three priorities that will move the business forward most, then work hand in hand with the team to achieve them.
Operating Pillars
Integrity is not situational. We hold to our word when it is inconvenient, when it is expensive, and when no one would know the difference.
The operators we back understand their business better than we ever will. We contribute where our skills genuinely move the business forward.
We operate as a meritocracy. Titles do not settle arguments — the best idea does.
Effort is the one input we control completely. We take on the work others skip, and get down in the trenches with our partners.
Contact
Every inquiry is confidential and goes directly to a partner.