Investing in Exceptional Kentucky-Based Businesses
3CA Capital Partners believes in the strength, resilience, and future of the region, partnering with business owners to preserve their legacies while driving sustained growth and operational excellence. Our buy-and-hold approach ensures stability, continuity, and long-term value creation for each business well into the future.
About Us
Our Focus:
Long term investments in founder-led Kentucky-based small businesses.
Investment Criteria:
Revenue: $3 million to $25 million
EBITDA: $500k to $5 million
Headquartered in Kentucky.
Industry Focus:
Senior Care & Pet Care
Recreation & Leisure
Homes Services
Small Manufacturing
Distribution & Aftermarket
Advisory Board: 3CA Capital Partners is backed by a distinguished Advisory Board of seasoned leaders with deep expertise across key industries and business functions. Their strategic guidance enables us to support and strengthen the companies we acquire, ensuring a smooth transition and long-term success.
Our advisory team brings decades of experience in: networking, valuation & due diligence, deal transactions, legal & compliance, accounting & finance, business strategy & growth, operations, commercial, and digital & e-commerce.
Our Beliefs
Credere. Coltivare. Crescere. Arrivare.
Our primary purpose is to acquire founder-led Kentucky-based small businesses and help them grow. Collectively, we identify and leverage the resources needed to accelerate their vision.
Industry expertise channeled thoughtfully into strategy and deployment compel us to believe (credere) in the vision.
Through best practices, functional excellence and a continuous improvement culture we nurture (coltivare) the business.
With humility, malleable minds and a thirst to learn we grow (crescere) individually and collectively to support the team.
With determination, focus, and resilience we complete the journey and arrive (arrivare) at our destination. We realize our vision.
Our Services
Search Fund
We acquire founder-led Kentucky-based small businesses and support their vision.
Portfolio Operations
We provide operating leadership and support to the portfolio companies of larger private equity in our network needing outside expertise.
Investor Services
For our high net-worth investors we offer additional services as a financial advisor, property manager, or Trustee when it creates value for the individual
Our Leadership
Experience
Home Services
Senior/Pet Care
Mfg./Industrials
Distribution
Aftermarket
Private Equity
Strategy
Commercial
Operations
Supply Chain
Over 30 years of leadership experience across more than 40 industries, six continents and 100 businesses with revenue from $16B to under $1M. In all cases, the business faced financial, operating or commercial challenges requiring expertise or resources not available to the business if they were to achieve their vision.
Strategy Consulting Trained by Top Firms
Hypothesis Driven Approach
Six Sigma / Lean Tools
80/20 Simplification
Problem Solving
Subject matter experts establish a fact base through conventional metrics & analytics and “going to Gemba.” Based on the fact base, all relevant stakeholders collaborate to form a logic tree of MECE variables to be tested and refined. Once validated, the logic tree forms the solution set for setting metrics and action planning.
Lean Business System
Multi-Year & One Year Objectives
Targets-to-Improve
Annual Improvement Plans
PDCA Cadence
Operating System
Aspirational goals are converted into one year stretch initiatives intended to build the capability required to close the gap on the long term goals. These initiatives are assigned targets-to-improve (TTIs) and annual improvement plans (AIPs). The TTIs and AIPs are reviewed on a routine cadence to plan-do-check-act.
Functional Excellence
Corporate Executive Board Trained
Best Practices from Top Consulting Firms
Strategy, Growth, & Innovation
Operations & Supply Chain Excellence
Sales & Marketing Excellence
In the pursuit of our objectives it is common to identify strategy, systems, process, work instructions, and training as headwinds. This includes tech stack, automation, reporting dashboards & analytics, and decision-making or workflow tools. Functional excellence can be proven roadmaps and/or functional experts we leverage to address challenges we face with best practices.
Contact Us
Let us know how we can help. Are you a business for sale? Are you a potential lender or investor? Do you need portfolio operations support for a business you have acquired? Are you in need of broader financial portfolio management?