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 $2 million

  • Headquartered in Kentucky.

Industry Focus:

  • Homes Services

  • Senior Care / Pet Care

  • Manufacturing Industrials

  • Distribution / Logistics

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 and focus 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

  • Corporate Strategy

  • Commercial

  • Operations

  • Supply Chain

  • Over 30 years of executive leadership experience across more than 40 industries, six continents and hundreds of businesses with revenue from $16B to under $1M. What never fails is that each business faces some financial, operating or commercial challenges for which they need expertise or other resources to solve.

  • Strategy Consulting Trained by Top Firms

  • Hypothesis Driven Approach

  • Six Sigma / Lean Tools

  • 80/20 Simplification

Problem Solving   

  • We start by leveraging subject matter experts and “going to Gemba.” Those observations and conventional metrics and analytics establish a fact base. A hypothesis of MECE variables are tested and refined with tailored analysis. Once validated, the hypothesis 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 objectives. Stretch initiatives are identified to build the capability required to close the gap on the long term goals. These initiatives are assigned metrics and action plans and 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 goals it is common to identify systems, process, work instructions, and training are systemic failures. This includes tech stack, automation, reporting dashboards & analytics, decision-making as well as workflow tools. Functional excellence can be proven roadmaps and/or functional experts we leverage to address challenges we face with best practices.

Contact Us

Contact us with any questions or to set up an appointment and explore the possibilities of working together.