Automate the volume
High-frequency, low-judgment work moves off people and into systems, freeing the team for the hours where margin is actually made.
Your partner in building what comes next.
Viridis partners with founders of services and healthcare companies to build the operating infrastructure that unlocks the next chapter of growth, so your team spends less time on friction and more time on the work that matters.
Investment criteria
- Revenue
- $2M to $20M
- EBITDA
- $500K to $2M
- Investment type
- Majority
- Founder-owned
- Geography
- United States
Anyone can invest.
Few make the business better.
Every owner has options, and we understand that from a founder's point of view they can all look the same. Our value comes not only from operating depth but from a collaborative approach: a plan, built with you, that unlocks you, your team and your business.
The opportunity
Market
Durable cash flow, still running on manual process
Lower middle market services businesses hold some of the deepest recurring, capital-light, locally defensible cash flow in the economy. Tens of thousands of them are operator-owned and run on repeat customers under contract or something close to it. Churn is low and earnings quality is high. Almost all of them are still coordinating that work by phone, spreadsheet and memory.
Technology
Implementation economics have changed, in favor of businesses this size
Software and solution providers passed this category by. For an owner-operator the implementation cost rarely cleared the payback hurdle, and for the provider the cost of serving a business this size never justified the revenue it could earn. The result is a segment that has been underserved by technology for two decades. Modern AI changes that arithmetic, and the velocity. Capabilities that once required custom engineering, expensive implementations and dedicated IT headcount are now configurable software with measurable payback inside a quarter.
That opens the first real window in two decades to re-rate operating margin in these businesses through productivity gains. Closing that gap is the work we do, with the team that built the business doing it alongside us.
Operating plan
Written with management before close, tracked against milestones after
Every partnership is underwritten against a written operating plan for value creation that management sees and shapes before the deal signs, and that we execute together once it does.
Capture the expertise
What senior operators know gets encoded and shared across the team, so it stays in the business and compounds.
See the numbers live
Real-time operating visibility sharpens pricing, scheduling and capacity decisions that were previously made on instinct.
Our commitments
What we put in writing
Every founder we approach gets these commitments before diligence begins.
The name stays
What wins the work is the reputation you built. We are backing it, not renaming it. The brand, the standards and the client promises stay.
No cost-cutting plan
New hires add capacity; they do not replace anyone. Our plans are built on output per person, never on headcount reduction.
Your team shares in it
The people who built the reputation participate in the value they help create after closing.
You set the pace
The transition is scoped around the hours the business actually takes you today, and your role after closing is defined with you, whether you step back or keep building.
Price moves only on facts
Our number changes on material diligence findings, never as a tactic late in the process.
References on request
Founders and partners we have worked with will take your call before you sign anything.
Where we focus
Sectors we cover
- Mechanical, electrical and building trades
- Facilities and grounds services
- Industrial services and fabrication
- Healthcare services
- Inspection, testing and compliance
- Professional and technical services
- Specialty distribution and equipment services
- Transportation and logistics