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Red Iron Group partners with leaders and companies ready to scale. We bring patient, aligned capital and dedicated hands-on operating support where it matters most.
Building a Leading, AI & Tech-Enabled Business
Building a great business takes grit, vision, and deep market knowledge. What got the business here is rarely what multiplies it to 5-10x its current size and value. Becoming a category leader often requires a different playbook.
Leadership & Culture
Backing or building a leadership team that can scale the organization without losing the culture that made it great.
Technology & AI
Embracing technology and AI in ways that cut through the hype and focus on what drives real business outcomes.
Predictable Revenue
Creating strong customer relationships that generate predictable, recurring revenue.
Go-to-Market
Developing a go-to-market engine that drives consistent and high organic growth.
M&A Execution
Executing M&A with the right discipline and integration rigor.
When Capital Is Abundant, Partnership Is What Matters
Great businesses attract capital. What differentiates the right equity partner is everything that comes with the partnership.
Backing Leaders
We invest in outstanding leaders, founders, family owners, and management teams, and support them to grow their business to category leadership.
Flexible Capital
We structure every investment around the needs of the business and its leadership, not around fund timelines or external pressures. Patient when it serves the business, decisive when the moment calls for it.
Truly Aligned
We are among the largest investors in our own fund. When you win, we win, with real skin in the game at every stage of the partnership.
Growth Focused
Value created through organic growth, smart M&A, and operational excellence, not cost-cutting, debt dependence, or financial engineering.
Our Investments
A selection of what Red Iron Group and the RIG Builders team have achieved together.
Charter Impact
Middle- and back-office services for charter schools and education focused nonprofits
Core Safety Group
National provider of safety consulting and OSHA training services
FinOps Holdings
Vertically focused leader in outsourced finance and accounting services
Nevergreen Pools
Premium pool care and repair for residential and commercial properties
Meet RIG Builders
RIG Builders is Red Iron Group's internal value-building team. Hands-on operators with deep services sector expertise, working alongside your team to drive real business outcomes.
Who We Are
Builders, not consultants. An internal team of hands-on operators partnering directly with your leadership team to help you move faster. Our incentives are aligned with yours. If you win, we win.
What We Do
Deep expertise in the four areas that help services businesses scale and become category leaders. Technology and AI, go-to-market, talent, and service delivery excellence.
How We Build
From vision to plan to execution. Every partnership starts with you and your leadership team taking a step back, reflecting on what got your business here, and defining where to play and how to win over the next three years. That vision becomes a concrete value-building plan, executed hands-on, together.
How We Partner
Outcomes, not projects. You set the strategic direction and pull us in where it matters most. RIG Builders helps execute under your guidance, measured by business outcomes, not project milestones.
What Our Business Leaders Say
Real experiences from leaders who have partnered with Red Iron Group.
"Red Iron Group's strategic guidance and acquisition expertise has been a key driver for our company. Their collaborative approach has been instrumental in positioning us for the next level of scale and growth."
Matt Gardner
CEO & Founder
"Red Iron has provided more than just capital for growth. Our partnership is based on people, purpose, passion and shared principles. Their actions are informed by integrity always and their approach to partnering has culture as a critical ingredient."
David Lueck
Co-CEO
"Together, we’re building something unique in the pool industry. Their support for proprietary technology tailored to our business is improving our customers’ experience and making our technicians’ jobs easier. Combined with our investment in our people, we are building a culture that values our team members and creates opportunities for growth. This allows us to scale rapidly while preserving the local, personal service our customers value and creating lasting benefits for our investors, customers, and employees."
Judd Feldman
CEO
Questions We Hear From Leaders
Red Iron Group focuses on lower-middle-market businesses with up to $150M in revenue that are ready for their next phase of growth. We look for businesses where operational improvement and AI and technology enablement can drive significant value creation.
We work with each owner and leadership team individually to understand their goals. Whether you want to remain deeply involved, transition over time, or step back after closing, we will structure the partnership to fit your vision and timeline.
RIG Builders is embedded from day one. Our team of builders works alongside your team — not as consultants, but as an extension of your leadership. We focus on technology and AI, go-to-market, talent and organization, service delivery excellence, and value building where the leverage is highest.
RIG Builders works directly with your functional leaders on defined initiatives. We operate in sprint cycles, hold regular leadership syncs, and report progress transparently. You always know what we're working on and why.
We are a unique private equity firm in that we structure every investment around what's right for the business and its leadership — not around a predetermined fund timeline. Our capital is patient by design, but we are equally comfortable acting decisively when the right opportunity presents itself.
It starts with an initial conversation, then a mutual NDA, business review, LOI, diligence, and close. We set the pace around your goals and can move as fast as anyone in the industry. We reply to every inquiry within one business day.
Let's Build Something
That Lasts
Whether you're exploring partnership or want to learn how we support business growth, we're here to listen.