Fox Three Partners

Managing Partner Taylor Grant leads the firm with support from Vice Presidents Jack Cook and Dan Valdo. The investment team operates as a tight internal group at the Virginia Beach headquarters, making Grant the central decision-maker on all acquisitions. The Operating Executives influence strategy at the portfolio level but are not listed as members of the investment committee.

The firm's veteran network functions as its primary sourcing engine. Fox Three actively courts intermediaries and business owners through its website, but its distinct channel is the pipeline of former military aviators and operators who identify acquisition targets within defense-adjacent industrial and services niches. The V.E.T. and E.D.G.E. programs also serve as talent-scouting vehicles that generate sourcing relationships.

Fox Three pursues control buyouts, recapitalizations, and management buyouts in the US lower middle market. The firm does not participate in minority investments, venture-stage deals, or fund-of-funds structures. Its mandate is operator-heavy and control-oriented, designed to implement the JETS Business Operating System directly.

Structurally, it sits between a traditional buyout fund and the search-fund model. Like a search fund, it places operators directly into a target company, but unlike a typical search fund, the operator is drawn from a pre-identified internal bench rather than recruited externally, and the firm runs a proprietary operating system across multiple simultaneous holdings rather than a single acquisition.

The JETS system is Fox Three's internal value-creation framework, built around the same structured decision-making and debriefing discipline used in military aviation. While the firm does not publicly detail the system's components, it serves as the standard integration playbook that Operating Executives deploy into every acquired company, designed to instill operational cadence and accountability.