Frontier Service Partners

Frontier primarily sources deals through proprietary relationships with business brokers, trade-association networks, and direct outreach to founder-owned HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors across the Midwest. The firm's Kansas City base and long-term-hold reputation give it an edge with sellers who are wary of flipping to traditional private equity. Many targets surface through referrals from equipment distributors and regional CPAs who advise owners on succession.

Frontier operates as a permanent-capital holding company, not a traditional closed-end private equity fund. This means it does not face a 5-to-7-year exit mandate and can hold acquired businesses indefinitely. The structure allows selling founders to roll meaningful equity into a vehicle designed for multi-decade ownership.

Frontier acquires essential, non-discretionary field-service businesses — primarily commercial and residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical services, fire protection, pest control, and specialty industrial maintenance. The unifying thesis is recurring demand from assets that cannot defer repair, typically in $5 million to $50 million revenue founder-owned companies.

Managing Partner Cort Jacoby and Partner Brian Kearns lead the investment committee. The firm maintains a lean senior team in Kansas City, and key capital-allocation and partnership-structure decisions rest with the two named partners, who are the public faces of the firm's deal-making activity.

Frontier partners with regional trade schools and apprenticeship programs in its operating markets to build a labor pipeline for portfolio companies. The firm has publicly highlighted workforce development as a central value-creation lever, given that technician recruitment and retention are the binding constraints on growth in HVAC and electrical services.