Roebling Capital Partners

Roebling Capital Partners

Carlson and Goebel founded Roebling Capital Partners in 2020, building on a track record of over 200 closed M&A deals in the lower-middle market that they accumulated through prior advisory and principal-investing roles. The firm invests out of a single committed pool, partnering with business owners who seek a liquidity event, a growth recapitalization, or a structured succession plan. Its founding thesis rests on a simple premise: niche, founder-led companies in fragmented markets can generate outsized returns when equipped with professionalized operations and data-driven sales functions. A controlling equity investor, Roebling targets light manufacturing, specialized distribution, business services, and select consumer-product categories across the United States with an emphasis on companies generating defensible margins. The portfolio illustrates the breadth. Teron Lighting designs and manufactures American-made commercial lighting fixtures from Cincinnati. Chemlock Nutrition formulates high-purity feed additives for the livestock industry, while SprayEZ Equipment & Coatings assembles spray-foam insulation rigs in Jacksonville and markets a proprietary roofing product called ExpandoThane. Longstreth Sporting Goods operates as an omni-channel distributor of field-hockey equipment, and The Porch Swing Company maintains a nationwide e-commerce platform for Amish-built outdoor furniture. The most recent addition—White Stone Fleet Service, a Hamilton, Ohio provider of mobile fleet maintenance—closed on June 13, 2025. A five-person investment team operates from the Cincinnati-area office. Each notable acquisition deploys the firm's RVA™ methodology, which layers operational overhauls, sales-and-marketing expansion, and digital infrastructure upgrades onto the acquired company. In parallel with platform growth, the firm conducts add-on acquisitions and recruits advisory board members with sector-specific operating experience, most visibly in the fire-and-water restoration holding All Claims Repairs, where the owner-operators retained significant equity alongside Roebling's recapitalization. Roebling combines the staffing model of a search-fund vehicle with the mandate of an independent sponsor—its partners source, diligence, and close deals before installing an operating toolkit, rather than relying on a large in-house portfolio-operations group. This architecture limits the firm's capacity for simultaneous integration but also aligns incentives directly with the legacy owners and front-line managers who often roll meaningful equity into the transaction. No institutionally sized fund has been raised, and the firm's capital comes from the partners and a concentrated network of high-net-worth co-investors who participate on a deal-by-deal basis.