Access Holdings
The Firm
Access Holdings, formed in 2013 in Baltimore, describes itself as a research-led, data-driven firm with $2.3 billion under management and a forty-plus-person team, half of it from underrepresented demographics, under founder and managing partner Kevin McAllister. The strategy is stated with unusual precision: essential-service businesses in fragmented industries with persistent demand, bought at $5 to $20 million of EBITDA and scaled toward $80 to $100 million, with roughly $200 million deployed per platform.
The execution record is more than 250 add-on acquisitions, and its pitch to founders is speed, compressing years of transformation into months with thematic research and proven playbooks. Its platforms in this registry are the visible edge: Spotless Brands rolling up car washes and WagWay Group doing the same in pet boarding and daycare.
For a searcher the significance is the entry price: $5 million of EBITDA at platform formation is the top of the searcher market, and its add-on engines buy well below that. In car washes and pet care especially, the other bidder is often an Access platform. The facts to carry into a meeting are the 2013 founding, the research-led identity, the EBITDA range, and the 250-add-on record.
What It Buys
Baltimore, MD. Buys main-street service businesses at $5M-$20M of EBITDA into platforms: car washes under Spotless Brands, pet daycare and boarding under WagWay Group, plus funeral homes and pet aftercare.
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Confirmed Deals
2 deals traced to announcements by Access Holdings, 2024 to 2025, newest first. Firms that announce every deal show a fuller run here than firms that report acquisitions as quarterly counts, so read this as the evidence that clears the bar rather than as the firm's whole record.
- Pete's Express Car Wash · November 20, 2025
Six express car-wash sites in Greater Philadelphia, folded into the Flagship Carwash brand under Spotless Brands.
- Pawville · September 26, 2024
Luxury pet boarding, daycare, and grooming resorts across four Southeastern states, joining the WagWay Group platform.