Align Capital Partners
The Firm
Align Capital Partners was founded by managing partners Rob Langley and Chris Jones with founding partner Steve Dyke, and runs $3.2 billion in committed capital from twin investment teams in Cleveland and Dallas. The strategy is control investments in lower-middle-market B2B companies across four named lanes: software and tech-enabled services, professional business services, industrial services, and specialty manufacturing and distribution.
Its own description of the ideal seller is an owner motivated to accelerate growth by investing in people, processes, and technology early in the partnership, which in practice means it buys a platform and then bolts on steadily. The Strata Landscape Services platform is the live example in this registry: bought in 2025 and adding California operations within a year.
For a searcher in commercial services the read is that Align is methodical rather than loud: roughly twenty portfolio companies, sector discipline, and add-on pipelines run by dedicated teams. Meeting them, whether as a rival bidder's diligence or an interview, means talking their language of platform theses and early operational investment, and knowing the two-city structure, since the Cleveland and Dallas teams run their own deals.
What It Buys
Cleveland, OH and Dallas, TX. Industrial and professional services, software, and specialty manufacturing. Buys a platform, then bolts on steadily rather than in bursts.
Selling to them one day, or watching them as the other bidder? Track them in the Contact Book so the relationship has a next-touch date.
Confirmed Deals
2 deals traced to announcements by Align Capital Partners, 2025 to 2026, 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.
- Watersedge and Venco Western (into Strata) · May 7, 2026
Two California commercial-landscaping add-ons that took Strata into San Diego.
- Strata Landscape Services · May 1, 2025
Commercial landscaping platform, still actively acquiring.