CapitalSpring
The Firm
CapitalSpring is a Nashville-based specialist in foodservice and multi-location consumer businesses, with $4.4 billion invested across more than 100 investments in over seventy brands, writing checks from $10 million to $150 million and up in both equity and debt. The sector focus is the identity: restaurants, franchised and independent, plus the service and technology businesses attached to them.
Its registry presence marks the strategy's expansion into home services and adjacent trades: a nine-market Mister Sparky electrician franchisee, the second-largest in that system, and Coast Sign, a signage manufacturer, both added in 2025. The multi-location operating playbook it built in restaurants transfers directly to franchise trades of every kind.
For searchers in sign manufacturing or electrical work, CapitalSpring is what a sector specialist looks like when it crosses into your trade: deep multi-unit operating resources, both debt and equity flexibility, and a management-team-first underwriting model. The facts to carry are the foodservice origin, the hundred-investment record, the check-size range, and the franchise-system logic driving its newer bets.
What It Buys
Nashville, TN. A foodservice and multi-location specialist with over 100 investments across 70-plus brands, now expanding into home services including the second-largest Mister Sparky electrician franchisee.
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Confirmed Deals
2 deals traced to announcements by CapitalSpring, 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.
Nothing newer has cleared the bar in 13 months, against a registry whose newest confirmed deal is August 6, 2026. A gap past 12 months can mean the firm has slowed, or that it has stopped announcing; treat it as a prompt to check its own newsroom before assuming either.
- Mister Sparky franchisee (nine Midwest markets) · July 21, 2025
A majority stake in the country's second-largest Mister Sparky electrician franchisee.
- Coast Sign · April 17, 2025
An Anaheim exterior-signage manufacturer handling design, permitting, installation, and repair for multi-location brands.