Galaxy Service Partners
The Firm
Galaxy Service Partners launched in July 2025 as an alliance of commercial door, automatic gate and access control companies, founded by the team behind Guild Garage Group. Its founders say a year in residential garage doors led them to the commercial categories, which they call highly adjacent markets. Like Guild, it tells owners it does not operate like a traditional private equity firm. Its own SEC notice of May 2025 gives a New York address and records a $60 million equity offering, sold in full to 43 investors and filed as a private equity fund. Neither its site nor its releases name an outside sponsor.
What it buys is the commercial end of the door trade. Every release names a commercial overhead door or dock and door company, one adds automatic gates, and none is described as an access control company. Kodiak Equipment Services of St. Louis was its first partnership, in July 2025, and Central Door Solutions of Plover, Wisconsin its tenth acquisition by its own count, in September 2026. Owners keep what it calls unit level ownership: they take chips off the table and draw annual distributions until an eventual full exit.
For a searcher this splits the door trade by customer. Guild buys residential garage door companies, Galaxy buys commercial ones under the same founders, and GarageCo was formed to serve both. A shop with a dock and overhead service book therefore has a buyer built for it. Sellers can also join the platform itself: the owners of RCI Doors and Arcem now sit on its leadership page as operating partners. Its 2026 releases send founders and advisors to its vice president of M&A.
Its PR Newswire newsroom carries eight partnership releases between July 2025 and September 2026, and its own site posts none. The AM/PM release calls that company its seventh acquisition and its first of 2026, so two of its six 2025 partners never got a release. The 2026 releases count from first to fourth with no gap. The Central Door release adds that Central had recently bought Fox Valley Overhead Door of Appleton, Wisconsin. Its brands page shows partner logos with no names or dates.
What It Buys
New York, New York. Commercial overhead door, loading dock and automatic gate companies, joined in an owner-operator alliance the Guild Garage Group founders launched in 2025.
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Confirmed Deals
8 deals traced to announcements by Galaxy Service 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.
- Central Door Solutions · September 8, 2026
A Plover, Wisconsin commercial dock and door company with a New Berlin location, Galaxy's 10th acquisition and its 4th of 2026.
- RCI Doors · March 5, 2026
An Asheboro, North Carolina commercial dock and door company founded in 1992 as Asheboro Garage Doors, Galaxy's 9th acquisition.
- Sylvester's Maintenance & Mechanical · March 3, 2026
A Denver commercial dock and door company founded in 2009, with a Chesapeake, Virginia location, Galaxy's 8th acquisition.
- AM/PM Door · February 23, 2026
A Los Angeles commercial overhead door and automatic gate company founded in 1986, Galaxy's 7th acquisition by its own count.
- Arcem Entry Systems · October 16, 2025
A South Bend, Indiana loading dock, overhead and commercial door service company, a partnership completed.
- Thomas Door · September 10, 2025
A Columbus, Ohio commercial overhead, manual and automatic door company founded in 1949, a partnership completed.
- Overhead Door Solutions · August 4, 2025
A Lake Zurich, Illinois commercial overhead door and loading dock company founded in 1985, serving the Chicagoland suburbs.
- Kodiak Equipment Services · July 28, 2025
A St. Louis, Missouri family-owned commercial overhead door and loading dock company, the alliance's first partnership.