Harkness Capital Partners
The Firm
Harkness Capital Partners is a New York lower-middle-market firm that describes itself as investors and managers dedicated to building long-term value, backing management teams at what it calls inflection points. Its hunting ground is service businesses at roughly $5 to $15 million of EBITDA: transportation, field and facility services, rentals, and infrastructure.
Its registry presence is Premier Fence, the New England fencing platform it partnered with in October 2025 as a second-fund anchor, a classic Harkness profile: an established regional operator in an unglamorous, fragmented trade with room to consolidate neighbors.
For a fencing searcher, Harkness is proof the trade has graduated to institutional attention, and its EBITDA floor tells you which businesses are safe from it. Operators below $5 million are too small for its platform entries but exactly the right size to become its add-ons. Meeting the firm, know the investors-and-managers self-description, the inflection-point language, and the sector list, because they define which conversations it takes.
What It Buys
New York, NY. Lower-middle-market service businesses at $5M to $15M of EBITDA: transportation, field and facility services, rentals, and infrastructure, anchored by a New England fencing platform.
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
1 deal traced to announcements by Harkness Capital Partners, 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.
- Premier Fence · October 7, 2025
A Canton, Massachusetts installer and maintainer of fencing, guardrails, and gates serving New England since 1998.