# Imperial Capital

Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto growth firm that founded Certus in 2019 to consolidate US pest control: twenty-one branches across eight states so far, with Liberty Mutual capital added in 2024 to keep acquiring.

- Website: https://www.imperialcap.com/

## The Firm

Imperial Capital, founded in 1989 on King Street in Toronto, invests in the US and Canadian mid-market with a thesis it states plainly: fragmented, recession-resistant, service-based sectors, companies from zero to $30 million of EBITDA, led by a proven entrepreneur or executive. The scoreboard is thirty-two platform investments since 1989 and, remarkably, 259 tuck-in acquisitions between 2021 and 2024, with a published 2.8x gross multiple across its recent funds.

The 259 tuck-ins in four years are the number a searcher should sit with, because each tuck-in is a small business bought by an Imperial platform. In this registry the platform is Certus, the pest-control consolidator Imperial founded in 2019, now twenty-one branches across eight states, with Liberty Mutual capital added in 2024 to keep buying.

The zero-lower-bound on its EBITDA range means Imperial's platforms shop in exactly the searcher-sized market, unusual even among lower-middle-market firms. Meeting them, the facts to know are the 1989 Toronto founding, the recession-resistant services thesis, the entrepreneur-partnership requirement, and the tuck-in engine's published pace.

Read again in September 2026: the pest platform's newsroom is a script-rendered shell that a fetch cannot read, and the sponsor's own newsroom carries no pest item after May 2024, when it said the platform anticipated a significant number of new acquisitions. Whether the pace held is a question for a browser. Its own newsroom read that night carries its roofing platform's purchases and a med spa partnership, and a May 2024 growth investment in Certus by Liberty Mutual Investments beside its own follow-on. Certus's news page is a script shell that fills from a database at runtime, so the pest platform's purchases since Evolve are unread and the Evolve row rests on the reading that added it.

## In Its Trades

- Pest Control: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-pest-control-business

The other confirmed bidders: Trivest Partners (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/trivest), Arrow Exterminators (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/arrow-exterminators).

## Confirmed Deals

Deals traced to announcements, 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.

- Evolve Pest Control (into Certus) (2025-05-08): A Las Vegas-area operator covering corners of three states, strengthening Certus in Nevada. Source: https://www.certuspest.com/news/certus-pest-expands-las-vegas-area-presence-through-acquisition-of-evolve-pest-control/
- Classic Roofing & Construction and John Hogan Roofing (2025-03-10): Two Florida west coast residential roofers bought by its roofing platform Skyline in one release, founded 2003 and 1996. Source: https://www.imperialcap.com/news/imperial-capital-s-skyline-roofing-partners-acquires-classic-roofing
- Elo Roofing (2024-05-06): A Jacksonville, Florida residential roofing contractor founded in 2013, its roofing platform Skyline's first purchase. Source: https://www.imperialcap.com/news/imperial-capital-s-skyline-roofing-partners-announces-inaugural-partnership-with-elo-roofing
- Images Med Spa LLC (2024-04-12): A Greater Chicago med spa of seven locations, a partnership by its word, joining its Elase medical spa platform. Source: https://www.imperialcap.com/news/imperial-capital-s-birch-medical-spas-announces-rebrand-to-elase-medical-spas-and-images-med-spa-partnership

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