# Kian Capital

Charlotte, North Carolina. Lower-middle-market, founder-partnership oriented. Its landscaping platform has nearly tripled revenue since 2021, mostly by buying.

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

## The Firm

Kian Capital runs about $1.1 billion from Charlotte, and its name is a Gaelic word meaning enduring or lasting, which the firm uses as shorthand for its model: minority and control partnerships with founders meant to outlast a single fund cycle. Its scoreboard, by its own count, is sixteen active investments, twenty-five realizations, and fifty-three add-on acquisitions, and that last number is the tell, because the model is buying small companies into platforms.

The firm's language is partnership-heavy, mutual commitment and constant open and honest communication, and its landscaping record shows what that looks like in practice. It partnered with Diamond Landscaping of Los Angeles in December 2021 and had five add-ons completed by mid-2024. Then it formed Perimeter Holdings, a fence-and-access platform, from two Northeast operators at the end of 2025.

A searcher in landscaping or fencing should treat Kian as the buyer already at the table for premium local operators: its platforms acquire the exact companies an individual would target, and its add-on pace means the good ones get calls early. The interview-relevant facts are the enduring-partnership brand, the add-on-driven growth model, and the Charlotte base.

Read again in September 2026: the landscaping platform's seventh add-on came in February and the fencing platform has added nothing since its formation. The June 2024 Diamond item re-announces a December 2021 partnership, so the add-ons are the evidence and the platform date is not. The landscaping platform's own site read that night is a five-page brochure naming none of its add-ons, so the five in the June 2024 release stay undated and a count.

## In Its Trades

- Landscaping: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-landscaping-business
- Fencing: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-fencing-business

The other confirmed bidders: The Sterling Group (Foundation Fund) (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/sterling-group-foundation-fund), Shoreline Equity Partners (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/shoreline-equity-partners), Watchtower Capital (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/watchtower-capital), Align Capital Partners (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/align-capital-partners), Gemspring Capital (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/gemspring-capital), Harkness Capital Partners (https://searchspheresource.com/buyers/harkness-capital-partners).

## 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.

- Discovery Tank Testing and Tank Wizards (into SPATCO) (2026-06-10): Two Florida fueling-site tank testing and cleaning companies bought by the firm's energy platform; not landscaping or fencing. Source: https://www.kiancapital.com/news/kianbacked-spatco-energy-solutions-expands-presence-in-environmental-services-with-the-acquisitions-of-discovery-tank-testing-and-tank-wizards
- Christensen Landscape Services (into Diamond) (2026-02-26): High-end residential landscaping in Connecticut; adds design and hardscape. Source: https://www.kiancapital.com/news/kianbacked-diamond-landscaping-expands-geographic-footprint-with-addition-of-christensen-landscape-services
- Perimeter Holdings USA (2025-12-10): A gate, fence, and access-control platform of seven brands across New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Source: https://www.kiancapital.com/news/kian-capital-makes-strategic-investment-in-perimeter-holdings-usa-a-leading-provider-of-gate-fence-and-access-control-services
- Arizona Outdoor Designs (into Diamond) (2025-11-11): A greater Scottsdale luxury landscaping company, the platform's sixth add-on and its first outside California. Source: https://www.kiancapital.com/news/kianbacked-diamond-landscaping-enters-new-geography-with-acquisition-of-arizona-outdoor-designs
- Diamond Landscaping (2024-06-26): A Los Angeles luxury landscaping platform partnered with in December 2021, re-announced with five add-ons done. Source: https://www.kiancapital.com/news/kian-capital-announces-strategic-investment-in-diamond-landscaping-and-continues-expansion-in-the-luxury-residential-landscaping-sector

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