Black Kanyon is a Midwest-focused private equity company that focuses on, revitalizes or extends the success of commercial real estate properties and operating businesses. Founded in 2020, Black Kanyon currently operates a multi-state property portfolio and works with businesses of all size, type, or location through acquisition, management and transition.
We exist today to create life changing opportunities for our people and those we work with or do business with. Realizing those opportunities means seeing the bigger picture of a location or a company’s potential even when the numbers don’t add up or a deal structure isn’t typical. It means working hard at understanding the real possibility of a business or property, and even harder when the timelines and hurdles appear tough. We operate everyday with the same mindset that inspired our team to headquarter in our non-traditional, small town location because we’ve always believed opportunities exist everywhere when the right people are involved, no matter the size, location or type of on-market or off-market properties and businesses we consider, we know numbers don’t lie – until they do.
We’ve never operated like a traditional private equity firm. When we work with business owners during transactions, we don’t jump into the raw numbers right away. Maybe it’s the small town nature in us, but when we begin a possible transaction, we start by understanding the people and the business that we could be working with. That means learning the full story about an operation, it’s people and their ideas on opportunity – for us and them.
We care about a company’s future or cultural fit and how it might or might not connect with our skills and mindset at Black Kanyon. Sure, numbers matter, but they never tell the real story about why an operation has succeeded in the past, and what it will take to excel in the future. Prioritizing the people involved in a potential deal helps us see what’s possible and what’s not.
Chasing revenue before we believe that an opportunity for all parties exists, is not us. We are not a traditional private equity firm that pursues deals for the sake of our portfolio’s growth. Working with owners to acquire a property or business is never just about the bottom line with us, it’s about the opportunity to provide life changing opportunities to more people.
Our success at Black Kanyon has always been tied to our unique approach, even if it doesn’t look like traditional private equity.
We believe numbers alone rarely tell the full story of a property or business. We listen more than we talk, and we recognize a promising story that we can get behind.