Keystone Capital

Keystone Capital is a private investment firm that puts patient, long-term money into established companies. Its founders bought a small business services company in 1994 and ran it themselves before merging it into a larger listed group.

That operating background shapes how the firm works. It aims to sit alongside management teams and make decisions with a long horizon.

What Keystone Capital does

• Platform investments: control positions in established companies.
• Add-on acquisitions: further purchases to grow existing holdings.
• Owner recapitalisation: solutions for founders who want to take money out.
• Corporate divestitures: buying units that a parent wants to sell.

Who it works with

Businesses in four areas: engineering and technical work, professional services with a technology element, general commercial services, and industrial technology with engineered products. It prefers majority control and continuity of the existing leadership.

Key facts

• Founded: 1994 (origins of the founders' first business)
• Approach: long-term capital, majority control preferred