Long-term partners
to founder-led businesses.
Sunnadin Capital is an independent sponsor providing patient, long-term capital to essential small businesses.
Who We Are
A long-term partner.
Sunnadin Capital is an independent sponsor providing patient capital to lower-middle-market businesses. We partner with founders, families, and management teams to preserve what they've built and to keep building on it for the long term.
Unlike a traditional fund, we don't operate on a fixed hold period or forced exit date. Our capital is structured to be patient, so decisions get made on the company's clock, not a fund's.
Lower Middle Market
Our focus
Patient Capital
No fund clock
Founder-Aligned
Long-term partnership
Flexible Structures
Built around the seller
Our Approach
How we partner.
We win deals by being the most trustworthy, most flexible, and most patient partner in the room. Six principles guide everything we do.
Investment Criteria
What we look for.
We partner with ambitious founders building businesses that matter. Our criteria are guidelines, not gates. If you've built something durable, we want to talk.
Size & Stage
- Revenue in the $5M to $75M range
- Profitable and cash-flow positive
- Established team, usually 10 to 250 people
- At least five years of steady operation
What Kind of Business
- Founder- or family-owned
- Strong reputation and loyal customers
- Revenue that comes back year after year
- A solid management team in place, or room to build one
- Services or products people actually need, even in a downturn
How We Partner
Where we focus.
- Safety & Compliance Services
- Infrastructure & Industrial
- Property & Community Services
- Healthcare & Aging Services
- Youth Enrichment
- Business & Professional Services
Team
Leadership.
Founder & Managing Partner
Ryan Bourque
Ryan founded Sunnadin Capital to be a long-term, founder-aligned partner to owners of strong lower-middle-market businesses: operationally focused patient capital.
He brings a decade of experience across investing, capital markets, and operations. Most recently, Ryan invested in the lower middle market through independent-sponsor and private equity style transactions, including diligence and value-creation work on commercial and industrial services platforms.
Earlier, Ryan worked in equity finance and capital markets at the Bank of Montreal and Clear Street, where he structured financing for corporate and institutional clients and built the capital-allocation frameworks that shape how he invests today.
Ryan is an MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a BA from Colgate University. Outside of work, he is a mentor to high school and college students and is an avid basketball player, golfer and hiker.
Contact
Let's start a
conversation.
Owners considering a transition, advisors with an opportunity, capital partners: we'd like to hear from you. We work with intermediaries at market terms.
General Inquiries
info@sunnadincapital.com