Portfolio
A few good businesses.
Held for good.
We're a new firm in the early chapter of a long book. Rather than pad this page, we'd like to tell you honestly where we are.
What's new here is the company, not the instinct. Four generations of our family have founded, operated, and eventually sold businesses in oil and gas — a long apprenticeship in buying carefully, holding patiently, and knowing the difference between a quick win and something built to last. Mission Coast turns that instinct closer to home: durable, essential service businesses, acquired a few at a time and kept for good.
Holdings — May 2026
01
Currently seeking
We're actively looking for our first acquisition. If you or someone you know is thinking about next steps, we'd love to hear the story.
Industry
Great Lakes service business
Status
Open
In the meantime
Businesses we admire, on this coast and others.
Not portfolio companies — just the kind of operators whose work we study, and whose successors we hope to become.
№ 01
The boatyard
A winterizing service that gets ninety-four percent of the same customers back every spring. That isn't marketing — it's trust.
№ 02
The line crew
Replaces the utility lines, water mains, sewer trunks, or gas lines that nobody thinks about until they fail at 2 a.m. — and then only three numbers in the county are worth calling. The work isn't glamorous; it's mandatory.
№ 03
The packing house
A name that's sat on the same crate, carton, or feed bag for sixty years. The kind of regional brand that doesn't get built with a marketing budget — it gets earned one harvest at a time.
№ 04
The supply house
The shop a third-generation builder still calls first. Forty years of relationships, a phone number passed down through trucks, and a reputation that doesn't transfer with the keys — it stays with the people.
Built something durable and essential?
If you've spent your career on work that would be missed if it disappeared — a specialty trade, a durable brand, an essential service built over decades — we'd like to be the ones who carry it forward. Patient capital, a single owner, no clock.
Our pace
We'd rather wait three years for the right business than close the wrong one this quarter.
If that sounds like the kind of buyer you've been waiting for, the conversation door is open. No process, no pressure, no broker required.
