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.

01

Patient Capital

We invest with a long-term horizon and no obligation to sell on a fund timeline.

04

Founder & Operator Alignment

We structure transactions around the seller's goals, including meaningful ongoing roles and rollover where desired.

02

Operational Partnership

We stay engaged after close, bringing strategic, financial, and operational support without micromanaging great teams.

05

Flexible Structuring

Majority, minority, recapitalizations, and buyouts. We build the structure around the business, not a template.

03

Disciplined Diligence

A thorough, respectful, and efficient process that closes with certainty.

06

Buy-and-Build

Where it fits, we support add-on acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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.

I

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
II

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
III

How We Partner

1.United States and Canada
2.Full sales, partial sales, or gradual transitions. We're flexible.
3.Founder liquidity and succession planning
4.Patient capital with a long-term view
5.A true partner, not a quick flip
6.We keep your team and culture in place

Where we focus.

  • Safety & Compliance Services
  • Infrastructure & Industrial
  • Property & Community Services
  • Healthcare & Aging Services
  • Youth Enrichment
  • Business & Professional Services

Team

Leadership.

Ryan Bourque, Founder and Managing Partner of Sunnadin Capital

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