Portfolio • AV Capital

AV Capital is owned and managed by Vernon Bryant, a former co-leader of the Middle Market investment practice at Austin Ventures, one of the most established venture capital firms in the nation with $3.9 billion under management and a 30+ year track record of investing in entrepreneurial businesses. We are focused on partnering with talented management teams to transition closely-held middle market companies to institutional ownership and accelerate growth. As relationship-oriented investors, we bring a patient approach and a long term perspective to building market leading companies.

AV CAPITAL INVESTMENTS:

Headquartered in Houston, TX, Encore Dredging Partners is a leading maintenance dredging operator in the United States. EDP currently operates five mid-sized cutter suction dredges along with an entire fleet of ancillary maintenance dredging support equipment. EDP focuses on navigable waterways throughout the United States. EDP serves a diverse client base of both private customers… read more

AMERICAN INSULATED GLASS

Headquartered outside of Atlanta, Georgia, American Insulated Glass is a leading fabricator and distributor of glass products in the U.S. With seven manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee, AIG specializes in providing insulated, tempered, laminated, and beveled glass to millworkers and glazing contractors serving the residential and commercial end… read more

KOVACH BUILDING ENCLOSURES

Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Kovach is one the nation’s largest integrated designers, manufacturers, and installers of high quality panel and glazing systems for the commercial building envelope. Kovach offers a complete line of services to meet the most demanding design applications for unique and high profile building projects in the higher education, health care, municipal,… read more

PRIOR FUND INVESTMENTS:

SAM

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, SAM is the largest independent provider of surveying, mapping and geospatial services to clients in the domestic infrastructure industry, including oil & gas, electric utilities and road transportation. AV Capital investment professionals recapitalized SAM in partnership with the company’s management team in February 2014 and is currently in the midst of… read more

BENEFITMALL

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, BenefitMall is a leading provider of employee benefits, payroll, and compliance solutions serving over 170,000 small businesses and a network of approximately 18,000 trusted advisors, brokers, and CPAs. The company is the leading provider of products, tools and services to employee health benefits brokers and the largest general agent in the… read more

MAGNABLEND

Headquartered in Waxahachie, Texas, Magnablend is a leading contract blender specializing in custom chemical manufacturing, blending, packaging and technical formulation, primarily serving the oil and gas, agricultural, and water treatment industries. Mangablend was recapitalized in May 2011 and sold to a strategic acquirer in December 2012... read more

ENTACT

Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, ENTACT is a leading provider of environmental remediation and construction services throughout the United States and select international locations. AV Capital investment professionals recapitalized ENTACT in partnership with the company’s management in September 2010 and sold the business to the Pritzker Group in June 2015. For more information about ENTACT, please… read more

STERLING FOODS

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Sterling Foods is a leading supplier of baked goods, as well as a provider of gourmet bakery items to the food service and retail industries. Sterling’s products include a wide variety of specialty and gourmet baked products such as brownies, cakes, cookies, snack breads, soft pretzels, muffins, scones, bagels, pizza… read more

DELTA RIGGING & TOOLS

Headquartered in Pearland, Texas, Delta Rigging & Tools is a leading provider of lifting solutions, including hoists, winches, wire rope, synthetic slings, accessory parts, and hardware as well as testing, inspection, and field services. Delta serves a national footprint of customers and end markets with particular strength in the Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions.… read more

M&M MANUFACTURING

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, M&M Manufacturing is a diversified manufacturer of sheet metal building products, primarily servicing the air distribution and ventilation market in the Southwest US. M&M Manufacturing was recapitalized in June 2007 and sold to MiTek in February 2015... read more

ORION MARINE GROUP (NYSE: ORN)

Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Orion Marine Group is a leading contractor serving the heavy civil marine infrastructure market, primarily along the Gulf Coast. AV Capital investment professionals acquired Orion in partnership with the company’s management team in 2004 and helped the business achieve a successful public exit in 2007... read more

SOUTHERN STAR CONCRETE

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Southern Star Concrete is a leading producer and supplier of ready-mixed concrete in Texas and Arkansas. AV Capital investment professionals partnered with the company’s management team to purchase the business from a subsidiary of Hanson plc in 2003 and sold the business to a strategic acquirer in 2005... read more

ASSOCIATED MATERIALS

Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, Associated Materials is a vertically integrated manufacturer and distributor of exterior residential building products. Associated Materials was acquired Associated in April 2002 and sold in December 2004... read more