Gale ventures

Acquiring, scaling, and modernizing essential services businesses.

Gale Ventures acquires and operates established essential services companies, holding them for the long term and building them into something larger.

The firm exists on a simple premise: well-run local businesses deserve better than the two options usually available to a retiring owner, which are selling to a strategic buyer who absorbs the name or winding down for lack of a successor.

Forging the Future of Legacy Businesses

We buy these businesses for their roots.

The name, the reputation, the people who show up every day. Our job is to keep that intact and then build on it, with the capital, systems, and attention to take them into their next stage of growth.

I am the co-founder and managing partner of Gale Ventures. I am involved in every deal from first conversation through to running the business afterward. I oversee:

Deal sourcing
Due diligence
Capital structuring
Owner relationships
Post-acquisition integration
Operational improvement
Leadership development
Long-term strategic planning

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Who We Are

Our Mission

To preserve and strengthen legacy companies, keeping them thriving while providing entrepreneurs with thoughtful succession solutions and seamless exit opportunities.

Keenan Anthony

I'm co-founder and managing partner of Gale Ventures, where I lead our investment strategy and acquisitions across established, founder-led businesses.

I take an operator-first approach. I'm involved in every deal from first conversation through to running the business afterward, and I oversee deal sourcing, transaction structuring, capital strategy, and the work of improving the business after close.

Afshin Doust

Afshin is co-founder and partner at Gale Ventures. He has spent more than a decade running a BC-based lending company, alongside other ventures across technology and consulting.

At Gale Ventures, he leads on evaluating acquisition opportunities and capital structure, investor relations, and works with our companies on growth after close.