Our update also includes insights into:

• 2026 M&A Market in Review
• Locums M&A Case Study
• Staffing Services Valuation Scorecard
• A complimentary Investment Grade Assessment w/full report (Access Code: IGA_NE)
• Upcoming HCM Conferences
• Labor Market Insights & Macro Trends

Founded in 1970, Taylor Electric is a leading provider of construction services for electrical utility infrastructure throughout the Southeast. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, the Company has established a strong reputation providing premier services for its customers, especially on Redstone Arsenal.

“We are very excited for this next chapter,” said Todd Taylor, President of Taylor Electric. “This partnership will allow us to take the business to the next level. We’re thrilled to partner with the Sole Source team, and we believe our shared vision will help us achieve our goal of becoming a premier service provider throughout the Southeast.”

“Taylor Electric is a strong, established company defined by a unique culture and an intrinsic understanding of its clients’ needs. It was a pleasure working with the management team, and we look forward to seeing Taylor Electric prosper in this new partnership with Sole Source,” said Evan Klisares, Managing Director at Founders Advisors.

Founders Advisors served as financial advisor and Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP acted as legal counsel to Taylor Electric. Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP served as legal counsel to Sole Source.

About Taylor Electric, Inc.

Taylor Electric, Inc. is a client-focused provider of construction and maintenance services for electrical infrastructure serving government, utility, and industrial customers. Core service offerings include Blue Sky MSA work, Distribution Infrastructure Construction, and Storm Response and Restoration. Founded in 1970, the Company operates across the Southern US. For more information visit www.taylorelectricutility.com.

About Sole Source Capital

Founded in 2016 by David Fredston, Sole Source Capital is a private equity firm that invests thematically in industrial and business services sectors. The firm targets fragmented, high-growth markets shaped by secular trends and partners with founder-led businesses to build scaled consolidators. Leveraging operational expertise and disciplined M&A, Sole Source Capital creates market leaders that deliver lasting value. Headquartered in Dallas, the firm also maintains an office in Santa Monica. For more information visit www.solesourcecapital.com.

About Founders Advisors

Founders Advisors brings deep sector expertise in Power and Infrastructure Services, supported by broader experience across Industrial, Technology, Healthcare, and Consumer markets. We provide insight into industry trends, competitive dynamics, and positioning strategies that drive meaningful investor engagement. If you are exploring a potential sale or evaluating strategic options in the Power and Infrastructure Services sector, please feel free to reach out to our team.

To provide securities-related services, certain principals of Founders Advisors, LLC are licensed with Founders M&A Advisory, LLC, member FINRA and SiPC. Founders M&A Advisory, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Founders Advisors, LLC. Neither Founders Advisors nor Founders M & A Advisory provide investment advice. For more information, please visit www.foundersib.com.

Over four generations, the Love family has built a decades-long reputation as a trusted supplier of high-quality envelopes. The company’s deep-rooted expertise, established customer relationships, and commitment to service excellence have made it a cornerstone of the envelope printing and converting industry.

The combination of United Envelope and Love Envelopes creates a geographically diverse platform capable of serving customers across a significantly broader footprint. By uniting United Envelope’s established operations in the Northeast with Love Envelopes’ strong presence in Texas and the Midwest, the combined company is well-positioned to deliver enhanced service, expanded product offerings, and greater operational capabilities to clients nationwide.

“Selecting an advisor to help us sell our family business, which was founded in 1958, was one of the most important decisions we have ever made,” said Michael Love, President and Co-Owner of Love Envelopes. “From our very first meeting, Founders Advisors distinguished themselves through their professionalism, market knowledge, and genuine understanding of what this company, our employees, and our customers mean to our family. Throughout the process, they provided thoughtful guidance, disciplined execution, and unwavering support. Looking back, we are 100% confident that choosing Founders Advisors was the right decision. Their leadership helped us navigate a complex transaction with confidence and ultimately find the right long-term partner to carry our company’s legacy forward.”

Daniel Love, Vice President and Co-Owner of Love Envelopes, added, “The team at Founders took care of us from start to finish. They were very open and honest throughout the entire process, including very accurate expectations of the sales price. Honestly, I felt like we became friends along the way. I would compare it to a professional sports team. Each one of their team members is uniquely qualified for their role and is as good as it gets. They cared about winning, but they cared about our well-being and the company’s well-being most of all. I would work with them any day of the week and have already recommended them to multiple friends. You’d be hard pressed to find a better group to work with.”

“It was a privilege serving the Love family in this process with United Envelope and I believe this partnership represents a compelling strategic combination creating a premier platform in the envelope manufacturing industry,” said Neal England, Managing Director at Founders Advisors. “We are excited for this transaction to advance the Love Envelopes legacy that has endured for more than 60 years.”

Chris Jenkins, Vice President at Founders Advisors added, “We are excited to see Love Envelopes and United Envelope come together through this transaction and look forward to watching their combined success as they continue to deliver industry leading services. The Love family has spent generations building what became an industry leader through unwavering commitment to quality, customer relationships, and operational excellence. It was a privilege to represent them in this milestone transaction, and we are confident that United Envelope is the ideal partner to carry that legacy forward and accelerate the next chapter of growth.”

About Love Envelopes

Love Envelopes is a fourth-generation, family-owned envelope printing and converting company with facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Dallas, Texas.

About United Envelope

United Envelope is a leading manufacturer and distributor of envelopes and related paper products, serving customers primarily in the northeast United States. As a portfolio company of CenterGate Capital, United Envelope continues to grow through strategic acquisitions and organic investment.

About CenterGate Capital

CenterGate Capital is an Austin, TX-based private equity firm managing over $750 million. CenterGate partners with middle market companies to achieve their next stage of growth. By bringing together a balance of transactional and operational experience and resources, the CenterGate team works with management to execute valuation creation strategies enabling growth and unlocking value. For more information, visit www.centergatecapital.com.

About Founders Advisors

Founders is a merger, acquisition, and strategic advisory firm serving middle-market companies. Founders focuses on helping companies across technology, business services, consumer, energy, industrial, and healthcare industries. Founders’ skilled professionals, proven expertise, and process-based solutions help companies access growth capital, pursue acquisitions, and/or prepare for and execute liquidity events to achieve specific financial goals. In order to provide securities-related services, certain principals of Founders Advisors, LLC are licensed with Founders M&A Advisory, LLC, member FINRA and SIPC. Founders M&A Advisory, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Founders Advisors, LLC. Founders Advisors, LLC does not provide investment advice. For more information, please visit www.foundersib.com.

In this edition of Founders’ Perimeter Security Solutions M&A Update, our team provides intel on current trends and M&A activity taking place in the market, including:

• Key Factors Driving Buyer Interest in the Perimeter Security Sector
• Recent M&A Transactions
• An Overview of What Business Characteristics Drive Enterprise Value
• Buyers Actively Pursuing Deals in the Perimeter Security Sector
• An Overview of Founders’ Perimeter Security Sector Coverage

If you or anyone you know has questions about the market around the facility services industry, please feel free to reach out to Kat Candela, Director of Founders’ Industrials team & Perimeter Security Sector Coverage Leader, for more information.

Turing Analytics developed EVA in partnership with McDaniel & Associates, one of Canada’s leading reservoir engineering firms. EVA provides well-level forecasts, technical analysis, and engineering insight across Canadian basins and is embedded in evaluation workflows across operators, investors, and advisory firms. The EVA platform is used by clients representing over 50% of Canada’s oil and gas production.

Together, Novi and Turing support operators and institutional investors managing tens of billions of dollars in annual upstream capital deployment across the region. The integrated platform enables customers to assess assets across U.S. and Canadian basins using a unified dataset and modeling framework, without switching systems or reconciling separate outputs. This enables direct comparability across regions, improves prioritization of capital deployment, and increases confidence in cross-border investment decisions.

“EVA began out of necessity,” said Brian Hamm, CEO of Turing Analytics. “Modern well design and the multivariate analysis it demands had outgrown traditional tools, and we needed a better way. That challenge led Turing and McDaniel to build EVA and usher in a new era of reservoir and asset evaluation. From a standing start, we’ve grown to nearly 40 team members in five years, and thanks to this exceptional team, EVA is now trusted by clients operating more than 50% of Canada’s production. We’re excited to take the next step with Novi Labs, combining the strengths of both companies to set a new standard for North American upstream analytics.”

“Novi was founded on the belief that the best capital decisions come from forecasts built upon proprietary data and AI-driven models,” said Scott Sherwood, CEO of Novi Labs. “For a decade, we’ve proven that in the U.S. market. Turing has proven it in Canada. Together, we close the last major gap in North American upstream intelligence and give investors on both sides of the border the ability to quickly evaluate opportunities.”

“Founders Advisors was an outstanding partner throughout the transaction process,” said Brian Hamm, CEO of Turing Analytics. “Their team brought deep market knowledge, ran an efficient and thoughtful process, and provided steady guidance from start to finish. We’re grateful for their support in helping us find the right strategic fit with Novi Labs.”

“The Turing Analytics team embodies the exact combination of technical depth and commercial instinct that characterizes category-defining companies,” said Brad Johnson, Managing Director at Founders Advisors. “Brian’s vision for the EVA platform resulted in a loyal customer base, an impressive reputation, and a solution that became the analytical standard for the Canadian energy sector. We are grateful for the trust the Turing team placed in us and excited to watch what Turing and Novi accomplish together.”

To view the full transaction announcement, please visit: Novi Labs Acquired Turing Analytics

About Turing Analytics

Turing Analytics is a Calgary-based technology company and developer of EVA, a cloud-based upstream analytics platform built in partnership with McDaniel Research. EVA integrates geological, engineering, and production data to support decision-making across the Canadian energy sector. https://www.turinganalytics.net/

About Novi Labs

Novi Labs is the leading AI-driven energy analytics platform redefining how energy operators and investors make high-stakes capital decisions. Built on proprietary machine learning, exclusive datasets, and deep reservoir expertise, Novi delivers the industry’s most accurate well-level forecasts and development insights. Many leading E&P operators and mineral owners rely on Novi, with billions in monthly capital decisions flowing through the platform. Novi is headquartered in Austin, Texas. www.novilabs.com

About Founders Advisors

Founders is a merger, acquisition, & strategic advisory firm serving middle-market companies. Founders focuses on helping companies across technology, business services, consumer, energy, industrial, and healthcare industries. Founders’ skilled professionals, proven expertise, and process-based solutions help companies access growth capital, pursue acquisitions, and/or prepare for and execute liquidity events to achieve specific financial goals. In order to provide securities-related services, certain principals of Founders Advisors, LLC are licensed with Founders M&A Advisory, LLC, member FINRA and SIPC. Founders M&A Advisory, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Founders Advisors, LLC. Founders Advisors, LLC does not provide investment advice. For more information, please visit www.foundersib.com.

In this edition of Founders’ Roofing Market M&A Update, our team provides intel on current trends and M&A activity taking place in the market, including:

• U.S. Residential Roofing Market Size & Average Valuations
• M&A Market Overview
• Consumer Macroeconomic Outlook
• Recent M&A Transactions
• Private Equity Backed Roofing Platforms
• An Overview of Founders’ Residential Services Sector Coverage

If you or anyone you know has questions about the market around the residential services industry, please feel free to reach out to Madison Davis, Director of Founders’ Consumer Team & Residential Services Sector Coverage Leader, for more information.

The post Roofing Market M&A Update – May 2026 first appeared on Founders Advisors.]]> https://foundersib.com/2026/05/13/roofing-market-ma-update-may-2026/feed/ 0 https://foundersib.com/2026/05/08/founders-advises-associate-roofing-in-acquisition-valor-exterior-partners/ https://foundersib.com/2026/05/08/founders-advises-associate-roofing-in-acquisition-valor-exterior-partners/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 19:52:24 +0000 https://foundersib.com/?p=14306 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Apr 16, 2026) – Founders is pleased to announce that Associate Roofing (“Associate” or the “Company”) has been acquired by Valor Exterior Partners (“Valor”), a portfolio company of Osceola Capital Management (“Osceola”). Associate was exclusively advised by principals of Founders Advisors, LLC in this transaction. The transaction closed on April 16, 2026. Founded...

The newsletter includes data points highlighting:

• Industry trends
• Alerts about major recent transactions
• Valuation Scorecard
• Pool buyer relationships
  • Existing Platforms
  • Financial Investors
• An overview of Founders’ Home Services Sector Coverage

If you or anyone you know has questions about the market around the home services industry, please feel free to reach out to Madison Davis, Director of Founders’ Consumer Team & Home Services Sector Coverage Leader, for more information.

Hosted by Abide & Lead—a community of CEOs, founders, and leaders pursuing Kingdom impact—the Forum is designed to inspire, equip, and connect leaders to live and lead from a place of abiding in Christ.

More than a forum, it was a sacred space for alignment. Led by Duane Donner, Founder and CEO of Founders Advisors, and a trusted group of facilitators, men were challenged to reflect not just on what they’re building, but who they’re becoming. Through teaching, testimonies, and intentional conversations, many experienced clarity, breakthroughs, and renewed vision—for their businesses, families, and walk
with the Lord.

Whether around the fire, over meals, or in quiet moments, a deeper brotherhood formed. Leaders were reminded they are not meant to lead alone and were called to remain connected to the Vine through a daily rhythm of abiding with Jesus.

This journey continues through huddle groups and the broader Abide & Lead community, with resources like the Impact CEO Podcast and Word of the Week to support ongoing growth. We’re expectant for what God will continue to do through these men for generations to come. Find out more about the Abide & Lead community at www.abideandlead.com or reach out to Hawk Cornwell.