Who We Are

Carroll Capital is a family office established by Brian F. Carroll, a former Partner and Investment Committee Member of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., to build a concentrated and actively managed portfolio of differentiated businesses.

We build high-growth, market leading businesses

  • Take a patient, long-term approach to building leading businesses
  • Work in close partnership with the management team
  • Invest in talent, assets, and systems of companies to enable step-change in performance
  • Drive organic growth through acceleration of business development across core and new markets
  • Optimize margins, profitability, cash flows, and returns on capital
  • Expand businesses with synergistic, add-on acquisitions, as appropriate

We are differentiated partners for founders, owners, and managers

We do not have the limitations of traditional private equity funds

  • We are flexible in investment and partnership structure
  • We are flexible in our investment time horizons
  • We can move rapidly with our investment decisions and transaction execution

Complete alignment of interest with managers, founders, and business owners

  • Investing personal capital, with no reliance on outside equity
  • Committed to maximizing value for all shareholders
  • Concentrated with our time and our investment portfolio

We have differentiated capabilities

  • Experience investing in and actively owning world-class companies
  • Combined with experience leading change from within companies

We are active business owners who will work by your side to create value.

  • Work closely alongside managers on corporate and business development​
  • Proven ability to attract senior executive talent​
  • Lead value-creation initiatives to develop and execute growth strategies, scale corporate infrastructure, implement metrics and best practices, and execute add-on acquisitions​