Blake brings 15 years of investment banking and private equity experience to 14V, having invested in more than 35 businesses across large cap, middle market, and lower middle market companies, and deployed over $1.3 billion in equity and debt capital throughout his career. Blake leads 14V’s finance, legal, structuring, M&A execution, and capital allocation efforts.
Prior to founding 14V, Blake founded Epic Garage Partners and helped build one of the largest and fastest-growing garage door service, maintenance, and installation platforms in the United States, with more than 25 brands and approaching $300 million in revenue. He previously worked at Bestige Holdings, a Park City, Utah-based middle-market investment firm where he completed investments in the automotive services, residential services, environmental services, and value-added distribution categories. Prior to that, he worked at Dallas, Texas-based Insight Equity, a $2 billion AUM investment firm focused on investments in industrial services.
Blake started his career as an investment banking analyst at Wells Fargo Securities in New York City, where he provided M&A advisory and leveraged loan origination for large-cap private equity clients. He received his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he double majored in Finance and Strategy, and his B.S. in Management at Brigham Young University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Blake lives in Utah with his wife, Allyse, and their four children. He enjoys skiing, golfing, and hiking with his family, coaching his boys’ basketball teams, writing music with his daughter, and supporting local sports teams.
Kyle brings nearly a decade of hands-on private equity experience to 14V, having led and contributed to more than 50 transactions across consumer and business services as the first employee at a lower middle market investment firm. Kyle leads 14V’s sourcing, thesis development, M&A execution, and post-close leadership and growth initiatives across the portfolio.
Prior to co-founding 14V, Kyle spent his entire career building deep expertise in services businesses across numerous end markets, executing buy-and-build strategies in waste and environmental, automotive, HVAC and plumbing, roofing, collision centers, veterinary, and medical aesthetics services. He has been present at every stage of the deal lifecycle, from initial thesis development and outreach through close and beyond, and has developed a reputation for identifying themes and ideas before they reach consensus. Kyle also has significant experience serving as a board or strategic advisor to businesses across healthcare services, residential services, and consumer services that are assessing strategic alternatives including exits, recapitalizations, or restructurings.
Kyle began his career with a foundation built on discipline and competitiveness. As a Division I basketball player at Brigham Young University, where he served as Team Captain, and a former Utah High School State MVP, Tournament MVP, and State Champion, Kyle developed important skills of discipline, goal-setting, accountability, and leadership, and his team-oriented mindset defines his approach to investing and partnership at 14V. He graduated from BYU with a B.S. in Accounting.
Kyle lives in Utah with his wife, Kelli, and their three children. Outside of work, he enjoys coaching his kids’ sports teams, river rafting and all things outdoors, jiu jitsu, and traveling with his wife.