Approach
We acquire essential service businesses and compound them over the long term.
Beginning with heating and cooling on Long Island, B² takes controlling stakes in proven operators and runs them with institutional discipline — deploying a shared technology platform that compounds margin and value across the portfolio.
Own for the long term.
We are long-horizon owners, not traders. Value compounds when you hold and keep improving.
Back the operators.
Founders roll equity and keep building. We bring capital, systems, and a genuine partnership.
Technology as the lever.
A shared platform is deployed across the portfolio, and we back the technology that powers it.
Team
The people behind the firm.
Ryan Berger
Co-Founder · General Partner
Earlier at Lux Capital and Nordwand Capital; founder of Crescent Fund.
Theo van der Meerschen
Co-Founder · General Partner
Built a multi-strategy family-office investment practice; founder of RRCP I.
David DePalma
Founding Partner · Investment Committee
Two decades across markets and operating leadership; Managing Partner of Valley Ridge Capital.
Jon Eisen
Platform Manager
Formerly regional general manager at Apex Service Partners.