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Painting Company Partnerships · North America

The leadership team
you’ve been dreaming about. Already hired.

Your painting company is good, but it still runs through you, it’s thin on people and systems, and growth keeps eating the margin. Aleph puts a big-company bench to work inside your business for a fraction of what it would cost to hire them. Stable, scalable and profitable, all at once. That’s the hard part, and it’s what we do.

We’re partners, not consultants. We only make money when you do.

  • CEO
  • CFO
  • COO
  • Recruiting
  • Marketing
  • Development team
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25 companies $80M+ partner revenue 30% avg. first-year growth Buy-and-hold — no exit clock
The Ceiling

A good business that still runs through you isn’t a stable one.

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It runs through you.

Every hire, every bid and every problem lands on your desk. Step away and the business stalls.

02

Thin on people and systems.

You can’t justify a CFO, a COO or a recruiting team yet, so the gaps stay open and growth stays stuck.

03

Growth eats the margin.

More jobs, more crews, more overhead, and somehow less profit to show for it.

Where does your business stand? Take the free scorecard

How to grow a painting business past the ceiling

Your New Bench

A big-company leadership team, working inside yours.

We don’t advise from the sidelines. These people embed with you and your team and do the work, week after week, for a fraction of what it would cost to hire them.

01

CEO

Strategy, accountability and leadership development, building the leaders your company needs to scale.

 02

CFO

Annual budgets, KPI tracking, compensation plans, monthly reconciliations and tax prep, handled with precision.

 03

COO

We lead, manage and hold the team accountable, with production coaches who make operations run like a well-oiled machine.

 04

Recruiting

Finding and launching the people you need, from new sales staff to the key management roles.

 05

Marketing

A hands-on team that manages your marketing strategy and puts every dollar toward high-ROI growth.

 06

Development team

Our own senior developers, building Wallogy (our ERP) as living software that keeps your business on the front of technology.
Our leadership team at the 2026 Summer Partner Retreat. Watch the film →
Meet the Team
The Outcome

Stable. Scalable. Profitable. All at once.

Most owners can fix one of those at a time. Doing all three together is the hard part, and it’s the work we do every day across our partner companies.

25 Companies

Aleph Ventures actively operates companies across North America. We know what works, what doesn’t, and how to execute.

$80M+ Revenue Generated

Aleph Partners generate over $80 million of revenue, with 9 partners over $4M of annual revenue.

30% Growth

Aleph Partners average 30% revenue growth in their first year of partnership.

Proof in the Painting
Jason Paris of Paris Painting

The Paris Painting story.

Like many founders, Jason Paris built Paris Painting through hard work, client focus, and team leadership. But in 2016, he made a pivotal shift: he stopped building a job and started building an asset.

By embracing partnership and developing a vested leadership team, Paris Painting achieved scalable growth and long-term stability. Today, the company exceeds $17M in annual revenue and operates as the kind of durable asset most founders hope to create.

Read the full Paris Painting case study

Why the orange? It’s a nod to Paris Painting — where this all started. The color is our small, standing homage to the first proof that a trade can become an asset.

Durable Brands, Built to Endure

Our partners.

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Militello Painting & Powerwashing Paris Painting Riggins Painting Marc Poulos Painting & Decorating Veenhuizen Painting Specialties Hershberger Painting Destiny Painting Pointer Painting Peach Paint Co ESP Painting Lumos Painting Co Parmer & Sons Painting
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The Anti–Private Equity Model

Most private equity buys to extract and exit. We buy to build — and we stay.

We make money the same way our partners do: through the health of the business we build together. That one fact changes everything about how we show up.

Typical Private Equity

  • Buys to extract, then exits in 3–5 years
  • Cuts costs to hit a number
  • Advises from a spreadsheet, at a distance
  • Wins whether or not you do

Aleph Ventures

  • Buys to build — buy-and-hold, no exit clock
  • Invests capital and leadership to scale
  • Embeds with your team and does the work
  • Only wins when you win — fully aligned incentives
The Joyful Ox
Giving Back · The Joyful Ox

Private equity takes off the top. We give off the top.

The Joyful Ox is the giving foundation of Aleph Ventures. Much has been given to us; much is expected of us. Together we set aside the first fruits of our strength — the first 1% of revenue — and give it joyfully to the people, communities, and world around us, creating lasting opportunity for those who have been given less.

  • 1% of revenueOff the top — not the leftovers after profit.
  • In thirdsA life in need, the community around us, and the world beyond.
  • Seed, not a single mealOpportunity that keeps producing long after the gift is made.
Visit the Joyful Ox Foundation

Paint It Forward — our crews give their trade.

Through Paint It Forward, a Painting Contractors Association program, our partner crews paint a home for a deserving neighbor, free.

Judith’s story · Paint It Forward 2026 · Paris Painting
A home for a family · Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge × Paris Painting & Sherwin-Williams
How It Works

How a partnership comes together.

Three ways to partner: minority, majority or a full exit. You choose how far, and we structure it around where you want to go.

01

Learn

You get to know what the specifics of our partnership model looks like in your business.

02

Visit Us

Come see what an Aleph partnership looks like in person and get to meet the team that makes it all happen.

03

We Visit You

We come see you and explore what the partnership would look like at ground level in your business.

04

Finalize

We work together on transparent deal terms and operating agreements.

See How It Works
Before You Call

Questions owners ask first.

Who makes the decisions in the partnership?
Most owners who partner with Aleph do so because they desire more input on their business decisions and therefore value a partner who could help. That said, Aleph’s Joint Venture partnerships are set up as “manager managed” entities and the founding partner is named as the manager. This creates a legal structure where the founder retains their autonomy to make business decisions.
How does Aleph make money through these partnerships?
Aleph makes its money the same way that the founding partner does: 1) through compensation for the time, energy, and resources that Aleph supplies to the business, and 2) through distributions of the net income of the business.
How will an Aleph partnership impact my compensation?
Aleph puts a high priority on making sure all time and energy in a business venture is compensated at a competitive market rate. This ensures that all efforts contributed by partners are fairly acknowledged. To that end, we walk through a thorough compensation modeling exercise where we look at what specific roles the managing partner will be playing in the business (i.e. sales person, project manager, president, etc.) and then construct a compensation plan based on that activity. In most of our deals, it is common for a legacy owner to earn a six-figure income prior to any distributions to shareholders.
How long does the founder have to be in the business?
While there is no exact timeline for this and it is heavily dependent on the state of the company before partnering with Aleph, our partners are typically seeing a 2–4 year runway to building a management team with Aleph that allows them the opportunity to become mostly passive in their business.
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A Word From Haakon

Stuck in the $3M–$5M window? Let’s have a conversation.

No obligations or hooks on our end. Just an open-handed conversation to see if our model could fit for you.

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Haakon Hansen · Aleph Ventures
Free owner’s tool · about 10 minutes

Not ready to talk yet? See where your business stands.

Score your company on the five stability metrics we use to value our own painting companies — team, gross margin, acquisition cost, brand, and net profit — and see exactly where it lands.

Take the Stability Scorecard
Keep Learning · Aleph Ventures TV

What it takes, what works, and who is doing it.

We talk about scaling profitable painting businesses that last for decades — with the owners doing it across the country.

Episode 43

From Summer Job to Market Leader

with Michael Murray

Michael Murray entered the painting industry the summer before his junior year of high school, years before Textbook Painting was a real company. By college, the side hustle had grown enough that he had to make a call: stay a solo painter, or build a real business.

Watch on YouTube ↗
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