
Alex Kuhlman
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- Full Name
- Alex Kuhlman
- Title
- Principal (previously Senior Associate)
- Firm
- Broadview Group Holdings, LLC (formerly Capital Southwest)
- Firm Type
- Private investment firm / permanent-capital holding company (not an angel investor; the "Angel Investors / Seed Round" label in the source stub appears to be a misclassification)
- Investment Stage
- Established, profitable middle-market companies — majority and significant-minority stakes, long-term (7–10+ year) holds
- Check Size
- Firm targets companies with $25–$250M of revenue and $3–$20M of EBITDA (Broadview criteria)
- Target Company Profile
- Profitable North American middle-market businesses, often as the owner's first outside institutional capital
- Sector Focus
- Commercial & industrial products, specialty distribution, commercial & industrial services, and food & agriculture
- Geographic Focus
- North America
- Location
- Dallas, Texas (Broadview is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with a Dallas presence)
Background
Alex Kuhlman is a Principal at Broadview Group Holdings, a private investment firm founded in 2020 by industry veterans Jason Logsdon and Clay Hunter that invests in profitable middle-market companies using a permanent-capital base rather than a traditional fund structure. He joined Broadview in March 2021 as a Senior Associate on the direct-investments team, where his work centers on sourcing, evaluating, and executing new investment opportunities and then partnering with portfolio-company teams on strategic, financial, and operational initiatives. He has since been promoted to Principal.
Before Broadview, Kuhlman spent roughly two years (2018–2020) as a Senior Associate at Capital Southwest (Nasdaq: CSWC), a Dallas-based middle-market credit and minority-equity investing platform. There he supported due diligence and structuring of new transactions across a variety of sectors, as well as post-closing portfolio-company activity — the origin of the [hidden] email and the 214-238-5700 Dallas phone line that appear in older records.
Kuhlman began his career as an investment-banking analyst at Stephens Inc. in Dallas, working in the firm's transportation and logistics group. He earned a BBA in Finance from Texas Christian University (TCU).
Note: The contact stub that seeded this profile (Capital Southwest email/phone, "Senior Associate," "Angel Investors," "Seed Round") reflects his earlier Capital Southwest tenure and mislabels the firm type. His current, verifiable role is at Broadview Group.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests through Broadview's permanent-capital model — no fixed fund life or forced exit timeline; Broadview says it enters situations where it sees "at least seven to 10 years of things to do."
- Targets profitable, cash-generative middle-market businesses: ~$25–$250M revenue and ~$3–$20M EBITDA.
- Takes majority or significant-minority stakes, frequently as a founder's or family's first outside institutional capital.
- Core sectors: commercial & industrial product manufacturers, specialty distributors, commercial & industrial service providers, and food & agriculture businesses.
- Emphasizes partnership and long-term value creation — strategic and operational support alongside management — as a differentiator from traditional PE's shorter hold periods.
- Kuhlman's personal remit: sourcing, evaluating, and executing deals, then working with portfolio teams post-close (a continuation of the diligence/structuring focus he built at Capital Southwest).
Notable Investments
- GranQuartz — distributor of tools and equipment for the stone/hardscape industry.
- VMC Group — engineered vibration, seismic, and wind restraint products for building systems.
- American Pavement Preservation — pavement maintenance and preservation services.
- WM Coffman Resources ("Coffman") — manufacturer of stair parts and building products; Broadview's most recent listed acquisition (Jan 31, 2023).
- Citadel EHS — environmental, health & safety services.
- Certified Waste Solutions — waste and environmental services.
- Millennium — listed portfolio company.
- SMI Cold Therapy — cold-therapy/medical products.
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