Brett Stoehr
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- Full Name
- Brett Stoehr
- Title
- Vice President, Investments
- Firm
- Unity Partners
- Firm Type
- Private equity
- Investment Stage
- Lower middle-market private equity; platform and add-on investments
- Target Company Profile
- Ambitious leaders building people-based services and technology-enabled services platforms, often in fragmented markets with recurring or essential customer needs
- Sector Focus
- Residential services, industrial services, commercial services, business services, managed professional services, insurance services, finance/tax/accounting, legal services, pool services, tree/lawn/pest care, plumbing/HVAC/electrical
- Geographic Focus
- United States, with offices in Dallas and New York and portfolio activity extending into Canada
- Location
- Dallas, Texas
Background
Brett Stoehr is Vice President, Investments at Unity Partners, where he is responsible for executing residential, industrial, and commercial services investment opportunities and working with external partners and the broader Unity team. Unity describes itself as a principles-based private equity firm focused on partnering investors and operators to build people-based services and technology organizations.
Before Unity, Stoehr was an Associate on the investment team at CenterOak Partners. He joined CenterOak in 2018 after beginning his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Piper Sandler, where he worked with business owners and private equity firms on M&A and IPO transactions.
A January 29, 2025 episode of The Commercial Landscaper Podcast states that Stoehr had completed more than 50 transactions representing approximately $6 billion in aggregate deal value. Stoehr earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with honors, and a BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University, summa cum laude.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Focuses on investing in and scaling residential, commercial, and industrial services businesses.
- Unity’s stated strategy is to “Partner with ambitious leaders to build leading platforms,” use M&A to accelerate growth, combine people with technology to address recurring or essential needs, and improve organic growth and platform integration through people, process, and shared-services investment.
- Unity’s thematic focus areas include finance, tax & accounting; insurance services; legal services; managed professional services; pool services; tree, lawn & pest care; and plumbing, HVAC & electrical.
- Unity looks for markets with attractive size, fragmentation, growth, urgency, frequency, people-plus-technology assets, and relatively nascent private equity capital.
- In the Yardmaster announcement, Stoehr described the deal as “an ideal result of our investment thesis around commercial landscaping” and cited the goal of supporting a leading regional landscaping platform.
- Unity’s model includes Employee Purpose Plans in platform investments, allowing employees to share in financial success and capital events.
Notable Investments
- Yardmaster / Big Lakes Lawncare / Good Guys Lawn and Landscape / Kunco Landscape — Unity formed a Midwestern landscaping platform in December 2025 across Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania; Stoehr was quoted in the announcement.
- The Byng Group — Strategic investment announced July 16, 2025 in an end-to-end unit turnover services provider for multifamily and senior-living property owners and managers.
- Amplēo — Strategic investment announced June 24, 2025 in a Salt Lake City-based fractional finance, marketing, and HR managed professional services company.
- Katsam Property Services — Strategic investment announced July 29, 2024 in a St. Louis-based power sweeping and facility maintenance services business.
- Tropolis — Unity announced a partnership in October 2023 with an Ann Arbor-based insurance brokerage platform.
- Poolie — Majority investment announced October 4, 2023 in an Austin-based pool services business.
- NDH Advisors / Prosperity Partners — Unity completed its platform investment in NDH in May 2023; Prosperity later completed multiple add-ons and Unity sold a majority stake in July 2026, distributing approximately $18 million in proceeds to employees.
- Meaden & Moore Advisors — Strategic growth investment announced July 7, 2026 in advisory services for forensic, insurance/legal, accounting, and small-to-mid-sized business end markets.
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