Kian Capital Partners, a lower-middle-market private investment firm, has acquired Integrity Landscape Corporation, a full-service commercial landscape services provider headquartered in Morgan Hill, California. Terms were not disclosed. CCG Advisors, an Atlanta investment bank focused on the green industry, exclusively represented Integrity.
The asset.
Integrity was founded in 2016 by Rich Bronstein and serves HOAs, high-end multifamily communities, and Class A office and retail properties. Medallion Landscape handles exterior work: maintenance, enhancements, commercial tree care, and irrigation and water management. CityLeaf handles interior plantscaping, including plant design and maintenance, living and moss walls, and holiday décor, with an office in Los Angeles. Serpico Landscaping joined in 2025.
CEO Raitis Raisian and the regional leadership team stay in place. Bronstein, Integrity's founder and EVP of corporate development, remains a meaningful investor and board member.
The platform.
Kian invests in lower-middle-market companies in essential services and value-added distribution, and the release puts capital under management at $1.1 billion. Kian Principal David Hare said the firm has had a “multi-year thematic focus” on commercial landscaping because of its recurring revenue and fragmentation. The plan is to build density in the Bay Area and then expand into broader Northern California, Southern California, Arizona and Nevada. Integrity says it is actively looking for exterior and interior commercial landscaping companies across the Western U.S.
A built platform, handed up.
Integrity was assembled before Kian got there. In September 2025, White Oak Global Advisors provided a senior secured loan to refinance Integrity's existing debt and fund the Serpico acquisition. At that point, Integrity was described as a portfolio company of Seacoast Capital and Galaxi Group, a West Coast independent sponsor where Bronstein was managing principal. The October 8 release does not say how the earlier investors' positions were treated.
An independent sponsor or small fund combines a few local brands, adds a professional CEO and shared back office, and finances an add-on with private credit. A larger fund then buys the combined company as a platform. Kian is starting with management, five branches, and an acquisition process already in place.
The M&A environment.
Commercial landscaping has been a steady private equity category this fall. Trivest-backed LMC Landscape Partners announced two deals in Houston and Central Florida on October 6, and Gridiron Capital's investment in Weed Man on October 5 brought another sponsor into residential lawn care. Recurring maintenance contracts with HOAs and commercial property managers are the draw, since revenue renews each year whether or not new construction slows.
What it means.
For commercial landscaping owners in California, Arizona and Nevada, there is now a newly capitalized platform with a stated plan to buy in those markets, and interior plantscaping companies are on its list too. For owners who have already done one or two tuck-ins themselves, Integrity is the other route: the company you assemble can become the platform a larger fund buys, and the founder can keep equity and a board seat.
Built something with more than one brand?
Buyers look at a combined company differently than a single-location operator, and the way that story is told changes who shows up. Schryver & Co. advises trades and home-services owners with roughly $5M to $100M in revenue. For a straight read on where yours fits, email will@schryverco.com.
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