Wheelhouse, the residential and commercial garage-door platform backed by Trivest Partners, announced on October 29 that it has acquired All Star Garage Door. All Star installs, services, and repairs garage doors across Southern California, the Central Valley, and the Central Coast, and expanded into Utah in 2024 with service in St. George and Park City. Owner Ryan Salinas described the deal as a partnership with Wheelhouse. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The asset.
According to the release, All Star was founded in 2008 and today has more than 30 employees. Its tagline, "The Face of Fine Homes," points to where it sits in the market: the company's website leads with custom installations, including wood, steel, aluminum, and glass doors, antique distressing, custom staining, and hand-crafted ironwork, along with driveway gates. It also runs repair and service across Los Angeles, Orange County, Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, and Fresno.
That mix matters. Repair and service is the recurring, call-driven side of a garage-door business. Custom installation is the higher-ticket side, sold through builders, designers, and homeowners in more expensive neighborhoods. All Star brings both, plus two Utah markets, St. George and Park City, that skew toward second homes and new construction.
The platform.
Trivest, a Miami private investment firm with about $6 billion of assets under management, unified its garage-door holdings under the Wheelhouse name in April 2026 and brought in Ron Avidan as CEO. Avidan previously served as a senior operating partner at an upper-middle-market private equity firm. At launch, Wheelhouse named Besser Garage Doors (Santa Ana, CA), Hanson Overhead Garage Door Service (Palm Desert, CA), JMK Garage Doors (Upland, CA), VMT Doors (metro Atlanta), and Consolidated Garage Doors (Chicagoland). In May it added Hamon Overhead Door Company, a Paso Robles and Santa Maria operator founded in 1966.
The platform's pitch to sellers is consistent across its releases: local brands keep their names, and Wheelhouse supplies marketing, a centralized call center, operating systems, and leadership development. Its Vice President of Corporate Development is named in the release as the contact for owner-operated garage-door businesses nationally.
California density, then the next state over.
The structural point here is how Wheelhouse is building. Five of its seven named brands are in California, and All Star's coverage overlaps or sits next to most of them: Southern California alongside Besser, JMK, and Hanson, and the Central Coast alongside Hamon. Garage-door work is dispatched by phone and won on local reputation, so a centralized call center and shared marketing get more efficient as more trucks run in the same metros. A seller in an existing market is worth more to a platform like this than one in a market it has to build from scratch.
The Utah piece is the other half. Instead of opening a new state with a standalone add-on, Wheelhouse gets St. George and Park City as branches of a California operator it is already buying for California. That is a lower-risk way to test a new market.
The garage-door M&A environment.
Garage doors have become one of the more active home-services categories for private capital. Reuters reported that KKR agreed to buy A1 Garage Door Service for about $2 billion. Sterling-backed OGD Overhead Garage Door keeps adding to its footprint, CID Capital launched a Southwest platform on Tucson's Kaiser, and Northrim Horizon bought Seattle's Cressy Door. Wheelhouse is a smaller, earlier-stage platform than A1 or OGD, and its deals so far have been founder-owned local operators.
What it means.
If you own a garage-door company, especially in California or a neighboring state, there are now several sponsor-backed buyers looking for the same kind of business, and Wheelhouse has said publicly that it is actively looking. A buyer like this will look closely at how much of your revenue is repeat service versus one-time installation, how your calls come in and get booked, whether your techs and managers will stay, and how well your market fits next to theirs. A custom or builder-driven install business can be attractive too, but a buyer will want to see that the work isn't tied to one person's relationships.
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