Xanitos
Xanitos provides environmental services (“EVS”), patient transport and laundry management for hospitals and other acute care settings
Status: Exited
Investment date: June 2021
Business model: Critical Industrial Services
Sub-sector: Facilities Management
Transaction type: Partnership with Founder
Exit date: 2025
Investment thesis:
Acquire one of the few EVS specialist players in the acute care space, facilitate a leadership transition and create meaningful value by professionalizing an entrepreneurial company
Value creation levers:
Invested behind a new executive leadership team, including the addition of an experienced Chief Financial Officer and Chief Revenue Officer
Strategically repositioned the business towards high value full-service contracts, added new service lines through M&A, and diversified the customer base
Implemented operational improvements: reduced capital intensity, increased labor productivity and safety, reduced SG&A as a % of sales
Exit:
Sold Xanitos to Bessemer Investors
Add-ons completed: