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About Cundiff Capital

A lower middle market independent sponsor with deep roots in franchise and multi-unit operations

Jeremiah Cundiff

Founder & Principal

As an independent sponsor, Jeremiah Cundiff brings over 20 years of expertise in scaling brands through the franchise business model in the commercial services, property management, and home services industries. His experience spans from start-up franchisors to leading mature brands generating tens of millions in systemwide revenue. At Property Management Inc. (PMI), he served as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Growth Officer.

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Operating background

Jeremiah spent 13 years on the executive team at Property Management Inc. (PMI), where he helped grow the company from $22 million to $120 million in systemwide revenue and expand the network from under 100 locations to 450.

He climbed nearly every rung of that growth — Director of Conversions, VP of Operations, Chief Operations Officer, and ultimately Chief Growth Officer — working frontline operations well before executive strategy and board-level reporting. As COO and CGO he was the executive sponsor for marketing, operations, franchise business coaching, acquisitions, partnerships, and development across 450 owner-operators.

That experience spans start-up franchisors through mature brands generating tens of millions in systemwide revenue — across commercial services, property management, and home services. The range matters: the problems of a young system granting its first territories and those of an established brand whose unit count has flattened are different problems, and he has worked both.

He continues to hold a minority equity interest in PMI, acquired through the company's stock option plan during that tenure.

How that shapes Cundiff Capital

At PMI he was also the executive sponsor of the team that built the company's proprietary operating system, adapted from EOS after implementing it across the 20 largest offices in the network. Building the management infrastructure that a distributed business actually runs on is the specific work Cundiff Capital does inside the companies it acquires.

Working directly with franchise systems, franchisee networks, and the operational infrastructure that supports distributed owner-operators informs how he evaluates businesses, assesses management teams, and identifies where a focused growth plan can create meaningful value.

Bachelor's degree in Business Management with an Entrepreneurial Management emphasis, Brigham Young University – Idaho.

Reach Jeremiah directly: info@cundiffcapital.com · 801.946.4388

The Name

Why the Founder's Name Is on the Firm

Author Ayn Rand, in her novel Atlas Shrugged, named the fictional companies after the founders themselves — companies like Wyatt Oil and Rearden Steel. Putting the name of the founder on the firm symbolized the “mind of the individual”: their commitment to understanding their work, themselves, and the world around them.

That is the standard Cundiff Capital holds itself to. The name on the door is a statement of accountability — for the diligence we do, the businesses we buy, and the founders who trust us with what they built.

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In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's decision to name key enterprises after their founders — such as Rearden Steel, Wyatt Oil, D'Anconia Copper, and Taggart Transcontinental — serves as a central literary and philosophical statement.

The primacy of the individual mind

Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, holds that human reason and individual thought are the fundamental drivers of all progress, value, and wealth. By attaching a person's name directly to a corporation, Rand emphasizes that a business is not an impersonal, collective entity or an abstract corporate monolith. Instead, it is the tangible product of a specific individual's vision, intellect, integrity, and labor.

Moral ownership and personal accountability

In Rand's view, placing one's name on a venture signifies total moral and practical responsibility. It communicates that the founder stands behind the quality of the product and the integrity of the operations.

Self-esteem and pride. Rand viewed healthy self-interest and personal pride as virtues. Claiming ownership of one's achievements publicly reflects pride in one's creative capacity.

Accountability. When a founder's personal name is on the line, success or failure directly impacts their personal honor and reputation, leaving no room to hide behind corporate bureaucracy or group consensus.

Contrast with collectivism

Throughout the novel, Rand contrasts these founder-named enterprises with state-backed, collectivist, or altruist-driven organizations — such as the “State Science Institute” or various government-mandated committees. The collectivist institutions are deliberately given abstract, bureaucratic names to dilute individual responsibility and submerge personal achievement into a faceless crowd. When the government or looters take over private industries, they destroy the creator's autonomy, leading to the economic and moral collapse depicted in the story.

Ultimately, Rand uses the founder's name on a business to symbolize the mind as the ultimate root of all human achievement — a monument to the idea that creator and creation are inextricably linked.

The Firm

About Cundiff Capital

Cundiff Capital, LLC is an independent sponsor platform. We identify, acquire, and grow founder-owned asset-light businesses in the lower middle market — professionalizing operations, building management infrastructure, and positioning each company for long-term institutional value.

Our primary area of focus is franchise systems and multi-unit operators, where our operating background gives us a sourcing and underwriting edge. We evaluate strong asset-light businesses outside the franchise structure when the fundamentals fit.

Unlike a traditional PE fund, Cundiff Capital raises capital on a deal-by-deal basis through institutional equity partners. This lets us be highly selective, move quickly, and offer sellers a direct, personal process — without the bureaucracy of a large fund.

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Operator perspective

We evaluate businesses the way operators do — looking at team quality, operational infrastructure, and customer relationships, not just the income statement.

Long-term thinking

We hold businesses for 4–6 years with a clear value creation plan. Long enough to make meaningful changes. Long enough to matter to the people who built the business.

Relationship first

The best acquisitions start with a phone call, not a banker. We build relationships with founders, advisors, and operators long before a transaction is on the table.