Family office private investment firm

Green Hills Partners

At a glance

Deal typesPlatform, Add-on, Growth S1
SectorsIndustrial & Manufacturing, Healthcare Services, Software & SaaS, Distribution

What Green Hills Partners buys

Green Hills Partners is a Nashville family investment platform led by co-founder and CEO Dave Hanson. It puts family capital into a few private companies and helps each one grow through further acquisitions. Today it owns stakes in UCC Environmental, an Illinois maker of air pollution control, water treatment and material handling equipment for heavy industry; Sidekick Therapy Partners, a pediatric speech therapy provider in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia; Ambiki, which sells software to pediatric therapy practices; and Green Hills Equipment, a group of Kubota dealerships in Delaware and Virginia.

The firm publishes no revenue, EBITDA or check-size limits. Some deals are shared: at UCC in 2022 it invested with Clavis Capital Partners while the prior owner kept a stake, and at the Kubota dealers it took majority stakes alongside River City Enterprises and continuing family owners. A smaller company is most likely to meet Green Hills as an add-on, such as a speech therapy practice joining Sidekick, an industrial equipment or wear-parts maker joining UCC, or a Kubota dealer in the East or Midwest joining Green Hills Equipment.

Recent deals

Announced in the 24 months before November 3, 2026.

DateCompanyTypeSectorSource
Oct 2026AmbikiFurther equity investment in its pediatric therapy EMR and practice management software company, an existing holdingGrowthSoftware & SaaSSource
Aug 2026Cast Steel ProductsEdmonton, Alberta maker of wear-resistant castings for mining and steel, added to UCC EnvironmentalAdd-onIndustrial & ManufacturingSource
Jun 2026Therapy Tree ServicesCary, North Carolina pediatric speech, feeding and dyslexia therapy practice; Sidekick signed to buy it with closing expected around September 1, 2026Add-onHealthcare ServicesSource
Jun 2026H2K TechnologiesCorcoran, Minnesota maker of industrial air, water and remediation treatment systems, added to UCC EnvironmentalAdd-onIndustrial & ManufacturingSource
Apr 2026Word of Mouth Clinical AssociatesMiddle Tennessee speech-language therapy practice, added to Sidekick Therapy PartnersAdd-onHealthcare ServicesSource
Nov 2025Trimay Wear PlateWear overlay and alloy cladding specialist, added to UCC EnvironmentalAdd-onIndustrial & ManufacturingSource
Sep 2025Burke Equipment and Beverage TractorLaunch of Green Hills Equipment with River City Enterprises, anchored by Kubota dealer groups in Delaware and Virginia; the Beverage Tractor stake closed in 2024PlatformDistributionSource

Portfolio by sector

From the firm's portfolio page S1.

Distribution

  • Green Hills Equipment (Burke Equipment and Beverage Tractor)

Healthcare Services

  • Sidekick Therapy Partners

Industrial & Manufacturing

  • UCC Environmental

Software & SaaS

  • Ambiki

Greymont’s take

How Green Hills Partners fits a seller

Green Hills fits an owner who wants a long-term family buyer rather than a fund on a timer, especially in pediatric therapy, heavy industrial equipment or Kubota equipment dealing, where it already owns a company that keeps buying. Its dealer platform says it wants to be a permanent home for families who want to sell part or all of a dealership while keeping its name, staff and local leaders. The Burke and Beverage Tractor deals followed that pattern: managers stayed and some family owners kept shares.

The firm publishes very little, so an owner should ask how much of the company Green Hills wants to own, whether a partner such as Clavis or River City would also be an owner, and how decisions get made when Green Hills people hold operating roles, as Dave Hanson did as Sidekick's CEO in 2024.

Questions owners ask

What does Green Hills Partners invest in?

Its current holdings are UCC Environmental (industrial environmental equipment), Sidekick Therapy Partners (pediatric speech therapy), Ambiki (pediatric therapy software) and Green Hills Equipment (Kubota dealerships), and each has been growing through add-on acquisitions.

Is Green Hills buying Kubota dealerships?

Yes. Green Hills Equipment, launched in September 2025 with River City Enterprises, says it wants to buy strong Kubota dealers in and around the 35 largest metro areas of the Eastern and Midwestern US, in clusters of two to four stores.

Does Green Hills buy speech therapy practices?

Through Sidekick Therapy Partners it does. Sidekick added Word of Mouth Clinical Associates in Middle Tennessee in April 2026 and agreed in June 2026 to buy Therapy Tree Services in Cary, North Carolina.

Do owners keep a stake when Green Hills invests?

Often. At UCC in 2022 the prior owner stayed on as a partial owner, and in the Burke Equipment deal two family owners kept their shares while the retiring majority owners sold.

Sources

  1. S1Green Hills Partners home page (portfolio and deal list) Accessed November 3, 2026
  2. S2UCC Environmental Announces Strategic Investment to Support Growth and Expansion Plan (May 24, 2022) Accessed November 3, 2026
  3. S3Green Hills Partners and River City Enterprises Launch Green Hills Equipment (September 15, 2025) Accessed November 3, 2026
  4. S4Green Hills Equipment home page (mission, strategy and dealerships) Accessed November 3, 2026
  5. S5Leading Pediatric Therapy Software Provider Ambiki Secures Additional Investment to Accelerate Growth (October 23, 2026) Accessed November 3, 2026
  6. S6Sidekick Therapy Partners Acquires Speechcenter (July 2, 2024) Accessed November 3, 2026
  7. S7Sidekick Therapy Partners Acquires Word of Mouth Clinical Associates (April 6, 2026) Accessed November 3, 2026
  8. S8Sidekick Therapy Partners Acquires Therapy Tree Services (June 3, 2026) Accessed November 3, 2026
  9. S9UCC Environmental Acquires Trimay Wear Plate Ltd. (November 13, 2025) Accessed November 3, 2026
  10. S10UCC Environmental Announces Acquisition of H2K Technologies Inc. (June 1, 2026) Accessed November 3, 2026
  11. S11UCC Environmental Announces Acquisition of Cast Steel Products (August 17, 2026) Accessed November 3, 2026

Compiled by Greymont Advisors from public sources, including the firm’s own website and press releases. Greymont is not affiliated with Green Hills Partners. Figures are as reported on the dates shown and may have changed. Request a correction

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