Anthony Perera
Founder at Exuma Capital Partners
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Perera built and exited a $200M HVAC roll-up, then pivoted to PE, giving him rare operator-turned-investor credibility in home services buy-and-build strategies.
Background
Anthony Perera is a Florida-based serial entrepreneur who founded HVAC company Air Pros USA in 2017 with a single truck and grew it into a $200M+, seven-state home services company with over 1,000 employees before stepping back from operations in 2022. In 2024 he founded Exuma Capital Partners, a South Florida middle-market private equity firm targeting technology, real estate, food & beverage, and home services, through which he has launched roofing roll-up Peak Roofing Partners and reacquired Air Pros USA's Florida operations out of its 2025 restructuring.
Notable deals
- 2017
- 2024
- 2024
- 2025
Call-prep brief
Background
- Founded Air Pros USA in 2017 (Fort Lauderdale) with one truck; scaled to a seven-state HVAC platform, $200M+ revenue, 1,000+ employees before stepping back from day-to-day operations in 2022.
- Also founded Inspected.com (2020), a remote video inspection/permitting platform for construction businesses.
- Launched Exuma Capital Partners in May 2024, a South Florida middle-market PE firm spanning technology, real estate, food & beverage, and home services.
Current Focus
- Building a home-services roll-up thesis through Exuma: launched Peak Roofing Partners (2024) as a roofing consolidation platform, and in June 2025 reacquired Air Pros USA's Florida operations out of Chapter 11.
- Actively pursuing tuck-in acquisitions (e.g., Peak Roofing's purchases of Action Roofing and Skymark Roofing in 2025).
What They Care About
- Fragmented, underserved local-service markets (HVAC, roofing, plumbing, electrical) ripe for consolidation.
- Operational scaling — people, process, technology — drawing directly on his own HVAC playbook.
- Founder-led, entrepreneurial deal structures rather than pure financial engineering.
Sensitivities
- Air Pros USA went through a Chapter 11 restructuring before Perera reacquired the Florida piece — worth understanding what went wrong operationally/financially the first time and how the reacquired entity is capitalized differently.
- Exuma is young (founded 2024); track record as an investor (vs. operator) is still being established.
Questions to Ask
- What specifically caused Air Pros USA's restructuring, and what's structurally different in the reacquired Florida entity?
- How is Exuma sourcing and financing home-services roll-ups (fund structure vs. deal-by-deal)?
- What's the target platform count/geography for Peak Roofing Partners, and are you looking for co-investors or lenders?
Outreach draft
Linked companies
Sources
- Name + firmPrimaryexumafunds.com/about-us
- Page titleOtherinspected.com/blog/inspected-founder-anthony-perera-named-honoree-of-south-florida-business-journals-40-under-40-list
- Name + firmPressprnewswire.com/news-releases/air-pros-usa-founder-reacquires-florida-operations-with-exuma-capital-partners-302471382.html
- Name + firmOtherroofingcontractor.com/articles/99546-exuma-capital-partners-launches-peak-roofing-partners