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Anthony Perera

Founder at Exuma Capital Partners

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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Why they matter

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
    Founded Air Pros USA, scaling it from one truck to a seven-state, $200M+ HVAC platform with 1,000+ employees
  • 2024
    Founded Exuma Capital Partners, a South Florida middle-market private equity firm
  • 2024
    Launched Peak Roofing Partners as Exuma Capital's home-services roll-up platform for roofing companies
  • 2025
    Reacquired Air Pros USA's Florida operations (HVAC, Drain Genie plumbing, Personalized Power electrical) via Exuma Capital Partners after the company's Chapter 11 restructuring

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

  1. What specifically caused Air Pros USA's restructuring, and what's structurally different in the reacquired Florida entity?
  2. How is Exuma sourcing and financing home-services roll-ups (fund structure vs. deal-by-deal)?
  3. What's the target platform count/geography for Peak Roofing Partners, and are you looking for co-investors or lenders?

Outreach draft

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Home services roll-up playbook — quick call?
Hi Anthony, I've been following your work at Exuma Capital Partners — scaling Air Pros USA into a $200M HVAC platform and now applying that playbook to roofing through Peak Roofing Partners is a compelling operator-to-investor story. Our team is spending time in home services consolidation and would value your perspective on what's working (and what to avoid) when rolling up fragmented local-service businesses, especially around integration and technology. Would you have 20 minutes in the next couple of weeks for a call? Happy to work around your schedule. Best, [Your Name]

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