A permanent home for the business you built.
Northstar acquires exceptional security integration and alarm companies across western North America and Canada — and keeps what made them exceptional. Your brand stays. Your people stay. Your customers keep the team they trust.
// NO OBLIGATION · NO BROKERS REQUIRED · FOUNDER TO FOUNDER
Most owners are right to be wary of selling. Too many acquirers strip the brand, churn the technicians, and treat a life's work as a line on a spreadsheet.
You spent decades earning your reputation — one service call, one install, one handshake at a time. Then a buyer shows up, promises continuity, and eighteen months later the name is gone, the senior techs have quit, and your longest-standing customers are calling you at home asking what happened.
We started Northstar because this industry deserves a better kind of buyer: one that comes from the trade, understands what a service reputation is actually worth, and builds companies up instead of hollowing them out.
We're not a fund passing through. We're operators from this industry, building for the long term.
What our companies install & maintain.
Video Surveillance
Cameras, analytics, and monitoring technology that keep watch inside and around every facility.
Access Control
Cloud-based and on-premise systems that manage who — and what — gets through the door.
Intrusion & Alarm
Intrusion detection, fire and life-safety alarms, and environmental sensors that flag threats fast.
Commercial Doors & Entry
Automatic and manual entrances and related hardware engineered for safe, reliable daily use.
Perimeter & Gates
Automated gates, commercial fencing, and parking control that secure the property line.
Low-Voltage Cabling
Structured cabling and fiber infrastructure that connect and power every security, network, and communications system.
Built by the trade, for the trade.
Northstar was founded by an operator who has worked every seat in the security channel — installation, integration, manufacturer representation, and remote monitoring. We don't need your industry explained to us. We've lived it.
That background changes how we buy and how we operate. We can read a service book, a monitoring contract, and an install backlog without a consultant translating. We know which vendor relationships matter and why your best technician is worth protecting at almost any cost.
How we show up — for owners, teams, and customers.
Your legacy is the asset
We buy companies because of what they are, not despite it. Protecting the reputation you built is the whole investment thesis — in good years and hard ones.
We say what we'll do, then do it
Real numbers, plain language, no re-trading after the LOI. If we're not the right buyer for you, we'll tell you that too — and often we can point you to who is.
Technicians are the business
Trucks and inventory don't earn trust — people do. We invest in training, career paths, and retention for the crews who carry your name into the field.
Local brand, local decisions
Your customers keep the name and the faces they know. We work behind the scenes — purchasing, back office, recruiting — so your team can say yes more often.
Buying to build, not to flip
We're assembling the best security platform in western North America and Canada, company by company. That only works if every company we buy is stronger five years after close.
Excellent work, measured honestly
We hold ourselves to the standard your best customer would set: clean installs, fast service, honest scoping — and we track it every single week.
What stays exactly as it is.
What stays exactly as it is
- [=]Your company name, brand, and trucks
- [=]Your team, your managers, your service culture
- [=]Your customer relationships and service model
- [=]Local decision-making on jobs, hiring, and vendors
- [=]Your role — advisory, leadership, or a planned handover. Your call.
A straightforward process, start to finish.
We talk, founder to founder
No brokers needed, no pitch decks required. Tell us about your company, your people, and what you want your exit to look like. Everything is confidential from the first call.
We review, you get a real number
With an NDA in place, we review your financials and your service book. You receive an indicative offer — and we walk you through exactly how we arrived at it.
Terms agreed, in writing
Price, structure, your future role, and commitments to your team — fixed in an LOI before diligence begins. We don't sign letters we intend to renegotiate.
Confirm, close, and fund
We complete confirmatory diligence and plan the employee and customer announcement with you — nobody hears the news secondhand.
Your company, stronger
The playbook begins: new recurring-revenue services for your customers, better purchasing, back-office relief, and investment in your people. Your name on the door, our support behind it.
For owners. For teams. For customers.
What kind of companies does Northstar acquire?>
How do you value a business like mine?>
What happens to my role after the sale?>
How is the purchase structured and funded?>
Will you keep this confidential?>
Our company was just acquired. What changes for me?>
Are layoffs part of the plan?>
What growth opportunities come with Northstar?>
Do we have to switch products or vendors?>
Our security provider joined Northstar. What should we expect?>
What new capabilities come with Northstar?>
We have sites in multiple cities. Can you cover them?>
Thinking about the next chapter?
One confidential conversation. No obligation, no pressure, no brokers required. Worst case, you leave with a clear sense of what your company is worth — and to whom.