Great Investments Begin With Great People
Blasting Capital partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams to build enduring businesses across the Gulf Coast region and beyond.
About Us
Blasting Capital ("BlastCap") is a Naples, Florida-based private equity firm focused on partnering with passionate Founders and Operators. We bring capital and business experience to fuel meaningful long and short term opportunities across the Gulf Coast region and beyond. Our team has decades of combined experience in private equity, operations, and business development. We take a hands-on approach to value creation, working closely with management teams to accelerate growth and build enduring businesses.
Investment Focus
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Early Stage Investments
Seed and Series A / B capital for Founders solving identifiable market opportunities. We back conviction and obsessive desires to succeed, and are a trusted partner throughout the life of the investment.
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Growth Investments
If you are up and running with a proven model and need / want an investor partner who can help guide you through the inevitable twists and turns (in addition to capital), BlastCap is interested in talking.
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Special Situations
Our Blasting Capital name derives from our belief that sometimes situations need an aggressive jolt to escape the mire, clean up an unsuccessful partnership or be a partner that steps up when all your other investors have pulled back. We’re creative at heart and will listen to most every story, regardless of how crazy it might seem to others!
Portfolio
BlastCap has partnered with exceptional companies across a range of industries. Our portfolio reflects our commitment to backing strong management teams and businesses with durable competitive advantages.
Team
Kevyn DeMartino
Managing Partner
Kevyn has acquired and managed companies throughout his 30+ year investment career, with specific focus on entities experiencing both rapid growth and those with troubled operations – all experiences that have shaped how he sees the intersection of capital and creative problem solving ever since.
Prior to founding BlastCap, he was Managing Partner of Catalyst Holdings and Transition Capital Partners (TCP), both Dallas-based private equity firms focused on investments in middle-market, consumer-centric LBOs and startups. Notable portfolio companies included Bear River Outdoors, Santé Pediatrics, JLab Audio, and Shadow Systems. He is also the author of the business management book "BulletPoints - Using Military Tactics and Strategies to Drive your Business to Victory" (BulletPoints.org).
Kevyn is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame, holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Texas, and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Judy DiVincenzo
Executive Assistant
Judy is a seasoned Central Florida entrepreneur with a proven track record of building a successful hospitality-focused commercial finance company. Five years ago, she chose to channel her business acumen into a lifelong passion—breeding and training champion Vizsla canines.
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Get In Touch
If you have an opportunity you would like to discuss, questions for our Principals or a press inquiry, please reach out.
- Phone:917.301.7807
- Email:Contact@blastingcapital.com
- Office:Naples | Tampa
- Website:BlastingCapital.com