The Company You Call Might Not Be Local.

The Idea

This isn't Census data. There's no clean source for this.

Franchising adds a real wrinkle the table above doesn't capture cleanly. Mister Sparky of Tulsa (electrical), Five Star Painting of Tulsa (painting), and HealthSource Chiropractic of Tulsa (chiropractic) are all, by their own description or franchise structure, locally owned and operated small businesses, not corporate locations, not acquired companies. Their franchisors are a different story: Mister Sparky's parent, Authority Brands, is owned by Apax Partners (the same firm behind Aspen Dental); Five Star Painting's parent, Neighborly, is owned by KKR; HealthSource's franchisor, Franworth, took a growth investment from Guideboat Capital Partners in 2022. The private-equity ownership sits at the national brand level (franchise fees, marketing systems, software) not at the Tulsa business itself, which stays locally owned. Worth knowing as its own category, not folded into either "PE-owned" or "confirmed independent" above, and the reason chiropractic isn't in the direct-ownership table despite being one of the fifteen trades resolved on this page.

Quality Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric (Glenpool) is family-owned (founded by Oscar Pound in 2009, still run by the Pound family) and has itself acquired at least two other Tulsa-area HVAC businesses, Frost Air Services and Reed Family Heating & Air Conditioning. That's a real local roll-up. It's just not a private-equity one, and conflating the two would have been the easiest mistake to make in this research: I checked, and I was wrong the first time I assumed the pattern held.

Dental Depot (Oklahoma City, serving the OKC and Tulsa metros) converted to a formal DSO (Dental Support Organization) structure in January 2020: the same corporate wrapper most PE-backed dental roll-ups use, but remains family-owned, founded by Dr. Glenn Ashmore in 1978. The DSO label alone doesn't mean private equity; this one didn't.

Atwell Roofing Company, Inc. (5528 S 49th West Ave, Tulsa) is privately held: purchased in 2008 by brothers Bryan and Brett (and their spouses) and still run by them today. Worth stating directly: a claim already circulating describes Atwell as "corporate backed," and this research found nothing to support that: no acquisition, merger, or institutional owner of any kind.

Massey Services (Orlando, FL) isn't a Tulsa company, but it serves the Tulsa metro and is the largest privately-held, family-owned company in pest control nationally: founded 1985 by Harvey L. Massey, still independent today. Included as a direct contrast to Aptive, Rollins, and Rentokil above: proof a major national operator in this exact trade can still choose not to sell.

Western Specialty Contractors (Tulsa branch, masonry restoration) took a third path entirely. After 110 years of family ownership, it became 100% employee-owned through an ESOP in 2025: a deliberate structural choice to preserve independence rather than sell into the roll-up wave hitting masonry nationally. Not private equity, not simply "still family-owned" either, worth naming as its own category.

Air Comfort Solutions (OKC-based, with a staffed Tulsa office at 12536 E 52nd St) is the correction this page most needed to make. An acquisition claim tying it to Apex Service Partners was circulating before this research started, but Apex's own published list of acquired companies doesn't include it, the company's LinkedIn page self-reports as "Self-Owned," and independent business-data sources name Ron and Judy Gregory as owners. Neither of its BBB profiles references a parent company. The likely source of the mix-up: a same-named but unrelated company in Chicago that did take on outside investment. Real Tulsa office, real service area, just not the PE-owned company it was described as.

No API, no bulk pull: every claim here is a specific transaction, checked individually. For each of the 15 trades tracked in the Trade Data project, I searched for a real, named Tulsa-metro business with a confirmed acquisition by a known national platform, then verified the platform's own ownership (PE fund, public company, or family-owned) against a second, independent source before it went on this page.

This will go stale faster than the rest of this site. Company ownership changes hands: platforms get sold to other platforms, funds exit and re-enter, family-owned companies take on investors. Every entry above reflects what was publicly confirmed as of September 2026. Treat this as a snapshot, not a permanent record, and re-verify before relying on any single row for a real decision.

"Private equity" and "large corporate consolidator" are kept deliberately separate. Mars (VCA's owner) is a family-owned multinational conglomerate, not an investment fund: grouping it in with Bain Capital or Clayton, Dubilier & Rice would blur a real distinction. Both represent independent local practices getting absorbed into a much larger, centrally-run organization; only one is "private equity" in the strict sense.

A business doesn't need a physical Tulsa address to count on this page: serving the Tulsa MSA is the actual bar. Coverall's commercial-cleaning support center is in Oklahoma City, not Tulsa, but its own site lists the Tulsa metro as part of its service area, so it's included above, clearly labeled as OKC-based rather than quietly treated as a Tulsa company. The same logic put both Hendrick Heat, Air & Plumbing and Air Comfort Solutions back on this page after an earlier pass wrongly cut them for being headquartered in Afton and Moore, OK: both actually run a staffed Tulsa office and market directly to Tulsa-metro cities, so geography alone was never a real reason to exclude them. What still gets left out is anything that doesn't serve Tulsa at all, even when the underlying deal is real: Oklahoma Roofing & Sheet Metal's acquisition by Tecta America is confirmed, but its market is OKC and central Oklahoma, with Tulsa apparently already covered by Tecta's separate Empire Roofing brand (included above); Omnia Exterior Solutions' backing by CCMP is confirmed too, but none of its eleven partner companies operate anywhere in Oklahoma. The Joint Corp (chiropractic) is excluded for a different reason: it's publicly traded with no controlling PE owner, and its three Tulsa-area locations are independently owned by local franchisees, it doesn't fit any category on this page cleanly, so it's left out rather than force-fit. A different chiropractic case, 100% Chiropractic, did fit, briefly. Backed by private equity firm Red Iron Group since June 2024, it ran a clinic serving Tulsa, Broken Arrow, and Owasso from December 2022 until it closed sometime in 2025, and the franchisor's own site no longer lists Oklahoma as a state it operates in at all. A real deal, just not a standing one, which is why the trade's confirmed case above is HealthSource Chiropractic of Tulsa instead, covered in the franchise section below. Full detail on all four excluded candidates in the downloadable dataset.

The finish carpentry row is the one that needed the most hedging. This trade shows almost no roll-up activity nationally: it's small-crew, relationship-driven work that doesn't fit the roll-up thesis the way HVAC or pest control does. The best sourced match reaching the Tulsa MSA is a millwork, moulding, and door-installation location in Broken Arrow run by Builders FirstSource, a large publicly traded building-materials company, not a standalone finish-carpentry contracting business. Included because it's real, sourced, and does offer installation services, but worth reading as the weakest fit on this page rather than a clean case like the others.

National context stats (capital deployed, platform counts, industry fragmentation) are drawn from industry M&A trackers and trade-press reporting cited in the downloadable dataset: real published figures, not this site's own calculation.