We’re one of the most active investors in the ETA community

Workbench Capital is an investment group actively investing in self-funded search & independent sponsor deals.

We invest in a new deal about every 6 weeks — over 30 deals in the past 4 years.

What’s unique about us:

  • We’re a group of over a dozen operators with experience across many different industries.

  • We’ve bought and sold businesses, big and small.

  • We’ll be as involved as you want (board seat, advisor, check-in calls), but we don’t need to be. We only want to be helpful if/where we can be. 

  • We’ll decide quickly — in a matter of days and 1-2 calls — whether to invest or not.

  • We can intro you to 20+ other active investors who often co-invest with us.

Tony Cappaert

Managing Partner @ Workbench. CEO @ Blue Maple. Exited SaaS founder turned SMB operator & investor.

  • Tony Cappaert is the Managing Partner at Workbench Capital. He manages all investment operations for the group, including sourcing and evaluating all potential deals and supporting Workbench’s portfolio companies.

    Beyond Workbench, Tony is the Founder & CEO at Blue Maple, a vacation rental investment firm and property management company. Blue Maple owns and manages a portfolio of unique, high-demand cabins and cottages in drive-to destinations outside major US cities -- and manages all portfolio and property operations.

    Previously, Tony was the Co-Founder and COO at Contactually, a SaaS CRM software company for real estate brokerages and agents. For nearly eight years, he managed all go-to-market efforts at Contactually -- including sales, marketing, and customer success -- while growing the company to over $10M in annual recurring revenue and 75 employees.

    Tony sold Contactually to Compass -- the largest US independent real estate brokerage -- in 2019. At Compass, he managed all lead generation and partnerships for the company. Tony helped grow Compass through IPO in spring 2021, and left in spring 2022 to scale Blue Maple.

    Earlier in his career, Tony was a product manager at Microsoft and an investment analyst for an impact investment firm. Tony is an MIT alumnus and currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife, three kids, and old mutt, Tucker. He loves hiking, camping, and drinking great beer.