Kency Mocombe II

Forty Fold Capital is a principal-led, AI-native private equity firm focused on control acquisitions of essential service businesses — HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, and specialty trades — in the Southeast United States. The firm pursues companies in the $1–10M revenue range and creates value through disciplined underwriting and hands-on operational execution, not financial engineering. Every acquisition is run through the Forty Fold Operating System, a 100-day post-close playbook for financial clarity, pricing discipline, and operational systems.

https://fortyfoldcapital.com/

The people around us are more interesting than we give them credit for.

That's the belief at the root of everything I do. I'm Kency Mocombe II — writer, interviewer, creative director, model, and the founder of Forty Fold Media, the umbrella that ties my work together.

Under Forty Fold lives RAIL, a print magazine built for the disruptors, the visionaries, and the "unguardables" who refuse to fit inside the boxes built for them. It sits alongside Track40, my podcast, where those same conversations stretch out, slow down, and breathe. Both are stitched together by a simple idea: authenticity deserves an audience.

Outside of editorial, I take on creative direction and modeling — different mediums, same mission. Stories told honestly, without apology.

Perfection is overrated. Zeal isn't.

If you're building something real, I'd love to be part of it.

The construction industry runs on a brutal math problem: most contractors under $10M in revenue are leaving six or seven figures on the table every year — and nobody can tell them where. Not their accountant. Not their project manager. Not the software they're paying for. They feel it in their margins, but they can't see it in their numbers.

Meanwhile, every real operational intelligence tool in the market is built for the top 1% of contractors — enterprise firms with dedicated finance teams and $50,000 software budgets. The 99% that make up the backbone of American construction get nothing but generic dashboards and workflow apps that track problems without diagnosing them.

We built EKO to close that gap.

https://www.theekocollective.com/