Design Capital Partners

The First Investment Bank Built Exclusively for Interior Design Firms

Design Capital Partners advises established interior design firms on business valuation, succession planning, strategic growth, partner transitions, and potential sale opportunities.

Services We Offer

Meet Our Founder & CEO

Design Capital Partners was founded and is led by Marc Molinsky, a financial executive and entrepreneur who has spent more than 25 years helping interior designers build stronger, more profitable, and more valuable businesses.

Marc graduated from Boston College with a degree in Accounting, where he was captain of the men’s basketball team and earned Academic All-America honors. He began his professional career with Ernst & Young (EY) in Boston and earned his CPA while with the firm.

In 2000, Marc left EY to found DesignerAdvantage, Inc., which grew to become one of the largest business management and software companies dedicated to the interior design industry.

Since then, Marc has worked closely with hundreds of interior design firms across the country, helping owners improve financial performance, implement industry best practices, strengthen their operations, and build more successful businesses.

That experience has given Marc a rare combination of financial expertise and deep, firsthand knowledge of the interior design business—from profitability, cash flow, and operations to people, growth, succession, and ownership transition.

Today, Marc is applying that experience to some of the most important challenges facing established design firms through Designer Advantage, Designer Performance Group and Design Capital Partners. These businesses provide specialized expertise in purchasing services, financial management services, human resources and performance management, client experience and feedback, business valuation, succession planning, and exit advisory services.

Marc’s mission is simple: to help exceptional designers build exceptional businesses—businesses that are more profitable, more valuable, and better positioned for long-term success, while preparing for a seamless transition to the next generation of ownership.

Services We Offer

Business Valuation

We provide a thoughtful, industry-specific valuation of your firm, including the financial, operational, and qualitative factors that influence value.

Succession Planning

We help owners prepare for the next chapter, whether that means internal transition, partner buy-in, phantom equity, partial sale, or long-term retirement planning.

Strategic Advisory

We help firms improve the core financial drivers that increase enterprise value, including profitability, billable utilization, management depth, pricing structure, and operating systems.

M&A Advisory

For firms considering a sale or merger, we help evaluate options, prepare materials, identify potential buyers, and advise through the process.

Interior Design Firms Are Different

Most financial advisors understand numbers. Very few understand interior design firms.

Design Capital Partners combines financial expertise with deep industry understanding to help firm owners make informed decisions about valuation, succession, ownership transitions, and long-term growth.

Many exceptional interior design firms spend decades building extraordinary businesses, only to lose much of their value when the founder eventually steps away."

We believe that should change.

Design Capital Partners helps owners build businesses that can thrive beyond the founder.

Why Design Capital Partners

Interior Design Expertise. Financial Sophistication. Most financial advisors understand numbers. Very few understand interior design firms.

Design Capital Partners combines deep financial, operational, and industry-specific knowledge to help design firm owners make major business decisions with confidence.

We understand the unique drivers of value in this industry:

● Client relationships
● Brand reputation
● Recurring referral sources
● Principal dependence
● Team structure
● Billing model
● Product markup strategy
● Project pipeline
● Profitability
● Transferability of goodwill

Our Perspective

Building Transferable Value

A well-run interior design firm can become a valuable, transferable enterprise when growth, leadership, operations, and succession are planned intentionally.

We help owners think earlier, plan better, and make more informed decisions about the future of the firms they worked so hard to build.

Let's Discuss The Future Of Your Firm

Whether you’re planning for growth, ownership transition, or long-term succession, we provide confidential strategic guidance designed specifically for interior design firms.