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L5 Investments Capital Cup Sponsor Spotlight: USA Properties Fund, Inc. Proud to welcome Geoff Brown and USA Properties Fund, Inc. as our Lunch Sponsor for the 2026 L5 Investments Capital Cup! The Roseville-based developer-builder-manager-owner has established nearly 40 communities across Greater Sacramento and beyond. Known for award-winning affordable housing solutions and sustainable community development, USA Properties builds the neighborhoods where Sacramento grows. Their vision of creating quality communities mirrors our commitment to bringing people together. Thank you, USA Properties, for fueling our tournament! #L5CapCup #SacramentoCommunity

Sponsor Spotlight: 2026 L5 Investments Capital Cup — Baker Tilly US is our Appreciation Sponsor A top 10 advisory, tax, and assurance firm, Baker Tilly builds lasting relationships with organizations to understand how their business truly works and to reveal the strategic advantage within. With deep industry insight and a focus on the middle market, Baker Tilly helps organizations identify what drives performance. Baker Tilly has more than 12,500 professionals across 90+ locations nationwide, including Sacramento. Thank you to the Baker Tilly team for their support and commitment to our community.

Yesterday, DCA Partners hosted our Fall Success Series at the Milagro Center, and we were grateful to see such a strong turnout from Sacramento's business community. These events are about bringing together business owners, leaders, and advisors to connect, share perspectives, and have conversations that don't always happen during the normal workday. Thank you to everyone who spent the afternoon with us and helped make it such a great event. Our keynote speaker, Robert Paylor, challenged the room with a simple question: What paralyzes you? Robert knows paralysis firsthand, and his message was that all of us are paralyzed by something. It might be fear, doubt, a difficult decision, or a challenge inside our organization. If you are not familiar with Robert's story, be sure to check out Robert Paylor's page. Thank you, Robert, for your honesty and energy. We can't do these events alone. Thank you to our sponsors, some of the sharpest minds in the Sacramento professional community and partners we work alongside to serve our clients: Co-Presenting Sponsors: Boutin Jones Inc., Wells Fargo, and CTW Food & Appetizer Sponsor: InterWest Insurance Services Bar Sponsor: Weintraub Tobin Book Sponsor: BPM LLP Table Sponsors: Alliant Insurance Services, Baker Tilly US, BFBA, LLP, CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), Downey Brand LLP, and Tri Counties Bank In-Kind Partners: Vistage Worldwide, Inc., FEI Sacramento (Financial Executives International), and CMTA. We hope you left with at least one idea to take back to your business and a few relationships worth keeping. See you at the next Success Series. #DCASuccessSeries #SacramentoBusinessCommunity

We had a great morning of learning at the The Capital Region Family Business Center's Fall Family Forum "Amplify Your Brand" event, digging into how AI search is reshaping the way clients find and vet advisors. Joshua Hanosh, of Three29, set the stage with a talk on GEO and what it takes for businesses to show up as trusted answers in AI search. He then joined a panel moderated by Chris Stephenson of DCA Partners. The conversation also featured Bryan Flaherty, Publisher & Market President of the Sacramento Business Journal, and Ann Bouchard, Founder and President of Bouchard Communications Group, who shared more than 30 years of experience in PR, branding, and media relations. One stat that stuck with us traffic that arrives through AI search engines like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini converts 5-9x better than traditional organic traffic. Those visitors show up already convinced. They're using AI to validate a decision, not to start shopping around. A few takeaways: - AI can be your biggest referral partner. It trusts what others say about you, like reviews and press, more than what you say about yourself. - AI reads websites differently than humans, so it may never see your best content. Fixing that takes some backend cleanup, not a full rebuild. Thanks to the speakers and to the Family Business Center for putting this together.

Big thanks to Tom Morton and Morton Golf for their dual support of the 2026 Capital Cup—as our Awards Reception Host and Golf Balls Sponsor! Morton Golf manages Sacramento's finest golf facilities, including Haggin Oaks, Bing Maloney, Bartley Cavanaugh, and William Land. With PGA Hall of Famers on their team, multiple national awards for excellence, and one of America's most awarded on-course golf shops, Morton Golf sets the standard for golfing in Northern California. From the course to the celebration, their commitment to excellence shines through. Thank you, Morton Golf! #L5CapitalCup #MortonGolf

August was the slowest month for mid-market M&A all year — 49 deals worth about $18.8 billion, down from 72 deals in July. But our own Brent Haapanen doesn't read that as a cooldown. In Mergers & Acquisitions magazine's latest deal analysis, he shares what he's actually hearing from owners right now: "August didn't feel like a summer slowdown for us. What stood out was how present tense the conversations were. A lot of owners were asking some version of 'Is now the right time?' More specifically, whether they should be preparing to go to market in the next couple of quarters. That's a noticeably different conversation than we were having at this time last year." Year to date, deal activity is still ahead of 2025 — 706 deals worth close to $235.2 billion, versus 667 deals worth about $202 billion through the same stretch last year. https://lnkd.in/gkf_8i9g

Proud to welcome Clark Pacific as our Competition/Match Sponsor for the 2026 L5 Investments Capital Cup! Founded in 1963 and headquartered in West Sacramento, Clark Pacific is a leader in design-driven, prefabricated building systems. Combining collaborative design, advanced manufacturing and efficient construction, Clark Pacific delivers integrated solutions for building structures, facades, parking, and some of the country’s most complex, high-performance projects. With more than 60 years of experience, Clark Pacific continues to advance how buildings are designed and delivered—bringing greater certainty, efficiency and innovation to construction. Thank you, Clark Pacific, for supporting the 2026 L5 Capital Cup! #CapitalCup #Construction #Innovation

Last Friday, DCA Partners was proud to sponsor and participate at the Air Systems Service & Construction Olympics Charity Fundraiser. Tom Arstingstall, Seamus McLaughlin, and L&H Airco (and supportive spouses). It was a great day of fun, competition, and camaraderie.   Events like this are a reminder of what makes our community strong: people and organizations coming together to support something bigger than themselves. Thank you to Air Systems Service & Construction for putting on such a well-run event and to everyone who participated, volunteered, and donated. Our team is already back in the gym training for 2027’s event!

Big thanks to Paul Esch and the CVC Construction team for returning as our L5 Investments Capital Cup Breakfast & Fundraising Incentive Sponsor for 2026! For over 35 years, CVC has been a trusted partner in concrete solutions—delivering quality, reliability, and collaborative construction methods that empower their customers. Their dedication to excellence aligns perfectly with the Capital Cup. We're grateful for their continued support. Learn more about CVC: https://lnkd.in/d9UJgwsU