Our Strategy
Grand Harbor Capital (GHC) is a holding company that owns and provides corporate resources for Boston Dog Butlers, Protect Your Pet (PYP) Holdings, and KD Welding & Fabrication. We act as a boutique growth capital partner who invest in, operate, and enable companies to grow, stand out, and make a difference. We are patient capital with no predetermined exit dates.
About Grand Harbor
Don Devito started his career in financial services with Merrill Lynch and John Hancock. He then pivoted to Private Equity and later Venture Capital where he led investment teams doing early stage and middle market deals with software and technology enterprises. Don has successfully evaluated, led due diligence efforts, and assisted with business operations on over fifteen transactions while deploying over $175 million of debt and equity. He has sat on three company boards and was mentored directly under seasoned senior executives with decades of business operations experience for the first 10 years of his career. In 2017, Don co-founded Boston Dog Butlers, an end-to-end pet care platform and the first portfolio company of Grand Harbor Capital. KD Welding (2021) and PYP Ventures (2022) then followed suit. Today, Don is COO of PYP Holdings and continues to oversee operations, sales, service, and strategy for all three ventures.
Eli Sevigny started his career at a Boston-based middle-market private equity fund sourcing and executing buyouts and add-on acquisitions. He mentored directly under seasoned senior executives with decades of private equity and business management/entrepreneurship experience and led a team which generated hundreds of millions of dollars of enterprise value. While working in PE, Eli and Don founded Boston Dog Butlers, an end-to-end pet care platform with thousands of customers in Boston. In 2019, Eli launched a real estate investment fund where he managed the aggregation of multi-family portfolios throughout New Hampshire, concurrently he began work in consulting firm as a strategy and M&A consultant to large enterprises looking to execute strategic technology investments and acquisitions. Today, Eli is CEO of PYP Holdings and continues to oversee operations, marketing, finance, and strategy for all of Grand Harbor's companies.
Our Companies
Boston Dog Butlers LLC
Boston Dog Butlers (BDB) is Boston’s fastest growing and only end-to-end pet care platform offering a concierge quality pet care experience across every aspect of our client’s pet’s lives. BDB services thousands of pet owners in and around the city of Boston.
PYP Holdings LLC
PYP Holdings is an eCommerce-driven specialty fencing products company providing essential kits, components, and custom-designed enclosures for pet owners, farms, and pet-oriented businesses nationwide. Offering both retail and wholesale, PYP’s brands and products are nationally recognized as some of the most high quality with exceptional US-based customer service, sales, and design teams supporting our customers through each purchase.
Purrfect Fence
a PYP Holdings LLC brand
Purr...fect Cat Fence is the only fence for cats with a patented pivoting arched top to ensure your cats won't escape. Our outdoor cat fence enclosure can be installed free-standing or added to an existing fence or wall to make it cat-proof. Give your cats the freedom they deserve to enjoy the great outdoors without worrying about their safety.
Dog Proofer
a PYP Holdings LLC brand
Dog Proofer is a collection of innovative and humane solutions to keep your dog(s) safe and happy outside. Using built-to-last materials we create or modify your existing fencing to make it secure with a modified dog-safe fence line. With more than 60,000 pets protected worldwide, you can fully rely on our expertise. Dog Proofer systems create new enclosed spaces or adapt traditional fencing that fail to contain your pet into enclosures that can give you full peace of mind.
Habitat Haven
a PYP Holdings LLC brand
Habitat Haven has been providing pets and their owners – all over the world – happy and worry-free outdoor enjoyment since 2003. Let us help create the perfect catio enclosure for your space. Our enclosures are strong, durable and attractive. They are designed and built with thought and great care, because we are animal lovers like yourself. Habitat Haven is recommended by veterinarians throughout North America as the best way to keep pets safe!
Perfect Fence
a PYP Holdings LLC brand
Perfect fence is PYP’s specialty fencing brand for deer, garden, and perimeter fencing as well as coated and uncoated welded wire mesh, steel posts, ground sleeves, and numerous other fencing products for households, farms, pet care organizations, fencing distributors, and fencing installation professionals.
Citadel Tools
a PYP Holdings LLC brand
Through our specialty tool brand, Citadel Tools, PYP sells a wide variety of specialty tools used in fencing installations. It also offers exceptional wholesale pricing on hundreds of specialty tools for a wide variety of applications.
KD Welding & Fabrication LLC
KD Welding & Fabrication is an experienced commercial and residential metal fabrication and professional installation company. With over a decade of experience we proudly service hundreds of customers across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.