Built to grow.
Made to endure.
We buy well-built businesses, invest to grow what’s working, and hold them for years.
The right home for well-built businesses.
We’re buyers, not flippers. We buy, support, and grow companies with patience and clarity. A handful at a time, each one backed with the capital and attention to matter.
Our philosophy is simple: trust the people who built the business, plan in years, and leave every company stronger than we found it. Built to outlast the people who founded it.
The businesses we buy.
Strong margins
Healthy, sustainable profitability that shows the business can take a punch.
A moat, or its makings
An established edge, or a clear path to one we can widen: a brand, loyal customers, a specialized niche.
A clear model
We buy businesses we can understand and explain in plain words.
Proven profits
Annual EBITDA (operating profit) between $1M and $15M, with a consistent record behind it.
A track record
At least three years of successful operations. We buy proof, not projections.
A good team
A capable team and a culture worth building on. The team is part of what we're buying.
Run honestly
Transparent practices and a principled way of doing business.
Ready for what's next
An owner thinking about succession, whatever shape they want the handover to take.
Three sectors, known from the inside.
We buy what we’ve run. An operator who has led industrial turnarounds and hundred-million-dollar capital programs, and a growth leader who scales how B2B software companies sell. So we improve a business on both fronts: how it runs, and how it grows.
Energy & Industrial Services
The work that keeps energy and industrial facilities running, driven by regulation and uptime rather than commodity prices.
Manufacturing & Infrastructure
Essential products, and the physical infrastructure everything else runs on. Quality systems and project execution separate the steady from the great.
Technology & Software
Recurring-revenue software with sticky products, where the growth engine is the real value. We back what already works.
Fewer deals. Held for years.
Selling your business means choosing who runs it next.
We hold a handful of companies at a time and commit to each one on its own terms, so yours gets the attention it deserves and you know exactly who you’re handing it to.
Five commitments
- Wisdom
- We understand your business before we change anything in it.
- Conviction
- You get a clear answer quickly, and we stand behind it.
- Discipline
- Ambition guided by judgment, never at your company's expense.
- Patience
- Your company gets the time it needs to compound.
- Stewardship
- What you built leaves our hands stronger than it entered them.
Not every buyer is built the same.
| Strategic acquirer | Traditional PE | GW Capital | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Headline price | Often the biggest number | High, but structured with strings attached | Fair, and what you actually get |
| Deal structure | Part stock, multi-year vesting | Debt on the business, earn-outs, preferences | Cash at close, any earnout kept simple |
| Your role after | Absorbed into the org chart | Locked in by the earn-out | Flexible: stay on, step back, or transition out, on terms we set together |
| Your team | Integration and redundancies | Cost programs and playbooks | Key people stay. No cost-cutting playbook |
| Hold period | Forever, as a division | 3–5 years, then resold on the fund's clock | Years, not months. No forced sale date |
| The process | Committees and quarters | Months of diligence | Direct. A quick, clear answer |
The biggest number is rarely the best offer.
The price is only part of the deal. How it’s paid, and the choices you have, are the rest.
A $10M deal, three ways to take it
Illustrative example
| Take it all in cash | Cash + seller note | Cash + preferred rollover | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash at close | $10M | $8M | $8M |
| Deferred piece | None | $2M seller note | $2M preferred equity |
| How it works | Full value now. Certainty, and you’re done. | Earns interest on a set schedule, then repaid. | Paid ahead of common equity. Shares the upside if we sell again. |
| Best for | A clean, certain exit. | A little more return, at low risk. | More upside, with downside protection. |
- Cash at close
- $10M
- Deferred piece
- None
- How it works
- Full value now. Certainty, and you’re done.
- Best for
- A clean, certain exit.
- Cash at close
- $8M
- Deferred piece
- $2M seller note
- How it works
- Earns interest on a set schedule, then repaid.
- Best for
- A little more return, at low risk.
- Cash at close
- $8M
- Deferred piece
- $2M preferred equity
- How it works
- Paid ahead of common equity. Shares the upside if we sell again.
- Best for
- More upside, with downside protection.
Illustrative examples of the kinds of deals we pursue. Not offers, quotes, or guarantees, and not representative of any specific transaction. Every deal is negotiated on its own terms. Deferred and rolled-equity components carry risk and may be worth more or less than shown, including nothing. Not financial, legal, or tax advice.
Asked, answered.
Do I have to stay on after the sale?
That's something we agree together, and we're flexible about it. Some owners stay on for a transition, some move into an advisory role, some hand over entirely. We'll talk openly about what the business needs and what you want, and shape the handover to fit both. You won't be locked into a multi-year earn-out.
What happens to my team?
They stay, and they keep running the business. The team and culture are a big part of why we chose it. We don't arrive with an integration playbook, a new org chart, or a cost-cutting program. If changes make sense later, we make them with the team rather than as a day-one shake-up.
What size of business do you look for?
Established, profitable businesses with roughly $1M to $15M in annual EBITDA and a consistent track record behind them. If you're close to that range and unsure, write to us anyway.
Do you use earn-outs?
Usually not. We aim to pay the price in cash at close. Where an earn-out genuinely fits, we say so early and keep it simple, with terms you can actually track. We won't hide part of your price behind targets you don't control.
How fast can you move?
Fast on the answer: usually a clear yes or no, and a letter of intent, within a few weeks. From there to close typically runs a couple of months, because we bring the capital together for each deal with partners who back that deal specifically. We're straight with you about the timeline the whole way.
How are you different from a private equity firm?
We're not a fund, so no deadline forces us to sell. We commit to each business on its own terms, we don't saddle it with debt it can't carry, and we plan to own it for years rather than flipping it on a schedule.
What actually changes after close?
Day to day, less than you'd expect. The changes we do make are investments to help the business grow, with little or no cost-cutting. Good businesses got that way for a reason, and we build on that rather than tearing it down.
Considering what’s next for your business?
A conversation costs nothing, and we’ll be straight with you either way.
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