Acquisition Philosophy
We buy strong vertical software and data products that solve mission critical problems for niche markets. These companies often represent a lifetime of earned industry expertise and share several traits that make them such:
- Strong management group with deep industry expertise.
- Consistent revenue growth and profitability.
- Customers who have a long average tenure and high lifetime value.
Whatever the reason might be for management to seek a liquidity event our goal is to maintain and grow the legacy that made the company strong in the first place.
Our Acquisition Criteria
While we are open to discussing any opportunities our areas of expertise align best with the businesses that meet the following criteria:
- Have a well defined value proposition that services a specific set of business processes or pain points for a specific industry or company type.
- Exceed $1-million in ARR.
- Profitable or have a well defined path to profitability.
- An offering price that has been determined by.
We prefer full management buyouts and leverage incentive alignment programs including profit and revenue shares, equity bonuses, and additional cash & stock based compensations packages. We are open to having managers participate in the success of their business if the business is exceptional.
For all businesses that meet the following criteria VVV promises to respond to all enquiries within a day and determine swiftly if the business is good fit for us.
Our Approach
We are revenue leaders, marketers, and engineers by trade and bring decades of operating experience from big-four consulting to unicorn startups. We leverage our professional services platform to implement enterprise business systems and lean go to market teams across revenue, marketing, operations, and customer success that allow good vertical software companies to become exceptional. Our platform includes:
- VVV Equity Partners Professional Services.
- VVV Operators aligned to each portfolio company.
- Portfolio level resource sharing.
- Industry executive round tables.
While we bring resources and capabilities that are capable of supporting the day to day operations of the business we are best paired with managers with deep industry expertise and tenured employees who are invested in creating an exceptional business.
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