We buy wonderful businesses.

For over a decade, we've been partnering with founders to give them quick, straightforward exits that protect their team and culture and keep their businesses operating for the long term.

Selling your company can be brutal…

After months of negotiation you're usually left with a bunch of legal fees and no deal.

If you're really lucky and your deal closes, your bank balance gets a whole lot bigger... then you get to watch the new owners wreck the business you spent your life building.

After going through it way too many times ourselves, we started Tiny to become the buyer we wish we could have sold to.

Venture Capital

Huge valuation
3–6 month process
Founders committed to 5+ years
Terms could make your equity worthless
Pressure to provide 10–100X returns
No cash to founders, just money to grow

Private Equity

Full or partial cash out
3–6 month process
Founders locked in with earnout structure
Terms could make your equity worthless
Intervene and change your culture
Typically flip your company in 3–5 years

Tiny

Full or partial cash out
Deal size ranging from $1M-$300M
Potential 30-day process
Founders can stay or go, we're flexible
Simple structure with cash upfront
Operational best practices, focus on culture
Holds companies for the longterm

We like to buy businesses that have:

High margins

Healthy and sustainable

A unique advantage

Like a brand, community or niche

A simple business model

You can explain it to your parents

Healthy Profit

From $500K to $50MM

Successful operations

Of three years or longer

A high-quality team

A great team with a positive culture

A positive and ethical approach

No sketchy stuff

The companies we buy usually look like this:

Dream Businesses

COMPOUNDING WITH A MOAT

Every once in a while, we are lucky enough to buy a truly exceptional business with a competitive moat and the ability to compound its revenue and earnings
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We focus on maintaining the legacy of the business while continuing to grow.
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They only come along every few years, but when they do, we pounce.

Unique Opportunities

TURNAROUNDS

Simple businesses with a weak / at-risk models that we can buy at a price that provides a short payback period.

We typically have a few quick high certainty growth levers to add additional margin of safety.

Generally, our worst case scenario is that we are able to receive our investment back.

Best case (quite often), the business continues to spit out cash.

Mismanaged Gems

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

We often acquire companies which are mismanaged.

Typically these are good or great businesses that have the management team that is holding it back or wrong cost structure (underinvested or overbuilt).

Our approach allows both short-term (bird-in-hand) operating improvements as well as long-term strategies (two-in-the-bush) to substantially grow the business.

If you're not sure your business fits the bill, send it to us anyway. We'll let you know within a couple of days.

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