Entrepreneurial CapitalAs past searchers ourselves, we understand the unique challenges and rewards of acquiring and scaling a small business.
We don’t just fund companies — we invest in people. From day one, we’re here as trusted allies, helping searchers lead with clarity and confidence.
We are patient capital, focused not only on the current deal but on the long-term future and relationship as well.
Profitable, stable, boring? Beautiful. We invest $300k – $2m in businesses with the following characteristics:
Not Yet Under LOI? We provide free support through our Preferred Searcher Program. Our Preferred Searcher Program offers select searchers hands-on support, insider access, and a direct line to our team—from Pre-LOI through post-close. If you’re serious about your search, we’re here to help you go further, faster.
Access to our Preferred Searcher Slack Community, where you can:
We perform an initial review based on deal teasers, and a screening call with our Chief Of Staff, to determine if the deal is obviously outside our sweet spot, in which case we pass.
We sign the NDA for deals that pass the initial screen. We analyze the financial model to approximate investor returns in conservative growth scenarios. We review for other red flags (high customer concentration, etc.).
After determining that a deal seems to work on paper, we introduce the searcher to our deal team, first virtually and then ideally in-person if mutual interest in the opportunity continues to grow.
When a deal reaches this stage we dive into due diligence alongside you. We want to make sure both of us are making a wise investment, and will do everything we can to help you stress-test that.
Post close, we provide support, typically through advisory board participation, leveraging our entrepreneurial experience and network to help you operate successfully.
Meet our Founder
I’ve started businesses 10 times:
It only took me 30 years to realize, in 2023, that perhaps it was better to buy than build.
I became a searcher because of love: my wife Julia worked at BCG (great job, but you work every hour of the day and night), and we wanted her to have more flexibility & ownership period.
I did the search (which was actually a lot of fun), and Julia operates the business we acquired. It’s called Lexigate, a firm specializing in SEO for personal injury attorneys.
It was such a good experience that we started investing personally in other self-funded searchers. We’ve now raised a fund (Entrepreneurial Capital!) to write larger checks and support self-funded searchers more holistically.
It’s great to meet you!