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Caprae
Capital

Great Founders Working with Great Founders

Who We Are

We are an experienced group of founders, entrepreneurs, and investors with a proven track record of growing and operating successful businesses. Our mission is to find a great company, help the business reach its potential, while enhancing the company’s legacy. We seek to work with business owners who are mission-driven and aim to achieve long-term value

Opportunity

We are looking to grow a business and provide a transition to new, talented, responsible, and committed senior management focused on maintaining the legacy and integrity of the company.  We have been in your shoes before and want to support your transition to make it as seamless as possible. 

Our Focus

Caprae Capital provides an alternative approach to investing and operating a business that is well-suited to these trying times. We are looking for exceptional businesses with revenues of $5-$25 million annually within a growing industry in North America. 

OUR MISSION

Make others great through Entrepreneurship 

Founder to Founder

As former founders ourselves, we know that selling your business is not easy but can be one of the most rewarding events as an entrepreneur. Caprae Capital was created to provide the opportunity of a great liquidity event as well as a stable future for your company. We partner with owners to help unlock the tremendous potential for their business while transferring ownership and leadership positions to an operating team that is focused on the long-term growth and success of your company. Managing Partner Kevin as well as certain key team members will join senior management post-acquisition and will become fully committed to expanding your legacy, building upon the incredible success you have established, and partnering with the highest level of integrity with employees, suppliers, and customers.

Unique Exit Solution

  • Prosper from a liquidity event and step back from the day-to-day business or assume a more focused role, yet maintain the long-term legacy of your business and continue to build upon the success you have worked so hard to create.

Peace of Mind

  • Your business will not become just another company within a vast portfolio, absorbed within a larger parent company or positioned for a quick flip through cost cutting measures and headcount reduction. We are in it for the long haul with the team you have built.

  • You are handing the reins to an ambitious, talented and energetic manager excited to build the company to the next level while maintaining your legacy.

  • Kevin and his executive team will infuse new energy and bring the same entrepreneurial spirit that helped you successfully build the business into what it is today.

Understand Your Concerns
 

  • We will work to meet your personal goals as an owner, a manager, a partner and a member of your community.

  • We will move quickly to execute a timely transaction. We have significant available capital and can move quickly to close.

  • We will operate under strict confidentiality.

Customizable Structure

  • Caprae Capital's unique structure allows us to custom tailor deal terms to address the various different needs of a seller.

  • We are open to partnering with entrepreneurs through retained equity ownership and/or continued employment contracts.

Relationship Driven

  • We believe that throughout this entire process building and fostering relationships with you, your employees, your customers, your suppliers and the communities you are part of, is priority number one and the foundation for success.  We see these groups as people and not as members of a transaction. Businesses are more than just a vehicle to earn a living and make money and too often that is forgotten.

For Business Owners...

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Are you a business owner, or do you represent

businesses meeting our investment criteria

and seeking a partnership or liquidity?

For Referrals...

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Know a business owner looking to transition?

Ask about our competitive referral bonus.

Select prior companies that our partners have founded, operated or invested

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Investment Criteria

Our strategy is to acquire a stable, relatively non-capital intensive, established company with a solid history of recurring customers and predictable cash flows. The partners will focus their efforts on businesses in which the owner wishes to fully exit or significantly reduce his or her involvement in the management of the company

Business

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  • Distinctive and defensible market position

  • Strong and diverse customer base

  • Straightforward operations

  • Strong middle-management team

  • Owner seeking a reduced role in business, and/or exit transition

  • Positive and steady cash flow

Industry

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  • Service-based industry, with strong  recurring revenue

  • Preferably B2B

  • Sustainable, differentiated market position

  • Fragmented competitive landscape with no clear dominant player

  • Total potential market > $1B

  • Growing industry

Financial

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  • $5 to $50 million in annual revenue, with heavy recurring component

  • $1 to $5 million of predictable annual cash flow

  • 3+ years of profitability and cash flow growth

  • 15%+ EBITDA margins

  • Low capex 

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