Acquisitions

At Kairos, we offer terms that we feel are important to you, a business owner.

We know that many of you plan to actually retire or exit your business and not remain locked into a 5 year employment contract after you sell your business. You also want your employees, many of whom are like family to you, to be looked after and remain employed. We get that. Let’s connect for a confidential exploratory discussion.

Fair Market Value

All our offers are based upon universally accepted market values for your industry. We feel that low-ball offers are the wrong way to start and never gets anywhere.

As entrepreneurs ourselves, we know the hard work and sweat you put into building your business to where it is today. Many other private equity and larger trade buyers like to fold a newly acquired business into another department. Your brand and legacy is then lost forever. Kairos is all about business as usual plus growth.

Your Legacy Remains Intact

Your Employees Remain Employed

Many private equity firms that acquire small businesses have a high cost of capital. The high cost of capital is the result of the high risk associated with high small business risk. In order to maximize their returns, the “optimize” the business which is another word for staff headcount reduction when merged or folded into another larger department in their portfolio. At Kairos, we believe in business as usual.

Many offers from large trade buyers and private equity often come with long employment contracts and performance targets. After all, a business value is largely tied up to the owner and they are just protecting their investment. Our offers come with no or minimal employment requirements. On a case by case basis, based on your previous job scope, we can have you fully exited from your business in as little as 2 months from close.

No Multi-year Employment Contracts

Your business should:

• Have a minimum of $1,500,000 EBITDA a year.

• Have been in operations for at least 7 years. No startups.

• Be in US or Canada.

• We invite you to take the first step to connect via the form below for a no obligation chat.

Our Acquisition Requirements