Doing your own roll-up.

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by an intermediary
in Toronto, ON, Canada

2yrs ago

Doing your own roll-up.

After taking a couple meetings with PE (commented on in the "Is it a Buyers Market Yet" thread - and while I was listening to a recent "In The Trenches" podcast (From $7M to $50M in 14 acquisitions), it occurred to me that I've been sort of running this playbook in slow motion - although my acquisitions have been at a slower pace and smaller scale over the years.

What I realized was what I should be doing is a more concerted effort at a roll-up consolidation, because I already have the platform company, my own.

Ok. Great. Now what do I do?

I'm only half kidding, we've had some meetings with BDC here in Canada who is willing to finance us through larger acquisitions but I'm wondering if I should be exploring private alternatives and what deal structures would look like.

TL,DR on my business is: domain registrations, DNS, web hosting, email, VPS and SaaS bolt-ons, in business sinceredacted5M ARR, currently growing a little under 10% / year. Based in Canada, close to half our biz comes from the US.

That podcast was:
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reply by an admin 2yrs ago
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portland, OR, USA

^redacted‌ have previously commented on Roll-Ups and might be able to help you here.

If you have additional questions or insights on Roll-Ups, please feel free to ask them here.

reply by a lender 2yrs ago
from Eastern Illinois University in 900 E Diehl Rd, Naperville, IL 60563, USA

Sorry, we are only doing lending in the U.S. at the moment so I really cannot help with acquisitions in Canada. Good luck.