Frustrated with vague investor criteria

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October 30, 2025

by a searcher from University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Raleigh, NC, USA

Asking a question partly out of curiosity and partly out of frustration. An issue that I have had in my search journey is timing and expectations. Getting the seller and the funder to line up is a challenge. I have gotten deals under LOI only to find that the funder had some previously undisclosed issue or the seller needed to close faster than the funder's process would allow. It puts me in a situation where I'm doing a lot of guessing and finger crossing. My question is this: Are their investors that are willing to say "Nathan go into the universe and bring us back a firm with this exact criteria, if you do that we will invest in it"?
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Reply by an investor
in Asheville, NC, USA
As someone who spends my days looking at deals to invest in at CapitalPad, I can say it's not possible to give exact criteria. There are too many nuances around businesses. Business is inherently messy. It's not just about the numbers. That's the easy part. $750k+ EBITDA, low capex, recurring or reoccurring, low customer concentration, etc It's all the little things around a deal that can't be defined, those can make or break it. The quality, the team, the brand, company-to-searcher-fit, personal experience by the investor, etc You can get closer, but not all the way.
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Reply by a searcher
in Atlanta, GA, USA
agreed
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