How can you help the Searchfunder community?

February 12, 2023

by an admin from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management in Portland, OR, USA

We have a growing contingent of members who have joined Searchfunder as neither Searcher, Investor, Intermediary or Lender who never-the-less believe they have something important to offer.

In our DIRECTORY, these members can be found under the "Professional" tab. It includes lawyers, accountants, insurance, and other professionals.

We normally discourage self-promotion on Searchfunder, but I wanted to give an explicitly opportunity for this group to introduce themselves and tell us what brought them here and how they can help in the comments section below.

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Reply by a professional
from The College of New Jersey in La Verne, CA 91750, USA

Thanks for tagging me ^redacted‌! I am a managing director at Helios Consulting, a full-service valuation firm in Los Angeles, and the founder of ValuAnalytics, a limited-scope algorithm-based valuation analytics solution.

I came to the community to get a better feel for this segment of the investing community and keep a "boots on the ground" eye on the lower middle market/mom-and-pop M&A space.

I've helped a number of searchers with valuation perspective (at no charge) simply to give back to this insightful community and to help some great people and great causes (^redacted‌'s quest to support and grow veteran-owned and operated businesses being one example). I also publish a blog on the ValuAnalytics website that provides a pulse on changes in valuation multiples and key drivers for selected industries (based on the public markets). That can be found at https://valuanalytics.com/blog/.

Finally, until around June 2022, my blog attracted a lot of inquiries from lower middle-market to middle-market clientele (mostly business owners) looking to understand the value of their business for a potential exit. When M&A activity picks back up among smaller businesses, I want to start connecting these business owners to searchers as appropriate to help facilitate transactions (as a "finder", not a broker).

Reply by a professional
from INSEAD in New Delhi, Delhi, India

Hi Luke! I run AltG, a financial services firm that identifies and executes High Growth Capital Allocation Opportunities in India. India has a unique set-up with over 75 million SMEs contributing over 1 Trillion Dollars to the GDP, making it extremely attractive to roll-ups. However, creating roll-up platforms in India will need an India-centric approach - an Investor Operator model. Here is one of AltG's article on interesting roll-up ideas for India: https://bit.ly/3_AltG This is where https://www.searchfunder.com/ comes in. The Search Fund model via growth through acquisitions has a significant role to play going forward. Using efficient Capital Allocation and Capital Structure strategies to aggregate smaller businesses on a platform will be a significant value creator for all stakeholders. Roll-Ups in India are a largely untapped opportunity - whether micro roll-up platforms via Search funds or mid-cap to large-cap deals by private equity firms. This investment class will deliver outsized returns for the investors and create billions of dollars in market cap in the next 15 years in India. It is no coincidence that 2 of the largest private equity deals in India in the last 25 years (KKR - Max Healthcare and Advent - Suven Pharma) are both roll-up platforms. We at AltG are looking to connect with global investors to evaluate the opportunity in India. Tx.

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