Your trusted originator of small businesses and Lower Middle Market Companies
DealZone uses AI to aggregate business listings from brokers and investment banks across the US in the micro PE space ($1 – $30 M in revenues and $500K to $2.5M in SDE OR EBITDA)
Why invest in small business?
Less competition
The small business and lower middle market is much less efficient than the Middle Market.
Valuation
Valuations often are 3x – 5x EBITDA in this space.
FAVORABLE STATISTICS: The Baby Boomer Wealth Transfer
- Retiring Boomer business owners will sell or bequeath $10 trillion worth of assets over the next two decades.
- These assets are held in more than 12 million privately owned businesses.
- More than 70 percent of these companies are expected to change hands.
*Source: California Association of Business Brokers
72% of business owners with revenues from $250,000 to $20 million have NO EXIT PLAN and are taking no action to exit.
Most business owners will exit within a decade:
- 29% expect to exit within 5 years
- 54% anticipate being gone within 10 years
- If the research correct, 62% of 210,000 businesses changing hands each year will be turned over by baby boomers to a new group of enterpreneurs.
*Source: Securian Financial's Small Business Owner Life Stage Study
DealZone allows an M&A professional to spend more time analyzing, closing, and growing businesses and less time sourcing transactions. DealZone helps stop the fragmentation and wasted time pouring over emails and online listings by aggregating everything in an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
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