A sale, a partner or an investment: the right answer for founder‑owned companies.
Wild Rose Advisors puts strategic acquirers, private equity and private investors in competition for a company, and sets a full sale beside the alternatives: a minority investment, a majority recapitalization or a partnership. The owner chooses with every option priced.
Contact the PrincipalFour services for founder-owned companies
Each engagement is led by the principal and begins with a written view of what the company is worth.
Sell-Side M&A
Wild Rose Advisors represents the owner in the sale of a company, and puts strategic acquirers, private equity and private investors in competition for it.
Learn MoreCapital Raising
Advice on minority investment, majority recapitalization and debt, for an owner who seeks capital or a partner rather than a full sale.
Learn MoreValuation
A written assessment of what the company is worth to each kind of buyer today, and the work that seeks to close the gap to what it could be worth.
Learn MoreAcquisition Search
A retained search for a buyer with a defined mandate: the target list, the outreach to owners, and conversations with those willing to discuss a sale.
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Wild Rose Advisors knows the competitors and adjacent operators in a company's market, which is where strategic buyers typically come from.
Sectors
Wild Rose Advisors also advises founder-owned companies outside these sectors where the earnings are durable and the owner wants a choice of outcomes.
All Sectors- Transportation and logisticsTrucking, tank and bulk, hotshot, towing and storage
- Trade and home servicesHVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire and life safety, pest control
- Healthcare servicesHome health, hospice, therapy and care providers
- Software and tech-enabled servicesVertical software, training, outsourced operations
- Insurance and financial servicesIndependent agencies and books of business
- Energy and oilfield servicesFluid hauling, drilling and field services
- Business and industrial servicesFacility, environmental and commercial services
How a company is priced
The arithmetic a buyer applies to a founder-owned company, and the short list of things that move it, from the first part of the firm's series on the sale process.
All FilmsInsights
All InsightsWho owns Texas collision repair shops
Open map data lists about 4,400 collision repair shops in Texas. Roughly five in six carry an independent name, and the consolidators that own the rest grew in large part by buying shops like them.
ReadWho owns Texas HVAC companies
Open map data lists about 6,500 heating and air conditioning companies in Texas, and nearly all carry a local name. A local name no longer means local ownership as reliably as it did.
ReadThe NDA, explained
What the confidentiality agreement in the sale of a company does, why serious buyers sign one without objection, and what it does not promise.
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The Principal
Cole Kutschinski
Principal
Prior to Wild Rose, Cole spent seven years in senior leadership at Foundation Automotive, most recently as Senior Vice President. During that period the company acquired and integrated more than forty businesses across four states and Canada, and he was involved on the buy side of those acquisitions and, later, in the sale of several of the same businesses.
The FirmWild Rose Advisors welcomes conversations with the owners of founder-owned companies.
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