The Gauntlet is an investment towards your knowledge of business acquisitions, and it is also how we select the people we want to work with. We call it the Gauntlet because it serves as a crash course in finding, analyzing, and acquiring a business.
This self-paced course usually takes about a week to complete, and in the process you will analyze a real-life business that Acquira actually purchased.
The Gauntlet is a preview of everything it takes to acquire a business and will help you decide if it’s the right path for you.
This section of our training takes what was explained in The Gauntlet and covers it in much more detail.
We think of this as “Searching at Scale.” As your training continues, you will gain experience by looking at as many as 20 deals at any given time.
While you use our training to look for on-market deals, our off-market team will create a list of 2,500 businesses that match your investment thesis and call them on your behalf, expanding your prospects exponentially.
The traditional approach to business acquisition can take as much as a year and a half to find, analyze, and close a business. And then you still have to grow the company!
The due diligence process can be daunting. There are so many minute details to pick through that it can be hard to know just what to ask. After all, you don’t know what you don’t know.
Our Proprietary Due Diligence Process includes a checklist of 297 items that explain what to ask during each part of the process.
Weekly Acceleration Program (AP) group calls provide an opportunity for Acquisition Entrepreneurs to talk directly to Acquira’s team and our expert guest speakers.
The calls cover a range of topics, including legal advice, tax advice, and acquisition tips like drafting a pre-LOI.
Bring your questions and ask us anything!
Partners also gain access to a community of Acquisition Entrepreneurs (AEs) who are at various stages in their own deals. They can provide insight, advice, or just a friendly ear throughout your journey.
The community gets together during the weekly AP calls or through our private Slack channel.
Even after you’ve pored over every detail of a business, there are sometimes unexpected issues that arise.
Our Investment Committee is here to help you plan for any eventuality by going over your deals to poke holes in it.
The process is similar to Shark Tank, where Acquisition Entrepreneurs present a potential business and all of the research they’ve compiled on the company.
The Commitee usually contains at least one person who understands issues around the deal (ie: financing), and another person who is more tuned into the operations side of the business. The Committee then spends time going over the details of the deal, looking for potential issues, before giving feedback.
At the end of the call the AE will discuss the Committee’s findings with their success coach, whether they want to make any adjustments to their Investment Thesis, including increasing the geographical scope of your search, additional industries you might want to look, and why.
Many new Acquisition Entrepreneurs wonder what stepping into an existing business will actually be like, so we thought we’d give you an opportunity to see for yourself. Workshops are unlocked for every Accelerator Program member who has brought at least one deal to the Investment Committee that matches their investment thesis.
This is your opportunity to get a backstage pass to how we acquire and run a small business. At the workshop, you will be able to tour a business we’ve purchased, network with fellow Acquisition Entrepreneurs, and ask questions of Acquira’s team of acquisition experts.
The final phase of buying a business! This training covers everything from finding a business until you close the deal.
The Last Mile starts when you decide to send out an exploratory, non-binding Offer Letter, and progresses through the LOI, financing the deal and due diligence phases, all the way until you draft the Asset Purchase Agreement. It ends when you and the seller close the deal.
The Last Mile is designed to get you through some of the more difficult steps necessary to close on a deal, providing you with all of the information to help you make informed decisions through each step of the process.
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Our core team has evaluated hundreds of businesses and acquired 20+ companies (and counting) in the past 4 years, deploying over $50mm.
We have backgrounds in entrepreneurship, systems & training creation, investment banking, private equality, and business operations. We're all here to ensure that you successfully acquire and grow a great business.
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We provide training, systems, and guidance to acquisition entrepreneurs to help them acquire and grow great businesses, build their own private equity portfolios, and accomplish a greater mission by giving back to their communities.
We also work with business owners to optimize their businesses, hire new leadership, and retire on their terms.
All of our training and acceleration programs include online training, structured calls, in-person meetups, and an ever-expanding repository of systems.
Acquira trains you how to find, valuate, acquire, systematize and grow businesses. We provide support throughout the whole process. This includes one-on-one coaching, weekly group calls, and a dedicated Success Coach to help guide you through your business buying journey.
Working with Acquira is like having an M&A team in your back pocket that you can deploy whenever you want.
We have a search team that calls 2000-3000 businesses per week to see if they're interested in selling.
We also have longstanding relations with many brokers that can help our preferred AEs find pre-listed deals – this gives our AEs exclusivity on these deals before they hit the market.
This can’t cover enough deals for every AE in our ecosystem, so the people who have brought a deal to the Investment Committee will receive preference on these deals.
Acquira is a mission with a company, not a company with a mission. Small business ownership is simply the best vehicle to accomplish what we're passionate about: which is building systematic frameworks for people to follow that will help them consistently succeed in every aspect of life.
The biggest fear for many acquisition entrepreneurs is that they’ll arrive at the job, start making improvements, and everyone will leave before their successes can be realized.
The ACE Framework is a change management system designed to integrate, systematize, and grow newly acquired businesses, with a special emphasis on culture, systems, and servant leadership. The Framework was designed to mitigate the risk of an employee exodus while building a leadership team and growing their capability and confidence over time.
ACE training is not currently for sale to the general public. It is currently ONLY available to AEs who have closed a deal through our Accelerator Program or for any businesses that Acquira has invested in or has an option/warrant to invest in.
With most small businesses, what you're buying is a book of work done by skilled people, and held together by a transitioning owner-operator. Acquira provides the systems to make that transition smooth while letting you work on the business instead of in it.
We only work with acquisition entrepreneurs who are a true culture fit and who contribute to our community. Business ownership can be lonely and we will continue to build and defend a community that facilitates growth and success.
In order to stay a world-renowned accelerator for acquisition entrepreneurs, we continually develop and iterate upon our systematic frameworks for success in business and in life.
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