A senior acquisition team inside your company, without the full-time hire.
You have decided to grow by acquisition. Sellers have advisors. Large acquirers have corporate development departments. You are running a business at the same time. BluGrowth is the team that closes that gap: your corporate development function, on retainer, working now.
Talk to Joe →The problem
When a business sells, the seller has an advisor running their process. The buyers you compete against, strategics and private equity, have full-time deal teams. Owners of lower-middle-market companies made the same decision the big companies made: grow by acquisition. What they lack is not commitment. It is dedicated resources, because they are running the business at the same time.
Fractional Corporate Development is built for buyers without a full-time team: the standing function large acquirers staff in-house, rented by the owner.
The model
The thesis, the target universe, and outreach under your brand. More than introductions: the deal structured so both sides can say yes. A find is a deal that can get done.
The capital stack arranged and closed in-house: senior debt, SBA, private credit, bridge, seller financing, and equity. No placement fees.
Diligence run on what kills deals. Negotiation that keeps good deals alive. Integration planned from the thesis, so the deal delivers what it was bought to do.
One cycle, governed by one thesis. The moment a deal no longer fits the thesis, we kill it, before it wastes any more time or money.
A monthly retainer for the function and a success fee only when a deal closes.
Proof
Nine active buyer mandates across the trades, manufacturing, and business services, backed by a bench of 96 lender and capital relationships. Led by Joe Surber, Principal: decades inside Fortune 50 corporate development, from sourcing to integration.
See what the math does over five years →The library
Straight answers to the questions owners actually ask about buying companies: how acquisitions get financed, why buyers need their own advisor, how off-market deals get sourced, and more.
A retained service that gives an owner-led company the acquisition function large acquirers staff in-house: one senior team that finds the deal, funds it, and finishes it, working under your brand on a monthly retainer.
It is how the function runs. Find: a deal sourced and structured so it can actually get done, not just an introduction. Fund: the capital stack arranged and closed in-house. Finished: diligence, the close, and integration, carried by the same team that started the deal.
A broker finds you a deal and is almost always paid by the seller. BluGrowth runs your whole acquisition program on your side of the table: sourcing, structure, capital, diligence, and integration, paid by you and never the other side, including telling you when a deal should not be finished.
A monthly retainer plus a success fee at close on a modified scale. No placement fees, no capital advisory fees, no deposits, no milestones, no per-deal minimums.
Owner-led buyers acquiring companies of roughly $2M to $20M enterprise value, with core work at $3M to $10M. Focus sectors are the trades, home services, and manufacturing.
No. Some engagements begin with getting the platform ready: the balance sheet positioned to fund a deal and the operation able to absorb one. Getting you to the starting line is part of the same function.
The opposite. Every deal is governed by the investment thesis, and the moment a deal no longer fits it, we kill it, before it wastes more time or money. The success fee only pays on deals worth finishing, so we have no reason to force a bad one.
Thirty minutes. What you own, what you want to build, and whether the math supports it. If it does not, we will say so on the call.
Talk to Joe →