Pitch a deal
If you are selling a software or services business, send it here rather than to a banker. We buy with our own cash, we do not need committee approval, and we can sign quickly when the fit is obvious. Bench went from first contact to signed in about 48 hours.
If you are outside this, send it anyway and say why.
- Revenue
- $2M to $50M
- Profitability
- Profitable or close
- Model
- Software, SaaS, services
- Customers
- Real and recurring
- Situation
- Including distressed
- Typical close
- Weeks, not quarters
Venture-backed businesses that have stalled out are actively interesting to us, not a problem. So are companies whose investors have already written them down. That is usually a price dislocation rather than a broken business.
Enough to know whether it is a fit. Nothing you would not put in a first email.
Send the deal
Everything here is read. If it looks like a fit you will hear back directly, usually within a few days. Nothing is shared with anyone outside the deal.
Treated as confidential. Nothing is shared outside the deal team, and we do not need an NDA to have a first conversation.
Several of these deals started as a DM.
The Dough acquisition began as a message on X from the founder and never went to market. If you would rather open with a sentence than a form, DM him on X.