Growthink Capital

Whether buying or selling, building shareholder value in the modern middle market mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape requires exploiting and optimizing synergies between the merging companies.

Over the past two decades, Growthink Capital has carved a unique niche by combining traditional investment banking expertise with managerial, operational, entrepreneurial, and private equity perspective, experience, and expertise.

Focused primarily on small and middle market companies without dedicated corporate development teams, Growthink Capital empowers these companies to pursue M&A growth strategies and opportunities on both the sell and buy-side, as do much larger businesses.

A FINRA-registered broker-dealer investment bank since 2001, Growthink Capital has advised upon M&A transactions across a wide swathe of industries, including financial services, software and computer hardware, healthcare, manufacturing, and real estate.

“We have developed deep relationships with an active network of buyers and investors, which gives us great access and insights into all of the key variables that drive mid-market M&A – market comparables, technology trends, platform appetites, among many others,” says Jay Turo, Managing Partner at Growthink Capital.

While assisting with the sale of a company, Growthink Capital aims to maximize value by identifying the best positioning for the client.

Companies often own intellectual property with immense potential but cannot generate profits. Growthink Capital positions such companies in a way that highlights the value of their intellectual property and sharpens their competitive differentiation, allowing them to command deal pricing above and beyond that based on historical financial performance alone.

As an example, Growthink Capital was hired by an Oregon-based software firm struggling to drive profit in a low-margin competitive environment.

Growthink Capital worked with the company to craft a story around their robust technology and its potential for future growth, allowing the company to sell at a forward revenue multiple versus its somewhat lackluster historical profit and loss performance.

Growthink Capital also works with companies seeking to grow inorganically via acquisition, especially important in the overall low-growth macroeconomic environment.

Turo says, “The vast majority of mid-market companies do not realize their potential to growing via M&A. And if the overall economy continues at its very slow GNP growth rate, it can be exceedingly difficult for even the best run companies to deliver consistent growth. In this context, a growth via M&A strategy is often the only available strategy to turbocharge growth.”