Sansa Advisors

Selling a company to an acquirer is poles apart from selling a product or service to customers. Even seasoned founders struggle to sell their companies, while most first-time entrepreneurs find themselves in uncharted territory. Adding to these challenges are the traditional investment banks brokering the sale of companies, usually lacking adequate specific knowledge of the technology offered by today’s largely tech-based startups and companies or the needs of their founders.

The need of the hour is an experienced mergers and acquisition (M&A) consulting firm with deep expertise in technology and highly curated processes to ease the entire company buyout process.

Sansa Advisors, a sell-side M&A consulting firm with investment banking expertise, fits this bill. It specializes in the strategic selling of small and medium-sized private entities in tech-based domains like software, telecommunications and biotechnology to large organizations or private equity firms across Asia, the U.S., and Europe. True to its name—a combination of the medieval English word “sans,” meaning “without,” and ancient Egyptian symbol “sa,” meaning “protection”—Sansa Advisors is primarily dedicated to safeguarding the interests of founders in M&A deals.

“We facilitate the mergers and acquisitions of mid-market to later-stage private tech companies looking for a strategic exit,” says Trevor Healy, managing partner at Sansa Advisors.

Healy and fellow managing partner Mark Strecker—former Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—bring a wealth of experience in founding and selling companies. Through Sansa Advisors, they seek to transfer their expertise to Southeast Asian markets and provide regional tech players with high-end M&A support.

To support all stakeholders in a company sale, Sansa Advisors aligns itself with the goals of both founders and investors. It finalizes the perfect buyout deal with a strategic, elaborate, hands-on approach delivered through a three-step process.

The first step involves gaining a deep understanding of the client’s business operations, products, and services, which usually takes a few months. In the second step, Sansa Advisors prepares them for the buyout and shepherds them to a successful exit.

It educates them on the nuances of selling a company and brings the know-how of maximizing returns to shareholders. In the final step, Sansa Advisors engages in deal structuring and post-deal planning in a manner favorable to clients, their employees, shareholders, and investors. It focuses on ensuring the founders retain much of their gains from the transaction.

The efficacy of this process highly impresses clients and has enabled Sansa Advisors to garner rave reviews from technology founders and their venture capital backers.

For entrepreneurs, Sansa Advisors is instrumental in ensuring profitable strategic exits. Be it the founder of Belkin Electronics, who received close to a billion dollars in the company buyout, or Singaporean entrepreneurs who successfully sold their companies to Silicon Valley-based businesses, Sansa Advisors deftly facilitates all these financial deals.

Along with its consulting services, Sansa Advisors has a unique penchant for supporting artists, inspired by the Medicis, a prominent Renaissance-era banking family. Through its initiative Sansa Art, the firm invests in emerging artists and helps them break new ground in painting, photography, sculpture, and other fine arts.

Besides arts, Sansa Advisors engages in green initiatives. For instance, it invested in Raven SR, a company converting household waste into hydrogen for use in jet fuel, and advises entrepreneurs on imbibing ESG-compliant values in their company principles. Sansa Advisors also invests in healthcare companies developing biosimilars to create affordable biological drugs for long-term illnesses like multiple sclerosis and hemophilia.

Sansa Advisors is truly a class apart in adding value to the worlds of arts, technology, ESG, healthcare, and business, as evidenced by its distinctive endeavors. A sought-after investment consulting partner, Sansa Advisors continues to be the ultimate value provider for entrepreneurs and founders of ground-breaking tech companies.