Search Funds: 5x investment generators that transform small businesses
In this interview, Brendan Mullen of Secha Capital introduces us to the concept of Search Funds, the rapidly growing alternative to Private Equity and Venture Capital. Focused on supporting young entrepreneurs keen to get their teeth into an existing small businesses, they leverage funds and energy to deliver vastly superior returns from small businesses.Β
Mullen says this little-known investment model is perfectly suited to solving the management gap in SMEs and can also produce multiplier effects: a Search Fund, or "entrepreneurship through acquisition" delivers not only outside capital, but also the self-confidence and self-reliance of local business people.
A Search Fund is a vehicle for young, aspiring entrepreneurs to raise funds, search for, acquire, manage, and grow an established SME and are increasingly popular in the US and Europe. They deliver superior returns (5x increase in the profits of his portfolio of businesses) and address four key components of our economic ecosystem:
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