Why Partner with Compound?
We know that it’s a seller’s market and that business owners are spoiled when it comes to choices of to whom to sell their business. Due to this we differentiate ourselves from our competitors by championing an approach that is more than just analysis and metrics. It is our belief that successful working relationships are built on a mix of tangible value-add expertise and less-tangible ethos and values. So, although we are highly confident in our tangible value-adds, we also hang our hats on quaint and often overlooked old-fashioned things like goodwill, integrity, trust and shared vision.
We care deeply.
A business is not just a P&L. It’s a living breathing organism made up of people, product, brand, customers, local community, legacy, history and life stories. We have deep understanding and admiration of the skill and hard work that it takes to build a company from the ground up. As operators, we’ve been there ourselves; the wins, the losses, the joy, the fear, the record months both good and bad. We view it as our duty to honour the legacies of the businesses we acquire as we chaperone them successfully into the future.
We are proven operators.
We work alongside our management teams to secure the future of the businesses we acquire. We are team players and roll up our sleeves and will jump into the trench at a moment’s notice. Ask Tim about being a Vice President leading a $50m fundraising meeting at lunchtime, then dressed in his suit chipping paint off a toilet floor on his hands and knees ten minutes before a boutique hotel launch opening night in Manhattan! We lead from the front, and the floor. Compound has combined experience that covers sub £500k one-site brick and mortar stores to £1 billion global organisations, and indeed everything in between.
We take a long-term view.
We commit for the long-term. The private equity playbook of ‘extract maximum value and flip’ is the antithesis of our model. We’re in this for the long haul. When we make an offer, from our perspective, we are making a life-long commitment. We don’t have antsy return-hungry investors to placate. We believe in adding the right type of value at a pragmatic pace.
We are commercial strategy experts.
Compound Ventures is comprised of professionals who have extensive experience across multiple industries, ranging from SMEs to PLCs.
Our key areas of expertise include market analysis, product positioning, pricing strategy, channel optimisation, and brand management. and digital sales. By leveraging our deep understanding of these critical areas, we ensure businesses effectively capitalise on the correct opportunities and pragmatically overcome their challenges to achieve consistent growth and profitability over the long term, despite the rapidly changing market.
Honesty, integrity and openness are non-negotiables for us. We take the ‘open source’ route as we' believe it’s the best way to collaborate. We’ll show you our spreadsheets, our how, our why, our analysis. No smoke and mirrors, no competitive secrecy, no ten syllable words, no mathematical trickery, just honest and transparent communication with a view to solidifying a win:win outcome for all parties.