Helping Buy & Sell Side Find The Right B2B Business & Maximise Value
We help Private Equity and B2B business buyers and sellers find the right partner and structure the very best deal possible so they can win through acquisition.
How We Help The Seller
Selling is emotionally and mentally challenging and we arm you with the experience and knowledge to negotiate well and avoid the potholes!
Our advisory service helps create buyer tension and ensures there is a competitive process to ensure you get the very best price, whilst we act as commercial negotiator too, ensuring you stay as the ‘good cop’ at all times.
And we REMOVE THE JARGON. Working with M&A professionals can be a scary world but it doesn’t need to be. Our job is to keep it simple.
And The Buyer
Whether you are a strategic buyer or come from the PE world we have experience in helping you unpick the reality from the ‘sell’ as sector operational experts.
We help you understand what you’re buying and enable you to pick the right route to value.
That means supporting you whether you are looking for specific DD support around sales and marketing, people and process or culture. We help you derisk the acquisition with meaningful operational and commercial due diligence.
We can even help you find the right B2B business to acquire, or buyer to be acquired by, irrespective of size or scale.
We Take The Pain Out Of B2B Due Diligence
This is our heartland. And we can do the heavy lifting for you.
Let’s grow your business
No sales pitches or BS.
Honest and clear advice.
No commitment.
FAQs
Our consultants, led by managing partner Simon Penson, all have significant exit stories to tell. Our bar is extremely high and every one of our partners have to have exited at least once and have compelling real world stories to tell of leading large, scaled B2B businesses for a decade or more through testing periods of growth and contraction. That experience in leading such organisations through mergers and acquisitions from the inside as well as running the organisations means that few are better equipped and connected to the real world reality of the B2B market. It’s this lived experience that means we are able to quickly analyse, measure and understand the quality of any business from a commercial perspective.
Scaled is NOT an M&A house. We do not specialise in supporting the full suite of services involved in successfully selling your business – but we do know the best and partner with them where needed. What we do do though is run alongside you, helping you understand the options initially and then helping to connect you with the type of buyers you may want to work with. Alongside this we act as the ‘bad cop’ in negotiations to help you get the best deal whilst staying ‘friends’ with the buyer. And we will also ensure you get the BEST deal too, removing the jargon and avoiding the tripwires along the way!
Our approach varies based on the assignment and we are often asked to support wider acquisition or investment ‘DD’ from initial pipeline evaluation to in depth commercial or sales DD analysis. We can produce standalone sales and marketing DD reports, help support pipeline analysis and even produce culture and team reports. In short, we flex to the needs of the acquirer.
We exist to service B2B for one very simple reason; it’s where we have lived for decades. Collectively our consultants have built, grown and exited B2B businesses in sectors as diverse as agencies and SaaS to tech-enabled service businesses, call centre businesses and even estate agencies. Across SaaS we have helped scores of start up and scale ups across such sectors as adtech, healthtech, salestech, edtech, applied AI, HRtech, Crypto and blockchain and more, whilst we are best known for our work scaling agencies globally.
We already work with investors in the private equity and VC spaces to help them acquire platform and bolt on businesses across the B2B space and can offer due diligence services.
We have a very simple model and you can find pricing on our individual service pages. You buy our time and we transparently share that detail with you so there are no surprises.
Our consulting work starts at jus £2,000 per month and GTM and revenue services even less.
That’s easy! Simply get in touch via the Contact Us button in the menu and we will be in touch the same day. We offer free consultancy sessions as fit is important for us too. We ONLY work with those who we feel we can truly help reach ‘success’.
