A profitable business with a somewhat disruptive technology. Revenue over $3 million preferably. A great management team with a vision to grow the business aggressively. The business should be headquartered in Canada or in the USA.
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First off, please take my comments and the others' with the best intentions. There are frequently new members who ask questions structured similarly to yours, so you're not alone.
Based solely on your question (since I don't know your background and expertise), I'm going to go out on a limb and say you need to do some more reading & research. If you haven't done so already, take a look at the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business or the freely available Stanford Search Fund Primer (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/centers-initiatives/ces/research/search-funds/primer). I think those will help you formulate more nuanced criteria and build a plan for actually finding relevant businesses. And if you're dead-set on disruptive tech, distill what it is you're looking for in precise terms.
It's generally going to be a better strategy to have more specificity about what you're looking for qualitatively. For example, maybe you're looking for company that builds natural language processing software for the legal industry. Or maybe you're looking for biotechs with yet-to-be-commercialized IP portfolios but are profitable through doing government research contracts in the meantime. Or maybe it's a novel industrial tool. Disruptive technology is too broad and everyone thinks their technology is disruptive. If you tell us the technology area in which you have knowledge and interest, then the community might be able to help you. Otherwise, I have no idea if I should put you in contact with a PhD biochemist entrepreneur in Cambridge, MA or an enterprise SaaS executive in Austin, TX!
Also, I agree with ^Searchfunder member, you should explain your role in the business along with what kind of valuation/price you're looking for. Otherwise, we don't know if you're associated with a $100MM SPAC, trying to invest $10K in a Regulation A crowdfunding offering, or looking to privately purchase a small tech company.
Lastly, ^Searchfunder member does make an important point, even if he initially made it (as I think he'd admit) in a less-than-cordial manner. We'd all love to find a business that's both profitable AND disruptive AND has a great management team. I'm sure A16Z and Sequoia would like that too, but they settle for merely "possibly disruptive with a great management team." Identifying disruptive companies is HARD. Searching for a plumbing business is hard too, but it's easier by orders of magnitude. That said, depending on your definition of "disruptive," it's certainly possible to buy disruptive tech companies at least in software. Dura Software is a company that buys "hyper niche" software companies (there's even a Think Like an Owner Podcast episode with its chairman). If you're trying to get in on the next Microsoft or a CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics company, that's probably going to be an exercise in futility.