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by an investor from Harvard University - Harvard Business School
in Tampa, FL, USA

2yrs ago

Search Fund sized company database available - 45,000 vetted

Over several years, fromredactedI built a database of small businesses, with business owner name, email, and 20% have phone numbers as well. These are all privately held, most typically $3-40 mm revenue, some larger and smaller.

If anyone is interested in a handoff of the database, I haven't had a need for this as I'm more passively investing in deals and organically growing my own company.

Separately, if you need accounting/finance help, let me know! Our firm works with a couple search acquired businesses with great outcomes at efficient cost.

** To be clear, not giving the database to a bunch of people, so if this is relevant for your outreach, DM me. There's more than enough sourced opportunities in there to find a great company to buy!

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reply by a searcher 2yrs ago
from IESE Business School in Chicago, IL, USA

HI ^redacted‌ this is pretty awesome of you. Would you consider donating this to be apart of the searchfunder network or something similar? I got some DB developer friends who could make this into something more for the community.

reply by an investor 2yrs ago
from Harvard University in Tampa, FL, USA

Interesting thought, but I'm not currently interested in giving up 6 years of work for free. There are lots of excellent search acquisitions in this database, having built most of it myself, I know thousands are the right size, have recurring revenue, retiring owners, etc.