FOR SPONSORS & PORTFOLIO-COMPANY LEADERS
An acquisition program built around your platform.
You bring the operating knowledge and investment priorities. Windridge brings dedicated market mapping, founder outreach, and transaction support to turn them into a working acquisition program.
01 / THE NEED
Capacity where your team needs it.
Build the program
Your platform has a clear strategy, but acquisition research and owner outreach are not yet a consistent management function.
Extend your M&A team
Your internal lead owns the acquisition agenda. You need additional capacity to map the market, engage owners, and evaluate opportunities.
Support a live opportunity
A potential acquisition is moving. You need focused analysis, diligence coordination, and decision support without losing sight of the wider pipeline.
02 / THE ENGAGEMENT
Dedicated origination. Defined execution support.
The engagement can sit alongside an internal M&A lead or provide an outsourced function for a portfolio-company management team. Scope follows the thesis, pace, and resources available.
Origination
A researched target universe, agreed priorities, approved owner outreach, qualified conversations, and a maintained pipeline. Management sees what has changed and what needs a decision.
Origination + Execution
The same standing program, with defined capacity for financial screening, evaluation, diligence coordination, and transaction decision support. Live-deal work is scoped, not unlimited.
03 / THE WORKING RELATIONSHIP
A clear division of work and decisions.
Agree the acquisition brief
Define capabilities, geography, scale, ownership considerations, exclusions, and what makes an opportunity worth management attention.
Build the market and begin approved outreach
Windridge researches and prioritizes businesses, develops the approach with your team, and records what owner conversations reveal.
Turn progress into decisions
Review fit, open questions, next actions, and resource requirements. Your team controls outreach approvals, valuation, terms, and investment decisions.
Coordinate the work around a live opportunity
Under the agreed scope, Windridge supports evaluation and process management. Legal, tax, accounting, technical, and operating diligence remain with the appropriate specialists.
04 / RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Acquisition-program experience, applied to your priorities.
For a digital marketing platform, Windridge rebuilt an acquisition funnel and supported market mapping, founder outreach, evaluation, diligence, and integration planning. The published agency examples describe work within that same program.
Experience is rooted in media, marketing, and internet-enabled businesses. Broader acquisition-program support spans selected technology, business, home and commercial, healthcare, and industrial-service markets, with the client's operating expertise informing the mandate.
What does your acquisition program need?
A few sentences about the platform, acquisition thesis, and capacity you need are enough to begin.
hello@windadv.comWhat happens next
Eric reviews your note and follows up to understand the situation. If there is a fit, the next step is a conversation about priorities, scope, and how an engagement would work.
Please keep the first note high-level. Sensitive documents can follow after the appropriate confidentiality arrangements are agreed.