We buy wonderful businesses.

Tiny acquires businesses using a founder-friendly approach, while focusing on valuation, recurring revenues and free cash flow potential.

Selling your company can be brutal…

After months of negotiation you're usually left with a bunch of legal fees and no deal.

If you're really lucky and your deal closes, your bank balance gets a whole lot bigger... then you get to watch the new owners wreck the business you spent your life building.

After going through it way too many times ourselves, we started Tiny to become the buyer we wish we could have sold to.

Read more about why we started Tiny

We give founders dream exits…

"I couldn’t have asked for a better home for Girlboss. Tiny has taken the vision and run with it."

Sophia Amoruso

Founder of Girlboss

"This was our second conversation with Tiny, and the grace shown by the team there when we picked a different acquirer for that other business says as much about their philosophy as how they act when things go well. We’re thrilled to be partnering on a shared vision for the future of Letterboxd."

Matthew Buchanan

Co-founder of Letterboxd

"I was extremely pleased with how smooth a transition the acquisition was for our team and the community. Zero disruption and a seamless passing of the torch to Tiny."

Dan Cederholm

Co-founder of Dribbble

"I was impressed by Andrew's very methodical and unwavering thesis to growing Tiny's shareholding in Buffer. They were very clear about their valuation mindset (different than silicon valley investors), and they loved our approach of being profitable (again different)."

Joel Gascoigne

Co-founder and CEO of Buffer

"Working with Tiny was one of the most seamless acquisitions I've ever been a part of. Fast, painless and ultimately respectful... something that's usually missing in the M&A world."

Josh Pigford

Founder of Baremetrics

"Fundraising is a challenging, miserable process. Even worse for female founders. Andrew and the team at Tiny made the process easy, and they are there when I need them but otherwise leave me to do my thing."

Nicole Smith

Founder of Flytographer

"With a transparent and straightforward process, we closed the investment in just eight weeks. Tiny has taken us to the next level by giving us access to world-class knowledge and top-tier talent. Amazing network, incredible people."

Hector Giner

Founder of Z1

"When we ran a process to find a new home for our Meteor business, Tiny moved at lightning speed, kept the terms straightforward, and didn't waste any of our time, which was very different from our experience with some other potential acquires. We're very happy with how our partnership with Tiny has worked out."

Geoff Schmidt

Co-founder of Meteor

"Tiny's given the Creative Market team a home and the resources to focus on building a great business and product. Their process is straight-forward and they mean what they say about providing autonomy to leadership."

Chris Winn

CEO of CreativeMarket

Why sell to us?

Venture Capital

Huge valuation
3–6 month process
Founders committed to 5+ years
Terms could make your equity worthless
Pressure to provide 10–100X returns
No cash to founders, just money to grow

Private Equity

Full or partial cash out
3–6 month process
Founders locked in with earnout structure
Terms could make your equity worthless
Intervene and change your culture
Typically flip your company in 3–5 years

Tiny

Full or partial cash out
Deal size ranging from $1M-$300M
Potential 30-day process
Founders can stay or go, we're flexible
Simple structure with cash upfront
Operational best practices, focus on culture
Holds companies for the longterm

We like to buy businesses that have:

High margins

Healthy and sustainable

A unique advantage

Like a brand, community or niche

A simple business model

You can explain it to your parents

Healthy Profit

From $500K to $50MM

Successful operations

Of three years or longer

A high-quality team

A great team with a positive culture

A positive and ethical approach

No sketchy stuff

The companies we buy usually look like this:

Dream Businesses

COMPOUNDING WITH A MOAT

Every once in a while, we are lucky enough to buy a truly exceptional business with a competitive moat and the ability to compound its revenue and earnings
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We focus on maintaining the legacy of the business while continuing to grow.
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They only come along every few years, but when they do, we pounce.

Unique Opportunities

TURNAROUNDS

Simple businesses with a weak / at-risk models that we can buy at a price that provides a short payback period.

We typically have a few quick high certainty growth levers to add additional margin of safety.

Generally, our worst case scenario is that we are able to receive our investment back.

Best case (quite often), the business continues to spit out cash.

Mismanaged Gems

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

We often acquire companies which are mismanaged.

Typically these are good or great businesses that have the management team that is holding it back or wrong cost structure (underinvested or overbuilt).

Our approach allows both short-term (bird-in-hand) operating improvements as well as long-term strategies (two-in-the-bush) to substantially grow the business.

If you're not sure your business fits the bill, send it to us anyway. We'll let you know within a couple of days.

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