What we do
We are a St. Louis-based growth buyout firm that invests in, partners with and grows strong, tech-enabled business and healthcare services companies. We focus on lower market transactions in which we can invest alongside aggressive, entrepreneurial teams that share our passion for growing and building great businesses.
What types of investments?
How can we help?
What is our recipe
for growth?
By our definition, “tech-enabled” businesses are those that use technology to create differentiated operating models that are unique and often disruptive to existing industry models. A “tech-enabled” business often exists within a relatively mundane industry vertical, taking advantage of technology to out-compete established competitors with outdated business models or to create new niche market growth opportunities.
Our investment criteria and portfolio
We invest in lower-middle market tech-enabled business and healthcare services companies with differentiated business models and niche vertical market leadership.
AN IDEAL COMPANY
Our ideal target company is an acknowledged industry “thought leader” with a strong, aggressive team and identifiable growth potential.
Business services
Healthcare services
Other niche verticals and with positive growth
and fragmented customer bases.
EXAMPLES OF TARGETED
VERTICAL MARKETS
Our ideal targets are industry leaders in niche vertical markets that have large, fragmented customer bases.
Our portfolio
Why partner with us
We respect Midwest entrepreneurs (like you) and share a passion for
what you’ve built, your team, and where your company is headed.
We pride ourselves on our ability to quickly learn your company and demonstrate our respect for what you’ve built and where you are headed. We are “the buyer”, but our goal is actually to sell ourselves and the value we bring to you.
We are entrepreneurs just like you
who at the end of the day are all about solving the customers’ problems in a unique way that doesn’t just produce results but endears them to us forever.
It’s not just about financials and returns (that’s for our investors). Life is short and we only partner with “good people” where we share the same passion for continued growth and success while enjoying the journey together.
RESPECTFUL
ENTREPRENEURIAL
PASSIONATE
By pairing a professional growth investor
with a founder/CEO of growth companies,
the Villhard brothers are the perfect complement
(we feel) to not just partner with you,
but to provide value.
Our Team
Contact us
We’d love to take a look at your business and discuss a partnership.
A MIDWEST-BASED GROWTH BUYOUT FIRM