• Nextech Partners
  • Lewellyn Technology
  • AXIOM Sales Force Development LLC
  • Cascade Training Center
  • Accurate Group
  • ROI Networks
  • Budco Financial
  • American Eagle Mortgage
  • Heavy Equipment Colleges of America
  • RTS Packaging
  • Turf Ventures

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Driven to Grow Your Business

How We Got Here

ScaleCo’s goal to this day is to duplicate the culture and model created by Brendan Anderson’s early experiences in Chicago. The model has created the opportunity to transform an enormous number of small businesses in need of support to achieve sustained growth. So, the question is, how to put these pieces of the puzzle together at scale? What did we learn over the years? How do you find motivated, entrepreneurially minded individuals, provide a platform for them to transform, all while supporting them with capital and operating expertise?

Chicago

From 1988 to 1995,  a group of mentors backed Brendan in several deals investing over 8 million dollars.

First Business

In 1998, through an advertisement in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mr. Anderson purchased Stam, Inc., a company with about 50 employees.

Evolution Capital

In 2006 Evolution Capital Partners was founded to extend the model learned in Chicago and at Stam.

ScaleCo

In 2018 ScaleCo was founded to build upon the success of Evolution Capital while increasing engagement with platforms.

Our Investment Strategy

ScaleCo starts with one of the many “plateaued” small businesses that most people place little value on and turns it into a growing, vibrant, sustainable company that people truly value. We back managers and develop entrepreneurs to operate, grow and implement our TAC Method. We know that many business owners need more than capital to realize their goals. On day one, the ScaleCo team is on the ground actively building the growth plan with management.

People

Scaleco’s investment thesis relies on finding great people with a unique set of interests. We are always looking for people to join the network and get involved. We are all fascinated by continual improvement and driving profitability in our platforms. But more importantly, we are committed to being open and honest with ourselves and staff. To us, we want to see people grow into roles they never thought possible and to see people take on challenges that help themselves and their companies. Nothing about ScaleCo or our efforts in our companies is 9-5. The teams we build have to be mentally invested and believe in “Ruby Slippers” meaning no place they’d rather be.

There are many smaller, slow-growth businesses who will soon be interested in selling or transferring to the next generation. We look for platforms that have demonstrated a couple things – cash flow (proven business), broad appeal (little to no customer concentration), local (somewhere in the midwest, it’s hard to be invested when the deal is far away), B2B focus. Our model works best with a company that wants hands on help, we integrate into the management team and help initiate growth from inside the business. We want to support the business and this is best done by becoming internal resources to our companies.

Platform

Platform

There are many smaller, slow-growth businesses who will soon be interested in selling or transferring to the next generation. We look for platforms that have demonstrated a couple things – cash flow (proven business), broad appeal (little to no customer concentration), local (somewhere in the midwest, it’s hard to be invested when the deal is far away), B2B focus. Our model works best with a company that wants hands on help, we integrate into the management team and help initiate growth from inside the business. We want to support the business and this is best done by becoming internal resources to our companies.

Process

Over the last twenty years, we have had a couple of revelations born from experience. We’ve honed those lessons and recurring patterns that we see in small businesses into our process for growth. The TAC method (Teach, Accelerate, Consolidate) embodies our experiences working with small business that have hit a plateau and need a jolt. The struggles are unique to each platform but fit recurring themes. We look for platforms that we know will work with our process. There are other ways to scale but we stick to the businesses that fit our process and skillsets. We want to be great partners and that starts with knowing what we are good at and sticking to it.

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