Venture Capricorn

Venture Capricorn is an investment bank based in Austin, Texas, that handles mergers, acquisitions and divestitures for mid-sized private companies. Most of its work is on the sell side, guiding owners through a confidential sale. It also acts for strategic and financial buyers.

What Venture Capricorn offers

• Sell-side M&A advice: prepares a company for sale, writes the confidential information memorandum and approaches qualified purchasers in a set sequence.
• Buyer targeting: identifies acquirers, including private equity and strategic buyers, and lets the client decide who is and is not contacted.
• Valuation: gives owners a market-based view of what their company might be worth.
• Capital raising: helps companies bring in outside investors to fund growth.
• Decision guidance: offers objective input while leaving the final choice with the client.

Clients

Owners of lower middle-market businesses. Sectors named include oil and gas, energy and power, manufacturing, food and beverage, technology and software, managed IT and cyber services, logistics and financial services.

Key facts

• Based in: Austin, Texas
• Focus: private sell-side transactions and capital raises
• Approach: describes a machine-learning tool used to find non-obvious buyers