Our Investment Criteria

We seek to buy or partner with digital businesses & assets:

  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Preferably B2B
  • IT Services
  • Marketing Services
  • Min $500k in annual recurring revenue
  • Region Agnostic
    Preference USA, CA, AUST, EU, LATAM

Although we prefer 100% ownership in our companies we are open to other majority stake investments or minority stake via our partnership program.

Scenarios

Founders Ready to Exit

Carve-out & Divestitures

Product or service offering from an existing entity

Special Situation

Distressed Venture Capital, Bankruptcy, End of Life for a VC fund, Restructuring

Traditional or Management Buyouts

Recapitalizations

Entrepreneurs Pursuing New Business Ventures

Underutilized & Legacy Products

Operational Turnarounds

About Us

Lion’s Den was founded by tech enthusiasts, M&A professionals and software operators. We acquire and scale Micro Cap companies using a proven method for accelerating product market fit.

We started our acquisition studio with a focus on building more sustainable, profitable portfolios through disciplined acquisitions. Our commitment to the long term success of founder-led SaaS businesses has established us as a principal thought leader in the space. We take a long term approach to building sustainable, scalable software companies.

Our holding company combines a central factory that combines acquisitions with growth to compress time, iterate quickly, and scale more ambitiously than would otherwise be possible.

Since 2016:

6

companies acquired

35

brands of software were operated

>1100

customers and exited 3

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Lion’s Den functions like a private equity firm but removes many of the negative stigmas

We are founder friendly firm offering quick turnarounds with offers and always provide valuable insights into how we view the market (of course through our lens)

As a diverse team with many nationalities & backgrounds, it allows us to explore different thesis with varying opinions and viewpoints, providing very diversified perspectives. We are a minority-owned business and pride ourselves in seeking to empower minority business ownership and opportunities.

As software continues to evolve and eat the world, we believe we can ride the wave into web 3.0 and beyond.

The core thesis is micro cap SaaS has become a formidable force in the software world; as the cost to build and start a business continues to go down more and more founders will enter the ecosystem. Unfortunately as they try to scale their businesses, they often hit a wall due to varying issues; lack of capital, lack of expertise outside of their core area; typical technical.

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We are happy to provide a permanent home for niche micro-cap businesses that we will run in a profitable, sustainable manner keeping their founders legacy alive

Lion’s Den provides a new home for these businesses as we scale them further with our decentralized operating model. As a remote first organization, we allow our core team members autonomy to make the critical decisions to scale our organizations. As we add more assets to our portfolio, we will continue to be a self-sustaining entity.

Contact us to learn more about our various programs (acquisition, growth studio & investor programs)

Investors

We partner with family offices, institutional investors, and Private Equity firms as owner operators with vast industry experience running multiple SaaS assets within the ESW/Trilogy ecosystem.

Our partners ran European M&A as well as ran a 14 company portfolio managing over $50M in ARR.

Portfolio

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