The best outcomes are won years before the process starts. Tango Capital brings the experience and bandwidth to execute initiatives to grow enterprise value, at board level and shoulder-to-shoulder with your team.
Buyers and investors pay for certainty. A small team running the day-to-day flat out doesn't have time to also build that certainty — the readiness work drags out to next quarter, and every drag costs enterprise value when an investment or exit process finally starts.
Six things every buyer or investor will test — fixed before they ever look.
Numbers that reconcile and can actually explain what has historically happened in the business.
True understanding of how each product or service line delivers incremental gross profit.
Full visibility on where cash is moving in the business — working capital, capex, suppliers, staff.
Diversified revenue with clear evidence on how you acquire, grow and retain customers.
Initiatives delivered and visible in the numbers — not promised on a slide.
A team and operating rhythm that doesn’t route every decision through one person.
An honest read of the business through a buyer's eyes — value today, the gaps, the opportunities and the plan to realise optimal value. Initial views in ~1 week.
Working inside the business on the prioritised value levers — including: financial and KPI reporting, cash management, revenue acceleration, capital structure, M&A, talent, AI. Typical engagement of 9–18 months.
Positioning, materials, buyer or investor outreach, competitive tension, negotiation, close — run end-to-end by the person who helped build the value.
Twenty-plus founder and family businesses over fifteen years, across the U.S. and Australia. A few representative chapters:
Fifteen years as board member and sponsor to 20+ founder and family businesses across the U.S. and Australia. I've set the value creation agenda in the boardroom — then rolled up sleeves with founders / families and management to get it done. Strategy and execution, one partner.
Straight answers, before you even pick up the phone.
Ask something else →Most of my work isn't the transaction — it's carrying the value creation projects your team hasn't had bandwidth to finish. A stronger, more valuable business is worth building whether or not you are ready to sell now.
A monthly retainer for the value-build work, and a success fee if and when we run a transaction — agreed up front, in writing.
No. Everything starts under NDA and stays confidential. Externally I look like what I am — a board-level advisor, an unremarkable presence in any growing business. Any eventual process is run tightly, with vetted buyers and staged access to information.
Your call — that is the point of doing the readiness work early. The same preparation supports a full sale, a minority or majority investment, or simply a stronger business you keep. The process is shaped around the outcome you want, not the reverse.
You get the person with 15+ years experience alongside of you — not a partner who wins the mandate and a junior team who runs it. I collaborate with your existing specialist advisors (e.g. legal, tax), but accountability never leaves my desk.
One confidential conversation. Straight answers on value, gaps and opportunities.
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