Durare sits on both sides of the middle-market table: preparing owners to sell for full value, getting buyers and founders financed and deal-ready — and, for the right company, stepping in as the acquirer ourselves. Operator-tested, not theory.
Tightly scoped, fast to start, and priced for a clear yes. Two are built for acquirers and founders; one is built for the owner who needs a second brain in the business.
Walk into your lender's or investor's meeting with the package they wish every deal brought — whether you're acquiring a company or financing a new venture. Built by someone who has sat on your side of the table.
Before you spend months and legal fees on a deal, spend a week finding out whether it deserves them. A candid go / no-go from an operator's read, not a banker's.
The role that grew a PE-backed platform 5x — now available in fractional form. A standing advisory cadence for the founder who has no one to think out loud with.
Most owners start preparing for a sale eighteen months too late — and pay for it at the closing table. The businesses that command premiums are made, deliberately, in the years before they're marketed.
Sell-side preparation for owners twelve to thirty-six months from a transaction. Clean, defensible financials; a growth story buyers believe; reduced owner-dependence; and the operational proof points acquirers pay premiums for. Built by someone who has prepared companies for institutional buyers from the inside.
A 90-day pricing and profitability engagement — often the first phase of exit preparation, because every dollar of EBITDA found here gets multiplied at the sale. The same playbook produced roughly $20M of incremental EBITDA in a single year.
Durare is actively seeking to acquire one exceptional business from an owner ready for their next chapter. No auction, no banker's process, no retrade — a direct, discreet conversation with the person who would actually run the company. For an owner who cares what happens to their people and their name, that matters.
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Diligence for land, ranch, and commercial property purchases. Market and comp analysis, highest-and-best-use assessment, development potential, and financing structure — an operator's read before you commit capital to dirt.
Every recommendation comes from having done the work inside an operating company — pricing actions, acquisition integrations, lender processes — not from a framework slide.
We use AI to compress the work that used to require a four-person team. We never use it to replace judgment.
Engagements include aligned economics wherever the work allows it. More EBITDA, a closed deal, a higher exit value — we make money when our clients do.
Durare was founded on a simple observation: most owner-operated businesses are worth meaningfully less than they could be, and the people best positioned to help them are too expensive, too disinterested, or both. The middle market is overserved by transaction advisors and underserved by anyone who actually understands what it is to run the business.
The work draws on a decade of operating and advisory experience. As Right Hand to the CEO of a private-equity-backed manufacturing platform that grew approximately five times in revenue and ten times in EBITDA over five years — the work spanned a pricing initiative that added roughly $20M of incremental EBITDA in a single year, multiple acquisition integrations, multi-state facility expansion, and a full company rebrand. Before that came a strategy consulting career at a Big Four firm focused on M&A advisory and transformation at Fortune 500 clients.
Today, Durare works with buyers pursuing acquisitions, founders financing new ventures — including SBA-backed deals, a process the principal has navigated personally as a borrower — and owners expanding margin or preparing for sale. And for the right company, Durare is a buyer itself: the firm is actively seeking to acquire an established business to own and operate for the long term.
Thirty minutes, no deck, no pitch. Bring the deal, the lender question, or the problem in the business — and leave with a straight read on whether we can help.
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