Pacific Northwest First · Permanent Capital
Building businesses that get better every day.
We acquire enduring businesses and combine their experience, reputation, and customer relationships with intelligent systems and practical technology — without losing the human qualities that made them valuable.
Preserve what matters. Improve what is possible.
Companies we built have been acquired by
- 5
- Successful exits, built or backed
- 4
- Public-company acquirers
- 8
- Steps in the improvement loop
- PNW
- First — not required
The Thesis
Preserve what matters. Improve what is possible.
Many traditional businesses are fundamentally good businesses. They have loyal customers, experienced teams, proven demand, and years of accumulated knowledge. What constrains them is usually fragmented systems, repetitive administrative work, and information trapped in inboxes, spreadsheets, or one person's memory.
How we operateKeep what makes the business valuable
Remove the work that holds people back
Turn experience into intelligence
Build a continuous-improvement engine
Track Record
Built, scaled, and successfully exited.
We've been on the seller's side of the table — companies we founded and ran went on to public acquirers. We know what a clean exit takes.
See the full recordBrammo
acquired by
Polaris Industries
2015
Brammo Power
acquired by
Cummins Inc.
2017
DreamMedia
acquired by
USWeb
1997
What We Buy
Our acquisition criteria, in five seconds.
If you're close on EBITDA or just outside the region, send it anyway — we'd rather see it.
Read the criteria- EBITDA
- $250K – $1.5M
- Geography
- Pacific Northwest first
- Real estate
- With or without
Current Portfolio
What we hold today.
We hold what we buy and add deliberately. Each holding says plainly whether we run it, back it, or advise it.
See the portfolioOperating
High Desert Property Management
Bend, Oregon
Partner
Hang Ten Venture Studio
AI Product Studio
Venture Studio
Wellifi
Health & Wellness
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