What We're Looking For
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American Elm Capital provides equity to support self-funded or traditional searchers as well as early-stage technology entrepreneurs.
For searchers, we're looking to support acquisitions of businesses that are over $1M in EBITDA with stable, recurring business models. We're happy to fund new deals or help to fill an equity gap.
For technology entrepreneurs, we predominantly support B2B SaaS startups from angel to growth-stage. We're happy to support technology companies at any stage of growth or profitability.
Search Fund Investment Criteria
$5M+
Recurring Revenues
$1M+
EBITDA
5+
Years of Stable Profits
Any
Industry
About Us
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Kendall Marks
Kendall leads American Elm Capital's search fund investing efforts and has invested in over thirty businesses ranging from staffing outsourcing firms to SaaS startups and provides operational support to several companies as an active advisor or board member.
A former Engineering Lead at Google and a machine learning specialist, Kendall is an accomplished technology and real estate investor and has seen many businesses grow and succeed.
Jonathan Marks
Jonathan leads American Elm Capital's angel investing efforts and actively invests in and mentors many early-stage businesses. He enjoys supporting early-stage entrepreneurs from the idea stage and beyond.
Jonathan co-founded his first company, Quorum, over ten years ago, and scaled it to over 2,000 customers globally including over 50% of the Fortune 100. He remains on the board of the company as its Product and Technology Board chair.