Fides Investments
Fides Investments
Continuity, Expertise and Integrity
Preserving your legacy
Fides is looking for opportunities to buy high quality founder led businesses that value their staff, customers and reputuation with high quality service / product offerings.
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Your business is your lifeblood and your legacy. It represents your ingenuity, your hard work, and your aspirations - made tangible in the value you provide. Fides recognizes that every business has a story - how it came to be, developed, and evolved amid changing conditions in a dynamic world.
We appreciate that a business is fundamentally about people and that business is a lot more than just a balance sheet. From founders and senior leaders to employees, clients, suppliers, and the community. They all constitute part of your story.
For the right opportunity, we would like to continue your story, leading your business into its next phase of growth and value, and extending your legacy. We undertake this process with humility and quiet confidence. We are not looking to acquire a firm to build out an investment portfolio. We believe we can add measurable value to the right situation and we are eager to bring our skills to bear.
In our founder’s prior experience as an investor in growth businesses, he worked directly and indirectly with a number of founders who have provided testimonials as to his intent and approach to business.
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The founder is pleased to say that all the companies that he has helped grow, he continues to call friends today. However, he is also very aware of other founders that have sold their businesses and encountered heartbreak and disappointment. We are eager to circumvent those pitfalls and bring a keen dedication to listen and learn. For the right enterprise, we are confident we can serve as a critical link to a new era of growth and ethical management.
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If you are considering the sale of your business, please reach out to our founder by email. Our conversation will be confidential.
Fides Criteria
Partners. Sectors. Financials.
At Fides Investments, we appreciate the importance of a founders legacy. To understand the type of companies and sectors we outline a few criteria that differentiate the Fides perspective.
Partnership
Mutual Vision and collaboration
At Fides we are not taking a short term view, we are looking for long term alignment with shared vision for the future of the business. We are taking ownership as a custodian to preserve the legacy of the founder and continue the journey. We want to grow the business and take it to the next level while bringing the team along with it.
Sectors
Broad sectors with a B2B focus
Fides is sector agnostic, and therefore can review any opportunity. A few elements and sectors that are of particular focus:
- Technology and tech enabled entities
- Professional services / Business Services
- Animal Wellness entities
Financials
Consistent Performance
We are looking for a sustainable business. We have broad financial parameters that help identify these but we are not beholden to them:
- Revenue in excess of $5m
- Positive EBITDA over $1m
- Low customer concentration
- Low cyclicality of business
Steve Worrall, Operations Director
“After promptly identifying the key goals and objectives, Douglas possesses the technical expertise and prowess to execute complex transactions. He also demonstrates a high level of personal integrity, delivered in a consistent and professional manner."
Justin Bailes, Founder
"Douglas focuses his energy on driving value creation. Building businesses is difficult and he is a great partner during those difficult times that inevitably occur on the journey. I would gladly work with him in the future."
Rajesh Thakrar, Founder
“Douglas balanced his objectives with our requirements. He delivered what he said he would and where things changed he adapted.”
The Founder and Fides Values
Fides Investments was founded to invest in companies and people that have demontrated strong characteristics including resilience, growth, and a commitment to values.
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Fides is a commitment to working with small and medium-sized businesses, helping scale firms and helping develop companies, ​
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Fides seeks to create a venture not just driven by financial gain but by shared values, collaboration, and a genuine belief in the potential of businesses. The goal is to work with founders to enable them to leave their company with a trusted pair of hands. With the support of a trusted set of advisors and a small group of investors, Fides has been launched to identify a business that could be acquired and enabled to grow in earnst.
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The founder is committed to maintaining respect for the predecessor’s achievements while supporting employees in advancing the founder’s original mission and vision for a successful and flourishing enterprise.
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Fides reflects a personal and professional journey marked by purpose, passion, and the pursuit of meaningful impact.
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"A business is not just a job, but a way of life."
