Pepper Fund is a cross-border search fund that is focused on identifying and acquiring a business with certain desirable characteristics, and within Business-to-Business (B2B)Services, Manufacturing, Wholesale & Distribution, and Healthcare.
Seller open to support transition for a period of 2 years
Recurring and stable revenues
Category leadership within their niche category
At least 10 Years of Operating History
Reason for sale is retirement
What is Search Fund
A search fund is a type of asset class used by entrepreneurs to seek money from potential investors in order to purchase a business in which they want to take a direct, hands-on role. The four main models that a search fund can currently take are self-funded, traditional, and solo-sponsor and accelerator model.
What is Pepper Fund
Pepper fund is a cross-border search fund that plans to identify, acquire and operate an existing private company with an initial enterprise value between $5mm to $25mm within manufacturing, healthcare, B2B services or Trade & Wholesale
Value Drivers
— We plan to drive value by the following —
Geographic Expansion
Expand to additional geographies that similar to the home market
Category Expansion
Extend the brand into complementary categories by new product / service offerings
Distribution Expansion
Create a playbook and add multiple sales & distribution channels
Supply Chain
Reduce costs by outsourcing to low-cost emerging economies
Competitive Advantage
— What makes Pepper Fund Different —
Cost Arbitrage
Our Revenue centres is going to be based in US / Canada while our cost centres are going to be based in Asia (India, Philippines etc.)
Operations
As an operator of a supply chain business, Karan has direct hands-on experience when it comes to rolling up his sleeves and getting things done
Digital
Karan ran a digital agency and had the grass-root level experience of leading digital transformation projects for a variety of B2B and B2C companies