ExitPath · Ventures · Scale-to-Exit™
Your business,
your future,
your number.
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Only 6 new mandates per year · 2 places remaining for 2026
Sold as-is, today
1–3×
Founder-dependent · messy data room
Built, de-risked, in demand
5–10×+
Strategic buyer · competitive process
The gap
3–7× more
The value you build first — not luck.
$500M+
Raised by founders backed
$289M
Group exit positioned
2,000+
Founders worked with
25 yrs
Operator · investor · NED
Where you are
You're ready for what's next.
The business isn't — yet.
- The business still leans on you for every decision worth making.
- You don't know what it's truly worth — or what actually drives the multiple.
- You want to step back without handing your life's work to the wrong buyer.
- You've had offers. They felt like a discount on everything you built.
The programme · Scale-to-Exit™
Build first. Then sell into strength.
01
Months 1–3
Clarity & Cleanup
Normalised EBITDA. Clean financials. The data-room foundation buyers can't poke holes in.
02
Months 3–12
Build & De-risk
Recurring revenue. Founder-independence. Customer-concentration fixed. The team that runs without you.
03
Months 9–18
Position & Market
We define the buyer, package the asset, and run a competitive process — strategic, PE and family offices in parallel.
04
Months 12–24
Negotiate & Close
LOI, due diligence with your counsel, completion — on your terms, on your timeline, at your number.
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What you walk away with
Six assets a premium buyer pays for.
01
A defensible number
Normalised EBITDA — the real profit a buyer will pay a multiple on.
02
An institutional data room
Clean, complete, buyer-ready. Nothing they ask twice.
03
Founder-independence
A business that runs without you. Buyers pay a premium for it.
04
Recurring, de-risked revenue
Repeatable income with low concentration. The number behind the number.
05
A market-expansion story
The growth upside that turns a financial sale into a strategic one.
06
A live buyer pipeline
Real buyers — strategic, PE, family office — competing for your asset.
Anna C. Mallon — Founder, ExitPath Ventures
Your team
Anna on your board.
A senior bench beside her.
- NED of a Nasdaq-listed acquisition company — sees how buyers price and de-risk deals.
- Micro-PE principal — worked on $15M+ in SME acquisitions; scored 100+ deals.
- Helped position a global group for its ~$289M acquisition.
- Runs the Global Investor CIRCLEs — 750+ investors across London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Dubai.
Plus a specialist partner bench, on call
Peter Goldstein
M&A Strategy
Michelle Kung
Buyer Lead
Dennis Huizing
Operations
Toyo Ushioda
Fractional CFO
Lynne Teo
Legal
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Proof · founder outcomes
Real multiples. Real founders.
4.2×
EBITDA multiple at exit
“A 62-year-old training-services founder secured a 4.2× EBITDA sale with his staff retained — and moved to part-time advisory within 90 days.”
7.1×
EBITDA multiple at exit
“We came in expecting 2×. Anna's team rebuilt the data room, fixed our customer-concentration story, and walked us out at 7.1× EBITDA to a strategic buyer.”
Worked with / featured
We come with buyers and capital
You're not hoping a buyer turns up.
You plug into a live, curated network — and we bring the right ones to your table.
750+
Investors & operators
Global Investor CIRCLEs
50
Inner-circle club
Closest active buyers
4
Global hubs
London · Amsterdam · Singapore · Dubai
How we're paid
Aligned incentives. We win when you win.
- Team retainer
- Less than one senior hire — covers the work.
- Milestone fees
- Paid as value-creation deliverables land.
- Success fee
- Paid only on a completed exit. We win when you win.
Is this for you
Built for some founders. Not for everyone.
This is you if
- You run a profitable business at $1M+ revenue with healthy margins.
- You're 12–24 months from wanting out — and want to maximise the number, not rush it.
- You'd rather build value first than accept the first lowball offer.
This isn't the fit if
- You need to sell in the next 30 days at any price.
- The business is distressed or pre-revenue.
- You're not open to making it run without you.
Start here · 10 minutes
See what your business is really worth.
Answer 20 questions. Get a personal readout built from 100+ live deals scored. No call required to start.
- Your indicative valuation range — today vs. exit-ready
- The 3 value-drivers most likely lifting your multiple
- The 3 risk-flags buyers will discount you on
- A 12–24 month readiness score against our institutional checklist
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Only 6 new mandates per year · 2 places remaining for 2026
FAQ
The questions founders ask first.
No. Brokers list what exists and take a cut. We build the value first — the number, the data room, the founder-independence — then run the process. You go to market from strength, not as-is.
This advisory works for you and only you. Where a sale is the goal, we represent your side of the table and bring buyers to you — our incentives are tied to your outcome.
A retainer for the team's time, milestone fees tied to deliverables, and a success fee paid only when you exit well. We walk through the full structure on your call, once we both know it's a fit.
Good — that's the ideal time to start. The earlier you begin, the more optionality you have and the more you detach the business from yourself. Most of our work begins 12–24 months before a sale.
Entirely. Every conversation and every number stays private. Nothing is shared without your sign-off.
Begin
The exit you've earned starts with one assessment.
01
Exit-Ready Assessment
Your baseline, valuation and gaps. 10 minutes.
02
Confidential strategy call
We walk your readout, the fit, and the engagement.
03
We begin
Your value-creation roadmap, in draft within four weeks.
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Only 6 new mandates per year · 2 places remaining for 2026