# TTCER Partners

The Asurion team's searcher capital.

The partnership formed in 2007 by the operators and first backers behind Asurion, which it calls the most successful search fund acquisition ever. It invests in search-acquired businesses with a stated long-term lens, and reports a role in building over 200 search-acquired and other businesses across 50-plus boards.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Learn & Choose Your Path, Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://ttcerpartners.com

## At a Glance

Pedigree capital for the acquisition round: the bench that built the model's best case, if your search budget is already covered.

- Track Record: Formed in 2007 by the operators behind Asurion, and says it has played a role in building 200-plus businesses and served on fifty-plus boards. Its home page carries nineteen logos captioned as companies where it holds a board seat, with no person, year or link on any.
- Lane: Traditional
- Funds: The deal only
- Based: San Mateo and Boston.
- Invests: No investing scope on the pages this review read, so ask whether it will look at a search where you are.
- Buys: Businesses with organic growth, recurring revenues and attractive cash flow, with no size band or industry named.
- Before A First Call: A contact page carrying one general email address and two street addresses and nothing else, no form at all; an earlier reading had recorded a form, and the page has not changed since 2023. No application, no criteria on the searcher, and no statement of what it wants to see first, on any of the four pages.
- First-Time Operators: Says in its own words that it backs people running a company for the first time.
- How Long The Search Runs: No length on the search and nothing about what happens if it ends without a deal, on the pages this review read. Ask what the clock is before you sign anything.
- Published Terms: Its own capital only, invested by the partners themselves, in its own words on two pages; no check size or terms published.
- What A Searcher Gets: Not published on the pages this review read. It is the figure a searcher most wants and most of this shelf does not print it, so ask before the first call rather than after.
- After The Close: Holds board seats at companies it backs, which its home page marks.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees: acquisition economics negotiated per the search model's conventions; nothing is published.

## Best For

Traditional [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) at the acquisition stage who want operators from the model's biggest outcome on the [cap table](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/cap-table) and are not counting on search-phase funding

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: The team operated and backed Asurion, the model's benchmark outcome, and says so plainly
- Pro: A stated long-term lens with mentorship framed as the product, not just capital
- Pro: A role in over 200 search-acquired and other businesses is depth few benches match
- Con: No published claim of funding the search phase itself, so budget your search elsewhere
- Con: Terms and check sizes are not published; the structure is, in one sentence, its own capital only
- Con: Selective and low-profile, so access runs through the searcher network rather than a process

## What Searchers Say

A recurring name on searcher-side investor lists, where the Asurion lineage and board depth are the reasons given for wanting them involved.

## Compared With

- Search-phase backer or acquisition-stage bench? (https://searchspheresource.com/resources/compare/search-fund-partners-vs-ttcer-partners.md)

## Sources

- https://ttcerpartners.com/
- https://ttcerpartners.com/about/
- https://ttcerpartners.com/why-ttcer/

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Last checked: 2026-09-23

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