# WSC & Company

ETA-focused acquisition capital.

A private investment firm built around entrepreneurship through acquisition: reports 300-plus entrepreneurs and 120-plus companies backed with over $2B of portfolio enterprise value, targeting founder-owned businesses with roughly $2M to $10M of EBITDA and established teams.

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

## At a Glance

A strong fit when your target is bigger than the classic Main Street deal; the published [EBITDA](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/ebitda) range saves everyone a wasted meeting.

- Track Record: 300-plus entrepreneurs and 120-plus companies backed, with over $2B of portfolio enterprise value.
  - Three figures of the firm's own making sit on the front page with no year attached: more than two billion dollars across its holdings, more than a hundred and twenty companies and more than three hundred entrepreneurs. No exits are named and no founding year is given on the pages read. Read at: The rebuilt front page, the five why-WSC pages behind it, the team page and the portfolio page.
- Lane: Traditional
- Funds: The search phase and the deal
- Based: No office published on its own site.
- Invests: Nationwide, in its front page's own word, beside a market case written about United States owners; no page names a country or region.
- Buys: Profitable founder-owned lower-middle-market companies at roughly $2M to $10M of EBITDA, industry agnostic, with recurring or repeat revenue and low customer concentration. Its why-WSC page names sub-$5M EBITDA firms only as the market traditional private equity cannot serve, which is context and not a second band.
- Before A First Call: A front page of CEO testimonials with acquisition years beside them, under an invitation to start a conversation. No application route and no criteria on the searcher.
- First-Time Operators: CEO testimonials with acquisition years beside them, one of them crediting the firm for where he is today. Evidence of who it has backed, not a rule about who it will.
- 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: No check size, stake or fee on the pages this review read. Most firms on this shelf publish none, so ask early rather than late.
- 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: Nothing about the years after closing on the pages this review read, whether a hold period, a first-year plan or a board role. Ask how long it expects to own the company before you sign.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees: search-fund and acquisition economics negotiated per the model's conventions.

## Best For

[Searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher) targeting the upper end of the searcher size band who want an investor that publishes its EBITDA range

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: States its target range plainly: founder-owned, $2M to $10M EBITDA, [recurring revenue](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/mrr)
- Pro: 300-plus entrepreneurs backed is deep ETA-specific experience
- Pro: Principals present themselves as operators and investors both, and the portfolio supports it
- Con: The $2M-plus EBITDA floor sits above many first-time self-funded deals
- Con: Traditional economics and governance apply
- Con: Headquarters and fund mechanics are not published on the site

## What Searchers Say

Known inside the ETA ecosystem more than outside it; the entrepreneur-count claims are the firm's own and worth pressure-testing with references.

## Sources

- https://wscandcompany.com/
- https://wscandcompany.com/portfolio

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Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/wsc-company
Last checked: 2026-09-23

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