Welcome
We are TDV Capital Partners.
We acquire Technology & Media businesses.
We specialize in corporate carve outs, mature startups and special situations.
Criteria
$2M+ Revenue
Majority Control / Full Buyout.
Software, Media & Content.
Horizontal & Vertical.
US-based
Why
Not all businesses are suited to conventional investment / acquisition.
We provide optionality to founders and investors at a crossroads.
We specialize in divestitures where careful execution and certainty of close are essential.
Process
Initial Conversation.
NDA.
LOI.
Customer, Technical & Team Diligence.
Accelerated Closing - Usually 60 days or less.
Capital Sources
Standing capital.
Co-investment from limited partners.
Numerous banking relationships.
Operating Model
TDV has great flexibility in how it operates acquired businesses.
Acquisitions are not subject to a defined hold period.
In all cases, we seek to maximize stakeholder value.
Team
MO LAM
Managing Director
Mo is a strategic finance executive with over two decades of experience in media and software. He has built and led finance and investment teams across businesses at different stages of development from startups to public companies. Prior to TDV, he held various strategic and financial roles at technology and media companies like IAC, Hearst, Microsoft, Disney, and other early-stage businesses. Mo began his career as an analyst in investment banking and private equity. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Columbia University.
JORDAN STOLPER
Managing Director
Jordan is a serial entrepreneur and operating leader with over 10 years experience conceiving, commercializing, and operating businesses in B2B and B2C markets. Most recently he was an Operating Executive at Brighton Health Group, a Goldman Sachs PE platform. In this position he doubled as the General Manager of Dwell Family Doctors, an 11-site urgent care business. Jordan was the CEO and Founder of StoryDesk (acquired by Showpad), and before that, the CEO and Founder of Gliider.com (acquired by Travel Ad Network). He holds an MA from Columbia and a BA from the University of Colorado.
NICHOLAS CAPLAN
Partner
Nick is a financial specialist with a wide range of experience across function and industry. He has worked in equity research at RBC Capital Markets covering large-cap media companies, managed the P&L for emerging businesses at IAC Apps (a division of IAC) and provided financial and strategy consulting for media and tech companies ranging in size from seed stage to publicly traded. He began his career as a production engineer at a manufacturing facility and has built a variety of digital products. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BS from Georgia Tech.
Portfolio
Peterson’s is a diversified data, learning, and publishing company focused on post-secondary education. The company provides a suite of online Test Preparation Services, Higher Education Research and books of helping students prepare to succeed began in 1966. Peterson’s is based in Denver, Colorado, and employs a team of 60 educators, data scientists, and technologists. Peterson’s was acquired from Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) in 2018.
For more than 45 years, Wintergreen Orchard House has been recognized for the depth and breadth of its data, as well as respected for its quality and integrity. Through its many products and availability of custom data sent right to your inbox, Wintergreen Orchard House serves thousands of high school and independent counselors, educators, students, their parents, librarians, colleges, and universities every year
Syncplicity is a file-sharing and collaboration solution for enterprises. The company's unique, marketing leading technology allows for robust content management in high-security environments, including private clouds and on-premise server facilities. Syncplicity was acquired by TDV in 2022.
HubDialer is a cloud-based software solution that enables political campaigns and not-for-profits to coordinate telephone outreach by volunteers to constituents, donors, and other groups. The company’s proprietary predictive dialing technology enables organizations to reach target audiences with a high degree of precision - maximizing campaign ROI. HubDialer was founded in 2010, and was acquired from its founding team in 2022.
Realized investments
BES Publishing (formerly known as Barron’s Educational Series) is a publisher of children’s, lifestyle, and hobby books. Now operating as Peterson’s Books, the company publishes some 800 titles, comprised of a mix of both proprietary, licensed and co-editions. The company’s books are sold in major retailers such at Wal-Mart, Costco and Amazon. BES was acquired from its founder in 2019.
Droplr is a screen sharing and collaboration tool. The company provides designers, developers, and agencies a cloud-first tool to quickly and easily capture ideas and share them across teams. Droplr is used by 5 million individuals who have collectively save and shared over 1 billion images. The company is based in Denver, Colorado. Droplr was acquired from an investor group in 2019.
Covideo is a market leader in video messaging, used by thousands of businesses worldwide. Through Covideo, sales and service professionals can record, send and track videos across a variety of channels allowing them to build relationships and convert leads into customers. With an emphasis on personalization and personal connection, Covideo is helping people reimagine business communication. Covideo was acquired from APCO in 2020.
Why TDV?
Unlike most private equity buyers, we’re entrepreneurs and operators.
We’ve started and run business. We see beyond the spreadsheets. We know how to hire, build, and sell. We roll up our sleeves and get to work.
Congratulations
You’ve gathered a top-notch team. Built a great product. And have happy customers. This level of success is unknowlable by most.
Every company’s journey is unique. The only guarantee is that nothing goes as planned.
Sometimes growth is uneven. Scaling proves challenging. Cap tables get messy. Corporate priorities change.
For these reasons and others, it can make sense to sell.
Exits Aren’t Easy
Strategic acquirers (big companies) move slow and want to see $25M+ in revenue.
Financial acquirers (PE) are, ironically, often constrained by their large fund sizes from buying businesses with less than $50M in revenue.
Acqui-hires are rare, and can lock-in founders for
3 years.
We Founded TDV to Give Owners & Investors Optionality
We are entrepreneurs on a mission to acquire - and grow - great businesses.
Our Strategy
Make the process straightforward for sellers.
Buy a controlling interest (usually 100%).
Consolidate back office operations (Finance, Accounting, HR)
Where appropriate, centralize technology and other functions
Invest in go-to-market activities with the goal of profitable, sustainable growth.
Grow the business toward maximizing stakeholder value - whether in the form of an exit or yield.
We Do Not
Purchase minority stakes.
Make venture investments.
Acquire Un-Commercialized Technology.
Assume product / market fit risk.
Buy businesses we don’t understand.
Partner with people whose vision is not aligned with our own.
Thinking
