About TwentyFourOS
The right buyer meets the right business.
We connect business owners and acquirers by building genuine trust with both sides. Off-market origination for search funds, private equity and acquirers, and for owners thinking about the future of what they have built.
Relationships first
Databases treat this as a list.
Brokers treat it as a mandate.
We treat it as introducing two people who should meet.
The trust we build with each side is what makes an introduction worth something. Relationships, transparency and trust come first, and they are how we produce better outcomes, not an alternative to them.
Two sides, one introduction
Which side are you on?
For acquirers
The best businesses are rarely on the market. By the time a company reaches a broker, everyone has seen it.
We find owner-run businesses before that happens, and introduce you to the ones that genuinely fit what you are looking for. Not a scattergun list pulled from a database everyone else also subscribes to, but a small number of real opportunities, reached through relationships we build with owners before any process.
Whether you are a search fund, a private equity buy-and-build team, or an acquirer with a clear thesis, we bring you businesses matched to it, with the groundwork already done.
For business owners
Selling the business you built is not a transaction. It is a decision about legacy, timing, and who you hand it to.
We start by understanding your business and what matters to you, then introduce you, discreetly, to the right kind of buyer when the time is right. No public listing, no broadcasting to the market, no pressure. Your staff, your customers and your competitors do not need to know anything until you decide they should.
Most owners are not looking to sell tomorrow. They are open to the right conversation with the right person. That is the conversation we are here to have.
How it works
Understand, build trust, introduce.
Understand each side
What the owner has built and what matters to them. What the buyer is really looking for, beyond the brief.
Build trust
Quietly, patiently, in confidence. Nothing is broadcast, nobody is pressured, and nothing moves without consent.
Make the right introduction
When the fit is genuine on both sides, we introduce two people who should meet. Then we step back.
Who we work with
- Search fundsThe one right company, reached before it runs a process.
- Private equity buy-and-buildBolt-ons for platforms, sourced outside the auctions everyone else is bidding in.
- Acquirers with a clear thesisBusinesses matched to what you are actually looking for, with the groundwork done.
- Business owners considering a saleA discreet, no-pressure conversation about the future, whenever the time is right.
Talk to us
Start with a conversation.
Whether you are building through acquisition or thinking about the future of the business you own, it starts the same way. We reply within two working days.