Tsetserra Growth Partners buys Texas businesses investing for the long term.Are you ready to sell your business in texasWe operate the businesses we buy, securing your legacy for your employees and customers.
Overview Your business is personal. Leave it in the right hands.
Tsetserra Growth Partners specializes in buying family-owned small businesses with established Texas legacies. We are Texas-based, and we believe in its future. Unlike traditional private equity and business brokers who buy or sell businesses with a short-term relationship in mind, we uniquely position ourselves to purchase businesses to operate and grow them for the long-term.
Legacy
We work with business owners to transition their legacies to the next generation.
Partnership
We create custom transitions plans for each business owner with variable timetables.
Flexibility
We operate without outside financial pressures or artificial time-constraints.
Value
We are committed to adding value by leveraging our experience.
Growth
Owners pass us the torch because our goal is to maintain and grow their business.
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH
Tsetserra Growth Partners understands some sellers want to maintain involvement with their business after the sale, while others want to move on to a new chapter in their lives. Our business model provides the flexibility to structure a transition in ways that supports the seller’s goals.
OUR VISION
Tsetserra Growth Partners knows firsthand that it takes hard work and sacrifice to build and own a successful business. We don't want to dismantle an owner's legacy. Owners who transition with pride and confidence in their business' future are our goal. We facilitate a smooth leadership handoff that maintains continuity for employees and customers.
First heading
Your Legacy
Buyer’s Goals
Deal Terms
Capital Sources
Time Horizon
- Your business future becomes our priority
- Your legacy lives
Preserve the business legacy with the existing management team, fostering sustainable growth, and operational improvements
Flexible and customizable to create a win-win for the buyer and seller
Group of serial entrepreneurs, experienced operators, and proven investors
No planned exit — we honor your legacy for decades to come
Private Equity Financial Buyers
- Your business is one of many in a large portfolio.
- Your legacy is uncertain
Aggressive cost-cutting, increasing debt burden and positioning the business for sale to realize gains for their investors
Rigid — typically following market terms tailored for investors
Institutions, endowments, and pension funds with firm mandates on returning capital to shareholders
Typically 3-5 years, driven by fund life and the needs of investors
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
- Your business is absorbed into a parent business
- Your legacy fades
Drive financial performance by cutting costs and absorbing desired resources into the parent business
Structured to meet the requirements of the purchasing parent business
Internally generated cash flows supplemented by public and/or private investors, and debt
Uncertain — subject to the parent business’s ongoing strategy
Your Legacy
- Your business future becomes our priority
- Your legacy lives
Private Equity Financial Buyers
- Your business is one of many in a large portfolio.
- Your legacy is uncertain
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
- Your business is absorbed into a parent business
- Your legacy fades
Buyer’s Goals
Preserve the business legacy with the existing management team, fostering sustainable growth, and operational improvements
Private Equity Financial Buyers
Aggressive cost-cutting, increasing debt burden and positioning the business for sale to realize gains for their investors
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
Drive financial performance by cutting costs and absorbing desired resources into the parent business
Deal Terms
Flexible and customizable to create a win-win for the buyer and seller
Private Equity Financial Buyers
Rigid — typically following market terms tailored for investors
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
Structured to meet the requirements of the purchasing parent business
Capital Sources
Group of serial entrepreneurs, experienced operators, and proven investors
Private Equity Financial Buyers
Institutions, endowments, and pension funds with firm mandates on returning capital to shareholders
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
Internally generated cash flows supplemented by public and/or private investors, and debt
Time Horizon
No planned exit — we honor your legacy for decades to come
Private Equity Financial Buyers
Typically 3-5 years, driven by fund life and the needs of investors
Your Competitors Strategic Buyers
Uncertain — subject to the parent business’s ongoing strategy
Industries We Like
We focus on stable industries. We don’t purchase speculative and cyclical endeavors such as capital-intensive manufacturing, high technology, natural resources exploration, oil field services, or pharmaceutical.
Niche Construction
Manufacturing
Logistics and Distribution
Food and Beverage
Business Services
Real Estate Services
Financial Services
IT Services
Hospitality
INVESTMENT CRITERIA
Businesses
- Long operating histories within Texas
- Minimum EBITDA of $500,000 and EBITDA margins greater than 15%
- Diverse and growing customer base
- Identifiable competitive advantages
- Average annual revenues of $3.5 - $12 million
- A healthy layer of non-owner management
OWNER
- Owners seeking to reduce their day-to-day involvement
- Owners that want partners who value a fit with their people and organization
- Owners desiring a more focused role (e.g., technical, sales)
- Retiring owners without a successor able to take their places
- Owners who desire a fully-committed, local buyer, to maintain their legacies
- Serial entrepreneurs ready to transition to their next ventures
Tsetserra’s History
The name, Tsetserra (pronounced sit-Sarah) Growth Partners originates from the family history of company founder Malcolm Peace. The name symbolically honors generations of his family's hard work and carries the torch forward.
Malcolm's family were dairy and cattle producers near the border of Mozambique and Zimbabwe at the base of Mount Tsetserra.
Their farm was an integral part of the community as a large employer and provider of vital resources to the families nearby. Unfortunately, political changes during the Mozambique civil war forced the family to abandon the farm and move to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and rebuild what they previously established.
The Peace family learned to keep moving forward while overcoming the hardships of life near Tsetserra. When they eventually chose to leave Africa and come to Texas, they took that resilience and entrepreneurial spirit with them. Malcolm Peace carries on his family legacy with the values learned on Tsetserra.
Throughout his childhood, Malcolm gained a deep appreciation of his family's ability to apply grit and persevere, creating successful entrepreneurial ventures in any environment. He also learned to value the solid foundations established by other business owners.
Malcolm has an unrelenting focus on continually learning and improving. However, when he purchases a business, he is not solely focused on change. He honors its stories, histories, and the vision of the founder.
Malcolm attended college at James Madison University on a full academic and athletic tennis scholarship. Malcolm attended the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, earning an M.B.A. and coaching the men's tennis team to back-to-back national championships.
After college, Malcolm worked directly with small-to-medium-sized businesses across the nation, improving their systems and marketing efforts. In 2018, he founded Tsetserra Growth Partners to bring his knowledge to businesses, at home, in Texas.
Today, Malcolm resides in Austin with his wife and daughters. Enjoying the time with his family and all Texas has to offer.
