Rainsford Capital
Approach
Our strategy is simple: buy great businesses, arm them with exceptional leadership, and build for the long-term.
Our Sweet Spot
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EBITDA or pre-tax profit $750K - $3M
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EBITDA margin at or above 20%
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Cash flow positive for 3+ years
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Benefits of scale
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CAPEX light (preferred)
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Large, fragmented market
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U.S. based
We like businesses that are great at what they do and make customers extremely happy. This is generally indicated by healthy organic growth & low spend on sales & marketing. We focus on finding good businesses, less on specific industries.
Our Values
1
Start Small, Dream Big
We believe in the compounding effect of small wins, and that the best path to success is through winning together with our partners.
2
Humility
Good ideas can come from anywhere and improvement is a continuous process. We believe in a meritocratic culture with strong incentives.
3
People First
We believe in investing in great people and giving them big things to do.
About
Woods Buckley | Founder & Managing Partner
Woods is a seasoned operator with 14 years experience in high growth, venture backed businesses. He has a proven track record of raising capital, scaling operations and building high performing teams, with a focus on driving growth and efficiency.
Woods has personally recruited & managed teams of 100+ and scaled multiple businesses from launch to over $200M in revenue. Most recently, Woods raised $68M in venture & debt to build Summer, a rent-to-own vacation home platform. Woods is known as a thoughtful and light-hearted leader who believes deeply in investing and developing talent. Woods holds a M.S. from Stanford’s School of Engineering, where he graduated with honors.
Today, Woods is bringing his experience managing operations & scaling field teams to programmatic acquisition in the SMB space.
