Welcome to The Ascent Group
Ascent Acquisitions
Acquiring founder operated niche vertical specific companies with primary market positioning.
Operating at the junction between software and manufacturing companies.
Ascent Consultancy
Management Consultancy specialists for Vertical Market Solutions. Delivering large scale data transformation and supply chain optimisation strategies for industry leading products and solutions.
What Do We Do?
Leadership
We're a senior team with decades of experience across verticalised portfolio management and corporate finance. We deliver perspective and advice to move your company forward.
Growth
We deliver expertise to develop & improve your strategy, set KPIs & Objectives and provide critical support to ensure the correct infrastruture is in place to enable rapid growth
Where Do We Focus?
Human Capital
Human capital still represents the biggest barrier to the growth of most firms, AAG invests in talent management as a key tenant of the business roadmap.
Sales & Marketing
Key investments into the S&M function of the business to deliver outstanding organic growth. Our benchmarks from industry peers drive reporting metrics and strategy
Product & Service
We have a history of taking new products to market in different sectors. R&D represents a significant expense to businesses and accelerating development can enhance the value proposition of the business.
Efficiency
With our background in software management we firmly believe that investment into the IT ecosystem unlocks significant efficiency savings for our investrments.
Successful Exit
With a large deal sheet under out belt acting as principal operators we have a through understanding of the requirements to deliver a successful exit.
What We Look For
Acquisition Criteria:
Owner/Operator businesses
EBITDA: £1m-£3m
Majority Equity Stake
Vertical specific focus
B2B Clients
Investment Strategies
We operate a number of different investment strategies:
Distressed
Opportunities
Acquisition of distressed businesses and turnaround strategies
Management
Buy-outs
Backing management to buy the businesses they run.
Buy & Build
Providing capital to businesses that would like to pursue a buy-and-build strategy.
Growth Capital
Investment to accelerate organic growth initiatives.