LIQUIDITY WITHOUT A SALE
Partners reach a point where the value is real but locked up, and the only routes out are a sale, a merger, or a buy-in. A licence puts cash in without any of them. The firm carries on exactly as it is.
HOW IT RUNS
What does the firm run on? Two minutes, nothing accessed, and no obligation on either side.
Nothing is listed and no process begins. The people on the first call are the people who decide.
We look at the record before putting a number on it. We do not pay for what we have not seen.
Typically $100K to $2M, agreed within a week, paid Net 30 to 60 once the data is approved, shared, and anonymized.
WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH
“Built Simplicity Solar to $35M in three years and sold it. He knows what an exit costs beyond the headline number.”
“Eight acquisitions closed across the group, $100M+ in revenue across businesses built with partners, $21M raised.”
WHAT PARTNERS ASK
It does not sell the business or the underlying data, and it does not set a price on the firm. The licence is defined and bounded.
That is your governance to determine. What we can say is that no equity is issued and no debt is created, which is usually what the question turns on.
Nothing is listed anywhere and there is no process. We do not disclose which labs take which data.
It is payment for a licence, not equity and not debt. How you distribute it internally is entirely your decision.
THE ALTERNATIVES, HONESTLY
Every conventional way of getting value out of a firm takes something structural with it. This is the comparison worth making.
Full liquidity, but you lose control, usually sign an earn-out, and the thing you built becomes someone else's.
Scale and some liquidity, at the cost of governance, culture, and independence that is difficult to recover.
Keeps it internal, but dilutes existing partners and is capped by what incoming partners can actually fund.
Cash in, nothing given up structurally. Bounded, defined, and it does not touch ownership or control.
SPEAK WITH A MANAGING PARTNER
Six questions and a short conversation will tell you whether there is a deal here. Nothing you tell us leaves Polyshares.
Check your data