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SEA helps founders get their business exit-ready and connects them with strategic and financial partners who share their vision and values, ensuring a successful transition.
SEA helps founders get their business exit-ready and connects them with strategic and financial partners who share their vision and values, ensuring a successful transition.
align personal + financial goals, set value targets.
deploy vetted ops/finance partners to de-risk weak areas.
private-equity, family office, and strategic buyers engaged early.
Strategic Exit Advisors (SEA) is a boutique advisory firm focused on helping founder-led, lower middle-market businesses prepare for and execute successful exits. Through our extensive relationships with private equity firms, family offices, M&A advisors, and strategic buyers, we act as a connector — facilitating introductions that accelerate deal timelines and maximize value for all parties.
Planning
We turn vision into outcomes through a step-by-step process: define goals, assess readiness, build value and connect you with the right buyers.
We map your personal, financial, and legacy objectives, set a target valuation, and agree on the ideal exit window so every decision ladders up to a clear finish line.
A 360° dive into financials, operations, and market fit scores the business against buyer criteria, spotlighting the valuation drags and quick-win fixes that matter most.
Specialist partners execute prioritized tasks: cleaner books, customer-base diversification, leadership depth, and growth story articulation, to raise the multiple before the sale.
Once we have your business is exit-ready, we engage pre-vetted buyers aligned with your vision, protect confidentiality, and guide you through due diligence to a successful exit.
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Unlike brokers who focus only on listing and selling, we take a holistic, pre-sale approach. Drawing on our wealth management background, we help you prepare for a successful exit by aligning the right attorneys, CPAs, and growth specialists, strengthening your business before going to market. Instead of blasting open listings, we privately introduce your company to curated, qualified buyers to maximize value and maintain confidentiality.
We specialize in working with lower-middle-market businesses with $5M to $100M in revenues and typically $1 - $10mil EBITDA. For business outside that range, we can still offer expert advice and make value-add introductions.
There is no charge to the seller and no retainer charged to buyer. We charge pre-determined fee to the buyer based on a successful close to be collected within 30 days of closing.
The readiness-and-value-lift phase typically runs 3-9 months; curated buyer outreach through close adds another 4-6 months. Accelerated timelines are possible if the business is already exit-ready.
Yes. We operate under NDAs, share teasers only after buyer vetting, and release anonymized data packs post-NDA. Your team controls every disclosure.
We are industry-agnostic but most active in Light Manufacturing, Facilities Services, Niche Healthcare and Aesthetics, B2B Services, Waste/Water, Recycling and Green Services.
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