When you step back, your business keeps going.
Keep Company buys one established service business in the Greater Toronto Area and runs it for the long term. Jacob Batist leads the business day to day, with operators and investors who have built and backed companies like yours behind him.
What you get when you sell to us
An owner who works in the business
Jacob runs the company full-time after the sale, alongside your team. Keep Company is set up to hold one business for decades, with no fund deadline pushing for a resale.
A plan to grow what you built
Jacob has spent 15 years building and running teams at PayPal, Shopify and Alan, across product, operations and growth. He'll look for where your company can win more of the customers it serves best, and invest there.
A handover on your terms
Some owners want a clean break. Others want to stay on for a year, or step back slowly. We shape the deal around what you need, and seller financing can be part of it when it gets you a better overall price.
Confidential from the first call
Your staff, customers and competitors won't hear about our conversations from us. We'll sign an NDA before you share anything sensitive.
How we'd run your business
Every change starts with understanding how the business works today.
1. Get into the work
Jacob spends the first months on calls, on site and with your team, learning how the work gets done and why your customers stay.
2. Find where you win
Which customers value you most? What would they use if you weren't there? What do you do that the alternatives can't?
3. Win more of it
Then we make the changes that help you win more of those customers: how you sell, how the team is organized, and how the work gets delivered.
What we're looking for
Where Toronto and the GTA, out to Guelph and Kitchener-Waterloo
The work Services customers need on a schedule, year after year
Customers Mostly businesses, on contracts or steady repeat work
Owner Founder-led, and thinking about what comes next
Does this sound like your business?
If most of the tag fits, it's worth a conversation. We'll tell you on the first call whether we think it's a match.
Who runs Keep Company
Jacob Batist
Jacob grew up in Toronto, where he and his wife are raising three kids. Over 15 years he has built and run teams across product, strategy, operations and growth. At PayPal he owned customer acquisition, activation and retention for Canadian consumers and small businesses. At Shopify he worked on the shipping product merchants rely on to fulfil orders. As chief of staff at a Series A startup, he set up how the company planned and tracked its goals. Most recently he was the first marketing hire in Canada for Alan, a health insurer, where he built the team and helped take the business from before its first customer to nearly $10 million in annual recurring revenue.
He has managed budgets from $50,000 to $5 million and works closely with sales, product and outside partners. He has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, and BA from Western University.
Start with a conversation.
Twenty minutes, no commitment, and it stays between us. Tell us about your business and what you'd want for it.