140 acquisitions and counting

Hi Business Buyer and Builder,

I rarely announce anything, but I’m doing it today.

If you’re a company, and doing add-ons, or building a roll-up. There is a very special event coming in less than 29 days.

In one room, you can find people who’ve acquired 1, 7, 27, all the way to as many as 140 companies. Some probably even more than that.

Valuations of the holding companies range from a few million all the way to $8.5 billion.

It’s the Redeye’s Serial Acquirers Conference 2026 (an in-person event held in Sweden, Stockholm from the 12th to the 13th of March).

Here is the link to the event, where you can see all the attending companies as well as the schedule of the event:

I will be joining as well, together with Alex from RollUpEurope (the world No. 1 community for serial acquirers ← go and take a look, this is one of their most-read article.)

Let me know if you’re attending. (It would be great to catch up and change notes.)

Last but not least, when it comes to the event - we’re setting up a small podcast studio so we could shoot short 20- to 30-minute podcast interviews with some of the attendees…

Let me know if you’re a business buyer and would like to have a conversation, or you could do an intro to someone who would be willing to share their story. That would be great and very kind from you!  (Every podcast episode gets in between 1k to 15k downloads. Some have even gotten over 300,000 views on X). Reach out by replying to this email or send me a DM on X.

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Excellent answer from a very successful independent sponsor:

What to hunt?

• ”Growing industries

• businesses with recurring/reoccurring revenue

• ≥50% gross margins

• and REAL growth

NB!! You don’t get bonus points for degree of difficulty. Pick compounding machines, not turnarounds”

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That said, if you’re an accredited investor looking for opportunities with clear theses, incentives aligned, and real operators at the helm.

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That’s all for today, and I really hope to see you at the event in Stockholm.

Take care,

Mike Markus / PrivateEquityGuy