Avoid the Disappointments
At Value Acceleration Partners, we help you avoid the disappointments that often come with selling a business. These disappointments typically occur for two reasons:
- The business turns out not to be worth what the owner thought it was worth.
- The sales process was not handled well and the true value was not realized.
Keep reading to find out how we do it.
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At Value Acceleration Partners l Raincatcher, we increase enterprise value and ensure successful exits for business owners like you through two separate, but very related, services:
- Value Enhancement Consulting: Ideal for businesses planning to sell in 1-5 years, our proprietary Quality of Value Audit identifies key value drivers and strategies to boost your business’s appeal to buyers.
- Business Brokerage & M&A Advisory: For businesses that are ready to go to market now, we offer investment banking-quality services for small to mid-sized companies, ensuring optimal outcomes in sales and mergers.
Our Founder
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Michael Levison
Mike Levison has a long history of building successful high-growth businesses. Over the past 30+ years, Mike has led the development of three industry leading companies. All three resulted in successful exits and/or recapitalizations. All three also included acquisitions and multiple capital raises along the way.
Over this time, Mike learned ALOT about the key elements, or “drivers,” that business buyers and investors review, beyond financial performance, to assess issues that can significantly impact valuation. He observed that these drivers can be “silent value killers” in a business if they are not addressed.
In 2022, Mike formed Value Acceleration Partners to share his knowledge and experience with other business owners and operators that want to maximize the value of their companies.
Testimonials
For more insights into how colleagues, partners and investors think about our founder, Mike, visit his LinkedIn profile here.
I began working with Mike during a very challenging time for our business. His impact was huge. Mike’s extensive business experience and expertise in business structuring afforded me the guidance I needed to become focused, well-prepared, and confident to make the critical decisions necessary to overcome our challenges and secure the continued success of the company. He focused us to the right metrics which allowed me to easily identify and rectify trouble spots. He even lead the recruiting of a new General Manager, which has made my life much easier! I continue to seek Mike's counsel as we move the business forward and would not hesitate to work with him again.
"Mike and I worked together closely when he was CEO of SBJ's portfolio company, Resolvion, and we continue to work together with Mike as Chairman of the Board. Mike has been a pleasure to work with throughout and he is a talented leader and strategist. He was well respected by everyone around him, was adept at developing strategies for growth, operated with exceptionally high integrity and honesty, and when needed Mike was capable of rolling up his sleeves to get deeply into the details to problem solve. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Mike for other CEO or consulting roles and I would work with him again in a heartbeat."
"I have worked for Mike Levison several times over the past ten years and have come to a very simple conclusion regarding his abilities. Mike is the single most focused and results-oriented Executive I have ever had the pleasure to work with. He has a unique ability to cut through the fog and develop a razor sharp action plan to accomplish goals...and then follows up with an equally focused strategy to ensure that action plans move forward and don't stagnate. I am proud to say that I have learned more from Mike about how to effectively manage people and tasks than from any other mentor or manager in my career.
With all that said, the element I admire most about Mike Levison is his personal character. Over the past decade, I have watched as he treated all people within his reach fairly and with the utmost dignity and respect for whatever talents and gifts they brought to an organization... and I would appreciate that about him EVEN IF he wasnt so very good at growing and developing a variety of uniquely challenging businesses."
"As a business partner of Mike's for over 10 years, I was able to experience & learn from someone I consider as talented of a CEO as any company could have. One of the main reasons I decided to enter into a sale of my families company, was the appointment of Mike as CEO. The confidence I had in his ability to lead & implement his vision exceeded all expectations. He is able develop deep relationships with staff & clients, all the while maintaining a confident control of the many difficult situations that he encountered. After our 10+ years together, I am proud to not only have worked alongside him professionally, but to be able to call him a close friend."