For founders & owner-operators

Selling the firm you built
shouldn't mean dismantling it.

Yosemite Partners acquires founder-built businesses with steady, recurring revenue — focused on specialized IT and managed services, and open to other essential, owner-run firms. We run them as the businesses you made: your team, your clients, your name stay, and you stay involved exactly as much as you want to be.

Start a confidential conversation How we work →
A conversation, not an auction
Private, direct, on your timeline
Founder optionality
Exit, stay on, or advise — your call
Built to hold
Long-term owners, not flippers
Who we partner with

We look for a kind of business — not a single industry.

What we buy is defined by its characteristics, not its label: essential, recurring-revenue businesses that founders built, where trust and compliance keep customers for years. Vertical IT and managed services is where we've concentrated first — but the fundamentals below matter more than the sector.

The characteristics we look for
Recurring
Contracted, renewing revenue — not one-off project work
Regulated
Compliance keeps clients close and switching costs high
Essential
Non-cyclical services clients can't simply stop buying
Founder-owned
Built by an operator and sold directly, without an auction
Asset-light
Profitable without heavy capital or inventory to carry
Core focus — vertical IT & managed services

Dental IT

HIPAA-bound practices on Dentrix and Eaglesoft, where uptime and patient data are non-negotiable.

Legal IT

Firms running Clio and iManage under bar-ethics and cyber-insurance obligations that keep tightening.

Distribution IT

ERP, EDI, and warehouse systems where downtime stops shipments and ransomware is an existential risk.

Open to the right business beyond the core

We stay deliberately opportunistic. When a business outside IT shares these fundamentals — for example, owner-operated healthcare-services practices we've sourced directly from retiring founders — we're glad to take a look. If what you built fits the characteristics above, start a conversation, even if it isn't on this list.

How we work with founders

The point is to preserve what you built — not to take it apart.

Most acquirers optimize the business out of existence. We do the opposite. Here's the standard we hold ourselves to from the first call.

— 01

Continuity comes first

Your people, your client relationships, and your firm's name stay in place. The business your clients trust on Monday is the same business on the day after close.

— 02

Your role is your choice

Walk away cleanly, stay on to lead, or step into an advisory or board seat. We'll structure the deal around the life you want next — not force you into ours.

— 03

A conversation, not a process

No auction, no banker circus, no twenty buyers touring your business. One direct, confidential discussion, moving only as fast as you're comfortable with.

— 04

A straight answer, quickly

We've sat on the seller's side of the table. You'll get candor about price and fit early — not months of diligence that goes nowhere. Your time matters as much as ours.

What changes — for the better

We bring the infrastructure most founder-led firms never had time to build.

You built the client trust and the technical reputation. After close, we add the operating layer underneath it — so the firm keeps growing once you're no longer carrying it on your own.

First

Stabilize

Protect what works. Nothing the clients see changes; we learn the business before we touch it.

Then

Invest

Modern security, compliance, and vCIO services your clients increasingly need — and will pay for.

Next

Grow

Professional operations and back-office support, so the team can serve more clients without burning out.

Over time

Scale

Pair your firm with others in the same vertical, building something larger than any one founder could alone.

Arsalan Lodhi, Managing Partner of Yosemite Partners
Who you'd be talking to

Arsalan Lodhi

Managing Partner

Arsalan founded an AI-enabled operations company, scaled it, and sold it to one of his own customers — a client who trusted the product enough to buy the whole business. He has been on the seller's side of the table, and he knows what founders actually worry about when they think about handing over something they spent years building.

Before founding Yosemite, he was a principal deal executive at IBM Research, where he sourced and structured technology deals across global accounts — and walked away from the ones that weren't right, against pressure to do otherwise. Knowing when to say no is the discipline that protects the businesses he does buy.

He's deploying his own capital alongside the firm's, which means his interests and yours point the same direction: a business that's worth more, and worth working at, for a long time after the deal closes.

IBM Research · EY · Accenture · Founder & exit · Wharton MBA — Finance & Entrepreneurship
Start a conversation

If you've thought about what's next, let's talk — privately.

Whether you're ready now or just exploring, the first conversation is confidential and carries no obligation. Tell us a little about your firm and how you'd like to be involved, and Arsalan will reach out personally.

Prefer email? alodhi@yosemitecap.com
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