At WisConn Investments, we’re dedicated to finding high quality, undervalued businesses for sale throughout the Midwest and offering them to our clients for shared investment with us.

We combine vigorous market research with the services of specialized third-party consultants to leverage our extensive relationships with business owners and industry specific experts. Thus, we discover businesses that have strong potential for growth and/or increased profitability in the relative short term, such as:

• Businesses that are poised for growth in anticipation of well-researched changes in their particular market sectors.
• Businesses whose true value are hidden because they own lucrative real estate, hold attractive leases, or have other significant assets that are undervalued in their overall assessments.
• Businesses poised for turnaround due to newly instituted efficiencies, consolidation, or hiring of new management.
  Family businesses that have sound management in place and whose heirs are unwilling or unable to continue.
• Single-owner businesses where the proprietor is nearing retirement. Learn more.

Experienced investors know that a vibrant portfolio must contain more than just stocks, bonds, and regulated securities. Investing directly in a well-managed and growing business is a safe and straightforward way to do so, because it generates near-term cash flow and long-term appreciation.

This is evident when you consider that a viable business will nearly always grow at or near the same rate as the broader investment market, while a well-researched company reasonably holds the potential to gain as much as 25 percent or more in value in as little as one year. Thus, especially for mature portfolios, it makes good sense to dedicate some portion of investment capital directly into a business. Learn more.

Historically, while direct investment in a business is the most desirable way to expand and diversify a portfolio, the value of a viable business can easily dwarf the investment capital of a single small investor, even if the investor were to dedicate all of his or her resources toward buying that business.

As well, searching out and vetting suitable partners is likely beyond the small investor’s time and managerial resources. And evaluating and overseeing in place management generally takes industry-specific knowledge, thus severely limiting the kinds of businesses in which a small investor might feel comfortable to invest.

That’s why WisConn Investments is the easiest, safest way to integrate direct business investments into your portfolio. We do the extensive market research and due diligence for you. And because we maintain a significant position in each of our investment offerings, we’re invested in YOUR success. Learn more.

When you’re ready to invest in a business, WisConn Investments will likely have a number of high quality opportunities for your consideration. Why?

• We have a larger pool of opportunities to examine in the first place, nearly 80 percent of them never listed! That’s because we leverage our long-standing relationships with business owners and allied professionals to actively seek out businesses for sale. Thus, we review hundreds of opportunities per year, and we learn of them well before the broader investment community.
• We’re disciplined. Any opportunity we seriously consider must first satisfy a strict set of criteria. Such exhaustive evaluation, as it’s conducted early in the examination of each business, gives our offers-to-purchase a decided edge over competing offers, which typically have multiple contingencies that instigate protracted last-minute due diligence.
• We’re agile. We maintain a significant cash position in our overall portfolio so we can move quickly to acquire businesses at attractive prices for investment. This means more equity for you. Contrarily, investment firms with weaker liquidity are often still scrambling to assemble cash investors when we’ve already seized and closed on the opportunity.