Our Approach
We preserve what you built.
We look for manufacturing, industrial, and trade businesses that already work. We pay a fair price, keep your team and your name, fix the things that slow you down, and grow from there.
Explore StrategyHow We Operate
What changes, and what never does.
The same approach every time: fix the things that hold a business back, and protect the things that make it worth buying.
Modernize without erasing.
We upgrade what holds a business back, the software, the reporting, the systems, and leave the things that made it work untouched.
Strengthen the back office.
Cleaner financials, tighter operations, better logistics. The unglamorous work that lets a good business scale, done by people who do it for a living.
Protect what makes it work.
Your team, your customers, your name. We treat them as the real assets, because they are the reason the business works at all.
What We Look For
The businesses we buy.
We look for founder-owned businesses in manufacturing, industrial services, and the trades that already work, and that would grow faster with the right partner behind them.
Start a Conversation$1M or more in revenue
A real business with real customers and steady income. You do not need to be big for us to take the call.
A real track record
A business with history behind it, loyal customers, and a way of working that can grow with the right partner and resources behind it.
Something hard to copy
Manufacturing, industrial, or trade businesses with a real edge: know-how, relationships, or a way of working competitors cannot easily match.
How We Work
A process built for founders who need certainty.
Most sales are a maze of brokers, NDAs, and last-minute retrades. Ours is not. Straight answers, from the first call to the day it closes.
Discovery
An honest conversation about what you built and what you want next. No NDA required, no deck. We approach every founder the same way: as a business owner who deserves straight answers.
Valuation
A transparent, fair-market valuation using sector-specific metrics. One clear LOI. We do not retrade after the fact. Our offer means exactly what it says.
Transition
Capital and operational guidance to grow the business. You define the transition: step back fully, stay involved, or hand off entirely. We structure around what works for you.
Founder
Derek Davis
Founder, Memento Equity
Derek is a CPA who has spent over a decade inside the financials of founder-owned businesses. His accounting practice has served more than 2,500 business owners across California, many in manufacturing, industrial services, and robotics. Memento Equity is the natural next step: a firm built to acquire and grow the businesses he has spent a decade getting to know.