OctoFox acquires control of established, brand-led product companies with $5M to $30M in revenue, that need an owner with capital and operating hands. We invest our own capital, bring co-investors deal by deal, and put an operator in the chair the day after closing.
We publish our criteria so advisors, brokers and owners can self-qualify before the first call. If it fits, send it. If it is close, send it anyway and say why.
Intermediaries rank buyers on one thing: will this person actually close, on the terms agreed, in the time promised. Here is how we answer that.
The founder reads the deal, values it, negotiates it and signs it. No investment committee, no partner vote, no waiting for the fund to come back to you.
Equity of up to $2M per transaction comes from OctoFox's balance sheet, with proof of funds under NDA at the LOI stage. Larger transactions bring in a small group of private co-investors, seller paper, the company's own assets, or debt where the cash flows carry it.
NDA returned within 48 hours. Written indicative offer within 10 business days of receiving the information memorandum. Letter of intent within three to four weeks of the management meeting, with the closing timetable set in it.
The price in our LOI is the price we intend to pay. We change it only for material findings in diligence, and we put those findings in writing.
Cash at close, seller notes, earn-outs, rollover equity, a role for the owner after the sale or none at all. We have used every one of these and we tell you early which ones we are proposing.
You brought the deal. Every conversation with your client goes through you, from first call to closing.
Two heritage companies that most buyers walked away from. Both were bought when they were losing money, and both were rebuilt the same way: cost structure, distribution, management.
Loss-making and drifting when we came in. Rebuilt the organisation, the cost base and the distribution model, repositioned the brand toward luxury and rebuilt the U.S. business. The company returned to profit and more than doubled its revenue during his tenure. He remains a shareholder today.
Acquired the assets out of bankruptcy and rebuilt the company from zero: product, retail network, cost structure, management, and a return to the United States, through the hardest years modern retail has seen. Revenue reached roughly three times the pre-bankruptcy level. The company was sold in 2023.
The European vehicle through which Borsalino and Fogal were originated, financed and held. Closed in 2026 to make way for OctoFox, its continuation in the United States. Same playbook, same person, now on this side of the Atlantic.
Operator · Investor · Miami, formerly Paris and Geneva
Swiss-French, based in Miami after Paris and Geneva. Fifteen years buying, restructuring and running companies in Italy, Switzerland, France and the United States, after six years in cross-border M&A advisory. He does not delegate the first year of ownership: he takes the executive chair, fixes the cost base, the distribution and the management, then hands the day-to-day to a CEO he has hired and can hold to account.
Many owners we meet are two or three years from a decision. A confidential conversation with someone who has sat in your chair costs nothing, commits you to nothing, and usually clarifies which of the real options is yours.
Every inquiry is read by the founder. Confidential by default, NDA on request.
