Investment criteria
What we fund, and what we pass on.
We are specific on purpose. A narrow mandate means we can give a clear answer fast, which is worth more to a busy operator than a polite maybe.
A fit looks like this
Three tests, applied honestly.
Treat the ranges below as a starting point rather than a gate. If something sits just outside them and is genuinely good, we would still like to see it.
Partners & operators
- Run the business day to day, rather than from a distance
- Have opened at least one location and want to open the next
- Want a patient partner more than they want the largest cheque in the room
- Care what happens to their staff and their families after the money lands
- Comfortable with an investor who asks questions and then gets out of the way
- Equity commitments of roughly $500K–$5M, alongside the operator's own
Childcare franchises
- Established brands with a proven unit model and real franchisor support
- Licensed, compliant, and well regarded by the families already enrolled
- Unit economics that work before any assumed rate increase
- Demonstrated demand in the catchment — waitlists, not projections
- Multi-unit intent: a second or tenth centre, or a platform acquiring them
- Educator pay and retention treated as a cost of quality, not a lever to squeeze
Shop real estate
- Land or buildings we can acquire, develop or redevelop into shop space
- Visibility, access and everyday traffic that existed before we arrived
- Zoning and an entitlement path we can see all the way to the end of
- Build costs that underwrite without a heroic assumption
- Creditworthy tenants, often pre-leased, sometimes operators we already back
- Total project costs of roughly $1M–$10M, single-tenant or small multi-tenant
Not a fit
Where we are the wrong partner.
Saying no quickly is a courtesy, not a rejection. These are the situations where different capital will serve you better, and we would rather tell you on the first call than the fifth.
Running a childcare centre ourselves — we invest in franchises, we do not operate them
Pre-opening concepts with no operator, no licence and no track record
Speculative retail development with no tenant and no leasing plan
Turnarounds, restructurings, and businesses in active distress
Anything outside childcare franchises and shop real estate
Deals that only work if somebody gets to exit quickly
Structure
How investments usually come together.
Franchise growth equity
An operator is ready for the next unit or the next territory. We fund the build, the licensing and the working capital, and the operator keeps running the centres.
Platform investment
A management team is consolidating owner-operated franchises. We take a meaningful stake, with governance written down before anyone signs anything.
Build-to-suit development
We acquire the land, carry the entitlement risk and develop the shop, then lease it long to the operator who needed it there in the first place.
Not sure you fit?
Send it anyway. We will tell you straight.
If it sits just outside the ranges above but you think it is exceptional, we would still rather see it than miss it.
- Telephone
- 214-218-7040
- Based in
- Coppell, TX