Strengthen your leadership team with a minority investment from Unbound Partners
To ensure you and your family continue to enjoy the rewards of the business you've built for years to come, consider partnering with non-controlling shareholders who take active roles in key areas like sales, marketing, and finance. That's what we do.
Why partner with us?
Many business owners wrestle with the difficult decision of whether or not to sell their company. Attractive offers from private equity buyers can sometimes feel difficult to pass up, however, they don't always result in the best outcomes for businesses' legacy or the people who helped build it. At Unbound, we present an alternative option to business owners who are ready to take a step back.
Traditional Private Equity
Will plan to resell your business in 5-7 years
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Emphasis is on profit, not people or culture
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Little consideration for founder's legacy
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Cost-cutting that..
We want to co-own your company forever
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We prioritize maintaining and creating jobs
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We will preserve your legacy and company culture
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We define success through organic growth
Meet the Team
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Tyler Hirlinger
Tyler's diverse professional background is centered around his time as a marketing professor, teaching sales and marketing courses at the University of Central Missouri and the University of Kansas. Outside of teaching, Tyler has helped numerous companies with branding, website design, marketing strategy, business development, and more. ​
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Tyler is great at developing and managing relationships, training and developing salespeople, and executing creative marketing strategies.
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Personal –
Used to be good at golf
Married to Kendall (ICU Nurse)
​ Loves to play instruments ​
Cy Moritz
Cy is an entrepreneur who founded Streamline Advisors, an M&A advisory firm that specializes in providing sell-side advisory services to business owners. Prior to starting Streamline Advisors, Cy worked as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch.
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Cy has experience in all aspects of running a business and is really good at approaching solving problems from an analytical perspective. Cy loves to explore how new technologies can make companies more efficient.
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Personal _
Used to be really good at golf (A lot better than Tyler)
Married to McKenzie (Account Representative)
Father to a baby boy and a golden doodle
Just picked up playing guitar
How it Works
We purchase a minority equity stake in your company. Why do we do this? Because we want to be invested in the long-term success of the business, and to do so, our incentives need to be aligned.
From there, we take active roles in the company with an emphasis on sales and marketing. As the company grows, we take on an role that is necessary to efficiently scale.
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Buy
We buy a small percentage of your business at a fair valuation
Improve
We improve sales and marketing practices and execute growth strategies
Scale
We scale accounting and other back office functions as the company grows
Sustain
We help increase the value of the company for continued long-term ownership or a future sale