Auxo

Acquiring and operating enduring small businesses.

Auxo — the Greek goddess of growth.

Thesis

A generation of owners who spent decades building excellent trades and B2B-service businesses is retiring, and many have no succession plan. Auxo exists to be a good home for those businesses.

We buy established, profitable, owner-operated companies and hold them for the long term. We keep the team, retain or install a general manager, and invest in the unglamorous back office — scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, collections, financial visibility — so the business gets stronger, not stripped. We compound across a small portfolio rather than betting everything on one deal, and we underwrite conservatively: on the cash flow that remains after paying real management, not on optimistic add-backs.

Buy-box

Purchase price	Roughly $500k–$3M
Industries	Trades and B2B services — electrical, HVAC/plumbing, fire & life-safety, generator service, commercial cleaning, commercial landscaping/snow, pest control, security & alarm monitoring, distribution, niche light manufacturing, IT/managed services
Revenue quality	Recurring revenue is the #1 thing we value: service and maintenance agreements, mandated inspections, monitoring contracts, multi-year commercial work
Track record	5+ years of operating history, ideally 10+
Team	Management depth that survives the sale, or an owner open to a structured transition — not a business that is really one person’s job
Geography	Michigan / Metro Detroit and California preferred; strong businesses elsewhere in the U.S. considered
Deal structure	Straightforward and fair; we welcome seller financing as a sign of the seller’s confidence in the business
Not a fit	Restaurants and food service, gas stations, passive real estate, pure dropship e-commerce

Owners & advisors

If you own — or represent — a business like this and are thinking about what comes next, we’d like to hear from you. Leave an email and we’ll be in touch. Conversations are confidential and no-pressure.