What CoLaborator, Inc. does

CoLaborator, Inc. is a Chicago-based private management and investment company founded in 2022 that partners with existing business owners and capital providers to acquire, invest in, and build operating companies. Rather than acting as a traditional buyer or passive investor, the firm positions itself as a collaborative platform offering flexible engagement structures including full acquisitions, minority equity investments, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, advisory and transition support, and capital structuring services. Its acquisition criteria target off-market US businesses with $1M–$50M in annual revenue and $500k–$10M in cash flow or EBITDA, spanning roughly 19 industries including manufacturing, distribution, logistics, construction, energy, technology, aerospace, and food.

The company's core service is the Strategic Collaboration Pilot, a confidential, low-commitment engagement that maps a target's needs, capabilities, and strategic overlap before any transaction is pursued. CoLaborator operates as a lean core team of 1–10 people headquartered at 332 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago and selectively draws on The CoLaborator's Service Provider Consortium, an on-demand network of attorneys, accountants, consultants, fractional C-suite executives (CFO, COO, CTO, CMO), and other professionals who serve as serial acquisition team members, co-founders, and board members across projects. The firm has stated a long-term aspiration to build over $1,000,000,000 in aggregate value across itself and its partner businesses.

Go-to-market is relationship-driven and dual-track. On the supply side, the firm conducts direct, confidential outreach to business owners considering retirement, sale, merger, or growth capital. On the capital side, it engages family offices, high-net-worth individuals, strategic investors, and experienced capital partners on a deal-by-deal basis, tailoring transaction structures to each owner's goals and risk profile. Pricing and deal terms are not publicly disclosed. The founder and CEO is Virgil Andry, and the firm operates under the DBA "The CoLaborator." No revenue, funding rounds, closed transactions, or portfolio company financials are disclosed in available materials.

Name

CoLaborator, Inc.

Legal name

CoLaborator, Inc.

Website

https://thecolaborator.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CoLaborator, Inc. is a Chicago-based management and investment firm that partners with US business owners and capital providers to acquire, invest in, and build operating companies with $1M–$50M in revenue through full acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, and advisory services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Portfolio Company Returns: CoLaborator generates value by building a portfolio of strong, revenue-generating businesses that collectively create significant enterprise value. Revenue appears to come from ownership stakes, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and growth investments into operating companies.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CoLaborator, Inc. is a Chicago-based management and investment company that partners with existing business owners to acquire, invest in, and grow operating companies. It offers a Strategic Collaboration Pilot as a confidential entry point, then structures full acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, advisory/transition support, and capital structuring services. Its long-term goal is to build a portfolio of revenue-generating businesses collectively valued at over $1 billion.

Product overview

CoLaborator, Inc. is a collaborative business-building platform that provides strategic partnership services to business owners. Rather than a traditional software product, the company offers a suite of services including a Strategic Collaboration Pilot (initial confidential assessment), acquisition services (full/majority ownership), minority investments, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, advisory/transition support, and capital structuring. The core offering is the Strategic Collaboration Pilot, which serves as a low-commitment entry point to explore strategic fit before pursuing deeper engagement through acquisitions or partnerships.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Strategic Collaboration Pilot

Quantifiable outcome

• Build over $1,000,000,000 in value across CoLaborator, Inc. and partner businesses

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The CoLaborator's Service Provider ConsortiumcoreOthersA consortium of attorneys, accountants, consultants, advisors, finance professionals, marketing experts, fractional C-suite executives, and other value-add professionals who support CoLaborator's projects. These service providers step in as serial acquisition team members, co-founders, CFOs, COOs, CTOs, CMOs, Board Members and general service providers. The group has been involved in hundreds of millions of dollars in value creation and thousands of transactions globally.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• AngelList: Platform that connects investors and operators for syndicated deals and fund formation, providing infrastructure analogous to what CoLaborator uses to structure deal-by-deal capital raises from family offices and HNW investors.

Direct peers

• Acquisition.com: Holding company founded by Alex Hormozi that acquires and operates cash-flowing small businesses, using a partnership-driven model similar to CoLaborator's relationship-led, owner-flexible acquisition approach.
• Acquire.com: Marketplace and acquisition platform focused on buying and selling small, profitable businesses, overlapping with CoLaborator's lower middle market acquisition target range ($1M-$50M revenue).
• Search Fund Partners: Education, capital, and community provider for search fund entrepreneurs pursuing acquisitions of small and mid-sized businesses, serving a closely adjacent buyer and investor ecosystem to CoLaborator.
• Tiny: Holding company that acquires and operates a diversified portfolio of small, profitable internet and consumer businesses, sharing CoLaborator's thesis of building long-term enterprise value across multiple unrelated operating companies.
• Long Angle: Membership-based platform that enables high-net-worth individuals to invest alongside search fund operators acquiring small businesses, directly comparable to CoLaborator's HNW/family office investor syndication model.

Broad incumbents

• Main Street Capital: Publicly traded investment firm specializing in lower middle market debt and equity investments in US businesses with $1M-$50M revenue, a much larger incumbent operating in CoLaborator's exact target segment.
• KKR: Global private equity firm that acquires operating companies and partners with management, representing a scaled incumbent competing for the larger end of CoLaborator's deal universe.
• Blackstone: Largest alternative asset manager with substantial lower middle market and growth equity activity, setting the competitive benchmark for capital availability and acquisition capabilities in CoLaborator's space.
• Berkshire Hathaway: Diversified conglomerate holding company known for acquiring and holding profitable operating businesses indefinitely, exemplifying the patient, decentralized operating model CoLaborator aspires to build toward.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Virgil_Andry
• Facebookfacebook.com/TheCoLaborator
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/colaborator-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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