The founders you want to meet answer our calls.
Grey Fox runs a systematic origination process for private equity firms, strategic acquirers and family-owned companies that grow through acquisitions.
1 in 3
Owners we call, we engage
3 in 5
Conversations become a qualified opportunity
The research turns into introductions within weeks.
Across our searches, each owner moves through four stages.
- First call
4: Median attempts before an owner’s first conversation
- Owner conversation
3.5 days: Median from a new search’s first call to its first qualified opportunity
- Qualified
10 days: Median from first owner conversation to client introduction
- Introduced to a client
40%+: Qualified companies introduced to a client
Within two to three months a client knows whether a market is actionable. Grey Fox would rather move to a new sector than keep a search running.
You are better and more hungry than any similar partner I’ve had. You feel more like a part of the team, a partner, than a way to stretch our capacity.
Lindsay Lewellen
Chief Acquisition Officer, Ventura Community Partners
We answer our clients in minutes.
When a firm lets us speak in its name, the standard and the responsibility are both ours.
8.9
Median minutes to reply to a client
78%
Answered within the hour
2.0 days
Between new leads in a search’s first 90 days
Replies are measured from each client’s email to our answer, across every active search, 2026 to date. Responsiveness is the ethos of the firm.
Grey Fox tells the GarageCo story as well as we do. They’ve opened serious conversations with owners who had been reluctant to engage with private equity. In a crowded market, having them represent us is a competitive advantage.
Mars Shah
CEO, GarageCo Holdings
Grey Fox runs on Mission Control.
Grey Fox’s founder built Mission Control after doing this work inside private equity firms. It is our own software, built around how origination is actually done, and every search runs through it.
Illustrative data. Some proprietary features are not shown.
What a search produces.
Residential services, the first 90 days
4 days
First contact to open data room
A $30M+ revenue platform engaged within two weeks, with seven founders in dialogue behind the lead deal.
Under 90 days launch to LOI
3.7 qualified per week
Healthcare services, the first quarter
32 days
First call to financial data in hand
A 36% founder response rate produced five introductions, all five active at quarter end.
45 days to three data reviews
Business services, the first 180 days
10+
Advanced deals active
A 40% founder response rate held more than ten advanced deals active, with 61 founders behind them.
22 days first call to executed NDA
5+ in concurrent diligence
We value Grey Fox’s judgment as much as the opportunities they bring us. They’ve helped us execute a highly focused acquisition strategy, staying close to owner discussions, anticipating what needs to happen next, and taking ownership of moving transactions forward.
Jonathan Tauber
President, Tauber Oil Company
We underwrite you too.
Grey Fox works with investors who have strong records with founders, a defined execution strategy and capital ready to deploy.
We share the risk. The model is a retainer plus a success fee.
Bring us the thesis.
One conversation establishes fit, capacity and timing.