Unleash Your Business Potential With Working Knowledge's Private Equity Firm.

Working Knowledge is a private equity firm created by three successful entrepreneurs focused on the acquisition of northwest businesses
 
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Invest In Your Future With Working Knowledge.

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Working Knowledge is a unique private equity firm. Our charter is to invest in or outright acquire Northwest business and then grow them via additional leadership, proven business process, and ferocious adherence to metrics. Sales, business operations, and technology are three key areas of initial review and focus in any of our acquisitions.
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Investing with Purpose

Purpose is the glue that holds our group together. It is a topic we visit frequently to ensure team alignment, maintain strong partnerships, and objectively review our performance. Our mission is to learn and grow together while using our skills and experience to help create positive change in the companies we invest in or purchase. Our group relishes the opportunity to coach and mentor our partners and we firmly believe that results are a function of strong leadership at all levels of our organizations.
 

What We Look For

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Our interests are broad, but we’re looking first and foremost for serious sellers who either want to move on, or take some chips off the table and dramatically change the growth trajectory of their company.
 
The majority of our acquisitions or investments meet the following criteria:
  • Diverse and stable customer base
  • Strong history of profitable returns
  • Niche position in the market is clear and defensible
  • Headquartered in the Northwest
  • Terms result in actual or effective control of the company
  • Areas of Particular Interest: Services, Manufacturing, Medical, SAAS-based, Route-based
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Investments

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ParityFactory’s warehouse management systems seamlessly handles co-products and byproducts, in both one-to-many and many-to-many processes, delivering accurate inventory control with your current ERP. Parity's software is designed specifically for food and beverage manufacturers.

Investments
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jLAN Mobile provides route accounting, mobile sales, direct store delivery and full-service sales software for field agents. Our first and only mission is to empower businesses and their field sales teams.

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Home Comfort Alliance specializes in HVAC, Heating, Cooling, Plumbing and Electrical Services in the Seattle-Tacoma Metro Area. They are one of the most trusted service providers in the area for Over 45 Years.

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Send A Cake is an online cake delivery store, specializing in unique, fun and personalized alternatives to a regular cake for birthdays, holidays and events. Its mission is to create wonderful moments and experiences that their customers want to send their loved ones.

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AI-Powered ESG Benchmarking and Stakeholder Engagement - Spectrum ESG automates how companies and asset managers attract ESG capital by leveraging proprietary AI algorithms and an industry-first ESG Knowledge Graph.

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Seattle based sustainable sneaker and apparel brand. Everyone has something to say—fashion is language.

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Hailify helps retailers and brands reduce their next day delivery costs by consolidating their orders with others in our network to optimize low rate, sustainable last-mile delivery.

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LauraMac delivers SaaS solutions that enable valuable insight and powerful control for originating, trading and reviewing loans

Meet The Team

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ParityFactory’s warehouse management systems seamlessly handles co-products and byproducts, in both one-to-many and many-to-many processes, delivering accurate inventory control with your current ERP. Parity's software is designed specifically for food and beverage manufacturers.
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jLAN Mobile provides route accounting, mobile sales, direct store delivery and full-service sales software for field agents. Our first and only mission is to empower businesses and their field sales teams.
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Home Comfort Alliance specializes in HVAC, Heating, Cooling, Plumbing and Electrical Services in the Seattle-Tacoma Metro Area. They are one of the most trusted service providers in the area for Over 45 Years.
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Send A Cake is an online cake delivery store, specializing in unique, fun and personalized alternatives to a regular cake for birthdays, holidays and events. Its mission is to create wonderful moments and experiences that their customers want to send their loved ones.
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AI-Powered ESG Benchmarking and Stakeholder Engagement - Spectrum ESG automates how companies and asset managers attract ESG capital by leveraging proprietary AI algorithms and an industry-first ESG Knowledge Graph.
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Seattle based sustainable sneaker and apparel brand. Everyone has something to say—fashion is language.
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Hailify helps retailers and brands reduce their next day delivery costs by consolidating their orders with others in our network to optimize low rate, sustainable last-mile delivery.​
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LauraMac delivers SaaS solutions that enable valuable insight and powerful control for originating, trading and reviewing loans
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Sean Clemmons

Sean is a serial entrepreneur and investor who most recently exited his business intelligence consulting firm, Piraeus consulting. Sean’s passion is in professional services, business processes and the way in which business intelligence makes better employees. his m&a focus is on identifying existing businesses where rigor around data, process, and metrics can have an outsized impact on growth. while he has a particular affinity for businesses with rich data, most often the verticals that benefit most immediately from this rigor are those on the lower-tech end of the spectrum.

Mark Sims

Mark Sims​

Mark Sims

Mark is founder & CEO of Fikes, a well-known B2B facility services and products distribution company with locations throughout the west coast; all starting from the humble beginnings out of his initial 10 X 10 storage unit.

Marks is a true entrepreneur and investor at heart with his primary passions surrounding sales, customer experience innovations and all things related to the growth of people! He credits much of his success to the broad entrepreneurial and investor network that he’s built.


Mark was an All-Conference Division 1 Defensive Football standout before he began his initial business journey, and he still applies that same relentless commitment with all he’s involved in today. He is married to his wife Susie along with their two sons, Brayden & Ryder. His personal pursuits involve traveling, spending quality time with family and dear friends as well as a variety of immersive outdoor experiences such as fly fishing, scuba diving & mountain climbing.

Aaron Song

Aaron Song

Aaron is the founder and ceo of several tech companies, including Song Technologies. Song Technologies is a data-driven company providing information services to the live entertainment and ticketing industry. His companies have evolved and grown dramatically since their original inception in 2006. Aaron’s passion is people first and technology second. He invests in a broad set of industries and believes strongly in having only great people on his team. He believes in transparency at all levels and enjoys aggressively pursuing new opportunities for growth.

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