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

Invest In Your Future With Working Knowledge

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.

Our 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

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

In addition to constantly looking at new opportunities, WK is actively seeking out acquisition candidates to further expand our Home Services and Food Manufacturing funds. From HVAC to plumbing to electrical, if it’s in the Northwest, we’re interested. In Food Manufacturing, we’re looking all across the US for additional acquisition candidates that serve commercial grade food manufacturers, be it in software, hardware or services.

Create Positive Change with Working Knowledge Private Equity Firm

Investments

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.

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.

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.

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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