CORVUS

Fort Worth, Texas

I’m buying one established Texas business to own and run — not a portfolio, not a flip.

The kind of company that gets paid in a good year and a bad one, and that I could still be running in twenty years.

Start a quiet conversation What I’m looking for
The Corvus emblem — a crow perched on a branch over the Texas star

Who I am

A local buyer, not a firm.

Phillip Crow with his wife and two children on a hilltop above a Texas lake

I’m Phillip Crow. Fort Worth is home — my family is here, and we’re not going anywhere.

For more than twenty years I’ve served on the executive team of a private-equity-backed analytics company — the only original member of that team still standing, through three CEOs, a sale, and the acquisitions that followed. When I arrived it did about $8 million a year with forty people. Today it does about $70 million with more than 250. Along the way I’ve run product, strategy, finance, IT, HR, sales operations, and real-estate development, and I’ve sat on both sides of the table through four acquisitions.

Now I’m leaving a senior executive role to do the thing I’ve wanted to do for a long time: buy one good business, show up every morning, and run it myself as its full-time CEO.

Corvus is Latin for the crow family. It’s my own name on the door.

20+ yrs
executive leadership
$8M → $70M
revenue growth I helped lead
250+
people today
4
acquisitions, both sides of the table

What I’m looking for

Companies that make something, move something, or are required to check something.

Make
A plating line, a heat-treat shop, a foundry floor
Move
Aggregates, distribution, the density of a route
Check
Required by a code, a regulator, or a customer’s own quality system
Would this business keep its customers if the owner walked out the door tomorrow?

That’s the one thing I really screen for. Most businesses are held together by the owner’s personal hustle — and that walks out the door with him. I’m looking for the opposite: customers who stay for a structural reason. There are three, and any one of them is usually enough.

The law requires it
Fire code says the sprinklers get inspected every year. The building owner doesn’t get a vote.
The geography protects it
Hauling rock is so expensive that a gravel pit owns every job inside a thirty-mile circle.
Switching is too painful
Once a distributor owns the tank on your site and refills it every Tuesday, replacing him is a project nobody volunteers for.

Size and place

Established, profitable, and close to home.

$1–2M
of corrected EBITDA is the center of my range; I’ll consider from about $750K to $3M
10+ years
of operating history. Survival is evidence.
~90 minutes
of Dallas–Fort Worth for anything rooted to a plant, a yard, or a route — wider if the work travels in a truck

Not sure you fit? The box has edges; the conversation doesn’t cost anything.

Your company, afterward

What happens after I buy it.

Your team stays.
I’m buying the business because of the people who run it, not in spite of them.
I run it myself.
Full-time, on site, as CEO. Not a holding company with a dashboard — a desk in the building.
I’m buying to keep it.
No fund behind me with a five-year clock. I intend to still be running it in twenty years.
You set the pace.
Your employees and customers hear about the sale from you, when you’re ready, with a transition shaped around the business.

And my own signature goes on the debt — which means I only win if the company keeps winning long after the closing dinner.

Phillip Crow with his wife and two children in a Fort Worth garden courtyard Phillip Crow and his wife on a brick garden path

Home is Fort Worth — and we’re not going anywhere.

How it works

Quietly, and at your pace.

  1. 1
    Coffee.
    We meet — your town, your schedule. No documents, no pressure.
  2. 2
    Confidentiality.
    If it feels worth continuing, we sign an NDA before I see a single number.
  3. 3
    Homework.
    I study the business quietly and tell you plainly what I see — including if the answer is no.
  4. 4
    An offer in writing.
    Fair, financeable, and explained line by line.
  5. 5
    Close and transition.
    On a schedule that honors the business and the people in it.

Brokers, bankers, attorneys: I’m a qualified individual buyer with committed capital behind me, a completed personal financial statement available on request, and lenders already engaged. Show me a business in this profile and you’ll get a fast, serious, confidential read — and a plain “no, thank you,” early, if it isn’t for me.

Contact

Start a quiet conversation.

Whether you’re thinking about next year or just curious what your business might be worth to a serious buyer — I answer personally, usually within a day.

phillip@corvus-holdings.com (817) 707-9523

Every inquiry is held in confidence.