Region
Central Texas business brokers and M&A advisors
MDR & Associates sells profitable companies for owners across Central Texas: Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown, Waco, Killeen, Temple and the Hill Country towns in between. Frisco is home to our corporate office, so our M&A advisors travel down I-35 to meet you at your office or somewhere discreet.
Capital, campus, Army post and farmland
Central Texas holds several economies in one corridor. Austin combines state government, the University of Texas and a large technology sector, and Round Rock and Georgetown have grown with it along Interstate 35. Farther north, Killeen and Temple sit beside Fort Hood, one of the largest Army installations in the country, while Waco and Bryan–College Station add universities, healthcare and manufacturing.
West of the interstate, the Hill Country lives on ranching, agriculture and visitors, in towns like Fredericksburg, Burnet and Blanco. To the east, farm towns on the Blackland Prairie have their own equipment dealers, suppliers and trades. It is a region where a software-services firm, a trailer manufacturer and a ranch-supply distributor can each find serious buyers, and where the buyer for one has almost nothing in common with the buyer for another.
Who buys Central Texas companies
Private equity groups building regional platforms in home services and business services, strategic acquirers from Dallas, Houston and out of state, and people looking to own an operating business in this part of Texas all look at companies here. Each group values different things, and the price depends on putting the right ones in competition.
Their questions also differ by place. A buyer of an Austin-area company asks how it will keep pace with growth and hire enough people. A buyer near Fort Hood asks how much revenue depends on the post. A buyer of a Hill Country business asks about seasons and visitors. A buyer of a Blackland Prairie supplier asks about crop years and a handful of large farm accounts. We prepare those answers before they are asked, with a financial recast, a confidential marketing package and an HD video.
How we cover Central Texas from Frisco
We do not keep offices or staff in Central Texas, and we do not pretend to. What we offer instead is a boutique firm that takes on a limited number of engagements at a time, a principal at the table for each negotiation, and advisors who make the drive for the discovery meeting, buyer meetings and every offer review. That first meeting costs nothing, and neither does the opinion of value that comes out of it.
Your company's name stays hidden from every buyer who has not read the anonymous profile, signed a nondisclosure agreement and shown us their funding, and competing letters of intent are worked through side by side so the market sets the price. How we sell a business describes the method, and the business valuation page explains how we arrive at a number. Owners of home services companies can see what drives value in their trade. There is no fee at all unless a sale closes.
Questions owners in Central Texas ask
Do you work with companies in small Central Texas towns, or only in Austin?
Both. We look at the company, not the size of the town: profitable, $3 million to $100 million in revenue, with records that reconcile. A well-run business in a Hill Country or Blackland Prairie town can draw buyers from across Texas and beyond. Our advisors come to you wherever the company is based.
Is a company near Fort Hood harder to sell than one in Austin?
Not harder, but buyers ask different questions. Near the post, they focus on how much revenue depends on military spending and on households that move often. In the Austin area, they focus more on hiring, wages and competition. Either company can sell well if its earnings are steady and documented.