We buy in the gap
If your business clears under $1M a year, you’re in a blind spot — too small for private equity, too expensive for the average buyer. We are the buyer with cash to close.
We buy internet businesses from founders who want out.
Gilliard Holdings buys cash-flowing, owner-operated internet businesses from founders who are ready to move on. You hand over the keys, you get paid, and you get your time back.
Playbook
We buy to hold
We aren’t flippers or brokers. The default plan is that we still own it in ten years, with the operating infrastructure to run it after the founder leaves.
We buy you out
When you sell to us, you are actually selling. No multi-year earn-out, no support tickets six months later. Documented handover, then you leave.
Criteria
What we buy
SIZE
- Revenue
- $30k -$500k ARR
- Profit
- $1k - $10k MRR (SDE)
- Purchase price
- $10k - $250k
SHAPE
- Business type
- Content sites, SaaS, e-commerce, digital products
- Business model
- Subscription, Ads, Affiliate, or D2C
- Margins
- 60%+ Gross, 20%+ Net
- Age
- 24+ months preferred, open to less
- Concentration
- No single customer >25% revenue. No single channel >70% of acquisition.
- Team
- 0 - 5 people including contractors
- Time
- Less than 20 hours/week at acquisition
DEAL
- Structure
- Asset purchase. Cash at close, seller financing, or both.
- Timeline
- 30 - 45 days from LOI to close
- Geography
- US & English-language markets
How we work
- 01
Pitch
Send us your business and trailing 12 months of numbers. Most of what we buy comes directly from founders or through quiet broker introductions.
- 02
Vetting
If it fits our criteria, we move fast. We verify your revenue, traffic, and bank statements directly. Standard due diligence.
- 03
Offer
We structure straightforward asset purchases designed around what you actually need to comfortably exit.
- 04
Handover
Once the cash clears, we take the wheel. We handle the transition so you can disconnect entirely.
Team
People
Joe "JB" Gilliard
Founder
Gilliard Holdings, Palantir, Gulfstream Aerospace
Ryan Pius
Origination & Diligence
Gilliard Holdings, Palantir, CERN, TAMU Mechanical Engineering
Cayden Ryncarz
Origination & Diligence
Gilliard Holdings, Atreides Systems
Contact
Get in touch
Sellers and brokers: Send a link to the business, your trailing 12 months (TTM) revenue and profit, a deck if you have one, and why you are selling. We reply within 48 hours and will tell you immediately if it’s a pass so we don't waste your time.
Everyone else: Owners, partners, or anyone with a lead on a business we should buy, email us.