We buy operational data.
And the companies that produce it.
Polyshares is a data lab. We license operating records from businesses and supply the AI labs. We also buy companies outright, which makes us the owner of a source rather than a licensee of it. Our acquisition focus is MSPs and IT providers.
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Strategies
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Data licensing
We buy a license to your operational data and pay for it ourselves. Deals typically land between $100K and $2M, paid to the company. Open to any business with real operating history, whatever the ownership.
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Acquisitions
We buy lower middle market businesses outright and hold them. A licensed record ends when the term does. An owned business keeps producing one. Our focus is MSPs and IT providers.
What we buyData licensing
Most companies hold an asset they have never priced.
There is almost always value in a business the owner has not priced. A great deal of it now sits in the operating record, the working history a company produces simply by running.
The AI labs need that material. We license it, anonymize it, and supply them. The market is young, and most owners do not yet know it exists.
We are the buyer. The company deals with Polyshares and nobody else, keeps its equity, and keeps ownership of the underlying data.
Operational data means the working record of the business. Slack, Drive, email, spreadsheets, CRM, design files.
- Counterparty
- Polyshares. We are the buyer. No marketplace, no listing, and no auction.
- Deal size
- Typically $100K to $2M, paid by us to the company.
- Structure
- A license to defined operational data. Non-dilutive, with no equity and no debt.
- Cost to you
- None. There is no fee and no commission. We pay you.
- Who qualifies
- Any company with real operating history. Venture backed, middle market, or founder owned. The history matters more than the size.
- Terms
- Agreed and papered within a week of the first conversation.
- Review
- We look at the record before we price it. We do not pay for something we have not seen.
- Payment
- Net 30 to 60, once the data is approved, shared, and anonymized.
- Anonymization
- Handled before anything moves. Identifying fields are stripped as part of preparing the data.
- Ownership
- You keep the business and the underlying data. The license is defined and bounded.
Acquisitions
The other way to get a record is to buy the business.
A license gives us a defined body of material for a defined period. Ownership gives us the source itself, and everything it produces from that point forward.
Our focus is MSPs and IT providers, and the reason is the work they do. A managed service provider spends every day diagnosing faults in writing. Its ticket queue is years of technical reasoning captured while it happened, including the wrong diagnoses and the corrections, and it keeps growing after we own it.
We acquire these businesses and hold them. We have also built companies from nothing alongside our partners, which is where the operating judgment behind both mandates came from. Owners considering a sale can approach us directly. We are the buyer, so there is no auction to sit through.
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Acquisitions closed
$100M+
Revenue across businesses built with partners
$21M
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Questions
Questions owners ask first.
Does Polyshares buy company data, or broker it?
We buy it. Polyshares is a data lab and the counterparty on the deal. We license the data directly from the company that produced it, pay for it ourselves, and supply the AI labs. Nothing is listed anywhere and there is no third party for the company to deal with.
What does it cost the company?
Nothing. There is no fee and no commission, because we are not working on your behalf. We are buying. Money moves in one direction, from us to you.
How much does Polyshares pay?
Deals typically land between $100K and $2M paid to the company. Depth of operating history and how much visible reasoning the record contains move the number far more than raw volume does.
When does the money arrive?
Net 30 to 60, once the data has been approved, shared, and anonymized. We do not pay for a record we have not seen, so the review comes first.
Which companies qualify?
Any business with real operating history. Venture backed, middle market, or founder owned. The length and texture of the record matter more than headcount or revenue.
What happens to the data afterwards?
We anonymize it, build it into data sets, and supply AI labs. Use is bounded by the license, and we do not disclose which labs take which data.
Why does a data lab buy MSPs?
Because a license runs for a term and an owned business runs indefinitely. An MSP produces technical reasoning as its ordinary output, so owning one turns a fixed body of material into a source that keeps adding to itself.
If Polyshares buys my MSP, what happens to my clients' data?
It stays governed by the agreements it is already under. Buying a business gives us that business's own operating record. Material the company holds on behalf of a client belongs to the client, and an acquisition does not change that.
What does Polyshares buy in an acquisition?
Lower middle market businesses, held rather than flipped. The current focus is MSPs and IT providers. Owners deal with us directly, with no auction to sit through.
Inquiries
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Whether you are sitting on operational data or thinking about selling your business, we will tell you quickly whether there is a deal here.
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