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Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs.

Tuck Advisors is an M&A advisory firm that helps founders, like you, sell their companies (or buy one).

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Strategic Growth, Expert Execution.

We offer a comprehensive suite of M&A advisory services tailored to the unique needs of founders in the education and healthcare sectors.

Sell-Side Advisory

Maximizing value for founders preparing for an exit. We manage the entire process, from valuation to closing.

  • Full Auction Process Management
  • UFO™ (Unsolicited Flattering Offer) Response
  • Strategic Positioning & Marketing

Buy-Side Advisory

Executing your inorganic growth strategy to achieve long-term success, whether for a tuck-in or a new platform.

  • Tuck-In & New Platform Acquisitions
  • Proprietary Deal Sourcing
  • Due Diligence & Negotiation Support

Strategic Advisory

Partnering with senior leadership to support your overall strategic vision and M&A activity.

  • Market Intelligence & Mapping
  • Outsourced Corporate Development
  • Transaction Readiness

The Tuck Advisors Difference

We combine deep entrepreneurial experience with data-driven M&A expertise to deliver unparalleled results for founders.

By Entrepreneurs, For Entrepreneurs

We've built and sold our own tech companies for 30+ years. We know the effort it takes to build a company and validate the sacrifices you made.

Meet Our Team

Deep Industry Focus

We prioritize working with purpose-driven businesses, primarily in the Education and Healthcare sectors, to drive meaningful impact.

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Proprietary Technology

Leveraging tools like our M&A Matrix™ and custom AI integrations, we deliver data-driven insights and a systematic process for identifying strategic partners.

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A Record of Success

Our track record speaks for itself. We've guided dozens of founders through successful transactions, achieving optimal outcomes.

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What Our Clients Say

Mike

"Tuck Advisors was instrumental in guiding our digital marketplace company through a successful series A and eventual acquisition by a public company. We wanted a smaller firm with a more hands-on approach that would take the time to educate us as we navigated through the process - James and his team did exactly that. He is now an important advisor in our next startup!"

Mike
Founder & CEO - Sell Side Client
Melissa

"My co-founder and I worked closely with James and his team last year to find a strategic partner. Bottom line up front, Tuck Advisors is a standout as it relates to M&A. James was an amazing sherpa in preparing and coaching us through the process."

Melissa
Co-Founder & President - Sell Side Client
Mike

"James is a very special person, and I will be grateful to him for the rest of my life. He found the perfect buyer for my business, and he went above and beyond in structuring a creative arrangement that benefitted both sides of the partnership."

Mike
CEO - Sell Side Client
Mourad

"Working with the Tuck Advisors team during our acquisition of their client was an excellent experience. From the start, their professionalism and expertise were evident as they identified and presented this opportunity as a strong match for our portfolio."

Mourad
CEO - Buyer of Sell Side Client
Rick

"No one gets to a finish line of any kind by themselves. You need good people to walk with you. To serve as experts. To be your champion. When I decided to sell my company of 15 years, I knew I needed an investment banking firm that could play all of those roles. Tuck Advisors was the only company that provided both the lived experience and the human-side understanding that I needed."

Rick
CEO - Sell Side Client
Jason

"As CEO of Dion Training, selling our business was a monumental task, but James and the Tuck Advisors team made it seamless. Their attention to detail, strategic insight, and vast network turned a complex process into a journey of growth and success."

Jason
CEO - Sell Side Client
Emily

"Tuck Advisors has truly set the bar for both high quantity and quality searches for our $8 billion Private Equity firm! The team's quick and thorough understanding of our objectives combined with James' expertise in the education space has already resulted in a number of very attractive potential partnerships."

Emily
Investment Professional - Buy Side Client
Steve

"We've engaged Tuck Advisors for the past three years to help our $100 million education company acquire tuck-in acquisitions. They have sourced 1500+ targets for us and sent over 10,000 emails on our behalf. We have closed several transactions thanks to them and have several other companies under LOI."

Steve
CFO - Buy Side Client
Phil

"I was impressed even before an 'unsolicited flattering offer' compelled me to formally retain Tuck Advisors as our M&A advisory. With Tuck's coaching, we've improved our impact and our business results with each process. Most importantly, James has built an M&A Advisory imbued with talent and integrity."

Phil
CEO - M&A Advisory Client
Steve

"After founding and running my business for over 30 years, it was time for me to sell and move on to the next chapter of my life. From our first conversation, I realized that James was different. He seemed to genuinely understand my business. Both James and his team, particularly Brendan, were easy to work with and were able to assist us at every stage."

Steve
CEO - Sell Side Client
Parsa

"James and Tuck Advisors are the best solution for end-to-end management of your acquisition process saving you an immense amount of time and maximizing the amount of serious buyers that you interact with. James personally made the introduction to the CEO of the publicly traded company that ended up acquiring our company."

Parsa
Founder & CEO - Buy Side Client
Rich

"Making the decision to run a formal process to sell our company represented a critical stage in our story. We chose James and the team at Tuck Advisors from a group of finalists because we found them deeply committed to knowing our people, learning our business and running a process according to our core principles."

Rich
CEO - Sell Side Client
Thomas

"Beyond their deep knowledge of our industry and impressive dedication and work ethic, James and his team at Tuck Advisors truly understood what was unique about our business and strategy, leading to an incredible acquisition opportunity, one that was far outside of our expectations when we began the process."

Thomas
Co-Founder & CEO - Sell Side Client
Patrick

"James and the entire Tuck Advisors team were consummate professionals. As an ultimate buyer of a company James was representing, I found him and his team to be highly collaborative, creative and thoughtful problem solvers, and it was an absolute pleasure to work with him throughout the entire deal process."

Patrick
Associate Director - Buyer of Sell Side Client
John

"After a very long due diligence process, we just completed the sale of our company to a London-based firm. Frankly, I don't believe we would have made it past the finish line without James and his team. His vast deal experience guided every aspect of the sale and always kept us moving forward."

John
CEO - Sell Side Client
Liam

"We have worked with James and Tuck Advisors as a buy-side M&A advisor for many years and have seen consistent value add for our team. We closed one successful acquisition through the Tuck team, and we've had a look at countless other viable acquisition targets thanks to their hard work and industry expertise."

Liam
Director of M&A - Buy Side Client
Dan

"Tuck Advisors is the M&A partner you've been hoping to find. Tuck is a boutique firm with deep experience and a relentless focus on closing every deal. There's no B team—just seasoned professionals who truly understand how to work with founders. I recommend Tuck wholeheartedly."

Dan
CEO - Sell Side Client

Experience our Technology

Try our M&A Analyzer to analyze potential buyers or targets for your company, powered by the world's first custom GPT for mergers and acquisitions.

The M&A Analyzer by Tuck Advisors™

Analyze potential Buyers or Targets for your company, powered by the world's first custom GPT for mergers and acquisitions.

Powered by our proprietary M&A Matrix GPT technology