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EST. 2023 · OPERATORS & INVESTORS · LOWER MIDDLE MARKET
About Matchworks

Built by operatorswho've done it.

We've built companies, sold companies, and invested in companies. Then we built the infrastructure we wished we'd had.

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E-commerce & CPG
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Enterprise value
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Revenue driven
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Media managed
at global scale
§ Who we are

We've built and scaled companies, managed billions in growth, and been through the exit cycle more times than most. Now we've built the infrastructure for everyone else's.

§ Why we built Matchworks

The lower middle market is the backbone of the American economy. Millions of businesses, built by owners over decades. When it comes time to sell, most of them get a bad deal or no deal at all. The process is slow, expensive, and depends on who you know.

We built Matchworks to fix that. Not with a marketplace or a listing site. With infrastructure. The same way Stripe gave every internet business access to payments, we built origination, intelligence, matching, and placement for every lower-middle-market deal.

We knew there was a better way. One built on real data, long-term vision, and doing right by the people behind every business.

For the last three years we've run demand generation across the M&A market and built the largest source of off-market deal flow in the country. We enrich the data ourselves, profile every buyer in the market, and match each deal to the firm already looking for it.

Matchworks is the infrastructure we wished we'd had.

§ The team

A team across
four cities.

Operators, engineers, and investors across New York, Maine, Austin, and Toronto.

01
Origination & research

We find and enrich off-market deals across millions of companies.

02
Engineering & data

We build the scrapers, models, and matching engine in-house.

03
Investments & deals

We vet buyers and run deals end to end, all the way to close.

04
Client success

We guide advisors and investors through every step.

§ From our founder
Mike Ballas
Mike Ballas
Founder · Managing Partner
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Mike Ballas is a Canadian-born serial entrepreneur who skipped the corporate path at 24 to build his first company. He's founded and exited businesses across digital media, e-commerce, and health-tech ever since.

He bootstrapped Moo Media from $0 to $100M in revenue in under three years before exiting, and founded Evoke, the first DNA-based personalized vitamin subscription, which was acquired in 2022. In 2016, his company bought more video ads on Facebook than anyone globally.

He then launched a private equity firm, completing a first acquisition valued at $50M and exiting in 2024, and runs the Ballas Capital Family Office. As CEO of Matchworks, he leads the deal engine powering the largest off-market pipeline in the lower middle market.

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