Buy-side origination · Los Angeles

Off-market deal flow, built to your thesis.

GTA Companies maps every company that fits your criteria, reaches the owners directly, and brings you the ones ready to talk. Platforms, add-ons, and strategic acquisitions, with a live view of the pipeline the whole way.

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Founder backgroundMorgan StanleyHoulihan LokeyPlatinum Equity spin-out fundsUSC

72.9%

of U.S. private equity buyouts in 2025 were add-ons. Source: PitchBook data, via Cherry Bekaert.

Buy-and-build is now the default private equity playbook. Every platform thesis assumes a steady supply of add-ons.

The best of those add-ons are founder-owned businesses that aren't for sale yet. No banker sends a teaser for them. Someone has to find them, earn the conversation, and keep it warm until the timing is right.

That's what we do.

What we do

Three ways we put the right deals in front of you.

Every engagement starts from your criteria, and every search is run by people who have sat on the buy side.

Private equity deal flow

Platform and add-on origination to your exact criteria. We build the target universe, run owner-direct outreach, and hand you qualified conversations.

Platform acquisition origination
Add-on searches for portfolio companies
Direct engagement with owners
Screening against your criteria

Deal sourcing

Corporate strategic acquisitions

Acquisition searches for corporate development teams expanding into new markets, adding capabilities, or consolidating a fragmented niche.

Strategic target identification
Market and geographic expansion
Capability and technology acquisitions
Competitive consolidation

Corporate development

AI implementation

Practical AI for funds and the companies they own: faster screening and monitoring at the fund, automation and better forecasting inside the portfolio.

AI-assisted deal screening
Portfolio monitoring and analytics
Workflow automation at portfolio companies
Sales enablement and forecasting

AI for private equity

How it works

How a mandate runs.

Five steps, run continuously for as long as the search is live. You can see every one of them.

01
Mandate
We turn your investment thesis into precise criteria: sector, geography, size, ownership, and the deal-breakers.
02
Map
We build the full universe of companies that fit, not just the few that happen to be for sale, and identify the owner at each.
03
Reach
Personal, owner-direct outreach at scale, over multiple touches, written the way a principal would write it.
04
Qualify
We screen every reply, gather the basics, and set up calls only when there is a real fit and a real owner on the other end.
05
Deliver
You meet owners who are ready to talk. Every target, touch, and reply is tracked in your private client portal.

Client portal

Your pipeline, in plain view.

Every client gets a private, password-protected portal. It shows the target universe, the outreach, the replies, and every deal by stage, updated as the search runs.

Every target, touch, and reply in one place
Deals tracked from first reply to close
Notes and next steps on each opportunity

gtacompanies.com/dashboardIllustration

Companies mapped

Owners contacted

Conversations

Active deals

Universe

Contacted

Replied

Engaged

Qualified

OpportunityStage

Testing and inspection services · TexasCall scheduled

Commercial HVAC contractor · ArizonaQualification

Specialty chemicals distributor · OhioEngaged

Managed IT services provider · ColoradoContacted

Illustration only. Client portals are private and password-protected.

Why GTA

Built the way buyers actually buy.

Owner-direct, not banked.

We start conversations before a sale process exists, so you meet owners before there is an auction, and before your competitors do.

Your thesis, precisely.

Each search is built from your criteria and sharpened with your feedback as it runs. We don't recycle a generic list.

Nothing hidden.

Your client portal shows every target, message, reply, and meeting. You always know what has been done and what comes next.

Judgment, not just volume.

Our founder has worked deals from origination to close across dozens of transactions. We screen like buyers, because we have been buyers.

Sectors

Where we source.

Seven sectors, with the most activity where fragmented, founder-owned markets make buy-and-build work.

Industrials

Specialty manufacturing, distribution, testing and inspection, engineered components.

Business services

Facility services, managed IT, compliance, outsourced back-office.

Healthcare

Home health, staffing, practice management, medical equipment.

Consumer

Branded products, multi-unit services, food and beverage.

Energy

Utility services, efficiency, field services, grid infrastructure.

Technology

Vertical software, IT services, data and analytics.

Media

Marketing services, information services, events.

Something else?

If your thesis sits outside these sectors, tell us. The method travels.

Sector detail

Leadership

Gary Alcock has spent his career on both sides of the table, in private equity and in investment banking. GTA Companies puts that experience to work for buyers.

His career spans investment management at Morgan Stanley, M&A and restructuring advisory at Houlihan Lokey, and a central role in several private equity funds spun out of Platinum Equity, where the focus was corporate divestitures and proprietary acquisitions.

He has worked leveraged buyouts, distressed assets, and corporate divestitures across industrials, business services, healthcare, consumer, energy, technology, and media, with A-to-Z experience on dozens of transactions. He built GTA to source deals more effectively than a typical business development team can.

He studied corporate finance at USC and is based in Los Angeles.

Insights

Notes on sourcing and AI.

All insights

Buy-and-build · 6 min read

Why add-on pipelines run dry, and how to build one that doesn't

Add-ons are nearly three in four U.S. buyouts. Here is why most add-on pipelines stall, and the practical steps that keep one full.

Read the article

AI · 6 min read

Where AI actually pays off inside a private equity firm

The AI use cases that produce measurable results for funds and portfolio companies, and the mistakes that stall most programs.