An independent sponsor building an AI-native platform of managed service providers and systems integrators in Texas and California.
What we do
Buy well. Run better. Extend.
We acquire founder-owned managed service providers and IT services firms, put AI to work inside them from day one, and take that capability to their clients as a new line of business. Each acquisition is led by us and funded with capital partners, deal by deal.
Why managed service providers, and why now
The next thing every client will ask for.
A managed service provider's business is running technology for its clients. AI is the next thing every client will ask it to run.
Most MSPs cannot answer that alone. Their engineers are consumed by tickets, their margins leave no room for a development team, and the AI tools they resell are the same ones their competitors resell. The firms that can deliver AI as a service, inside their own operations and for their clients, will take share from the ones that cannot.
We buy well-run, cash-generating firms and make them AI-native: processes run by AI, people who lead with it. First inside the firm's own service desk, sales and back office. Then for its client base. Then again at the next add-on.
What We Look For
Sectors
Managed service providers, IT services firms and systems integrators, and the software-adjacent services around them.
Geography
Texas first, California second. United States only.
Size
$1–10 million of EBITDA for a platform; smaller for add-ons to a platform we own.
Situations
Founder transitions, partner buyouts, corporate carve-outs, and add-ons.
Ownership
Control positions. Founders and managers who want to stay keep a meaningful stake.
Qualities
Recurring contract revenue, clients who rely on the firm every day, and a reputation worth keeping.
How we do it
Three moves, repeated at every acquisition.
Acquire
We lead sourcing, diligence and structuring ourselves, and we keep the deal simple: a fair price, clean terms, and a transition the founder can be proud of.
Make it AI-native
Within the first months, AI is running inside the firm's own operations: ticket triage and resolution, outbound sales, quoting, billing and collections. Engineers spend their time on clients, not on repetition.
Extend to clients
The firm's clients get what they have been asking for: AI delivered by the people who already run their technology. A new service line, sold to a base that already trusts them.
Our operating company: Kadre Labs
Vizen Ventures is the acquisition affiliate of Kadre Labs. Every firm we acquire gets Kadre's team on day one.
Kadre Labs does managed intelligence: it builds and runs AI inside lower-middle-market companies today, across sales, marketing and finance, and coaches their leaders to run with it. Its outbound work has produced a 12.5% positive-response rate against a prior 1–3% baseline, and the companies it serves have expanded their use of AI several times over within months.
It is the operating capability most roll-ups have to promise. We already run it.
For founders
Your legacy, our next chapter.
We buy from founders who care what happens next. We keep the name, keep the team and keep the clients, and we give the business tools its competitors do not have. If you have built a firm your clients rely on and are thinking about the next chapter, we would like to talk. Conversations are confidential and there is no obligation on either side.