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Sell your staffing company to a buyer who knows staffing.

RockHaven Capital buys staffing and recruiting firms. You will talk with principals who have founded and operated companies themselves.

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Every kind of staffing firm

Pick your specialty. If your firm places people for a living, it is worth a conversation. You hear that from us directly, not after months on a listing.

General and industrial staffing

These firms supply light industrial crews and warehouse teams for employers that hire at volume. Many also place general labor and skilled trades support.

Light industrial crewsWarehouse teamsGeneral laborSkilled trades support
Firms that combine contract staffing with permanent placements tend to hold up best over time. The contract work bills again each week while placement fees arrive as searches close.

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What we look at, and what a deal looks like

Two numbers set the range. Three checks tell us the firm can hold up after you leave. Nothing here should come as a surprise.

The size range, at a glance

Where your firm needs to sit for a first conversation.

Annual revenue$1M to $10M
$0$1M floor$10M

A record of steady years matters more than a single strong year. For you: a steady record gets read as strength, not measured against one peak year.

Cash flow, in your tax returns$300K+
$0$300K floor$1M+

Books that tie out to filed returns shorten the work on both sides. For you: a shorter road between the first call and a price.

Three checks beyond size

✓ Revenue spread across a real client list

A firm that depends on one account carries risk a buyer has to price. No single account decides what your firm is worth.

✓ Workers comp and payroll in good order

Filings should be current, with no open tax or comp matters waiting for a buyer to find. Nothing waiting in the files means nothing surfacing mid-deal to slow it down.

✓ A team that handles daily work without the owner in each placement

Recruiters who own their client relationships carry real value in a sale. A business that runs without you is one a buyer can step into, and one you can actually leave.

Selling direct, compared with listing

The same facts, side by side, so you can see what changes for you.

What changes
Direct to RockHaven
Listed with a broker
Who you talk to
The principals, who are the buyer
A broker marketing the firm to other buyers
Fees
You keep the money a broker would take. Sellers pay no fee at any point.
A broker fee comes out of the sale
Privacy
Your staff, customers, and competitors never find out from a listing. The firm is never listed in public.
The firm goes on the market as a listing
Structure
Cash at close, with seller financing where that suits both sides. We buy the business outright.
Terms depend on whichever buyer the listing finds
Timing
A real close date in weeks. Once terms are agreed, we aim to close in four to eight weeks.
The listing sits while the market decides
Geography
Anywhere in the continental United States. Where the firm sits never limits the conversation.
Depends on the broker's reach

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The listed route, by the numbers

Listing a staffing firm means months on the market and a large fee out of the price, and most listed businesses never sell at all. Selling direct avoids all three. The market data below is why owners talk to us first.

167 daysMedian time to close for a service business that sells through the market. The median across all businesses is 170 days.Source: BizBuySell, 2025 Year in Review, service businesses. Counts businesses that sold.
20 to 30%Of businesses that go to market ever sell at allSource: Exit Planning Institute estimate. Based on owner readiness survey data, not a census of listings.
$100,000The broker success fee alone on a $1M sale, on the standard scaleSource: Double Lehman fee scale, published broker guides, 2026.

Of every 10 businesses that go to market

2 to 3 sell7 to 8 never sell

Share that sells: Exit Planning Institute estimate, as cited above.

For you: a direct sale to RockHaven means no listing, no months of waiting, and no broker fee out of your price.

Why owners talk to us

You are not handing your firm to people who only buy companies. You are talking to people who have built and sold their own.

The principals' track record

12+Companies founded or co-founded
3Exits from companies we co-founded from the ground up
$500M+Sales driven by our teams
$20M+Capital raised for real estate and operating companies

One conversation with the buyer

You negotiate with RockHaven as the buyer, not with a broker working a listing.For you: no parade of strangers through your business.

Confidential from the first call

Your recruiters and your clients learn nothing from us. We discuss the firm only with you until you decide who else should know.For you: you control who knows, and when.

How a sale works

Four steps, in order. The firm is never listed in public at any point.

A private conversation

We start with a private call about the firm and what you want from a sale.

You decide if there is a step 2

A straight valuation

We work from your tax returns and your books to reach a price. No formula talk, and no range designed to win a listing.

A straight number early

A structure that fits

We buy the business outright, so the sale is a single clean transaction with one buyer in control.

Cash at close, terms agreed

A clean close

The documents stay as short as the deal allows, and we work to an agreed date instead of an open-ended listing.

Close aimed at 4 to 8 weeks

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