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Mergely Capital, your trusted guide for high-stakes strategic M&A and growth transactions
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Our Approach to Delivering Exceptional Outcome
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Valuation
The Challenge:
An accurate business valuation prepares you to take on some of the most important steps in your company’s strategic journey. Whether you’re preparing for a sale, evaluating investor interest, or aligning shareholder expectations, understanding your company’s true value is essential starting point.
Our Approach: Quality, Defensible, and Rationale
High-Quality Analysis: We build a comprehensive, data-driven narrative rooted in financial performance, market dynamics, and deep analysis.
Defensible: Our reports are crafted to stand up to scrutiny from buyers, investors, and lenders.
Focused on the Why: Our M&A expertise helps you understand not just the current valuation but also the rationale, the why behind the numbers.
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Preperation
The Challenge:
Most founders leave money on the table by not taking time to prepare their business for a sale. If you evaluating a strategic transaction in the next 6 to 12 months, a strong prep can help you get more buyer interest, better valuation, stronger leverage as well as more favorable deal terms.
Our Approach: Prepare, Strengthen, and Differentiate
Prepare with Clarity: We identify opportunities and risks that impact exceptional outcome.
Strengthen Your Position: We focus on opportunities that enhance your position.
Differentiate in the Market: We highlight your business’s unique strategic value.
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Business Exit / Sale
The Challenge:
Selling your business is one of the most important and complex decisions you’ll ever make. Every choice can impact your valuation, deal structure, and post-sale outcome. At Mergely Capital, we specialize in guiding founders through these high-stakes complex decisions.
Our Approach: Maximize Your Goals
You Stay in Control: We run an exception process, you stay in charge of key decisions.
Your Interests First: We ensure that the process aligns with your specific goals and timeline
Competition Drives Value: We drive a competitive process to maximize valuation and deal terms.
Founder
Ashwin Kalsekar
Ashwin "Ash" Kalsekar is a seasoned advisor with over two decades of experience in M&A, growth capital and strategic transitions. He has unlocked billions in transaction value through his engagement with boards, founders, owners, CEOs, and private capital sponsors .
Ashwin partners with companies navigating strategic alternatives, exits, and capital raises, bringing the judgment of a veteran dealmaker and the insight of a founder-aligned partner. He works closely with founders, owners and leadership teams to deliver exceptional outcomes.
Ashwin is passionate about guiding leaders to strong outcomes by leveraging his experience, strategic perspective, and extensive network. His approach is hands-on, founder-first, and shaped by years of navigating high-stakes transactions and complex strategic decisions.
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20
Years Experience
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$5 billion
Deal Volume
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100+
Deal Activity
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Proud Dad to the best Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Our steps
Our Commitment To You
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Clarity
At Mergely Capital, we bring transparency and clarity to every step, every decision.
Our process has been created specifically to enable owners make informed, value-accretive decisions.
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Confidence
At Mergely, we focus solely on guiding founders through complex, high-stakes transaction.
Our process leverages frameworks and structures to help owners navigate deal complexity with confidence.
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Conviction
At Mergely Capital, we believe that trust and alignment are key to deliver exception outcomes to owners.
Our conviction allows us to ensure that our goals and outcomes are linked solely to the owner’s outcomes.
Why Choose Us
Deal Success In Four Step
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Align
Every process starts with understanding you and your personal goals.
We take time to align strategy with what matters most to you, not the other way around.
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Engage
Data drives analysis, but focused engagement and narrative closes deals.
We craft compelling narratives that articulate true strategic value and growth opportunities.
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Execute
We run a disciplined process to generate competitive tension among qualified buyers.
This approach maximizes value and gives you control over timing, structure, and terms.
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Deliver
Even well-structured deals can fall apart under pressure without the right strategies.
Our process creates alignment, minimizes disruption, and delivers exceptional outcomes.
Expertise, Experience, Execution
Mergely Capital was founded with a simple goal:
Bring our experiences from world-class firm to
deliver highest-quality advice, insights and outcomes for founders and owners
FAQ’s
Frequently Asked Questions
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Mergely Capital is an independent advisory firm that helps founders and business owners navigate business sales, exits, and capital raises.
We provide strategic guidance, manage complex deal processes, and work to achieve premium valuations and exceptional outcomes for our clients.
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While each business is different, we have found that owners can be in a strong position when business current performance is strong, future growth is visible, and earnings are sustainable.
Mergely Capital helps business owners assess timing, market conditions, and buyer appetite to ensure the sale happens under the most favorable circumstances.
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We maximize valuation by running a disciplined, competitive M&A process that attracts multiple qualified buyers.
Our team positions your business to highlight strategic value, growth potential, and differentiation, creating competitive tension that drives higher offers and better deal terms.
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A strategic buyer is typically a company in your industry looking to expand its market, customers, or capabilities.
A financial buyer, such as a private equity firm or investment group, invests for financial return and growth potential.
Mergely Capital helps you identify and engage the right mix to achieve your desired outcome.
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A typical sell-side M&A process takes between four to six months (although more complex / larger deals make take nine to twelve months), depending on the company’s size, complexity, and market readiness.
Mergely Capital’s structured process, starting with preparation and positioning to negotiation and closing, is aimed at ensuring efficiency without compromising value.
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Preparation involves improving financial clarity, documenting operations, cleaning up contracts, and clearly articulating your growth story.
Mergely Capital offers fractional and strategic readiness services that help you present your business with confidence when approaching buyers or investors.
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We focus on founder-led and privately held businesses across technology, professional services, consumer, and retail sectors.
Our experience spans multiple industries where strategic acquirers and investors actively seek high-quality mid-market opportunities.
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Our background at world-class firms such as Merrill Lynch, UBS, and McKinsey & Company gives us the sophistication of top-tier advisory.
More importantly for you, we align our incentives with yours, we believe that our success should move in lockstep with your outcome, always.
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