
What is Flexi Partners?
Flexi Partners began by offering financial consultancy services to small businesses in Australia, helping them to raise money, improve reporting, and explore growth opportunities.
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Today, it is evolving to focus on trades-based businesses, not only helping them better understand and draw insights from their financial reporting, but by offering an all-in-one admin and marketing solution (new website coming soon).
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Flexi Partner Investments: We are looking to purchase majority stakes in home trades businesses, particularly Plumbing or Heating & Cooling. Please reach out if you'd like to discuss.​​​​
What we do


Grow your business and improve profitability by utilising the financial analysis and research skills of our Business Partners
Increase revenue: Conduct market research and modelling to explore the benefits of entering a new geographic market, introducing a new product / service line or conducting an acquisition.
Improve margins: Understand the profitability of each product and customer in order to make informed pricing, sales and operational decisions, and analyse business expenses and cost structure.
Enhance your team’s capability and make more informed, data-led decisions
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Assistance with cost-benefit analysis on difficult decisions such as whether to outsource or hire in-house
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Data analysis; e.g. understanding customer buying patterns and forecasting demand
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Build business cases for bespoke projects such as investments into new equipment and facilities
Acquisition criteria:
We are looking for the following qualities in our initial acquisition:
A$2-5m valuation
We expect the total valuation for our initial business investment to be between $2-5m. Given the owner-partner model, we expect our investment to be 51-90% of this total valuation.
Owner-partner model
A crucial element of our model is that we are entirely aligned with, and have the same objectives as those we partner with. To make sure of this, operators of the businesses we partner with retain a 10-49% ownership stake.
Exceptional service
We are looking for a business that offers exceptional service to its customers. It isn't necessarily the cheapest provider, but customers rave about their experience and are happy to recommend to their family and friends.
Why join us as an Owner-Partner?
We offer a unique model that supports growth and succession:
Investment to grow
We can help you fund investment in fleet, equipment and marketing so your business can reach its full potential.​
We'll also help you search for and fund 'bolt-on' acquisitions to turbocharge your growth.
Succession planning
Our owner-partner model means we can support someone from your team or a bolt-on acquisition to buy your ownership stake and take over from you. Alternatively, someone from our wider network may be able to take over the reins.
Build a legacy
We commit to acting as your true partner, supporting your growth and helping you build something bigger and better than you thought possible - all while retaining the essence of your existing business.
About Us
Flexi Partners was started in Melbourne in 2024 with the goal of bringing big business expertise to help small and medium-sized businesses thrive. It has since evolved to focus primarily on providing residential trades-based businesses with a full admin, finance and marketing solution.

Founder
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Lachlan has close to ten years' experience in various finance and strategy roles across large local and multinational companies. He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne and later a Master's degree from the London School of Economics.