A long-term home for the businesses founders spent a lifetime building.

Strathmore acquires and grows profitable, founder-owned B2B workflow businesses — and we run them for the long term.

We are operators, not brokers.

We don’t list businesses, broker deals, or shop your company around. We buy a small number of companies and operate them ourselves, for years — not for a quick resale.

We’ve built and sold businesses of our own, so we know what it takes to run one well, and we know how much of a good company lives in its people and its customer relationships. That’s the part we protect first.

The kind of business we look for.

They are trusted and profitable, and they simply never had the time to build the systems layer beneath them. That’s where we come in.

The companies we acquire share a pattern. They’re profitable. They’re business-to-business. They do important, repeatable work — and they do it reliably enough that customers stay for years. And underneath, they still run largely on email, spreadsheets, PDFs, and the founder’s own knowledge.

Just as important as what we look for is what we won’t do.

First we understand it. Then, carefully, we improve it.

Our first job after a transaction isn’t to change the business — it’s to understand it. We learn how the work really flows, protect the customer relationships that make it valuable, and support the team that delivers it. Improvement comes second, and carefully.

Built by an operator who has done this work before.

Strathmore was founded by Jonathan Romley, an American entrepreneur who has spent his career building and selling technology and automation businesses across three continents. The thesis is simple and personal: the systems that quietly transformed those companies can do the same for profitable workflow businesses — without the risk, the drama, or the loss of what made them work.

For advisers and intermediaries

If you advise a founder who may be thinking about succession or a transition, we’re a discreet, focused buyer worth knowing. We move professionally and confidentially, and we’re clear about what we will and won’t pursue.