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Selling an ITAD company?
A permanent home for your ITAD business
Every laptop, server, and drive your customers retire still has their data on it. They trust you to wipe it or destroy it, and to prove it. If you've built the company they call for that, we'd like to talk.
Why we like it
Why we buy ITAD businesses
We get it: one lost drive can undo years of trust, so every serial number, chain-of-custody form, and certificate has to be right.
We buy essential service businesses across the Southeast and keep them. IT asset disposition (ITAD) is our kind of work: your customers need it on a schedule, and they can't skip it.
Hardware never stops aging out
Companies, schools, hospitals, and governments refresh their equipment on a cycle. That creates steady, repeat demand for pickup, processing, and disposition, not a one-time sale.
Data security makes it essential
Privacy and data-protection rules such as HIPAA and GLBA, along with state data-disposal laws, put the burden on organizations to destroy data properly. Documented chain of custody and media sanitization aligned with guidelines like NIST SP 800-88 are what customers are really buying.
Trust is hard to earn
Certifications such as R2, e-Stewards, and NAID AAA take real time and discipline to earn and keep. Customers rarely switch away from the vendor that keeps them out of a data breach.
One pickup, more than one job
Many ITAD companies pair secure destruction with resale and responsible recycling, so the same pickup can pay off more than once.
What we look for
What stands out to us
No business checks every box. These are the strengths we get excited about.
- Repeat relationships with enterprise, healthcare, education, or public-sector customers
- Documented chain of custody, serialized asset tracking, and certificates of destruction
- Industry certifications (R2, e-Stewards, NAID AAA) or a clear path to them
- Onsite and offsite data destruction capabilities
- Remarketing, resale, and responsible recycling channels
- An experienced team that customers know by name
Our criteria
- Geography
- Across the Southeast, with deeper interest in Atlanta and Georgia. We love investing in our community.
- Revenue
- $2.5 – $50 million. Typically recurring or reoccurring
- Cash flow
- $0.5 – $5 million
- Ownership
- Founder owned or long-time owner
- Structure
- Majority to full buyout, including partnerships with management
For owners
What happens after you sell
We buy with our own money and we keep what we buy. No fund clock, and no plan to flip it in a few years.
Your customers and your team come first. We invest in people, equipment, and technology and build on what you started. Deals range from majority to full buyouts, including partnerships with management.
Confidential from the first conversation. We know how sensitive a possible sale is for your team and your customers. What you tell us stays between us.
Know a ITAD business owner?
Introduce us. If we buy the company, you get $10,000 in cash at close. (Not available to brokers, investment bankers, or other financial intermediaries.)
Contact
Not ready to sell? Let's talk anyway.
Most conversations start years early. Whether you're ready now or just starting to think about the future of your ITAD business, it costs nothing and stays between us.
Questions owners ask
Is Howler Mountain a private equity firm?
No. We're a family-owned company based in Atlanta. We buy with our own money and keep what we buy. We don't buy businesses to flip them.
Will our conversations stay confidential?
Yes. We know how sensitive a possible sale is for your team and your customers. What you tell us stays between us.
My business is smaller than your criteria. Should I still reach out?
Yes. A smaller company can be a great add-on to one we already own, so it's worth a conversation.
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