We are buying one good business, and we intend to keep it.
Fourth Ward Holdings is acquiring a commercial services or distribution business in metro Atlanta. We are an individual buyer with committed capital and an SBA pre-qualification letter in hand. Not a fund, not a broker, and not looking to flip anything.
What we are looking for
- EBITDA
- $1M to $2M. We will stretch for real recurring revenue and management depth.
- Revenue
- $5M to $20M. Margin matters less to us than whether the revenue repeats.
- Geography
- Metro Atlanta and North Georgia preferred. We will look at the broader Southeast.
- Customers
- Commercial or institutional, with contracted, recurring or genuinely repeat business.
- Management
- A working general manager already in place, or a role a hired GM can credibly fill.
- Not a fit
- Healthcare providers, residential-only models, project-bid construction, and businesses that require a licensed owner-operator.
Where we spend our time
Illustrative rather than exhaustive. If a business has commercial customers, sticky revenue and a real team, we want to see it regardless of the label.
How we work with intermediaries
- NDA signed the day it arrives. Proof of funds and our SBA pre-qualification letter the same day.
- A real read on fit within 48 hours of the CIM. If it is a pass, you get a clear reason rather than silence.
- An LOI within two to three weeks of good information, with price and structure stated plainly.
- We are buying one business, not running a screen. Your seller deals with us directly the whole way through.
About us
A family business, buying a family business.
I am Kishore Eechambadi. My wife Aagya, our son Riyan and I are moving to Atlanta this October, and Fourth Ward Holdings is named for the neighborhood we are moving to.
Atlanta is not a new market for me. I earned my degree in finance at Emory, then spent fifteen years in New York building a career in strategy at McKinsey, Citadel, Visa and Broadridge, with a law degree from NYU along the way. Good businesses are usually the product of decades of somebody's careful work, and my job is to not break that.
This is not a portfolio play. We are buying one company, moving to the city it operates in, and planning to hold it for a very long time. If you built something you care about and you want to know what happens to your people after you hand over the keys, that is a conversation we would like to have.
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