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Merchant Bank · M&A Advisory

A different kind of M&A firm.

Squares Capital invests in, acquires, advises, and supports U.S.-based companies. We’re long-term strategic partners — not transaction junkies.

We’re not cool. We’re Squares — and we don’t think the people advising you and your business need to be. What you need is someone honest, direct, and genuinely on your side.

Who we are

More of a merchant bank than an M&A shop.

Squares invests alongside the companies we advise. That changes the incentives — and the advice.

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Our Mission

To advise, support, invest in, and help build the next generation of companies.

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Our Values

Our values drive our mission. We’re authentic, honest, direct and real. We’re not assholes, and we won’t work with them.

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Real Advice

Long-term strategic and operational guidance that drives your business — not just short-term transaction support.

What we do

Advisory services, from a team that has sat on both sides of the table.

We’ve bought companies, built them, and advised the people doing the same. That perspective shapes every engagement.

Sell‑Side

Sell-Side Advisory

Guidance for owners and founders preparing to sell. Because we’ve been the buyer, we know how to position your business and run a process that earns its full value.

Buy‑Side

Buy-Side Advisory

Support to find and execute quality transactions — sourcing, diligence, and negotiation from a team that has acquired and integrated companies firsthand.

Corporate

Corporate Advisory

A decade of management-consulting experience applied to your business: reducing cost, driving growth, and improving profitability with a plan you can actually run.

Capital

Capital

Direct capital investment, deal structuring, and hands-on help raising the capital you need to grow — on terms built for the long term.

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The founder

Built by an operator, not a broker.

Joshua Snyder — Founder & Principal

Squares Capital was founded by Joshua Snyder, who pairs a decade in management consulting with years spent buying, building, and operating companies. He started Squares to give founders and owners the kind of advisor he wanted on his own side of the table — one who invests in the outcome, tells the truth, and stays for the long term.

Joshua writes about capital allocation, curiosity, and the craft of dealmaking, and reads relentlessly about the people who built lasting businesses.

Active investments

We invest in the companies we believe in.

Squares takes concentrated, long-term positions and rolls up its sleeves alongside founders — helping build the companies of the future, not just close deals about them.

Long‑term
Investment horizon
Hands‑on
Operating support
Aligned
Skin in the game
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