Zion Search Capital
USD$892,89EUR$1.040,06UF$40.593,77UTM$70.588TPM+4,5%IPC−0,2%Cu/lbUS$6.11USD$892,89EUR$1.040,06UF$40.593,77UTM$70.588TPM+4,5%IPC−0,2%Cu/lbUS$6.11
Source · mindicador.cl · Central Bank of Chile

Founder-led Mid-Market M&A Boutique · Engineering Exits · Originating with Discipline

High-potential assets. Globally integrated capital.

Zion Search Capital prepares, originates, designs and executes transactions (company sale / exit) across LATAM, giving investment funds (Private Equity Funds), Family Offices and strategic acquirers access to many of the highest-potential / highest-upside assets in the region.

Santiago · LATAM · Global Reach

Est. 2024

Core idea

The best exits are engineered. The best acquisitions are originated with discipline.

Zion Search Capital transforms —through our founder lens— the Latin American mid-market into exit opportunities. Our industry experience allows us to maximize the value of every transaction.

Services

End-to-end execution, built around the founder.

Our service stack addresses the lower-middle market's actual gaps — not just transactional execution, but the preparation, structuring and post-deal continuity that engineer real outcomes.

Lead-mandate execution for founders and family-owned businesses. Equity story, buyer universe construction, competitive process design, negotiation through close.

  • Exit readiness before outreach.
  • Buyer-first narrative.
  • Selective buyer mapping.
  • Partner-led execution.
  • Creative structuring when pure price doesn't close.
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Mandate-driven target search for corporates, sponsors and family offices pursuing growth, geography or capability in LATAM. Off-market by design.

  • Proprietary origination with founder-to-founder network.
  • Thesis-driven screening by sector, ticket and risk.
  • AI combined with senior judgment.
  • Local reading with global execution standard.
  • End-to-end support from NDA to closing.
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Cross-border structuring, transfer pricing, earn-outs, vendor financing and post-close optimization — designed in, not bolted on.

  • Cross-border structuring.
  • Transfer pricing.
  • Earn-outs and vendor financing.
  • Post-close tax optimization.
  • Designed in from day one, not bolted on.
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We don't just prepare companies for sale — we position them to maximize value before going to market. Operational diagnostics, value drivers, clean reporting, governance baseline.

  • Operational diagnostics.
  • Value driver identification.
  • Growth levers.
  • Clean reporting and governance baseline.
  • Before equity story, before data room, before market.
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For founders and shareholders not yet ready for a full sale. We diagnose options (secondary, minority recap, partial sale, JV, capital partner) and design the 12-24 month path to the right liquidity event.

  • Liquidity-event readiness diagnostic.
  • Options mapping (secondary, minority recap, partial sale, JV).
  • Coordination with tax and legal advisors.
  • Asset build-out toward the exit window.
  • Liquidity event timing.
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Board-level support for exit, fundraising and complex M&A decisions. Operator perspective at the boardroom table, backed by documented exits.

  • Pre-transaction board advisory.
  • Exit decision build-out.
  • Fundraising preparation.
  • Complex M&A accompaniment.
  • Operator, not banker.
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Selected Experience

Real outcomes. Real founders. Real exits.

AI & Data

Exalítica

Acquired by Deloitte Canada

Outcome

Undisclosed valuation — first AI company acquired in South America

Clinical Diagnostics & Biotech

Galénica

International PE fund entry

Outcome

7.1x EBITDA exit multiple

Fintech

Refy

Growth & Capital Strategy

Outcome

Assets divested in 2025

Why Zion

Three things that change the outcome.

01

Founder Mindset

We've done it ourselves.

We've sat in the founder's seat. We've built, scaled and sold companies. That experience changes how we advise — and what outcomes we engineer. We understand the incentives, risks and expectations of the entrepreneur, because we have been in that seat.

02

AI-driven execution

Native, not bolted on.

Artificial intelligence is native to how we operate — not an add-on. We use it to compress timelines, deepen analysis and uncover patterns that traditional research misses. AI accelerates the process. Relationships still close the deal.

03

Local origination · Global monetization

The right capital. Not the first.

Zion's network connects mid-market opportunities in LATAM with sophisticated capital around the world. Each mandate is matched to the buyer universe most likely to pay — and to close.

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What's moving the market.

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Source · Reuters

Zion Search Capital

The best exits are engineered.

Let's design the outcome.

Santiago · Chile — Originating in LATAM. Monetizing globally.

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