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Search Funded is the entrepreneurship through acquisition podcast for search fund entrepreneurs, self-funded searchers, independent sponsors, investors, and operators. Hosted by Nick Lall, the show features conversations with acquisition entrepreneurs and ETA investors about how to find, finance, acquire, operate, and grow established small and lower-middle-market businesses.
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Signup to Generate a PitchSearch Funded is the entrepreneurship through acquisition podcast for search fund entrepreneurs, self-funded searchers, independent sponsors, investors, and operators. Hosted by Nick Lall, the show features conversations with acquisition entrepreneurs and ETA investors about how to find, finance, acquire, operate, and grow established small and lower-middle-market businesses.
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast is hosted by Nick Lall. The show has published 40 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Succession Without Inheritance: Buying the Family Business, Daniella Devine, Peacock Floors" (27 October 2026, 46 minutes), "From Self-Funded Searcher to Institutional Investor | Ian Reynolds, Thesis Capital" (22 October 2026, 43 minutes), and "India's First Institutional Search Investor- Chaitanya Rathi, Searchlight ETA" (13 October 2026, 27 minutes).
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 40 episodes.
Booking probability for Search Funded: The ETA Podcast is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Search Funded: The ETA Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Search Funded: The ETA Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Nick Lall hosts Search Funded: The ETA Podcast, a business podcast with 40 episodes published.
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Episode #13
Daniella Devine grew up around Peacock Floors, a commercial flooring business her family has operated in San Francisco for more than four decades. But rather than simply inheriting the company, she built a career of her...
Episode #12
Ian Reynolds began his ETA journey in 2017, initially pursuing a traditional search before pivoting to a self-funded acquisition of Zibtek, a software services company he operated alongside its founder. After several...
Episode #11
Chaitanya Rathi has spent two decades as an operator, entrepreneur and investor in India. He helped build Sula Vineyards’ wine tourism business, later returned as COO and helped take the company public, and in between...
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast
In this episode of Search Funded, we sit down with entrepreneur, investor, and holdco founder Vadim Rogovskiy to explore one of the most important emerging trends in entrepreneurship through acquisition: the...
Episode #9
In this episode of Search Funded, we are joined by Nikita Gossain, founder and principal of PPR Capital, an Australian investor who has acquired, operated, and exited small businesses through a permanent-hold...
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast
In this episode, Nick speaks with veteran M&A attorney Joel Ankney, author of Here's the Deal: Everything You Wish a Lawyer Would Tell You About Buying a Small Business . Joel shares his journey from Big Law attorney to...
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast
In this episode of Search Funded, I speak with Bhavik Rasyara, founder of Pravah Capital and one of the first searchers helping build the entrepreneurship through acquisition ecosystem in India. Bhavik shares his...
Episode #12
David Khalil, Partner and CFO at saas.group, joins Search Funded to discuss the changing economics of SaaS. We talk about the collapse of SaaS exceptionalism, the shift away from ARR multiples, why GAAP profitability...
Search Funded: The ETA Podcast
In this episode of Search Funded, I speak with Michael Johns, Managing Director of Ascentro Capital Partners, a New Zealand-based private investment firm focused on buying, building, and growing businesses across New...
Episode #13
In this episode we are joined by Alexander Kelm, founder of ETA Europe and writer of Buyout Diary, to explore why entrepreneurship through acquisition in Europe requires a very different playbook from the one most...
Episode #11
Sally Tian shares her journey from consulting, tech, and Harvard Business School to building one of the first search funds in China alongside her husband and co-founder. She explains why she walked away from the...
Episode #10
Most private equity returns over the last decade were not driven by operators. They were driven by cheap debt and multiple expansion. That playbook is breaking. In this episode, Lee McCabe, partner at Claymore Partners...
Episode #9
In this episode we speak with Eric Whitley, co-founder of GridSME and GridSec, one of the leading providers of grid compliance, engineering, and cybersecurity services for renewable energy operators in the Western...
Episode #8
In this episode, Ibrahim Abdel Rahim returns to share how ETA has evolved from a niche strategy into a rapidly globalizing asset class. Moonbase has expanded beyond Europe into markets like Brazil and India, where...
Episode #5
DC Moore is a mid-career searcher and the new CEO of Atlantic Technology Group, an enterprise wireless and mobility infrastructure provider benefiting from durable tailwinds tied to 5G densification, in-building...
Episode #7
Kevin Hong is a former searcher who was fired from the company he acquired and is now the founder of Caprae Capital, a tech-enabled lower middle market investment platform behind SaaSquatch Leads, Search as a Service...
Episode #4
Turner Wyatt is the founder and CEO of Small Capital, an investment firm backing self-funded searchers who want to bake employee ownership into their acquisitions from day one. A lifelong social entrepreneur (food...
Episode #3
On this episode of Search Funded , we sit down with William D. Cohan, bestselling author, longtime financial journalist, and former Wall Street M&A banker, for a wide-ranging conversation that spans search fund...
Episode #2
On this episode of Search Funded , we sit down with Tom Sarig , founder and CEO of Antifragile Equity Partners . A Grammy-winning music executive and former SVP at multiple major labels, Tom has worked with artists like...
Episode #1
New SBA rules are making self-funded search tougher—especially for non-U.S. citizens. In this episode, we explore why it might be time to look abroad and my personal reflections after spending the past few months...
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