Velvet Arcs is a married team of operators acquiring one established, profitable business to personally run and modernize. We give a good company a good home — and the time its founder never had to systematize it.
Between us, 20+ years building and leading operations and product teams inside Amazon and other global technology companies. We buy to operate — installing process, modern tools, and a strong manager, and keeping what already works.
One business, owned and operated by two principals — not a portfolio to flip or a roll-up to strip. We lead strategy and systems; a general manager runs the floor.
We finance through conventional bank debt, seller financing, and our own equity. When the fit is right, we move to LOI quickly and share proof of funds at the NDA stage.
We take a business whose owner built something real but never had time to systematize it — and add operations discipline and modern technology, carefully.
We're industry-flexible within this frame and happy to look at anything adjacent — self-storage, car washes, childcare, niche home services, property management, niche distribution, and more.
If you have something close, we'd rather see it than not.
A married team carrying the two sides of a well-run company — customer and growth on one, operations and systems on the other.
Product and growth leader — Principal Product Manager at Symbl.ai, Senior Product Manager at AWS, and an Amazon engineer before that. Customer discovery, product strategy, and go-to-market by reflex; she carries the customer and growth side of the business.
15+ years in big-tech operations and engineering leadership, including 10+ years at Amazon — a Director of Engineering who built and led a 40-person engineering and operations org. Specializes in installing repeatable process and technology into operations-heavy businesses.
If you have a business that fits — or you're an owner thinking about what's next — we'd like to hear from you. Real, discreet, and serious.
ankita.yadav@velvetarcs.com