About Us – Invictus Company Acquisitions

A long game, built from the ground up.

We didn’t start out as investors; we began as founders, builders, and operators back in 2014. Two brothers, Robert and Malcolm, rolled up their sleeves and built their first civil construction business from scratch. From early mornings on site to late nights handling payroll, we learned firsthand what it takes to build something real: customers to serve, bills to pay, and a team depending on you.

Over the next decade, we grew from blue collar beginnings into a group of companies across construction, equipment, and manufacturing. We made mistakes, learned, adapted, and eventually built strong, profitable businesses that supported dozens of families.

Along the way, we started seeing wonderful businesses go up for sale and were approached by some directly looking to sell to us. We hadn’t considered acquisitions until then and began exploring the idea. We were quickly turned off by the endless jargon and cutthroat approach of private equity firms that had no care for the owners or what the selling business represented. They didn’t speak our language, and they certainly didn’t understand what it feels like to put everything on the line to make payroll. Looking to ride the owners, gut management, pump up the value of the businesses in questionable ways, and sell off assets, only to look at selling the business in a few years’ time.

We realized that if we ever bought a business, we couldn’t approach it that way as it seemed unethical to us. Although, this seemed to be the only way to be successful from acquisitions, and we thought who are we to say it can be done differently. So we decided against moving into acquisitions at the time.

Then we found inspiration in Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s playbook:

That clicked. Nobody in the heavy industrial and infrastructure services space was taking this approach. Further to this, we discovered a major gap in ownership due to shrinking generational demographics between the Baby Boomers and Gen Y. Thriving Baby Boomer businesses had owners looking to retire, but fewer Gen Y entrepreneurs were there to buy them. This left many businesses at risk of disappearing, along with all the knowledge, jobs, and learnings of a generation. So we decided to become buyers rather than builders to help preserve the accumulated knowledge of profitable enterprises, along with their founders’ legacies, and for future generations to benefit from.

Measuring Our Success

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How We Do It

01 Discover Opportunities

We carefully identify businesses with strong fundamentals, untapped potential, and long-term value.

02 Build Partnerships

We work closely with founders and management teams, creating transparent and collaborative relationships.

03 Unlock Growth

By combining capital, strategic guidance, and operational expertise, we drive sustainable business expansion.

Here's what we do

Speak plainly

Don’t waste people’s time. We speak plainly: no fancy buzzwords, or irrelevant finance terms.

Protect culture and knowledge

Don’t mess with the culture and behaviour that makes each company unique.

Avoid centralised planning

We leave all our businesses to operate independently and in a decentralized manner.

Preserve our owner’s vision

Owners entrust us with their companies. We do our best to follow through on their vision.

Civilised approach

Humanity has come a long way and in no small part due to mutual respect for each other. We don’t associate with uncivilized people life is too short.

Leave people alone

We buy great companies, hire great leaders, and leave them to do their thing.

Our Team

Behind Invictus Company Acquisitions is a team of experienced entrepreneurs, operators, and investors who understand what it takes to run and grow successful companies. We run with lean overheads relying on our portfolio of company managers to run their businesses completely decentralised while ICA makes centralised capital allocation decisions.

Malcolm Fletcher

Co Founder

Robert Fletcher