- Tech-enabled holding company has grown to 93 businesses since 2020
- Seeks to be a permanent home for thousands of great companies as owners retire
- TMS software sources 75,000 actively for sale businesses per year
- T Rowe Price Investment Management anchors $126.5M equity investment in TMS
NEW YORK, June 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teamshares (Nasdaq: TMS), a tech-enabled acquiror of SMEs, began trading publicly today. Teamshares is the market-leading acquiror of businesses from retiring owners. Teamshares is part holdco, part fintech, and aligns employees through stock ownership.
Teamshares cofounder and CEO Michael Brown said, "We’re proud to be the market leader in buying businesses from retiring owners. Going public provides us with additional financing options to expand our model to thousands of great companies over time."
Alex Eu, Teamshares cofounder and President, added, “The Teamshares platform is built and it is working to repeatedly transition and grow successful businesses. We believe our unique combination of qualified leaders, financial infrastructure, and shareholder alignment through employee stock ownership is why Teamshares companies have strong, reliable organic growth."
"Every company we acquire strengthens our proprietary dataset that makes the next acquisition smarter. Our software and AI work across underwriting, operations, and financial oversight, compounding with every transaction. Going public lets us accelerate that flywheel at exactly the moment millions of small business owners are retiring," said Kevin Shiiba, cofounder and CTO.
About Teamshares
Teamshares is a tech-enabled acquiror of SMEs, intending to be a permanent home when owners retire. Part holdco, part fintech, Teamshares programmatically acquires companies with $0.5 to $5 million of EBITDA from retiring owners, integrates them with the Teamshares platform, and helps employees earn company stock. Founded in 2019, Teamshares operates subsidiaries with consolidated revenue of $490 million across over 40 industries and 30 states. Learn more at https://www.teamshares.com/investors.
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