Acquire Sale-Ready Pet Resorts with Confidence
When you engage with a Cantara opportunity, you get verified EBITDA, a highly organized transaction process, and no gate-keeping — from a team with extensive pet resort sell and buy-side experience.
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We Ensure You Can Close with Certainty
Craig Pollack, Cantara’s Founder and Lead Advisor, is an expert in the North American pet resort space. Over the past decade+ years, he has operated, built, and bought pet resorts in the USA and Canada, and co-founded PE-backed Village Pet Care. He has sat in your seat. Cantara was built for both sellers and buyers, as we understand that it takes both parties to close a successful transaction.
Qualified Sellers
We exclusively work with sellers who are committed to selling. And we ensure that they fully understand the sale process and business valuation ranges, prior to becoming a Cantara client.
Clean Financials
We provide clean financials that have been verified and normalized, with full visibility of recent and historical proven financial performance.
“High Curb Appeal” Facilities
Prior to listing, we ensure that the pet resort has a high curb appeal, with detailed documentation of any additional TIs required post close.
Organized Diligence and Timelines
Our data rooms are structured and organized for time efficiency. We manage a disciplined process, with defined dates for each stage of the transaction - we understand time kills deals.
No Gatekeeping
Complete disclosure and direct access to stakeholders. We manage information for clarity — because a buyer who fully understands the business they’re acquiring is a better buyer.
Post-LOI Consistency
We work hard with our sellers to ensure stable P&L performance between LOI and close. No adjusting sales or operations to inflate short-term numbers. What you underwrite is what you buy.
Every Opportunity We Bring to Market Has to Meet The Cantara Standard — Before Meeting Yours
We are very selective in the businesses that we work with. Every opportunity that we bring to market meets our stringent selling criteria. Including:
$1M+
Annual Revenue
Growth
Opportunities in the Business
Management
in Place
Please book an Intro Call to learn more about the businesses we work with.
One Firm. One Industry. Built to Close.
When a corporate buyer or private equity firm calls you directly, they're not doing you a favour — they're removing your leverage before the conversation even starts. Their goal is an exclusive negotiation, on their terms, without competition. Every advantage they have comes from experience you simply don’t have. Cantara exists to close that gap.
Pet Resorts. Nothing Else.
Cantara operates exclusively in the North American pet resort market. Every benchmark, every comparable, every buyer relationship is specific to this industry — not borrowed from a broader portfolio of unrelated businesses.
Sale Readiness Consulting
Cantara is the only firm in this industry that offers business sale readiness consulting. That expertise shapes everything — we thoroughly understand what acquisition-ready looks like, and that knowledge informs every process we run.
Experience on Both Sides of the Table.
Cantara's founder has operated pet resorts, acquired them through private equity-backed platforms, and consulted on large-cap transactions as an advisor to PE groups. That buy-side experience shapes how we prepare sellers — and how we run a process that works for serious acquirers.
Built for Speed, Efficiency, and Better Outcomes.
Cantara was purpose-built with state-of-the-art technology as a foundational platform — not retrofitted onto legacy processes. That means faster financial normalization, more consistent diligence materials, and a leaner transaction process. Both sellers and buyers benefit tremendously from our stream-lined process and efficiency.
Better Seller Economics. Smoother Deals.
Cantara's advisory fees run 3–4% lower than traditional pet resort M&A firms. When sellers keep more of their proceeds, transactions close with less friction — and both sides of the table benefit.
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Buyers We Work With
A transaction closes when both sides are qualified and serious. We maintain a network of qualified buyers and are always open to expanding our network.
Proven Capital
Demonstrated ability to fund and close transactions at the asset size we bring to market.
Operational Intent
A clear plan for the business post-close — including preservation of staff and operational culture where the seller has made this a priority.
Commitment to Close
A commitment to close the transaction in a timely manner with transparency, and cooperation.
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