Rural broadband infrastructure
Woody Creek Partners buys regional fiber and hybrid-fiber ISPs across the South Central and Southeast, and operates them as a shared platform, without taking their names off the trucks.
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Core states, plus adjacent and strategic markets alongside them.
In federal broadband grant awards led by our founder in prior operating roles.
Days from signed letter of intent to close. The process is built to hold that line.
Where we invest
Seven core states across the South Central and Southeast, and adjacent or strategically useful markets alongside them.
See what we buyFor owners
Owners want different things, and one structure cannot serve all of them. So we do not lead with a single offer. We put all three on the table and let the fit decide.
See how each one worksWe acquire the whole business and you step away on a timeline you set. No rollover, no earnout you have to stay for.
For an owner with a build to fund. A BEAD award to deliver or an expansion to finance, without the business carrying that risk alone. We take control and fund it; you roll forty-nine and keep running it.
Earnouts, real estate carve-outs, transition timelines, employment agreements. Most conversations end up here.
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Market analysis, federal programme mechanics, and the operating detail behind what these businesses are worth.
All insightsFive normalizations show up in almost every rural ISP transaction. Understanding them before you are in diligence is worth more than any negotiating tactic, because four of them can move the price and one of them is usually an error in the seller's favour that will not survive.
Read →The award announcement is the easy part. The subgrant agreement carries buildout milestones, pricing commitments and covenants that outlive the construction by years, and most owners have never read theirs line by line.
Read →Forty-two billion dollars is moving into rural markets. The money is available to everyone, but the ability to use it is not evenly distributed, and that asymmetry is doing more damage to independent providers than the competition itself.
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We built the process to respect that. Most conversations start with thirty minutes under an NDA, with no obligation on either side. From there we move at your pace.
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