The strength of partnerships
Founder-driven. Built for vending entrepreneurs.
We bring founder-led vending, micro market, and breakroom companies together. Each one is still run by the person who built it, under its own name. We own them together and run them as one operating partnership.
350+Team members across the group, on routes and behind them.
425,000+Square feet of warehouse behind the routes.Start here
Two ways in.
Two kinds of people land on this page. Owners who built a vending or breakroom company, and the people who need one in their building. Both start here.
Own a vending or breakroom company?
For operators
There is still runway in your market, and a group of operators who have been where you are. Capital, purchasing, technology, and a back office behind you. You keep running the company under your own name.
How it works
Need breakroom service?
For workplaces
Micro markets, vending, smart coolers, coffee, pantry, and water, installed and serviced by a local operator in the group. No equipment cost for most locations.
See breakroom service
The Alliance difference
You have not run out of market. You have run out of hours.
Most owners we talk to still have accounts to win, a town you could serve with one more truck, and equipment they have wanted for two years. What ran out is the time and the capital to go after all of it alone. Alliance adds the capital, the purchasing, the technology, and the back office, so the runway already in your market is yours to use. It also adds a group of operators who are as into this business as you are. Every one of them is on the same call each week, testing something, sharing what worked, and pushing for the next account. Nobody in the group thinks the business is finished. Here is how you know there is still runway left.
From an owner in the group
“We didn’t really sell our business. They believed in what we built and made it stronger.”
Founder, joined 2025. Still running the company he started 18 years ago.
Who is behind Alliance
Who is behind Alliance.
Alliance is a small team that came up through finance, accounting, strategy, and vending operations. We work to five values we call S.E.R.V.E.: service, excellence, responsibility, value, and entrepreneurship. We are backed by Shore Capital Partners, a Chicago firm that invests in microcap businesses. Inc. has named Shore to its Founder-Friendly Investors list seven years running, and in 2026 had 24 companies listed on the Inc. 5000 list.
- Independent board of directors with field operations experience
- Operators run their own P&L and lead their own teams
- The same people stay with you from the first call through close
If you are stepping away
Some owners want out. That is a different deal.
If you're looking for a clean exit at close, we can also go down that path. We have a structured 90-day handoff with our team so the business transitions smoothly. Say so on the first call and we will start there.
Start a conversation
Let us learn about your team.
Thirty minutes. We ask about your business and your people. You ask us anything. No documents, no valuation, and no obligation to have a second call.
- Confidential both ways. We both sign before any numbers change hands.
- Nothing you send is binding
- A reply within one business day