This is what the private equity industry exists to do (particularly firms with strategies like distressed, roll-ups, take-privates, etc). They raise funds from

This is what the private equity industry exists to do (particularly firms with strategies like distressed, roll-ups, take-privates, etc). They raise funds from large pools of capital, like endowments and pension funds, and they invest it into assets they identify as undervalued or underproducing. When there is a crash in an asset class, private equity has often stepped in to buy assets at firesale prices from forced sellers.