Industries
Coverage built around your thesis.
We do not run one generic playbook across every market. Each sector has its own ownership patterns, its own signals that mean an owner is ready, and its own way of being reached. We map the vertical, translate the thesis into targeting logic, and watch the triggers that matter where you invest. Five sectors below, each a dedicated coverage page.
What we watch
The signals that mean an owner is ready
Readiness is not in any single database. We monitor a defined set of events continuously, then weight them per vertical, because what predicts a sale in healthcare is not what predicts one in manufacturing.
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Ownership
Founder tenure, age, and succession gaps. The signs that the person who built the business is starting to think about life after it.
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Succession
No clear next generation, a retiring partner, or leadership turnover at the top. The structural reasons a transaction becomes likely.
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Growth
Hiring surges, new locations, capacity expansion, and funding events. Momentum that makes a business both attractive and approachable.
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Market
Consolidation in the segment, nearby exits, and roll-up activity. The context that tells an owner the window is open now.
Five sectors, one engine
Each page goes deeper on the thesis, the proof, and the exact triggers we monitor. Healthcare leads because it is where the longest track record sits.
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Healthcare
A fragmented field of owner-operated practices, clinics, and ancillary providers, most of them never formally on the market.
Triggers watchedPractice owner age and retirement, partner succession, group affiliation moves, payor and reimbursement shifts, expansion into new sites.
133 founder conversations in 90 days, Merritt Healthcare Advisors
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Home and facility services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, dental, and similar owner-operated trades, the dense roll-up territory where the operator is the business.
Triggers watchedHome and facility coverageFounder approaching retirement, no internal successor, multi-location expansion, fleet and headcount growth, recent regional consolidation.
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Industrials and manufacturing
Specialised manufacturers and industrial suppliers, often family-held for decades, where succession is the most common reason to talk.
Triggers watchedIndustrials coverageGenerational ownership transitions, capacity and plant investment, new equipment and hiring, customer concentration shifts, sector roll-ups.
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Business and IT services
Managed services, software-enabled providers, and specialist agencies, recurring-revenue businesses with founders who built fast and think about exit early.
Triggers watchedBusiness services coverageFounder tenure and exit signals, recurring-revenue scale, key-client dependency, hiring and funding events, competitor acquisitions.
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Consumer and multi-site
Multi-location consumer and retail operators, brands and franchises where unit growth and operator fatigue both signal a moment to move.
Triggers watchedConsumer coverageNew-unit openings, franchise and territory expansion, founder tenure, brand momentum, and nearby exits in the same format.
Tell us the thesis. We will tell you the coverage.
Thirty minutes on the sector you invest in, the owners you want to reach, and the signals worth watching there. If your vertical is not listed above, the engine still maps it; the list is where the track record runs deepest.
Confidential, and handled by the team that would run your mandate. Or read how the engine works, or the solutions for private equity and M&A advisors, first.