Long-term acquirer of UK technical businesses
Great businesses deserve great successors.
Orvane Group is a long-term acquirer of UK technical businesses — metrology, calibration, energy, data infrastructure and SaaS — buying £2–5M revenue companies from founders planning their succession, and keeping them. Each one is run from week one by an operator partner who holds real equity, and there is no exit clock.
The four sectors we buy in
Before you look for our track record
The first one
Most acquirers open with a wall of portfolio logos. We have none, because no acquisition has completed yet.
We would rather tell you that here than have you work it out on page three. What sits in that space instead is everything we are prepared to be held to before the first deal: the criteria in full, the ninety-day plan in writing, how fast we reply, and the conditions under which we walk away.
If you are a founder, it means your business would be the first. That deserves a direct question, and you will get a direct answer.
Reserved · empty until completion
Portfolio
This space is kept for the businesses we acquire. This space fills only once a sale has completed and the founder has agreed to be named.
- The business, its sector and its town
- The year it joined, and who runs it now
- What changed in the first ninety days, and what didn’t
The portfolio and case-study pages join the navigation on the day the first acquisition completes.
The model
How the model works, including the line that sets us apart.
You sell to us. A sector-specialist operator partner, who owns a meaningful share, runs the business from week one. And you stay connected for as long as you want to be.
The dashed line is the part brokers and private equity do not draw. A broker’s job ends at completion. Most private equity plans its exit on the day it buys. Ours is designed to carry on.
Start where you are
Which of these sounds like you?
Operator
You run a business you don't own.
Years of running someone else’s company, and the equity question keeps getting deferred. Here is an honest account of the routes, including ours.
Adviser or introducer
You need to know in two minutes if we fit.
Criteria, deal structures and a candid comparison with the other buyers your client will meet. A substantive reply within 24 hours.
Founder
You built it. You want it to outlast the sale.
What happens to your team, your customers and your name, and the ninety-day plan we put in writing before you sign anything.
Operations
Your operation needs fixing, not selling.
Outcome-led consulting for businesses whose processes have outgrown the few people holding them together.
What's different
Three things you won't get from a broker or private equity.
01
An operator from week one
Every business is run by a sector-specialist operator partner who owns a meaningful share of it. You meet them before you sign, and they are in the building in week one, not after a search.
02
No exit clock
Private equity sells on a timetable set by its own investors. We buy for the long term, so decisions are made for the business rather than for a sale date.
03
The work starts after completion
Twelve years of operational transformation across five countries goes into the business after the sale: how work flows, how it is measured, what it runs on. Not into the pitch before it.
What we buy
The criteria, in brief.
Published in full so an adviser can check fit in two minutes, and a founder doesn’t have to ask.
Revenue
£2–5M
Annual turnover
Profitability
EBITDA +
Profitable at the operating level
Ownership
Owner-run
Founder or family managed
Geography
UK-wide
Anywhere in the United Kingdom
Founder timeline
12–36 mo
Exiting fully or partly over this period
Larger, or just outside the five sectors? If the business is technical, profitable and owner-managed, talk to us anyway. We’ll tell you quickly, and plainly, whether it fits.
Slot A · Founder portrait
4:5 Warm, slightly desaturated, photographed in a real working environment.
Enrique, founder. Every first conversation is with him.
What we commit to
Held to it before the first deal, in writing.
01
A substantive reply within 24 hours
On working days, from the person who would be in the room. An answer to what you asked, not an acknowledgement.
02
Every stage explained before it starts
What we will ask for, why, and what happens next. No surprises in the data request, and no pressure dressed up as process.
03
Published walk-away conditions
The circumstances in which we will not buy, set out before we have met you, so neither of us wastes months finding out.
Insights
Answers to the questions buyers usually leave alone.
Transformation
Learn why the same process change lands differently in the UK, US, Germany, France and China, and how to set three levers for each site before launch.
15 October 2026
Transformation
A guide for technical leaders in small businesses: size each change before planning it, walk people through their new day and stop the team sliding back to the old process.
Operations
Learn why improving one step can slow the whole business, and run three pre-project checks covering the constraint, buffers and know-how before approving your next improvement.
Start with a conversation, not a document.
No NDA, no data room, no pitch deck. Tell us where you are, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right route. If we’re not, we’ll say who might be.
One letter a month, written to be useful.
What we’re learning about succession, ownership and running a technical business well. No deal announcements dressed up as news, and you can leave with one click.