Proprietary deal origination for active acquirers
Deal flow built for one acquirer.
Cavella is a buyside origination firm for holding companies, operator-led platforms, independent sponsors, and lower middle market private equity. We map the buy box, reach owners who have not hired a broker, and hold the first calls ourselves.
Discuss a mandate How a search runs
Formerly Sequence Advisory
Buyside origination for active acquirers
No retainer and no monthly fee.
Paid only when a sourced acquisition closes.
One mandate per sector and territory.
A search that starts before the sale process does.
Listed and banked deals reach every buyer in the sector at the same time, and the price is set in an auction. Cavella starts earlier, with a thesis-driven search dedicated to one acquirer and aimed at owners who have not engaged a broker.
The engine covers more than 3 million US businesses and builds the target universe from primary sources: state filings, permits, licensing boards, recent announcements, customer reviews, and hiring data. Every company is ranked against your buy box. A person decides who is worth a call, and each business is researched before a personalized note goes out.
- One mandate, one acquirer
- The deal lead on every owner call
- A written brief before you meet
- Four weeks to test the fit
Signals the search tracks
- Founder age
- License and ownership changes
- Second-generation hand-offs
- Key-person departures
Also lapsed renewals, litigation, and recent announcements.
The difference
Three things that decide who reaches your table.
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One mandate, one acquirer
Sector, size, geography, deal type, and deal-breakers are set in one working session. We run one search per sector and territory, so a company we surface goes to you alone. Companies already in your pipeline stay outside the fee.
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The deal lead on every owner call
The founder of a long-held family business does not open up to a script. There is no offshore call center, no dialer, and no appointment setter. Won Hwang, a former investment banker and private equity investor, holds every owner conversation himself. He can speak to succession, valuation, and what a sale means for employees, and he sets no price expectations before you are introduced.
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A written brief before you meet
Before any introduction, we confirm size, revenue mix, and ownership, review initial financials, and check that the owner intends to sell. You receive a written brief on each one: what the owner wants, and who else has approached them. It is screened the way an investment committee would screen it.
Who the mandates are for
Repeat acquirers of founder-owned businesses.
Holding companies, operator-led platforms, independent sponsors, and lower middle market private equity firms making repeat acquisitions of founder-owned and family-owned businesses, typically with $2 million to $50 million of revenue, in services, trades, manufacturing, distribution, and software. Platform searches and add-ons alike.
A first engagement
Four weeks to test the fit.
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Day 1
One working session to set the buy box and carve out the names already in your pipeline.
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Weeks 1 to 4
The target universe, the outreach, and a pipeline update every week. Every owner call is ours.
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As owners surface
A written brief on each qualified owner, then the introduction. At week 4 you decide whether to extend. We stay involved through the letter of intent.
Bring the buy box.
The first working session gives the search its edges. From there the weekly pipeline update is the record, and the fee waits for a closing.
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