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Industrial
- 01Business
- Manufacturing, machining, assembly, industrial services
- 02Size
- €5–50m revenue, profitable
- 03Team
- 20–250 people
- 04Owner
- Founder or family, looking for succession or a growth partner
The next chapter for Europe's industrial and service companies.
Seeve becomes partner and co-owner of established industrial and service SMEs, and applies AI where the work is repetitive, heavy or hard to staff.
- Today
- Mapped
- Automated
+ Room to grow
Who we partner with
Two kinds of companies. One kind of owner.
Someone who built something that should last, and is ready for its next chapter.
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Services
- 01Business
- B2B services: installation, maintenance, engineering, field service
- 02Size
- €3–30m revenue, profitable
- 03Team
- 15–200 people
- 04Owner
- Founder or family, looking for succession or a growth partner
Who wins
01
You, the owner
Your company continues under your name. Sell all or part, stay involved or step back. Your choice.
02
Your team and next leader
The work gets lighter where it is heavy or repetitive. The next leader grows into the role with us beside them.
03
Your customers
The same people and the same quality, with more capacity. Shorter lead times and room for new orders.
Majority or minority
We take a majority or a minority stake. You decide your role; we bring capital, technology and hands-on operating support.
Thesis
Why now
450,000
European businesses, together employing 2 million people, change hands every year. Up to 150,000 of those transfers fail.
European Commission, Business Dynamics study (2011)
01 · Europe needs its SMEsEurope's industrial strength sits in companies most people have never heard of.
Small and mid-sized companies make most of what Europe builds and keep most of its people at work. Many of the best are run by owners who started them thirty or forty years ago. The companies are healthy; what they lack is a plan for the next thirty.
02 · Skilled people are getting scarceThe constraint is no longer demand. It is hands and know-how.
The orders are there. The people to deliver them are harder to find every year, and the ones who know the work best are retiring. Hiring alone will not close that gap.
03 · Many owners have no successorA life’s work deserves a better answer than the highest bid.
Children choose other paths, managers lack the capital, and the usual buyers optimise for the next exit. Too many good companies end up sold to the highest bidder, or simply close.
04 · The technology is ready; applying it is hardTechnology only matters when someone does the work of making it fit.
Robotics and AI have matured faster than most companies can absorb them. The hard part is not the software but knowing where it helps, and doing the work to make it fit.
How we work
From first conversation to plan in 2 to 4 weeks.
2–4weeks
from first conversation to plan
We listen to your story and your plans.
We walk the floor and get to know your people.
Where is the repetitive, heavy and hard-to-staff work?
A clear proposal: majority or minority, your role and ours.
A concrete plan at your pace. Stay involved or step back.
How AI works inside the business
Where the work is repetitive, heavy or hard to staff.
In production, that can mean robotics. In every company, it means AI in planning, quoting, scheduling and administration. We start where it helps most, and earn the right to do more.
- More capacity with the same team
- Room for new orders
- Quote requestAutomated
- Drafted by agentAutomated
- Approved by managerManual
- Scheduled on the machineAssisted
- InvoicedAutomated
Sales
Planning
Production
Warehouse
Admin
- 05AutonomousRuns end to end; people set goals and limits.
- 04Long-runningHandles a whole process over days; people handle exceptions.
- 03BackgroundRuns routine tasks on its own; people review the results.
- 02Co-workDoes the work with a person checking each step.Where most partners start
- 01AssistMakes suggestions; people decide and do.
Who we are
seeve was founded by entrepreneurs who have built, scaled and sold industrial and technology companies.
For investors
Seeve is building a group of industrial and service companies, one partnership at a time. We are in the thesis stage and talking to investors with a long horizon.
Get in touchCurious what AI and automation could mean for your company?
A conversation, owner to owner.