We believe you should learn from mistakes. Ours.
Vivero was founded to give mid-market entrepreneurs the guidance, support and capital we wish we'd had when we were in the founder's chair: accelerating growth, avoiding the unforced errors, and capturing the equity value that's already in the business.
Our story
Built by operators, for operators.
Vivero exists for the moment the playbook stops working. We've been in the chair ourselves: running the businesses, raising the capital, hiring the teams, navigating the exits. The advice is grounded because of it, and we know which calls cost you eighteen months you can't get back.
We focus on UK mid-market consulting and technology services firms: companies that have proved their model and now need to industrialise growth, evolve their proposition, or prepare for transaction. Our work spans strategy, execution partnership, and M&A advisory.
At the heart of how we work sits the Vivero Equity Blueprint, a seven-pillar framework for diagnosing and accelerating the value drivers that actually matter at exit.
Every transaction we've worked on has completed successfully. That record is a byproduct of how we've built the business — senior-led, direct when it matters, boutique by design — and of treating every client as a partner, not a supplier.
Operator-led, multi-lens
Different lenses, on purpose.
Operator instinct is the spine. It's why the advice is grounded and why the plans survive contact with reality.
What gives the work its range is the set of lenses we deliberately put next to it: M&A, financial diligence, people and organisation, sector depth, investor.
The point is not the individuals. The point is the interaction. The same business looked at from six different lenses, each rooted in operator reality, produces a sharper plan than any one lens could alone.
These lenses sit alongside the seven pillars of our Growth & Value Diagnostic, the lenses are how we look at a business; the pillars are what we measure.
Six lenses, one room
What the team brings, collectively.
Operating
01Founders and scalers. Built, run and sold consulting and technology businesses across data, digital transformation and managed services.
Corporate finance & M&A
02Buy-side, sell-side, fundraising and private equity. The transactional muscle that turns a value-creation plan into a closed deal.
Financial diligence
03Chartered, mid-market diligence experience. We see the questions buyers will ask before they ask them, and the structural fixes that move the multiple.
People & organisation
04Twenty-five years across HR transformation, talent and the people side of scaling. The pillar that compounds and the one most often left until last.
Sector depth
05Consulting and technology services, exclusively. Across management consulting, data, digital transformation and managed services. We work in one sector and we know it.
Investor lens
06We have written cheques as well as raised them. The way we frame your equity story is the way the buyer universe will hear it.
Backed by an extended bench of associate partners and practitioners we draw on for specialist work. Always senior, always relevant, always already in the sector.
How we work
Three principles we won't compromise on.
Operator-led
01We've sat in your seat. Every partner has built, scaled or exited a business, so the advice is grounded, not theoretical.
Honest and direct
02We tell you what we see, including the things you'd rather not hear. Polite consulting platitudes don't move the value dial.
Outcome-aligned
03We measure ourselves on the value we help you create. Long relationships beat short engagements, every time.
If you're curious.
No agenda, no pitch. A short conversation, always free, always frank, usually useful even if we never end up working together.
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