Closing Europe’s succession gap.
Across Europe, hundreds of thousands of profitable, founder-led companies face the same quiet problem: the owner is approaching retirement with no identified successor. These businesses rarely reach a broker — they simply fade, or change hands through word of mouth.
nextowner exists to surface them. We centralise company and ownership data, score each business for the likelihood of a transition gap, and rank the opportunity — so investors and advisors can originate proprietary, off-market deals before the rest of the market even knows they exist.
Discover, score, act
Three steps from fragmented public data to a ranked, actionable pipeline.
Discover
Aggregate company and ownership data from official registries and public sources, then autonomously source off-market businesses with a probable succession gap.
Score
Rank each company with a transparent Succession Score, and — in discovery — a separate Succession Likelihood Score that asks only: is there an ownership-transition gap?
Act
Save the searches that define your mandate, get alerted on new matches, and build buy-and-build roll-up theses in the Consolidation Studio.
Expanding across Europe, market by market
Coverage rolls out in phases. Figures and later phases are roadmap targets, not current coverage.
North star · 100k+ companies assessed across Europe
Personal data, handled responsibly
We profile businesses — and, narrowly, the people who run them. That carries real responsibility, and we treat it as a differentiator, not an afterthought.
Lawful basis
Limited personal data (e.g. a founder's role and approximate age) is processed under legitimate interest — GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) — balanced against data-subject rights, for the legitimate purpose of M&A origination.
Provenance transparency
Every personal-data field stores its source, source URL, and lawful basis. Retirement-window estimates are labelled model-derived prioritisation signals — never assertions of intent.
Human in the loop
Autonomously sourced businesses are reviewed by a person before they enter the live database. No special-category data is ever inferred or stored.
Your rights
Data subjects can request access, correction, or erasure. We will maintain an Art. 30 record of processing and honour data-subject requests.
A full privacy notice and DPIA/LIA documentation will be maintained separately and made available at launch.
The details
- Legal entity
- Nextowner B.V.
- Registered office
- Registered office address — TODO
- Contact
- hello@nextowner.com
Placeholder details — to be confirmed before launch
See succession intelligence in action.
Book a walkthrough and we'll show you how nextowner fits your origination workflow.
- 30-minute walkthrough
- GDPR-first, provenance-tracked
- No commitment