About Care Acquire | Built by a Family in Care M&A

Our story

Built by a family who knows care M&A from the inside

Care Acquire exists to give care business owners and buyers what the old model never did: a direct, fair way to do the deal, without a broker taking a cut from the middle

Two generations in care M&A From building care businesses to building the place they change hands

01First generation

Built and ran care businesses

Our family built care businesses from the ground up and learned the sector from the inside

02Then

Acquired and grew

Years spent buying and growing care businesses, learning first-hand how these deals really get done

03Today

Built Care Acquire

We turned that experience into the marketplace we always wished existed

Why we built Care Acquire

We have experienced the full deal journey

Our family has spent two generations in mergers and acquisitions, specifically in the care sector. We have built care businesses from the ground up, acquired others and grown them, and sat across the table for the kinds of conversations this marketplace is built around.

Along the way, one thing kept standing out. The people who had spent decades building good care businesses were being steered through opaque processes by brokers who took a sizeable cut, while serious buyers struggled to find the right businesses at all. The value and the trust were being lost in the middle.

Care Acquire is our answer. A marketplace where verified buyers and sellers meet directly, keep more of what the deal is worth, and talk to each other as equals. It is the thing we wished existed every time we did a deal ourselves.

Hilton & Takunda Makawa, Founders

Our mission

Let people make deals on their own terms

We are in the middle of a generational transfer of ownership. Thousands of care businesses will change hands over the coming years, and the people behind them deserve a way to do it that is direct, fair and built around them, not around a broker's commission. That is the whole reason Care Acquire exists.

Why care, and why now

A sector with a rare, decades-long tailwind

Care is not just another industry to us. It is where our family has worked for two generations, and it happens to sit at the centre of one of the biggest ownership shifts of our time

Demand that keeps growing

By the 2070s, more than 22 million people in the UK will be over retirement age. Few sectors can point to such predictable, long-run demand for what they do

A generational handover

Around 1 million boomer-owned UK businesses are approaching a change of hands, many of them in care and many without a succession plan

A fragmented market

Care is made up of thousands of smaller businesses, which makes it ideal for buy-and-build and the owners who want to pass theirs on well

What we stand for

The principles behind the marketplace

Direct, always

Buyers and sellers deal with each other, not through a middleman who filters the conversation and takes a cut

Trust by verification

Everyone on the platform is personally checked, so every conversation starts on real, serious ground

Fair by design

The same 1% commission for both buyer and seller, far below the 5% to 10% brokers typically charge, so the value stays with the people who created it

Built for care

We understand the people, the regulation and the continuity that a care handover has to protect, because we have lived it

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Be part of the first wave

Whether you are ready to sell the business you built or to buy your next one, join the waitlist and be among the first on the marketplace when it opens

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The brokerless marketplace for buying and selling care businesses in the UK

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