Acquiring & Operating Exceptional UK Small Businesses
Clamshell Capital is on a mission to acquire and operate outstanding owner-managed businesses across the UK, ensuring that the founders' legacies endure, and providing a platform for growth through data-driven operations and culture-first leadership.
With a buy-and-hold, stronger-together philosophy, we’re assembling a small group of complementary B2B services companies. Bringing fresh energy and digital know-how, while giving founders an empathetic exit partner and a permanent home for their life’s work.
Who We Are
Clamshell Capital is a founder-led search and acquisition firm. We bring the hard-won lessons of starting, scaling and exiting to every conversation, having worn every hat you’ve worn in your own business.
Exited Founder
to Growth Partner
Built by Entrepreneurs,
For Entrepreneurs
We understand your journey intimately because we've walked it ourselves. Having grown our own businesses from concept and startup to scale-up and successful exit, we appreciate the vision, dedication, and passion it takes. We're here to ensure your legacy thrives long into the future
- Let's Talk Succession
Founder-to-Founder
Mindset
You deal directly with entrepreneurs who have walked in your shoes, no layers of analysts or committees.
Legacy
Guardianship
We safeguard brand, people and culture while adding fresh energy, systems and resources.
Permanent
Horizon
We buy to hold, rather than flipping to private equity, to ensure the business endures and can thrive long-term.
“I’ve lived the founder journey... quitting a corporate tech job for the excitement and uncertainty of starting my own business, growing it to a multi-site group with over 120 employees before successfully exiting after 15 (long) years. Now we're searching for incredible businesses to champion, so its story (and yours) continues to inspire its people and its partners to reach for new goals.”
Ferdie Ahmed
Principal Director
CLAMSHELL CAPITAL
How We Work
Discover & Align
We start with confidential conversations to understand your goals, culture and the heartbeat of the business, ensuring our values and vision match.
Agree & Close
We present a straightforward, fair valuation with flexible terms. We handle due diligence and completion smoothly, giving you the choice to stay involved or step back.
Operate & Grow
We step in as owner-operators post-acquisition, protecting jobs and relationships, injecting fresh capital and data-driven thinking, and reinvesting profits to compound long-term value.
Let's Explore
Possibilities Together
Please get in touch for a confidential conversation on how we could be part of your succession story.
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