Kalea
Co-Founder - Acquisitions & Operations
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About Us
Kalea is building an AI-native operating system for UK residential estate agency sales, acquiring small independent agencies, keeping the brand and the people who sell, and rebuilding everything behind them with AI that executes the work end to end.
We're not a SaaS company. We buy the business. The product side is already built: a working prototype covering the full transaction lifecycle, tested and refined through multiple rounds of real scrutiny.
What's missing is a co-founder to own the acquisitions side of the business, finding the right targets, building the relationships, and getting deals done.
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What You'll Actually Be Doing
- Sourcing acquisition targets, small, independent, profitable UK estate agencies, typically with a succession-minded principal
- Building relationships with business brokers, sellers, and referral sources
- Leading negotiation and deal structuring, vendor financing, earn-outs, seller-friendly terms that get deals done without institutional capital
- Working alongside me to close the first acquisition and build the playbook for the ones after it
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What We're Looking For
- Real experience sourcing and closing small UK business acquisitions — search fund background, PE deal experience, or equivalent
- SME-scale deals specifically, not large corporate M&A
- Comfortable being the person who finds the deal and gets it over the line, not just advising on one
- Genuine fluency with UK small business acquisition mechanics, including TUPE
Early stage. No institutional funding in place, financing structured deal by deal, through vendor terms and direct investment.
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