JP Lewin

CEO Foundy: sell & acquire £100k to £15m revenue businesses via Foundy.com's first of its kind AI powered acquisition portal | You no longer need 5 separate tools and 4 advisors, Foundy has all in one portal.

22 acquisitions completed. Recent client received 4 offers in a month and sold in 9 weeks to a YC-backed buyer for a multi-7-figure cash sum. 12,000+ acquirers signed up.

My Story
After selling my first company, I realized M&A is broken. Tens of thousands spent on advisors, months wasted on tire-kickers. I built DealFlowAgent to fix it.

What I Do
I run an AI-native M&A advisory firm with a world-first conversational AI matchmaking engine. Think Boardy or JackandJill.AI but focussed on matchmaking business buyers to business sellers. 4000% higher liklihood of completing a successful deal through this method compared to a marketplace. 

How? Our AI Deal Origination Manager on the buy side, Sterling, has 15 minute conversations with acquirers to understand their unique search interests and criteria before matching them with sellers in our internal mandates or partner network and beyond. Every sell-side client gets an expert human advisory team plus a custom-trained Deal Concierge that becomes a deep expert in your business and process. Human + AI delivers investment bank-grade deal prep from start to completion.


How I Can Help
Business Owners: Thinking about selling in 1-36 months? Head to DealFlowAgent.com for a personalised list of active acquirers, then chat with our Exit Planning AI, Sage, to build your exit plan and improve your company's real valuation. 

Acquirers & Investors: Sterling is free. 15-minute conversation, then receive tailored deal flow matched to you.
M&A Advisors & Brokers: Upload your mandates and let our network find qualified acquirers.

The Vision
Give owner the highest probability of a successful exit with the right buyer
Become the default M&A infrastructure for 1m to 50m $/ £ M&A market. Relationships and real conversations can't be scraped by generic AI. Every Sterling conversation compounds into a proprietary advantage. 

Following recent traction, we've raised from an amazing group of investors including the former CTO of a fintech that scaled 0 to $1bn revenue and a term sheet from a fund with 30 + unicorns in the Partners Portfolio.

Based in London, frequently in New York. If you've made it this far, we should probably just talk. Send me a Direct Message.

Founder and CEO

Foundy has overhauled the acquisition process for tech business sellers and acquirers. We are specialists in helping founders ready their business for an exit, including preparing their data room and finding relevant acquirers. Alternatively, founders and buyers can use our platform for free on a self-serve basis if they prefer. 

Buyer accounts include representatives of large tech companies, private equity and software aggregators as well as acquisition entrepreneurs and family offices. Sellers include founders of mostly profitable online businesses in verticals such as SaaS, fintech, mobile apps, marketplaces, eCommerce, Amazon FBA, Web3 and AI but we are very much open to hearing from companies in other sectors and industries, as well as distressed businesses. 

Alongside a range of digital tools and M&A advisory services, I am helping my team to produce podcasts, tutorials and blogs with the intention of delivering helpful insights and tips to company leaders, buyers and aspiring entrepreneurs on their journey to exit 💵

Join today by creating a free and anonymous account or sign up to our newsletter on https://app.foundy.com/sign-up

Joe Lewin

There's something about a good founder dinner.

Last night was one of those. Only a handful of people in the room. The conversation was one of the best I've had in a while. A mix of exited founders, someone about to close an 8-figure seed round, another who joined a startup at seed stage and drove it to a $400m + valuation before starting his own thing, people from HSBC Innovation Banking supporting the ecosystem, a few others in stealth.

What I loved most: it was one of the few rooms where I didn't feel the need to self-deprecate. Talking about big ambitions and scale felt normal, not out of place. That's rare in the UK.

The conversation that stuck: why does the UK offer so much less breathing room for entrepreneurs to start, scale, stumble, and then succeed?

I remember my school having adverts at local train stations showing a split screen. A kid studying hard then the same person a decade or so later working in middle management. Caption: "A Stable Future." Nobody put up a poster of someone who built something from nothing.

The US has produced over 800 unicorns. The UK has approximately 55. The US is only 4.8x bigger by population. So what explains the rest of that gap?

The American Dream is a real cultural force. The British equivalent is... "don't get too big for your boots."

Can you reverse engineer a culture? What would you even change first? 

Big thanks to Jonathon, Jenni, Kofi and Misha, HSBC Innovation Banking and Google Cloud.

#Founders #UKBusiness #Entrepreneurship

Joe Lewin 

Founder | DealFlowAgent.com | Helping founders exit & buyers access deal flow | £/$1m to 50m Evergreen businesses (inc. home services & healthcare)

The seed investors behind Uber, Notion, and Canva just backed my company.

Partners of Long Journey Ventures include Arielle Zuckerberg, Pascal Levy-Garboua, Lee Jacobs, Cyan and Scott Banister. Angels include a founding employee of banking software giant, Temenos.

The vision has always been clear, but the technology to truly modernise this highly fragmented process didn't exist until recently. We've built a vertically integrated M&A process for business owners in the £1M to £30M range.

10,000 baby boomer business owners retire every day. Buyers spray thousands of cold emails hoping to find hidden gems. Owners don't know who to trust or who will protect what they've built.

The most sought after companies going forward? Evergreen, essential businesses. HVAC, care homes, pest control, plumbing, fire safety, specialist clinics. Stable, cash-generative, and experiencing unprecedented demand from PE funds, search funds, and roll-up aggregators. The owners who built them deserve a proper process.

DealFlowAgent is the first AI-native M&A advisory firm covering the UK + US. We empower our advisers with vertical AI agents and conversational AI tools. More qualified acquirer connections. More offers. Better deal terms. Shorter timelines.

The human adviser isn't going anywhere. At this level, relationships and judgment will always matter.

22 transactions completed. PE funds, search funds, and strategic acquirers are joining every week looking for deal flow.

If you know a business owner in home services, healthcare, essential services, or vertical SaaS thinking about what comes next, send this to them privately.

That's exactly who we built this for.

And if you're a founder, investor, acquirer, or adviser who's seen this problem up close, I'd love to hear your take in the comments.

Funding announcement for DealFlowAgent

There are 20,000 letting agencies in the UK. Many have been around for decades.

Within 2 years, Dwelly has reached the top 15. 

Huge congrats to Dan, Ilia and the team on their $93M raise. It's been great seeing the company grow. Dwelly is a textbook AI-enabled roll-up: acquire independent property agencies, integrate their best-in-class AI operating system, and deliver a service the incumbents simply cannot match.

The results speak for themselves. Maintenance resolution times cut from 50 days to 20. Time to find a tenant down from three weeks to under two. An average of 10 validated offers per property where a traditional agency might generate one or two.

The same opportunity exists across the trade services that surround homes and commercial property. Pest control, fire safety, HVAC, roofing, landscaping, roofing. Fragmented but essential to the backbone of society and largely untouched by technology. 

There are serious buyers actively looking to acquire and scale in these niches. And for the owners building these businesses, the right partner can take what you've built to a level that would be very hard to reach alone.

Dwelly is the proof of what's possible when you get it right.

What are your predictions for 2026? Which sector do you think is next?

#MergersandAcquisitions #AI #TradeServices #PrivateEquity #UKBusiness #Acquisitions

Dan Lifshits, Ilia Drozdov, Dwelly

Dwelly Co-Founder 🏡 | ex-Gett GM 🚕 | ex-McKinsey 🤓

Today, we're announcing $93M in funding for Dwelly, led by General Catalyst , with participation from Begin Capital, s16vc - Founders for Founders Fund, and Trinity Capital. 

Huge thanks to Marc Bhargava, Zeynep Yavuz-Willson, Hemant Taneja and Jeannette zu Fürstenberg at General Catalyst, and Emmett Ulian, James Newton and Craig Fox at Trinity Capital for supporting us.

There are over 20,000 letting agencies across the UK, many of which still rely on manual processes, phone-based coordination, and traditional decision-making approaches. In a £100B market, this can sometimes lead to delays — with tenants occasionally waiting weeks for relatively minor maintenance issues to be resolved.

Dwelly is an AI-powered roll-up designed to modernise this sector. We acquire independent letting agencies and integrate them into our AI operating system, helping streamline operations, improve responsiveness, and enhance service quality.

Importantly, we don’t replace what makes these agencies valuable. We preserve their local brands, relationships, and expertise — while equipping teams with technology that enables to operate more efficiently and deliver a better experience for landlords and tenants alike.

→ Top 15 UK letting agent in under 2 years
→ 10,000+ properties under management
→ £200m in rental roll
→ 10x more validated applications per property, hence letting times cut by a third
→ Maintenance times down 33% (with a clear path to 70%+ reduction)

That’s the product we’re building. Clearer, merit-based matching for tenants and landlords. Fewer manual steps for agents and less time wasted for everyone involved.

You can read more about our vision on Fortune, thanks to a brilliant interview by Jeremy Kahn.

Also, we’re hiring! All across the board - from engineers and product managers, to integrations and operations, with many other roles available: https://lnkd.in/dAiuanu8

CEO @ Corner Alliance | Author @ The Small Business Mentor

I spent 17 years and $200K+ hunting through every business course, mastermind, and guru to find the nuggets that actually work.

EOS? Implemented it. Scaling Up? Read it. EO/YPO? Joined both.

The result? 10,000+ hours distilled into OwnerRx - the AI coach that knows every framework, every playbook, every shortcut.

What it took me years and big dollars to learn, OwnerRx delivers in seconds for a fraction of the cost.

Alan Pentz

My scheduling tool charged me $35 a month. Then I asked to change the bot's name to my business name.

New price: $145 a month. A $110 jump. For a string change.

Something snapped.

I built my own scheduling assistant in about an hour with Claude Code. I call it Remi. 4,300 lines of Python. 155 tests. Handles email proposals, follow-ups, calendar invites, Zoom links. The whole thing.

It works. It actually works well.

I call this spite coding. Like Larry David's spite store on Curb Your Enthusiasm. A SaaS company pushes you just far enough that you fire up an AI coding tool and say "I bet I can build this myself."

This is bigger than my scheduling beef.

$285 billion evaporated from software stocks in a single week this month. Seat-based pricing has dropped from 21% to 15% of SaaS companies in twelve months. The dead SaaS playbook of gating basic features behind premium tiers is breaking.

Because now your customers can see the code. They can build alternatives in a morning. The leverage has shifted.

But here's the thing. There's a cautionary part to this story that I didn't expect.

Full breakdown in my newsletter ↓

Owner @ OwnerRx.com | OwnerRx uses battle-tested playbooks from decades of building and coaching SMBs to create AI agents that run your business for you. | Read my newsletter 👇

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