Transfer your IT services firm to an operator team that protects the DNA, secures the teams, and accelerates the trajectory.
Next Valor Partners acquires profitable IT services firms and develops them with a highly hands-on approach: strengthening the fundamentals (margin, performance management, sales ops), industrializing delivery, and moving up the value chain in offerings. We invest with a long-term development horizon and commit to a structured, respectful integration.
Target IT services firms
We focus on firms where a transition can create a double win: continuity for teams and acceleration for the business.
Solid fundamentals and a durable client base.
- Proven profitability (positive EBITDA)
- Strong reputation in a segment or geography
- Stable team, controlled delivery
Premium, differentiated offerings with strong upgrade potential.
- Data / Analytics / Applied AI
- Cloud & application modernization
- Cybersecurity & governance
- Platforms & integration
You are anticipating a key milestone: succession, growth, structuring.
- Founder planning an organized exit
- Need to strengthen sales ops / management
- Desire to accelerate through synergies and a platform
What we bring
A services platform and PE-grade methods supporting operator-led execution: margin, growth, delivery, talent.
Pipeline structure, targeting, offers, bid quality, operating rhythms.
- Commercial cadence & pipeline governance
- Bid management & industrialized responses
- Upsell / cross-sell across entities
Simple steering, useful KPIs, and execution discipline.
- Pricing uplift & gross margin improvement
- Utilization / staffing optimization
- Controlling & actionable reporting
Industrialize without degrading: standards, quality, capitalization.
- Delivery standardization & tooling
- Quality, client satisfaction, playbooks
- Offer upgrading & packaging
Collaborative transfer trajectory
Value creation starts before signing. We prepare the transition with the founder to ensure a smooth, readable, and respectful handover.
Before signing, we already work together to prepare what comes next without disrupting ongoing operations.
- Understanding the story, culture, and key balances
- Alignment on key issues and sensitivities
- Mapping critical clients, offerings, and teams
- Preparing post-signing messages (teams / clients)
- Joint definition of first-month priorities
The first weeks focus on operational continuity, trust-building, and field observation.
- Joint communication to teams and key clients
- Maintaining existing ways of working initially
- Observing rituals, delivery, and performance management
- Validating strengths and attention points
- Installing a light, shared governance
Once stability is secured, we co-build with the teams the first improvement levers.
- Progressively structuring steering and operating rhythms
- Improving sales practices and pipeline follow-up
- Targeted delivery and staffing optimizations
- Sharing group methods and tools
- First synergies where it makes sense
The company is aligned, tooled, and ready to accelerate on a shared trajectory.
- Validating a 12–24 month development plan
- Clarifying the founder’s role over time
- Optional rollout of group synergies
- Offer upgrading where relevant
- Preparing the next growth steps
The transition is prepared, decisions are built together, and the transformation is progressive — without disruption.
- Prepare before transforming
- Observe before deciding
- Strengthen before accelerating
- Execute with the teams
By strategic choice, we avoid any brutal actions in the early phases to preserve operations, talent, and client relationships.
- No massive restructuring
- No rushed rebranding
- No excessive centralization
- No decisions disconnected from operations
Founder role – 100 days
Successful integration relies on clear, respectful, structured collaboration with the founder. The role is central, without being constraining.
The founder is key to initial stability: enabling continuity and legitimizing the new governance.
- Joint message to key teams
- Formal introductions to strategic clients
- Sharing the story, culture, and “unspoken” realities
- Identifying organizational strengths and fragilities
The founder supports structuring efforts while beginning a calm, progressive step-back.
- Co-arbitration on commercial and operational priorities
- Handover of sensitive client relationships
- Targeted support on structuring decisions
- Clarification of new roles and responsibilities
Governance is fully operational, and the founder contributes within an agreed framework.
- Full relay of day-to-day management
- Advisor / ambassador / board member role
- Validation of the 12–24 month growth plan
- Progressive exit or clarified long-term role
The founder’s role is defined upfront to avoid any gray areas.
- Scope, cadence, and duration explicitly framed
- No abrupt or symbolic sidelining
- Respect for the story and the teams
- Transition adapted to the founder’s wishes
The relationship with the founder must be a partnership. Even if it evolves, its expected duration and format are clarified from the start.
- Direct dialogue, no politics
- Decisions are owned and explained
- Mutual trust and loyalty
- Single goal: long-term success of the business
Experience & credibility
Three experienced operator-leaders, specialized in IT services: growth, structuring, multi-country execution, buy-and-build, and fast integrations.
We have led demanding growth phases (hiring, delivery, sales), managed multi-site teams, and structured performance-driven organizations. (To be customized with your numbers / milestones.)
- Creating and scaling IT services activities
- Operational and commercial structuring
- Multi-team / multi-country management
We are attentive to the company’s DNA: leadership, middle management, delivery culture, and client relationships. The project aims to strengthen, not disrupt.
- Clear messaging to teams and clients
- Integration plan and governance rituals
- Strict confidentiality and discreet process
Process & confidentiality
A simple, fast, and respectful process, designed to reduce founder load and protect ongoing operations.
Frequently asked questions
The questions IT services founders most often ask before opening a discussion.
We tailor the setup: gradual exit, temporary involvement, or management relay. Goal: stability for clients and teams.
No. Our approach is to strengthen fundamentals, tool up, structure, and accelerate without disruption. The 100-day plan is shared early.
Messaging and rhythms from day one: sponsorship, account plans, delivery quality, client governance, and offer upgrading.
Discreet process, limited stakeholders, structured interactions. We protect continuity and the company’s reputation.
Get in touch
Are you leading an IT services firm and considering a transfer or acceleration?
We can connect confidentially to understand your situation and present our approach (governance, integration, 100-day plan).