We back balance sheets.And the people behind them.
Meraki Capital buys and builds specialist recruitment businesses, moves fast, and keeps what made them worth buying. Because in recruitment, it is people who make the numbers work.
We've done this before.Here's how it went.
Four businesses under our management, built from nine deals. Each story is told in full: why it happened, what we kept, what we changed and what the people involved say now.
UK blue collar, industrial and temporary staffing businesses. Five have joined Magnus since 2025.
Read the story ›Expert recruitment in banking and finance, life sciences and automation engineering, delivering across the US and Europe.
Read the story ›A global cybersecurity practice, and local recruitment in its six European markets. Eight offices, from Stockholm to New York.
Read the story ›Engineering, energy, utilities and technical workforce businesses built on contract work.
Read the story ›Selling arecruitment business?
Ten straight answers to the questions owners ask us most, from a buyer that has done it nine times.
By thenumbers.
The people whoset the standard.
Founders, operators and specialists who have built, bought and run recruitment businesses themselves.
In theirown words.
Founders and leaders from across the group on what changed when Meraki came in.
Nine deals.Two years.
Seven of them in 2026, while plenty of buyers were waiting for a better market. Five blue collar businesses now trade as Magnus Search. Six European businesses became Tessero.
Culture. Communication.Capital.
In that order. Capital that does not protect the culture or improve how people talk to each other is doing the wrong job.
Culture
We protect what people built. Culture is the asset. If we destroy it in acquiring it, we have bought nothing worth having.
Culture
Nick Gordon, Founder and Chairman
Communication
We share context openly with everyone. No corporate distance, no filtered information. Everyone always knows where they stand.
Communication
Andy Agar, Chief Marketing Officer
Capital
We have capital to invest. We deploy it in service of the first two.
Capital
Alan Connor, Chief Investment Officer
What we sayis what we do.
News, opinion and the odd home truth from the people who run the group and its businesses. Read it or watch it.
The first 90 days decide the deal
Most deals are judged on the day they complete. They should be judged 90 days later. By then the announcement has been forgotten. The congratulations have stopped. And the people inside the business have made up their minds about what has happened to them. Whe
Keeping your best people through a sale
Every buyer of a recruitment business is really buying a group of people and the relationships they hold. Lose them and you have bought an office lease and a database. Founders know this better than anyone, which is why the question of when to tell the team is
What a growth facility is for, and what it is not
When we announce a deal, the line that gets noticed is the funding facility. Four million pounds for City Centre Recruitment and Magnus Search. One point four million for SERT. A facility that grew to nine million as more businesses joined Magnus. It is worth
Thinking about what comes next?
Every conversation starts with Nick Gordon, our founder. It is confidential, it commits you to nothing, and the best ones happen while the business is still performing.