About Erbelo
Good businesses shouldn't close just because their owners retire. Erbelo helps the people who built them pass them on.
Why I'm building Erbelo
I'm a master carpenter. I know how many years go into a business: the craft, the customers, the crew.
Good businesses still close because no one takes over. Not because successors don't exist, but because the two sides never find, or never trust, each other.
Erbelo is built to fix that: verified, confidential, with the math out in the open. So a life's work keeps going.
Tom Hoppen, Founder of Erbelo, master carpenter
Why now
- The great handover. In Germany, planned closures without a successor now outnumber planned successions.
- Too few successors. Only 17% of German founders take over an existing business.
- Better tools. Instant valuation, verified information and a guided process make smaller deals worth doing.