About
One buyer, with a name and a face
Most acquisition websites will not tell you who is behind them. This one will.
- Role
- Founder, 72 North Capital LLC
- Education
- Finance, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
- Elsewhere
Kaleb Seymour
I advised credit unions on mergers and acquisitions at Cornerstone Advisors, a Scottsdale consulting firm that works with banks, credit unions and fintechs. That work meant combining institutions holding billions of dollars in assets: modeling the combination, pressure-testing what the numbers actually said, and then living with the integration afterwards.
Since then I have built and run a data business inside a technology company — which is a different discipline again. Advising on a deal and being accountable for the thing afterwards are not the same job, and I have now done both. 72 North Capital is separate from all of it: my own firm, my own capital, and my own name on every letter of intent that goes out.
The reason I buy small businesses is that the analytical part of large M&A translates almost perfectly, and the human part does not translate at all. In a bank merger nobody is selling the thing they built. In a $4 million commercial services business, the person across the table has spent twenty-five years on it and knows every employee's children by name. That deserves a different kind of process, and often a different kind of buyer.
So 72 North Capital is deliberately small and deliberately slow to say yes. We buy a small number of Arizona businesses, we keep them, and we operate them. There is no fund behind us with a clock on it.
The name
Why 72 North
72 North was the bus route I rode to work while I was putting myself through college. It is not a metaphor from a branding exercise. It was the number on the front of the bus.
I kept it because it points at the kind of business I want to buy. Almost every good one I look at was built the same way: by someone who showed up for years, without an audience, in ordinary increments. That is worth more than it usually gets credit for, and it is worth handing to someone who understands what it took.
How we operate
Four things we hold ourselves to
These were on the previous version of this site and they survived the rewrite, which is more than most of it managed.
Integrity
We say the same thing to you that we say to our lender. If diligence turns up something that changes our number, you hear it the week we find it — not at the closing table.
Excellence
Doing the analytical work properly is the whole job. A number you can defend line by line is worth more to both of us than a number that sounds good on a call.
Stewardship
We are buying something you built, along with the livelihoods attached to it. Owning it well matters more than owning it cheaply.
Authenticity
No stock photography, no invented team page, no urgency tactics. If you want to know who you are dealing with, this page is the answer.
Investors
If you invest alongside operators
We occasionally co-invest with a small number of individuals on specific acquisitions. There is no fund and no open raise. If that is of interest, email us directly.
Curious what your business is worth?
Run the numbers yourself in about two minutes, or start a confidential conversation. No listing agreement, no obligation, and nothing gets shared with anyone.