Automation Ventures

The capital originates from the October 2023 acquisition of Automation Group by E Tech Group. Automation Group was a systems integrator focused on controls engineering, food and beverage automation, and industrial innovation. The sale transferred the operating business into E Tech Group's 600-person, 25-office national platform, and the proceeds formed the corpus for Automation Ventures.

There is no ongoing commercial relationship. Automation Ventures is the family office formed by the former principals of Automation Group after selling the operating company to E Tech Group in October 2023. The capital is permanently separated from the acquirer; E Tech Group now owns and operates the legacy Automation Group client relationships and engineering teams.

The investment mandate is deeply rooted in the founders' domain expertise: industrial technology, process automation, and food and beverage are core. Adjacent interests may include broader industrial technology applications where the principals' controls engineering background provides an underwriting advantage. No explicit exclusion sectors have been publicly stated.

The firm lists addresses in Larchmont, San Francisco, and New York. This likely reflects the family's post-exit geographic footprint rather than multiple investment offices. A lean family office, it operates from the principals' primary residential and business hubs on both the East and West Coasts.

As a newly formed single-family office with deep operational roots, the preference appears to be direct investing where the principals can apply their industrial engineering expertise. If co-investments occur, they would likely be in partnership with other industrial-operating families or specialized industrial tech funds, but no such partnerships have been disclosed publicly.