Matt Lowers
Matt Lowers Is Keeping His Next Chapter Close to Home
After building a screening business to more than $100 million in revenue, the Seekye Capital cofounder is investing in the services around him—and helping veterans put down roots.
At a golf tournament in Florida in 2017, Matt Lowers found an unusually efficient way to make $10,000: one shot. An industry conference recap records his hole-in-one at Celebration Golf Club during a charity event, on a wet morning when 48 golfers took to the course. It is a pleasingly human footnote to a career more often described through company growth, acquisitions and board appointments.
There is another revealing image from that year. In the Purcellville Gazette’s coverage of a HeroHomes dedication in Round Hill, Virginia, Lowers appears holding his young son while another child shows off the keys to his family’s new home. The occasion brought together contractors, volunteers and neighbors. Here was a business founder taking part in something whose outcome could be seen in a front door opening.
Those two moments make a useful introduction to the man behind Seekye Capital. Lowers’ own company biography places him in Round Hill with his wife and their four children, and lists sports and the outdoors among his interests. The family detail is brief, but it gives his professional geography a personal center: western Loudoun County is where he has built a life as well as business relationships.
He was born and raised in Loudoun, according to the county’s economic development organization. A HeroHomes biography traces the local beginning more closely: Loudoun Valley High School, class of 2002, followed by a business degree from Shepherd University in 2006 and an MBA there in 2008. His career took shape within reach of the place where he grew up.
His first substantial entrepreneurial chapter began in 2007, when he founded Wholesale Screening Solutions. Seekye says he grew the company to more than $100 million in revenue. The business supplied the data other companies used for background screening—a largely unseen service operating behind decisions about employment and tenancy.
The sale had a family-business dimension. Transaction adviser Baker Tilly describes Wholesale as a wholly owned subsidiary of family-owned Lowers Risk Group, whose principal owners wanted to realize value while providing a career path for the next generation. They selected Gallant Capital, and the transaction closed in late 2021. Finding a buyer who shared their priorities about employees and customers was part of the process.
Gallant combined Wholesale with SJV Data Solutions, placing Scott Vanek in the chief executive role and Lowers in the presidency. Its announcement said the founders, other sellers and management collectively retained a material ownership stake. For Lowers, a sale therefore led into a new operating role; he remained involved as the combined business became InformData.
That experience now sits behind Seekye, which he cofounded with JT Carradice. In May 2025, the firm launched its inaugural fund with a $50 million fundraising target, focused on service and trade businesses across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia.
The proposed shopping list was grounded in daily necessities: accounting, electrical work, plumbing, heating and cooling, and wastewater management. These are businesses customers often encounter when something needs fixing, keeping compliant or keeping running. For an investor, the attraction can be the work that continues after a fashionable business idea has lost its novelty. Seekye’s stated proposition is to bring money and operating support to owners facing a transition.
Its first announced acquisition made that focus concrete. In August 2025, Seekye said it had bought the SES Mid Atlantic group, including Advantage Septic and Joiner Labs. The businesses span soil evaluation, wastewater services and laboratory work. Founder Mike Lynn described a future in which he would return to soils, design and construction while helping expand SES. The announcement presented the transaction as a way for an experienced owner to change his role while continuing to contribute.
Accounting followed. In January 2026, Seekye announced a majority stake in DuvallWheeler, a firm with roots dating to 1986. Lowers pointed to its culture and history as reasons for the investment. The announcement promised resources for growth alongside continuity in everyday operations. That promise is central to Seekye’s appeal to sellers: a transaction should create room for a next chapter without casually discarding the people and habits that made the business valuable.
His civic work supplies a different test of continuity. Lowers is a cofounder of HeroHomes, which builds homes for disabled veterans and their families in Loudoun County. Its projects are rooted in places including Purcellville, Round Hill and Hillsboro, and the organization describes itself as entirely volunteer-run. A completed house has a practical purpose long after the dedication ceremony: it gives its occupants somewhere to build the rest of their lives.
His wife Angela has joined him in that work. HeroHomes records them attending an October 2022 presentation at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, where the Robert Irvine Foundation provided a $5,000 donation. The accompanying photograph shows Lowers standing with Irvine and the group behind an oversized check. It is another public glimpse of family life intersecting with his commitments beyond business.
In January 2026, he also joined the boards of Potomac Bancshares and its bank. The bank’s biography describes him as an InformData board member and adviser, too. His working life now involves institutions with different purposes, tied together by the experience he accumulated as a founder: companies to buy, a business to advise, a bank to help oversee and a housing charity to support.
Seekye will ultimately be judged by what happens to the businesses it buys. For now, Lowers’ story has a clear point of interest: a founder who has already gone through a sale is putting that experience to work near the community his family calls home. The next chapter involves other owners’ futures, but its setting is familiar.