European Growth
Datalane and Oak Tree Hill team up to drive European growth in Process Intelligence, Automation & AI.
VUGHT, May 27, 2026 | Oak Tree Hill Capital and Datalane today announced a strategic partnership. Together, they are building a leading European platform for process intelligence, automation, and AI orchestration: an integrated answer to a market in which enterprise organizations are experimenting with AI at scale, while control over processes, data quality, and governance lags behind. Datalane combines deep process expertise with intelligent automation and its own solution for agent control.
Process intelligence as the foundation for AI transformation
Agentic AI is now hitting the peak of the hype curve. Most enterprise deployments remain narrow in scope and stall on fragmented data, poorly defined processes, or missing governance. AI only delivers lasting value when the foundation beneath it is solid: transparent, standardized, and governable. Both companies share this view and are building the next phase together. A phase in which process intelligence, optimization, automation, and AI orchestration come together, from insight to reliable execution.
Datalane: a solid foundation for European ambition
Datalane has been active since 2019 in the process excellence domain and has grown into both a Celonis Platinum Partner and a Microsoft partner. That combination is rare in Europe and a deliberate choice. Celonis brings analytical depth and compliance frameworks; Microsoft brings operational execution power and an AI stack that integrates deeply into the daily work environment of enterprise organizations. The result is platforms that bring process mining, automation, and agentic AI together rather than operating them as separate silos.
Based in Vught, the team, led by founder Tim van Abeelen and partner Lucas van den Ingh, serves large enterprise clients across Europe. The combination of process intelligence, process adherence, process redesign and optimization, intelligent process automation, agent control and orchestration, and value monitoring makes Datalane a strong foundation for further European growth.
Tim van Abeelen and Lucas van den Ingh, founder and partner at Datalane:
“Datalane was built by people who truly believe in the power of process intelligence and automation. You see it in our client relationships, in our partnerships, and in the way our team shows up every day. We’re proud of that. And now, with Oak Tree Hill Capital alongside us, we’re looking ahead with real confidence to what we can build together across Europe.”
A European platform through buy-and-build
The shared ambition reaches beyond Datalane’s growth alone. Through a buy-and-build strategy, the two companies are building out a European platform around process intelligence. Oak Tree Hill Capital brings the European growth experience, network, and scaling expertise needed to expand this platform step by step. Throughout that growth, entrepreneurship and local presence remain a deliberate choice: it creates focus for teams and proximity to clients.
Emiel Putman, Managing Partner at Oak Tree Hill, adds:
“Datalane brings deep domain expertise, a proven track record in enterprise environments, and a strong partnership with Celonis. Tim and Lucas have a clear vision, a strong team, and the ambition to keep growing. That’s exactly the foundation we want to build a European platform on. We believe process intelligence plays a key role in the AI transformation of large organizations, and we see enormous opportunities to accelerate that together.”
Oak Tree Hill Capital was advised by Wave Corporate Finance, Treble, Van Oers Corporate Finance and Vera Gracia.