Investment Strategy.

Leon Capital is a tech-enabled services-focused European mid-market private equity firm.

As growth investors, we bring capital, deep sector expertise, and a vast network of relationships to help create truly great companies. Replace text.

 

We make majority and significant minority equity investments of €15-100 million into tech-enabled services companies in the healthcare services, business services, software and energy transition sectors, primarily in Western Europe.

Geographic Focus.

We focus on Western Europe, where our team has a distinctive origination network of families, entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors.

Sector Focus.

We focus on executing specific strategies within our sectors.

  • We want to consolidate sub-verticals of patient services in the markets that remain highly fragmented across Europe.

  • We want to transform SME business services through technology adoption, operational excellence, and buy-and-build.

  • We want to transform niche vertical software through SaaS transition, professionalization, and buy-and-build.

  • We want to invest in cost-leading, mission-critical decarbonisation technologies & services that help turn asset-owner Capex into Opex.

Investment Criteria.

We are growth investors, not venture capitalists. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs and rapidly growing companies with proven technology that can be scaled effectively from a strong base.

Here are the key ingredients we look for:

  1. Exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams

  2. Sizeable and growing market opportunity

  3. Compelling value proposition for customers

  4. Proven technology

  5. Attractive unit economics

  6. Defensible, scalable business model

  7. Run-rate revenue of at least €5 million, 30%+ revenue growth

  8. Potential for high margins

  9. Clear path to high value exit