Our Investment Strategy

We partner with mid-market European tech-enabled services businesses to build regional and international champions. We typically make majority and significant minority equity investments of €15-100 million into founder-led businesses.

Investment Focus

We focus on sectors where we have institutional expertise, detailed market knowledge and a strong track record of operational improvement.

  • Healthcare Services

  • Business Services

  • Software

  • Energy Transition

 

Our Value Add

We add value by combining private equity knowledge with operational expertise. Our size enables us to be nimble and entrepreneurial.

We build on our private equity background with a “Buy & Build” strategy:

  • Working with management to identify, acquire and [integrate] strategic acquisitions

  • Bringing a disciplined approach to due diligence, valuation and execution for follow-on acquisitions

  • Creating value through our strategic and financial toolkit

We then draw on our operational toolkit knowledge to “Optimize” the potential in each business:

  • Our experience allows us to implement strategies from other industries in new ways

  • Leveraging the operational experience of both management and the investment team

  • Rolling-out a repeatable business integration playbook to support the buy-and-build plans

Business Criteria

We look for a combination of attributes which we believe are prevalent in high-quality, tech-enabled services companies across our four sub-sectors