Investment

What we
invest in

Three routes through which we become a shareholder. All three share one condition: we have to be able to contribute something beyond the amount in the account.

Start-ups in their
growth phase

When the product is ready and scaling begins.

  • Technology-driven business models with an industrial use case
  • Founding teams with clearly divided roles
  • First revenues and solid customer references

VC fund
investments

Investing in funds that look where we look.

  • Funds with an industrial technology focus
  • Access to deals beyond our own reach
  • Continuous exchange with co-investors in the network

Succession and
management buy-ins

For companies whose next generation is not yet settled.

  • Changes of ownership in technology-driven mid-sized companies
  • Management buy-ins together with the existing team
  • Support for the handover well beyond the closing date

Focus fields

Eight fields in which technological substance meets an industrial use case. We invest where we know the technology, the customers and the routes to market from our own work.

Artificial Intelligence

Defense Tech

PropTech

Robotics

Mobility

Enterprise SaaS

Supply Chain

Biotech & Life Sciences

What you get
besides capital

For us an investment is not a bank transfer. It is the beginning of a working relationship, and we bring to it what sets us apart from a purely financial investor.

Operational experience, not spreadsheet knowledge

Three decades of leadership responsibility, most of it as managing partner. We know the decisions you are facing because we have carried them ourselves, not because we read about them in a portfolio report.

A network that opens doors

Industry, private equity and consulting. Access that cannot be bought, only built over decades, and that would otherwise take years to open up.

Sales and marketing as growth levers

Growth rarely fails because of the product and often because of the route to the customer. Marketing and sales concepts, and mentoring on both, are therefore a fixed part of how we work with you.

International expansion with a group perspective

Sites built up personally in the United States, South America and Eastern Europe, followed by ten years of global responsibility at a world market leader. We know where the step across the border usually gets stuck.

Whether we
fit together

A clear no costs less time than a long maybe. So here is what we look for, and what we stay away from.

This fits

  • Entrepreneurs who genuinely understand their own business
  • Technology-driven products with an industrial use case
  • A team that can take disagreement, and asks for it
  • A willingness to disclose the numbers early and in full
  • A horizon measured in years, not in quarters

This rather does not

  • Business models without a technological core
  • Products with no recognisable moat, which can be copied within months
  • Founding teams not prepared to work closely with us
  • An unclear cap table, for example fragmented shares or unresolved promises from the past
  • Turnaround cases with no viable business model behind them
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