For searchers and successor entrepreneurs
We don't send you off on your own. We come with you.
The two biggest hurdles in search are not about equity. 51 percent of searchers in DACH name finding suitable companies as their biggest problem, 37 percent unresolved financing. Both are work packages, not questions of character.
That is exactly where we work alongside you. Candidates we approach ourselves instead of listings from business marketplaces. We build the model with you, not for you. When it comes to financing, we sit at the table with you, and the equity comes from us. After that you run the company, and we stay within reach.
What our flexibility makes possible.
We are not institutional. There is no investment policy we have to explain to anyone and no committee that has to sign off a structure. That is why we can also do the transaction that doesn't look like the textbook: minority stake, vendor loan, staggered entry, carve-out.
The same applies to size. 63 percent of searchers in DACH are looking for companies with less than one million euros of EBITDA, 43 percent in the bracket between 500,000 and one million alone. Most investors only come in above that. In between lie the situations no investor feels responsible for: a solid business with 700,000 of EBITDA, an owner who wants to hand over, a successor who can do it, and nobody to put up the equity.
We can afford this size because we don't have to justify it to anyone.
Source
Nachfolge-Barometer, New Mittelstand, survey Q2 2026, n = 119.
Self-selected survey of the community, not of the market as a whole. The investor side of the same survey is based on 15 responses and is classed by the publisher as an indication only, which is why it is not shown here as a percentage.
We have nothing you could apply for.
The structured providers in this market work with selection procedures: application, video recording, assessment-centre interview, panel, application windows several times a year, twelve weeks per cycle. There are good reasons for that if you are looking after thirty searchers at once and managing third-party capital.
We don't look after thirty. So there is no procedure here, just a conversation. You tell us what you are looking for and why you of all people. Within a few days we tell you whether we are in. If not, we also tell you why.
The same goes for the time after the acquisition. In a classic search fund, twenty to thirty investors sit on the cap table. With us it is a small group that we put together for your situation, and one point of contact who decides. That makes you faster, and it makes conversations about bad quarters shorter.
Your biggest hurdle is our homework.
Every investor in this market writes “proprietary deal flow” on their website. Instead, we show you what actually runs through our funnel.
Behind it is software we built for our own work: register data, enrichment and structured first outreach. What else it can do is described in the next section.
For you that means you are not searching alone. Where your thesis and our funnel overlap, you get to see candidates that don't come through advisers and portals. And if we find nothing in your niche, we tell you so rather than stringing you along for two years.
With us, software does the legwork. Your time goes into conversations, negotiation and decisions.
For our own work we have built software that takes over a large part of the routine in a deal. It is not a product we sell. It is the tool we work with ourselves.
That is the practical side of “we come with you”: whatever it produces in terms of candidates and documents, we share with you.
Origination
Register data, enrichment, longlist and structured first outreach. The funnel the candidates come from.
Deal management
Candidates, conversations, documents and deadlines in one place, so nothing gets lost.
Financing
In development. The aim is to prepare the financing structure and bank documents from the same data. Until then, we do this together with you.
Three steps. That is all it takes.
First conversation
Sixty minutes. Your thesis, your industry, your background, our criteria. Afterwards both sides know whether it goes further. No memo, no presentation, no recording.
Working together on the search
We point our funnel at your thesis, you bring your network and your closeness to the industry. We prepare suitable candidates together with you. Whatever we see critically about a candidate, we tell you beforehand and not in the investment committee.
Transaction
We provide the equity, work with you on structure and financing and take part in the negotiations. After that you run the business, and we are the shareholder who calls when something catches our eye, not the one you have to ask for permission. Where it is needed, we help, above all with our network.
We are not looking for a deal. We are looking for people we want to do more than one with.
An investment lasts for years, and during that time you talk to each other more often than to most of your friends. So the most honest question after a first conversation is not whether the numbers fit, but whether we will still want to talk to each other in five years. The best constellations in our network came about like that: first one deal, then the next, often in a different role. Whoever was involved once is often involved again next time.
The part the others leave out.
We are not a programme with a success rate.
According to the Stanford study, only around 48 percent of the search funds launched between 2021 and 2024 have acquired a company at all, compared with 58 percent on the long-term average. That is the number you should know before you hand in your notice. We don't make it smaller; we just work on the part we can influence.
We are small.
That is the reason you get an answer quickly, and at the same time the limit of what we can take on. If something gets too big, we tell you early enough for you to set yourself up differently.
We don't know your industry better than you do.
We bring transaction craft, capital and a funnel. The judgement on whether a business in your niche holds up comes from you.
Tell us your thesis.
No form with twelve fields, no video recording, no application window. One email with what you are looking for and why. A reply within three working days, even if it is a no.