Our investment approach

From hidden champion to global champion

Stop playing hide and seek!

We take your tech company to the next level.

Your company is unique, and so are our solutions. For this purpose, we are at your side with a hands-on team of experts.

Sustainable future

We’re the entrepreneurial partner for growing and profitable tech pioneers in German-speaking countries. Together we develop your hidden champion into a market leader or global champion.

Flex Capital

Our
Investment criteria

Focus of Investments

Bootstrapped tech and software company

Geographical
Location

Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Size of the company

5 to 50 million Euros revenue

Structure of the investment

Majority shareholding

01 Your partner for company growth

You have developed a successful and profitable business, but are slowly reaching your capacity limits? We help you reach the next level of growth.

Liberation

By reducing founders’ personal financial risks and changing the focus from operational activities to strategic leadership, new momentum is created.

Support

With our team of operational experts and the entrepreneurial experience of our partners and investors, you’ll soon reach your next growth step.

Structural advantage

With the entry of a financial investor, a completely new market position can quickly be achieved through sufficient capital and the acquisition of other companies.

02 Your business succession

If you are looking for a succession solution for your company, we are your trusted partner. Our solutions are as individual as your requirements. Together we will find the right strategies to preserve your life’s work and promote further growth.

Individual succession solutions

Short-term succession solution

Company succession after reaching the next major growth stage

Full realization of the company value

Partial realization of the enterprise value

03 Carve-out & management buyout

Whether parts of a company are to be outsourced or long-standing employees want to take the next step into entrepreneurial roles – we are your partner for tailor-made solutions. Together, we design transitions efficiently, in a spirit of partnership and with a clear focus on sustainable corporate development.

Fast 100%
takeover

Fast 100% takeover

With and without
management team

Flexible collaboration with existing management teams or targeted development of new leadership

From management
to entrepreneurship

Structured management buyouts as part of the succession process

04 Your FLEXible solution

We offer your growing and profitable company individual investment solutions with suitable investment approaches. If you wish to remain in the company, we will support this as well as the establishment of a new management team.

Safely in good hands.
Our portfolio speaks for itself:

FLEX Capital has effectively supported us with its extensive entrepreneurial experience, which has already led to phenomenal success in the first year.

Marcel Bößendörfer, Founder of Nitrado

We are proud to have reached the next stage of growth at Egoditor together with FLEX Capital. With our second exit to Bitly, we have quickly realized what we had hoped for from the collaboration.

Nils Drescher & Nils Engelking, Founders of Egoditor

It is a very good cooperation within our group, even though three corporate cultures come together here. The more we learn from each other, the more we learn from each other and in the end we all become more successful.

Martin Himmelsbach, Managing Director of IPRO

The cooperation with FLEX Capital has been very good right from the start. Above all, the openness, the trusting interaction with each other and the communication were a very important basis for us to take the next steps together.

Peter Schindecker, Managing Director of Formware

We call ourselves a next-generation private equity fund, not only because of our entrepreneurial background, but also because our operational capabilities set us apart from other private equity funds. In addition, we place environmental and social goals as well as responsible corporate governance (ESG criteria) at the forefront of all our actions.

FLEX is the best solution for successful tech companies

Venture Capital

Growth capital, no payout for entrepreneurs

Growth-oriented Valuation

Long-term contractual commitment of the founders (vesting)

High growth pressure

No interference with the corporate culture

Partners with many years of start-up experience

2-3 month process

High reporting effort with many investors

No operational
support

Traditional private equity

100%
Sale

EBITDA-based valuation

Retention of entrepreneurs through complex structures (earn-out)

High pressure on EBITDA maximisation

Intervention in the corporate culture

Little own entrepreneurial
experience

6-8 month process

High reporting effort with complex structures

No operational
support

FLEX Capital

Payment according to
Entrepreneur's preference

Balanced consideration for evaluation

Flexibility in keeping entrepreneurs in the company

Differentiated Value enhancement approach

No interference with the corporate culture

Partners with many years of entrepreneurial experience

2-3 month process

Simple
reporting structures

In-house team of operational experts for value creation

Our partners' track record

Others talk about action, we are in motion.

Founded companies

> €200M

revenue

> 1.500

Employees

Continents

Invested companies

> 150

Investments

20 +

Exits

> €20bn

enterprise value