Beyond AI: Six startup opportunities in Europe
Six sectors where European expertise, needs and regulatory changes are opening up new markets.
Read on SubstackNeue Buy-out-Fonds in Deutschland
5 Fonds mit First oder Final Close seit 1. Jan. 2025, insgesamt 2,1 Mrd. €, Median 500 Mio. €.
Im vollständigen Tracker öffnenAcquire profitable, owner-managed German B2B service companies in succession situations and develop them operationally, including through AI.
- Generation Tech Partners
- Business Services
- Germany
- Oktober 2026
- 700,0
Makes primary control investments in fundamentally sound DACH businesses, including succession situations and carve-outs, and develops them through strategic acquisitions.
- NORD Holding
- Generalist
- Companies headquartered in DACH
- Fonds 3
- Juli 2026
- 50,0
Acquires majority stakes in established DACH service businesses facing succession and builds larger groups through operational development and acquisitions.
- Gaius Capital
- Business Services, Health & Bio
- Germany; Austria; Switzerland
- Fonds 1
- Juni 2026
- 500,0
Makes primary buyouts of DACH Mittelstand businesses, addressing founder succession and supporting professionalisation and international growth.
- Afinum Management GmbH
- Technology, Health & Bio, Industrial Tech, Consumer
- DACH
- Fonds 10
- April 2026
- 830,0
Mid-market corporate carve-outs, platform build-ups and complex buyouts of established companies with operational improvement potential.
- AURELIUS
- Technology, Business Services, Consumer
- Europe and North America; broader strategy page also mentions the UK, continental Europe, North America and Asia
- Fonds 5
- Juni 2025
Alle 5 Fonds auf dieser Seite
- GTP 26Generation Tech Partners · €60m reported · source published October 2026
- DMH IIINORD Holding · €700m reported · source published July 2026
- Gaius Nachfolgekapital IGaius Capital · €50m reported · source published June 2026
- Afinum XAfinum Management GmbH · €500m reported · source published April 2026
- AURELIUS Opportunities VAURELIUS · €830m reported · source published June 2025
