What We Do
Our expertise lies in delivering tailored solutions that encompass capital raising, mergers & acquisitions, technology foresight, and market and innovation strategies. With a commitment to personalized service and deep market knowledge, we empower our clients to navigate ever more complex business landscapes, seize growth opportunities, and achieve sustainable financial success.
Our market distinction lies in our unparalleled insight into the synergistic convergence of technological innovation, strategic business models, and future customer journeys – forging expansive, value-driven ecosystems.
As seasoned Venture Capital investors, we fuel early-stage AI and Deep Tech startups with capital, strategic expertise, and an extensive network to drive innovation and entrepreneurial success. Combined with access to world-class human and intellectual capital, we support our founders to create the businesses of the future.
Investment Banking
Boutique Services
In our AI and Deep Tech Investment Banking Boutique practice, we are providing specialized financial services tailored to technology-driven companies with complex, innovative solutions in areas like AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, biotech, or advanced materials. Our services are structured as follows:
Capital Raising: Structuring equity or debt financing, targeting venture capital, private equity, or strategic investors familiar with deep tech’s long development cycles and high capital needs.
Mergers & Acquisitions: Advising on strategic acquisitions, sales, or mergers, leveraging deep tech expertise to navigate intellectual property, R&D pipelines, and technical valuations.
Financial Advisory: Offering strategic guidance on valuations, partnerships, licensing deals, or commercialization strategies, with a focus on aligning financial goals with technological milestones.
Specialized Transactions: Facilitating complex deals like spin-offs, joint ventures, or technology carve-outs, often involving cross-border or interdisciplinary considerations.
Business Development: Next to the services in the greater context of Investment Banking, we have developed an additional category that we selectively apply – Business Development Services. Based on our broad network in global Deep Tech, we are establishing connections to perspective clients, partners, resellers, system integration and manufacturing facilities, leading up to connections to relevant partners in complex, multi-tiered global supply chains.
Venture Capital
Our Venture Capital related activities, started more than a decade ago, are specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Technology, with a strategic focus on early-stage investments in advanced cyber-physical solutions. These solutions converge at the nexus of cutting-edge technological research, creativity, and sophisticated engineering.
Our best investments act as time machines that deterministically pull the future forward.
Our investment philosophy centers on identifying and supporting exceptional intellects tackling complex challenges. We hold that the true value of an idea lies in its ingenuity and originality – coupled with an unwavering commitment to elevate it to transformative heights. By integrating deep technological acumen with business model innovation, and leveraging an expansive global network of visionary entrepreneurs, esteemed industry experts, and leading research institutions, we empower our portfolio companies to achieve unparalleled impact, both from a business and societal perspective.
Strategy Consulting
Our Strategy Consulting Business combines technology foresight and the creative edge of design thinking with a broad understanding of the platform economy.
We possess an astute awareness of the innovation landscape, spanning from startups to mid-sized enterprises and large corporations. Our approach involves discerning patterns within rapid innovation scenarios and aligning them with the foundational elements of tomorrow's solutions. We engage in swift and meticulous iteration, collaborating closely with our clients to foster sustainable outcomes.
By integrating agile methodologies with an unwavering commitment to the significance of people, ethics, culture, and sustainability, we position ourselves as pioneers in recognizing the convergence of emerging technologies and innovative business models: This enables our clients to not only adapt – but also to lead transformative change within their industries, and beyond.
Selected Portfolio Companies
[2] Exit to Axel Springer SE
[3] Exit to Talenthouse IP LLC