QAPITALGROUP

Ambition.
Accelerated.

We buy proven businesses and build new ones, then push them through the growth years.

Technology is reshaping every market around us. Future‑forward companies move with it, and grow faster than the rest. We build them, buy them and accelerate their journey.

  1. Start-upAn idea and a gap
  2. Scale-upThe model is proven
  3. GrowthDemand outpaces the team
  4. Market leaderSets the pace

What we do

Two ways to build a company worth more.

Buy

A platform company first, then the bolt-ons around it, run as one group. A roll-up, held for the long term.

Roll-up: revenue by companyPlatformBolt-ons

Build

New companies where technology opens a gap, with automation, financial discipline and a route to market from the start.

From first euro to cash positiveRevenueCumulative cash

Where we operate

Where the curve steepens.

Most companies drop out before the model is proven. The ones that make it reach the steep part, where demand outpaces the organisation. That is where we work.

Each point is a company.

Who we are

Entrepreneurs with a research desk. For the bold.

Builders

We start and run companies ourselves, and decide like owners.

Research

Every call starts from data: margins, survival, multiples, by sector and country.

Forward

We work where technology is reshaping a market, before it shows in the numbers.

Speed

A written view in two weeks. Signing and close in eight to twelve.

How we decide

Most new companies never reach the growth years.

3.4 million
  1. Companies founded in the EU in 2021
  2. Still trading after one year
  3. Still trading after two years
  4. Still trading after three years. Where we start looking.

Eurostat business demography, EU-27, 2021 cohort. High growth: 10% or more staff growth a year over three years, firms with ten or more staff, 2020. One square is 0.1% of the cohort.

Of firms that reach ten people, how many become high-growth

All sectors9.4%
Information and communication17.0%

Acquisition criteria

What we buy, and how it runs.

Every transaction is structured on its own terms.

Revenue€2m – €25m
EBITDA€0.5m – €5m
GeographyBenelux, DACH, Nordics
SituationFounder exit, succession, carve-out
StakeMajority or 100%
StructureCash, vendor finance, earn-out, co-investment
Hold periodLong term. Not a fund clock.
Our roleOwner and operator, never passive
What we look for
  • Recurring or repeat revenue, not project by project
  • A team that already runs the day to day
  • Someone who already sells, and a pipeline to show for it
  • Manual work that software could absorb
  • Margins below the sector, for reasons we can fix
  • Customers who stay for years
  • Numbers that reconcile
Not a fit
  • Pre-revenue or pre-profit
  • Loss-making turnarounds and distressed sales
  • Minority stakes without control
  • Real estate and asset plays
From first call to closeTypical, not guaranteed
Week 0First conversationThirty minutes. No materials, no NDA needed to talk.
Week 2Indicative viewA price range and the reasoning behind it, in writing.
Week 3–8Confirmatory diligenceBooks, contracts, systems. One team, no army of advisers.
Week 8–12Signing and closeCash at close. Seller rollover welcome, never required.

The room

Founders and owners, at one table.

A closed evening, a few times a year. People building start-ups meet people who own growth companies. One case from our research desk, then the conversation.

  • Founders, building
  • Owners of growth companies

Get in touch

Show us what you have built.

Nothing polished required. A deck, a set of figures, or three lines is enough to start. You will get a straight answer either way, with the reasoning behind it: what we would pay for, what we would change, or why it is not for us.

Treated as confidential. Reply within two working days.