Scaling Europe’s Next Champions

Flexible capital for ambitious entrepreneurs to scale essential services and product companies across DACH and Western Europe.

01  Building on Essentials
We focus on companies that deliver mission-critical products and services – businesses that form the backbone of their industries – and have tangible pathways to scale. This principle reflects your emphasis on essential services, resilient fundamentals, and visible, recurring revenue profiles.
02  Elevating Execution
We combine entrepreneurial flexibility with the rigor of institutional private equity. Our approach centers on strengthening teams, clarifying priorities, and creating the operational foundation for consistent, high-quality execution.
03  Scaling with Discipline
We help organizations grow with focus: sharpening strategy and commercial performance, enabling digital transformation, and driving accretive M&A supported by a proven integration blueprint.

What
We Do

We invest in businesses that deliver mission-critical services and products that customers and other organizations rely on in their day-to-day operations – and that have clear opportunities to scale further.

We work closely with entrepreneurs and management teams to

  • provide flexible entrepreneurial capital
  • support transition and succession in leadership
  • define the next growth chapter of the business,
  • build the operational foundation for consistent execution,
  • and focus on the initiatives that really matter


Our partnership approach is collaborative and combines long-term conviction with institutional discipline in governance, strategy and execution.

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Who
We Are

Ancoth Capital is a founder-led private investment firm based in Munich that invests from a permanent pool of flexible and entrepreneurial capital.

Our team brings more than 50 years of cumulative investment and leadership experience across global private equity institutions.

We apply the execution rigor and capabilities of world-class PE firms with a high degree of entrepreneurial agility. Having repeatedly scaled global businesses, we translate proven best practices pragmatically into the mid-market.

We attract top talent to drive performance across our portfolio and act as an engaged partner to founders and management teams.

How
We Work

We act as a highly engaged sparring partner to entrepreneurs and management teams. Our work focuses on four practical areas:

Management & Organisation

Strengthening leadership teams and establishing clear governance and scalable structures

Strategy &
Commercial Focus

Prioritizing key initiatives, sharpening positioning and strengthening pricing and go-to-market execution.

M&A

Supporting accretive growth via M&A, and drive disciplined consolidation with well-established integration blueprint

Digitalization

Improving transparency and efficiency through new technologies, systems and streamlined processes

We bring perspective, experience and access – helping teams scale with clarity and confidence. 

What We
Look For

We invest in essential services and product companies with resilient fundamentals and clear opportunities to scale. We prefer business models characterized by strong cash generation, recurring or highly visible revenues with a clear leadership in their specific niches. With long-term equity up to high double-digit million amounts, we support founder and shareholder successions, management buy-outs / buy-ins, corporate carve-outs or strategic partnerships for the next chapter of growth.

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