Optimize your personal wealth
or invest in your business?

Depending on competition, growth phase of the company and age of the entrepreneur, his or her choices may become irrational and suboptimal.
As investors in private equity, we appreciate probably more than any entrepreneur how binary a non-diversified risk can be. After all, we assess hundreds of business cases and many didn’t make it, for reasons known, or unknown.
Get in touchAs an investor, Akiles implements this transaction according to different aspects:
In most cases, Akiles invests by acquiring part of the shares of the founders. Depending on the business plan of the company, we also consider if an additional capital increase is meaningful to boost growth.
In cases were the cashflow is sufficiently stable to serve both organic growth as repayment of debt, we will consider using financial leverage. In this case, a holding company could be useful for all parties involved, where Akiles co-invests with the historic shareholders.
Alignment is key for Akiles. We want the interests of the fund, the historic shareholders and the management to be aligned. Akiles generally acts as a minority shareholder with limited day-to-day involvement, which implies a good governance at board level is important.
As a long-term, evergreen fund, we have no exit constraints. This allows the company to focus on its growth path for the foreseeable future, rather than on an exit «problem» of just one stakeholder.
There are many other considerations, such as:
Akiles typically considers investments in SMEs with an EBITDA in the range of €0.5m and up to €5m. These are companies that have a proven business model and see further room to grow, thanks to a competitive edge or geographical expansion. In most of the SMEs, there is no extensive management team present in which case we will help set this in place.
Above all, we want to be respectful long-term partners next to entrepreneurs.
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