DECALIA Capital: Direktanlagen | Private Markets

DECALIA Capital is an independent management company dedicated to investing in Swiss SMEs. DECALIA Capital is controlled by its management and by DECALIA Group.

Partners in your ambition

Like you, we are entrepreneurs before being investors

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Our approach to companies is based on an understanding of their activities, their business model, and their needs, but above all on a privileged relationship with the women and men who bring them to life and sustain them. Figures and financial analyses, while being relevant performance indicators, are only the result of the strategy put in place.

That’s why we first seek to understand your company’s market positioning and organisation before examining your financial reports.
We focus on your business and how best to help you support its growth.

We are at your site on the road to success, assisting you at every stage of your expansion.

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Our approach

Understanding you

Grasping how your business works

A thorough study of your business model allows us to understand the passion and convictions that drive you, so we can then share our expertise with you at every stage of your development or during your succession.

Strengthening your organisation and optimising your processes

Going to the next level

We advise you on how you can institutionalise your governance and streamline all your processes —whether in services or industrial activities— on how you can improve operations or on development projects. Our goal is to consolidate strengths and improve your company’s productivity to make it more sustainable.

Accelerating your growth

Identifying your company’s potential and unlocking its value

We help you implement your development strategy and support your domestic or international expansion projects.

This growth is achieved not only through a well-defined organic growth strategy but also through targeted Buy & Build acquisitions.

Financing your expansion

Seizing opportunities thanks to our financing capacity

In a constantly evolving environment and faced with fierce competition, companies must continuously improve by innovating and investing in human capital and industrial capabilities. This investment can take many forms, whether developing new activities or products, entering new markets, or integrating other companies.

We can support your expansion by providing the necessary capital.

Organising your management transition

Realising the added value of your work

In a family-owned SME and/or one run by its founder, the company’s sustainability depends on its management team. Entrepreneurship is above all a matter of people, and a successful succession relies on an effective managerial transition.

That is why we make majority or minority investments in order to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and to implement succession plans tailored to each situation.

Our investment criteria

We invest in companies with management teams that have a strong desire to accelerate their growth and support founders who want to plan their succession and secure the future of their company.

The companies we invest in meet the following criteria:

Swiss SMEs

We prefer small and medium-sized Swiss enterprises generating up to CHF 150 million in revenue, with a core target between CHF 20 and CHF 80 million.

No sector constraints

Our curiosity and entrepreneurial approach enable us to explore all types of industries and sectors. What matters to us is the strength of your business model and the quality of your products, services, and teams.

Strong and sustainable competitive position

We prefer companies with a strong strategic position in growing markets, as this gives them a lasting competitive advantage.

Family or independent management, but always entrepreneurial

Our priority is to support businesses run by families or entrepreneurs, backed on experienced and motivated managements teams.

Growth track-recod with significant development potential

We primarily seek companies with a solid expansion history and ambitious yes realistic development plans.

Your success: our mission

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We see ourselves as partners rather than passive investors, and want to play an active role in situations involving transfers (LBOs, LMBOs, OBOs, etc.) or development.

That’s why we take majority or minority stakes with significant rights of control. In addition, we systematically sit on the Board of Directors.

This is how we can help you realise the full potential of your project and/or support your transmission in an effective and pragmatic way.

Our team

In addition to its own team, DECALIA Capital relies on the resources of DECALIA SA’s Private Markets team, particularly for marketing, finance, administration, and operations activities.