DECALIA CAPITAL | SWISS ENTREPRENORS INVESTORS | 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

Cédric Anthonioz Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Cédric Anthonioz starting his career in private equity in 2003 as an analyst at Vauban Partenaires in Paris, and he continued in the field with Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) in Geneva from 2005 to 2009. In 2009, he co-founded SEC Partners with Jean-Guillaume Benoît.

A graduate of the Lyon School of Management, Cédric Anthonioz also holds a DESS in Law and corporate Finance from the Jean Moulin University in Lyon.

Jean-Guillaume Benoit Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Jean-Guillaume Benoît started his career at Société Générale in Paris as an M&A Analyst, and he became Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions at Crédit Agricole Indosuez in Milan, before devoting himself in 2004 to private equity at Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) in Geneva. In 2009, he co-founded SEC Partners with Cédric Anthonioz.

Jean-Guillaume Benoît is a graduate of the Lyon School of Management and the ICS in Paris.

Félix Gloor Head of the Zurich Office DECALIA Capital SA

Director Private Equity of DECALIA Capital in the Zurich office

Félix Gloor was head of the Zurich office of a private equity firm for three years.

Previously, he worked for more than thirteen years in the field of corporate transactions, notably with KPMG and Mazars.

Félix Gloor holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen (M.A. HSG) and a CAS in Corporate Finance from the University of Zurich.

Pietro Milic Associate

Associate

Pietro Milic joined DECALIA Capital’s Zurich office in 2024.

Pietro Milic previously completed his legal traineeship with the Geneva law firm Jacquemoud Stanislas before being admitted to the bar in March 2024.

He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Zurich.

Investment Committee

Rodolfo De Benedetti Board Director

Partner – Member of the Board – Head of Fund Managers and Product Strategy – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy Committee – Chairman of the Board of Directors of DECALIA Capital SA

Partner DECALIA SA – Head of Fund Managers and Product Strategy – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy Committee – President of the Board of Directors DECALIA Capital SA

Rodolfo De Benedetti is currently Chairman of the Board and majority co-shareholder of the Italian group CIR since 2013, where he served as CEO for eighteen years.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Sogefi. Additionally, he currently chairs the Harvard Business School’s European Advisory Board and is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).

Rodolfo De Benedetti also worked for Bank Lombard Odier and Shearson Lehman Brothers in the US.

He holds a Master degrees in Political Economy and Law from the University of Geneva.

Sébastien Demole Partner and Head of Alternative Advisory

Partner – Head of Alternative Advisory – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy and Investment Committees

Sébastien Demole began his career in 2002 at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, as a junior trader. Two years later, he was sent to Hong Kong to develop the equity derivative trading desk.

In 2009, he joined the Parisian hedge fund Boussard & Gavaudan Gestion as a proprietary trader for the multi-strategy fund.

Sébastien Demole opened the PerenInvest Family Office in Switzerland in 2012, where he was in charge of investments in various asset classes, such as direct deals in Private Equity.

He holds a BSc in Economics from Queen Mary, University of London and an MBA from INSEAD.

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.