DECALIA CAPITAL | SWISS ENTREPRENEURS 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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At DECALIA Capital, we partner with Swiss SME owners who want to accelerate growth, strengthen governance, or plan successful transition.

We believe real value creation starts with understanding your business model, people, and market. Not just your numbers.

Our team combines entrepreneurial experience with investment expertise to help you expand sustainably.

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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 ha iniziato la sua carriera nel private equity nel 2003 come analista presso Vauban Partenaires a Parigi, e ha continuato nello stesso settore in Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) a Ginevra dal 2005 al 2009. Nel 2009 diventa co-fondatore e partner di SEC Partners insieme a Jean-Guillome Benoit.

Laureato presso la Lyon School of Management, Cédric Anthonioz ha anche conseguito un diploma specialistico in studi superiori in legge e corporate Finance presso l’università di Jean Moulin a Lione.

Jean-Guillaume Benoit Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Partner DECALIA Capital SA

Jean-Guillaume Benoît ha iniziato la sua carriera presso Société Générale a Parigi come analista nell’ambito delle fusioni e acquisizioni, e ha conseguito il titolo di Vice President Mergers & Acquisitions al Crédit Agricole Indosuez a Milano, prima di dedicarsi nel 2004 al private equity in Crédit Agricole (Switzerland) a Ginevra. Nel 2009 diventa co-fondatore e partner di SEC Partners insieme a Cédric Anthonioz.

Jean-Guillaume Benoît é laureato presso la School of Management di Lione e all’ICS di Parigi.

Félix Gloor Responsabile dell'uficio di Zurigo DECALIA Capital SA

Direttore Private Equity di DECALIA Capital nell’ufficio di Zurigo

Félix Gloor è stato responsabile dell’ufficio di Zurigo di una società di private equity per tre anni.

In precedenza, ha lavorato per piu’ di 13 anni nel campo delle transazioni aziendali, in particolare con KPMG e Mazars.

Félix Gloor ha conseguito un Master in Business Administration presso l’Università di San Gallo (M.A. HSG) ed é titolare di un CAS in Corporate Finance presso l’Università di Zurigo.

Pietro Milic Associate

Associate

Pietro Milic è entrato nell’ufficio di Zurigo di DECALIA Capital nel 2024.

In precedenza, ha completato il suo praticantato legale presso lo studio legale Jacquemoud Stanislas a Ginevra, prima di essere ammesso all’albo degli avvocati nel marzo 2024.

Ha conseguito un master in diritto presso l’Università di Zurigo.

Investment Committee

Rodolfo De Benedetti Presidente del Consiglio di Amministrazione DECALIA Capital SA

Partner, Amministratore, Responsabile dei gestori di fondi e della strategia di prodotto, membro dell’Executive Committee, membro dell’Comitato di Strategia, Presidente del Consiglio di Amministrazione DECALIA Capital SA

Rodolfo De Benedetti è Presidente del Consiglio di Amministrazione e co-azionista di maggioranza del gruppo italiano CIR, ruolo che ricopre da 2013, di cui è stato Amministratore Delegato per diciotto anni.

E inoltre membro del Consiglio di Amministrazione di Sogefi, Presidente del Comitato consultivo Europeo della Harvard Business School, é anche membro della Tavola rotonda degli industriali europei (ERT).

Precedentemente, Rodolfo De Benedetti ha lavorato presso la Banca Lombard Odier e Shearson Lehman Brothers negli Stati Uniti.

Ha conseguito un Master in economia politica e un Master in giurisprudenza all’università di Ginevra.

Sébastien Demole Amministratore DECALIA Capital SA

Partner DECALIA SA – Responsabile della gestione patrimoniale – Membro dell’Executive Committee – Membro del Comitato di Strategia e d’Investimento

Sébastien Demole ha iniziato la sua carriera nel 2002 alla Royal Bank of Scotland a Londra come trader junior. Due anni dopo, si trasferisce ad Hong Kong dove gli viene chiesto di sviluppare il loro trading desk sui derivati azionari.

Nel 2009, ha raggiunto l’hedge fund parigino Boussard & Gavaundan Gestion, come trader per fondi multistrategy.

Ritornato in Svizzera nel 2012, fonda il Family Office PerenInvest, specializzandosi sulle diverse classi d’attivo, in particolare sugli investimenti diretti quali i Private Equity.

Sébastien Demole é laureato in Scienze Economiche presso la Queen Mary University di Londra e ha conseguito un MBA presso l’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.