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Investment Approach
We are not your typical investor.
We are a hands-off partner for entrepreneurs of successful digital companies: you sell some of your shares but still run your business independently.
We invest into your business for the long run, with our own money, regardless of market cycles.
We do not encourage our companies to optimise for the short term. Instead, we work hard towards turning our companies into sustainable champions over time.
You will not be integrated into a large corporation that meddles with your culture and team. We are building a network of autonomous entrepreneurs who own a material equity stake in the businesses they run.
We love partnering with profitable niche online marketplace and SaaS companies.
We typically look at three different kinds of opportunities:
1.) Bootstrappers
You have spent the last years building a profitable business, with your own money, sweat and patience. Now, you need a partner to internationalise, accelerate growth or simply want to sell some of your shares but continue to lead the business into the next phase of growth.
2.) Companies switching from unsustainable growth to profitability
You have built a great business with considerable revenues and you are even close to profitability already. Your VC investors are at the end of their holding period and need to exit. You want to stay on board to turn the company into a profitable, cashflow yielding business.
3.) Your early investors or co-founders want out
Your business angels or co-founders want to exit and you want to bring in a new entrepreneurial investor to take your business to the next level.
Our main focus
Majority Acquisitions
Investing in profitable (>€500k EBITDA) niche marketplaces and adjacent software businesses with more than €2m in revenues across Europe where we can add value and build a >€2m EBITDA business in three to five years.
- Financials: €2-3m revenues, growing and profitable
- Attractive market position: market leader or significant number 2 in a defensible niche (preferably EU)
- Investment size up € 50m
- We want entrepreneurs to remain in the company and further drive the company’s growth
Venture Capital
Growth Investments
Occassionally, we also invest in high-growth startups entering industries we know really well and believe a new model can be more successful.
- High growth and scalable digital businesses
- From Series A upwards
- Driven founding team with a significant stake in the company
- Active in the same industries as our of our strategic portfolio companies
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Comprehensive Corporate Toolbox
M&A Support
Our investment managers help you buy your competitors and consolidate your industry.
Technical Support and Shared Services
Start playing in the product & tech champions league: we have a dedicated DevOps team to work with your CTOs and developers to bring your technical infrastructure and product development processes to the next level.
Shared Software Tools
We give small companies access to tools that are typically only available to larger enterprises (e.g. shared licenses such as Google360, DOMO, Salesforce or exclusive service agreements for talent recruiting).
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Access to our powerful network
Knowledge sharing
Extensive knowledge exchange across the fields of product development, technology, marketing and sales are key advantages of collaborating with us. We also facilitate group-wide workshops, best practice sharing, trainings and dedicated meetups throughout the Russmedia Group (CTO & Product Meetups twice a year and once a year each finance, sales and marketing)
Our powerful network
You will join and benefit from a tightly knit network of 500 marketplace experts across our portfolio companies.
We can give you direct access to best-in-class experts for the core areas of your business, such as recruiting, pricing, TV advertising or SEO/SEA optimization leaders, CRO partners and experts for digital taxation and law.
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Material Equity Participation
We are building a network of autonomous entrepreneurs who own a material equity stake in the businesses they run. We only work with equity partners, not managers.
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Funding throughout market cycles
We invest into your business for the long run, with our own money, regardless of market cycles.
We do not encourage our companies to optimise for the short term. Instead, we work hard towards turning our companies into sustainable champions over time.
Curious
Competitive
Committed
Pragmatic
Sustainable
Proactive
Curious
Competitive
Committed
Pragmatic
Sustainable
Proactive
We appreciate the ongoing and open exchange with the various companies within the group, that has given us new inputs, great feedback and shorter paths. Especially at the board meetings, we get a lot of takeaways. The good networking of the Russmedia Equity Partners has also opened new doors and contributed to the positive development of ALPINRESORTS.com. Story lesen
We are happy to be accompanied by Russmedia and to be part of their plans for growing in the marketplace industry. We have received valuable support on all areas and could always rely on financial support if needed.
From Russmedia Equity Partners we always receive group wide initiatives lifting our company on a whole new level of professionalism by delivering an infrastructure team, marketing support/experts in network and many more connections and know-how exchanges.
Russmedia secured the long-term financing of the company because they believed in our team and product. Now I am experiencing strong strategic and operational support and handshake quality.
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