Alpera Partners focuses exclusively on building and investing in sector consolidation platforms
Making control investments in groups of high-quality, mission-critical businesses and scaling them through a M&A engine and organic growth playbook across Western Europe
Our investment thesis
Majority governance and rights
High-quality, mission critical businesses
Growing and recurring revenue, cash generative SMEs between €1-5m EBITDA
M&A engine
Growing through systematic acquisitions of similar, high-quality SMEs
Organic playbook
Professionalise and digitalise the business systematically
Why we focus on this
1.4 million
representing 20% of EU employment
30%
50% experiencing succession issues
Trillions
€2Tn EV changing hands each year in Europe
€20-50 million
of equity per platform backed
Acquiring growing, profitable SMEs between
€1-5 million EBITDA
Based in
Western Europe
Investment criteria
We back high-quality groups executing roll-up strategies across fragmented markets
Market criteria
We only go after fragmented, essential markets where we see:
Depth and growth
Large markets of €1bn+, structurally growing at least GDP+2%
Fragmentation
Markets served by thousands of companies, with hundreds of qualified targets
Space for a national leader
We can build a real group and do not compete against mono/oligopolies
Examples of addressable markets
Business
Consumer
Healthcare
