Acquisitions
We buy profitable software and IT businesses. Then we leave them intact.
Through STRONGER Business Partners I acquire established, cash-generative companies and hold them. No fund life, no flip, no forced exit. If you have spent twenty years building something and want it to outlive the sale, that is the conversation I am interested in.
What we look for.
We would rather be clear and hear from fewer people. If your business misses one of these, it is still worth a note — if it misses most of them, we are probably not the right buyer.
- Sector
- Software, SaaS and IT services. Managed services, infrastructure, cybersecurity and vertical business software are where we are most useful.
- Revenue
- From about EUR 1 million. Recurring or contracted revenue matters more to us than headline size.
- Profitability
- 15%+ operating margin, sustained. Real profit, not profit that arrives after the next round.
- History
- Three or more years of trading, with customers who renew.
- Geography
- Germany, Austria and Switzerland first. Central and Eastern Europe where there is a clear fit.
- Situation
- Succession, a founder ready to step back, a corporate carve-out, or a team that has outgrown its current ownership.
We do not buy pre-revenue companies, turnarounds that need rescue financing, or businesses whose economics depend on a funding round that has not happened yet.
How it goes.
Selling the company you built is not a transaction you should have to learn on the fly. Here is the whole process, in advance.
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01
A conversation
Thirty minutes, no deck, no data room. You tell me what you have built and what you want to happen to it. If it is not a fit, I will say so on that call.
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Numbers, under NDA
Three years of financials and a customer overview are enough to form a real view. We sign your NDA or ours, whichever is faster.
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An indicative offer
Within two weeks of seeing the numbers, you get a structure and a range in writing — not a range that quietly moves later.
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Diligence and signing
Confirmatory diligence, then closing. We use our own capital, so there is no financing condition and no syndicate to assemble.
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The day after
Your team keeps their jobs, their brand and their way of working. I have operated these businesses for twenty years; the fastest way to destroy one is to arrive and start rearranging it.
What we will not do.
Every buyer says they are the good one. These are the specific things you can hold us to.
- We will not resell you. There is no fund clock and no obligation to return capital by a certain year.
- We will not load the company with acquisition debt and call it a growth plan.
- We will not strip the team. The people are most of what we are buying.
- We will not renegotiate after the offer absent something genuinely new in diligence.
- We will not waste your time. If we are out, you hear it immediately and with the reason.
Tell me about your company
No pitch deck required. A few lines is genuinely enough to start — everything below except your name, email and a sentence about the business is optional.
If you would rather just talk, book thirty minutes instead.
Advisors, brokers and M&A intermediaries are welcome — use the same form and note the mandate in the last field.