We are Abacus alpha: your investment company for SMEs
Abacus alpha is an experienced and financially independent investment company that, as an impact investor, focuses on sustainable growth financing and corporate succession for SMEs. We invest in forward-looking technologies and innovations that make a significant contribution to solving the problems of the future through technology. Our goal is to support companies in realizing their visions and achieving long-term success through strategic partnerships and equity investments.
We invest in companies that are active in the fields of automation and digitalization, clean tech and green tech or in the development of innovative materials and manufacturing processes. We also focus on companies that are a good fit for our investment company and whose opportunities we are convinced of. The focus is on technology-oriented activities, digitalization, Industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence – including in the services and retail segments.
Both minority and majority shareholdings are possible.
Our investments aim to increase the capital entrusted to us in order to enable further impact investments. We attach great importance to ensuring that our investments reflect our values such as decency, innovation and professionalism. We are not primarily concerned with maximizing financial returns, but with creating sustainable added value and supporting the long-term goals of our shareholder as a foundation-bound holding company.
Philosophy
Our aim is to develop a diversified, profitable, forward-looking and technology-oriented investment company. Services and trading round off the spectrum.
We pay attention to strategic partnerships with both young and established companies. We focus on medium-sized companies.
We think and act long-term and future-oriented. Our strategy includes
• buy and hold – continuing to run companies sustainably in the long term and
• buy and build – using joint strengths to grow and expand our market position and leverage synergies within the entrepreneurial community
We adhere to our core values in everything we do: decency, innovation and professionalism.
We value and respect the historical development and individuality of a company and the people who work there. We take responsibility and want the company to remain successful in the long term while respecting its values and corporate culture. We make it possible to continue life’s work and protect the interests of family members.
Our portfolio companies benefit from our network in a variety of ways. As an investment company and impact investor, we facilitate the establishment or expansion of international structures. We promote the transfer of knowledge and facilitate mutual learning. We also provide services and thus create synergies. We not only offer support and advice for the strategic positioning of our companies, but also specific services in the areas of human resources, marketing and communication, controlling, IT and accounting.
If a business idea has real potential and its realization represents a strategic gain for our investment company, then our company builder, Abacus neo, makes it a reality. This is how we help ideas enter the market.
We are convinced that personal responsibility, freedom and scope for action on the part of the management are elementary success factors for every company. That is why we attach great importance to individual design options.
Memberships and expert network
We get involved, shape the future with leading partners and represent the interests of our entrepreneurial community. Important success factors are the continuous expansion and maintenance of an extensive, international and rapidly growing network of experts.
Abacus alpha is well networked and active in important industry associations. We are a full member of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) and the German Economic Council. At an international level, Abacus alpha is a member of Transeo aisbl, an initiative to promote the transfer of small and medium-sized companies in the Benelux region and France.
2006
Abacus alpha became active this year
1.000
Approximate number of employees in all Abacus alpha portfolio companies
100 %
In addition to twelve minority and majority shareholdings, Abacus alpha currently holds 100% of six companies
> 10
Professionals in the team control the deal flow and manage the portfolio
∞
The duration of the investments is theoretically unlimited – “buy, hold, and build” is Abacus alpha’s motto
Our history
Abacus alpha is an investment company that has been making sustainable investments in technological innovations to secure growth in successor companies in the SME sector as an impact investor since 2006. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Johannes und Jacob Klein GmbH, which holds a substantial majority stake in the long-established listed company KSB SE & Co. KGaA, our portfolio currently comprises around 20 investments. Within our Group and together with our portfolio companies, we promote exchange, synergies and joint growth, creating sustainable value and supporting technological progress.