Building enduring market leaders.
Our Firm
Arbor Capital was founded by operators and investors with the ambition to build future market leaders. We focus on B2B Services and High-Value Manufacturing. With more than 85 years of combined industry experience, our team acts as both – operational partner and strategic enabler.
What sets us apart is our operational focus and long-term perspective. We invest with an entrepreneurial mindset, rolling up our sleeves to drive value above expectations.
85 years
combined experience across industries
€4B
invested capital prior to founding Arbor Capital
historic track record
Our Strategy
We partner with founders and management teams to build market leaders. We bring a value creation playbook, developed over decades, that combines a disciplined M&A strategy with operational improvement across talent, process, and technology – backed by deep industry networks and long-term capital.
Through proactive, thematic sourcing, we identify opportunities early, often ahead of a competitive process. We enter deep, entrepreneurial partnerships based on shared ambition, aligned incentives, and an open dialogue among partners.
Our Investment Criteria
01 Situation
Buy and build, succession, corporate carve-out, or take private – we invest at inflection points.
02 Business profile
Profitable firms with defensible positions in resilient B2B markets.
03 Industry
Structurally growing industries with the right market structures.
04 Equity commitment
€20 to 100M+ of equity per platform, with the flexibility to scale.
Sectors we invest in
We target fragmented, growing markets across Europe, focusing on industries where platform strategies create lasting advantages.
Our Model
How we add value.
Operational partner
Our operating partners and industry executives bring decades of hands-on experience creating value and building leading firms. We work alongside our partners on growth, pricing, procurement, talent and tech-enablement.
Buy-and-build & M&A
We partner with our firms to establish M&A as a growth engine: we help build regional clusters, add capabilities, and support integration.
Strategic partner
We partner with our firms to build market leaders, one step at a time – with persistence and perspective.
Long-term capital, aligned
We believe that patient capital is crucial to enduring success. Our team are significant investors in each of our platforms – skin in the game and a shared destiny drives alignment.
Our Portfolio
We back strong businesses with the potential to become market leaders.
