Small Cap
Big platforms
Cervinvest Build, is a small-cap strategy designed for one purpose: building platforms. We partner with profitable European companies, take a majority stake, and work alongside founders to scale through both organic growth and targeted M&A.
Investment criteria
Geography
Europe, with a focus on France, Italy and the Benelux.
Stake
Majority.
Equity ticket
€7m to €15m, with capacity to deploy meaningful follow-on capital.
Sectors
Generalist, with a preference for services, B2B specialty, and asset-light industrial niches.
Time horizon
5 to 7 years.
How we partner
Step 1
Anchor
We identify a strong platform: a profitable company, a clear leader, a defensible market position.
Step 2
Industrialise
Together with management, we strengthen the operating backbone: finance, ERP, sales discipline, talent.
Step 3
Build out
We co-design a buy-and-build roadmap, source targets, and execute add-ons with industrial logic – not financial engineering.
Step 4
Internationalise
We leverage our European footprint to extend the platform across borders, often through bolt-ons in our three geographies.
Step 5
Exit
We prepare an exit that rewards everyone who took the risk – founders, managers, employees, investors.
What we bring beyond capital
A dedicated M&A engine
An in-house team that sources, qualifies and integrates add-ons – so management can keep running the business.
A reporting framework that scales
From day one, we install the financial and KPI discipline a future buyer will expect.
An operating partners network
Sector executives on call for the four or five hard questions every platform faces.
