{"id":8790,"date":"2020-12-19T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/what-we-seek\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:39:41","slug":"what-we-seek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/what-we-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Seek"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To achieve this goal, we gain a precise understanding of your company and business model, develop an investment process together with you, and then support you as a trusted long-term partner and entrepreneurial advisor.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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As a potential investment company, you have a sustainable, innovative, long-term oriented business model with products, technologies, or services that offer substantial competitive advantages. Ideally, you operate in specialized niches of established markets within the broad field of hazardous material storage, environmental protection, and occupational safety. Furthermore, you have a solid and proven business policy, experienced management, and have integrated ethical principles into your corporate policy. <\/p>\n

We are also open to other asset classes (e.g., real estate projects)<\/span>.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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The focus for an investment in a company is on revenues between \u20ac1 million and \u20ac10 million, with a maximum of \u20ac30 million. <\/p>\n

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DECAP GmbH, as an investment company, sees itself not just as a pure capital provider, but as a long-term partner and entrepreneurial advisor. With our team’s many years of experience, our comprehensive know-how in niche industries of the Mittelstand, and our expertise in company building and management, we support our portfolio companies in realizing their full potential. We pursue an entrepreneurial approach. DECAP accompanies its portfolio companies as equals, firmly convinced that a company’s success results from a close, cooperative, and above all, trusting partnership. <\/p>\n

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Various situations can be the occasion for DECAP’s involvement:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Direct exchange is important to us: Our investments are always in contact with decision-makers and investors. The decision for a company investment is always made jointly, personally, and promptly by the shareholders of DECAP GmbH. <\/p>\n

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      CAREFULLY INVEST. GROW TOGETHER. To achieve this goal, we gain a precise understanding of your company and business model, develop an investment process together with you, and then support you as a trusted long-term partner and entrepreneurial advisor. The Focus. Sustainable. Ethical. Owner-managed. As a potential investment company, you have a sustainable, innovative, long-term oriented […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8790","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8790\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decap-group.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}