Reviving Tech Companies.
Hands-On.
What happens when a strong company hits heavy seas?
Who takes the helm when it matters most?
We take over and change course.
From special situation to a healthy company.
From special situation to a healthy company.
We don't just invest. We take responsibility.
Pivotum Capital is an entrepreneur-led investment company focused on technology companies in special situations. We take over companies with structural or strategic pressure to act and carry the ownership responsibility ourselves — operationally, with clear decisions and at short notice.
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„We have a unit that no longer belongs to the core business. It is losing money, it depends on our shared services, the employees are meant to transfer with it, and we need a solution within weeks that will hold.“
Almost every conversation with us starts like this. That is exactly where we come in.
Discuss your situationWhat we take on.
Technology companies in special situations: as a carve-out from a group, or as a holding that has to be repositioned. We look at substance, customers and prospects, not at the last quarterly figure. Where others step out, we step in.
Carve-outs
Units that no longer belong to a group's core and are meant to continue on their own.
Market pressure
The business model is under pressure, revenues are falling, the repositioning is overdue.
Standalone capability
The unit cannot operate on its own, key functions sit with the group, or day-to-day leadership is missing.
Liquidity
Cash is tight, financing is running out, decisions have been postponed.
What we look for
Sector
Technology companies and software-driven business models
Revenue
Above EUR 10 million in annual revenue in the unit being sold
Region
Based in DACH, selected situations across the rest of Europe
Situation
Carve-out, repositioning or succession, loss-making included
Role
Majority stake and operational responsibility from day one
Seller
Corporates, founders and investors parting with a unit
Why Pivotum rather than a fund or a strategic buyer?
A fund decides through committees and has to sell again in a few years. A strategic buyer wants to integrate the unit, not run it on its own. We do neither.
Fast decisions
The partners decide between themselves, with no investment committee. You get a reliable answer before the process starts costing you time.
Our own capital
We invest our own money, and the financing is in place before we talk to you. No financing condition in the final round.
Difficult situations
Losses, no administration of its own, time pressure: what others screen out is our normal case.
Operational takeover
We don't buy and wait. We run the company ourselves, on site and with our own team.
Carve-out expertise
Separating shared services, setting up transitional agreements, transferring employees cleanly: we have done it several times and know where it gets stuck.
Certainty to close
What we sign, we close. And because we have no fund term, nobody has to eye the next sale afterwards.
Entrepreneurs. Operators. Partners.
Four partners who have founded, built, turned around and sold companies themselves. You won't be talking to a fund. You'll be talking to entrepreneurs.
There is a team behind the partners. For every mandate we draw on our own specialists and a network of operators, interim managers and experts we have known for years. Whoever takes on a function has run one before.
Holdings of Pivotum Capital and its partners.
A selection of companies Pivotum Capital and its partners hold or have held.
Our playbook.
Stabilization We create transparency over figures and structures, secure liquidity and restore the company's ability to act quickly.
Strategic focus We analyse market position and business model and align the company consistently with its real strengths.
We are on site. We work inside the company rather than from a distance, and stay reachable for team, customers and partners.
We take over communication. Internally and externally: staff, customers, suppliers and banks know at all times exactly where they stand.
Short decision paths. Where required, we step into operational leadership roles ourselves and clear the blockers out of the way.
Our own experts step in. We take on tasks with our own team instead of leaving them undone or buying them in expensively.
We bring in new talent. We fill key positions actively and run the interviews ourselves, always directly with one of the partners.
We roll out AI. We bring AI into the processes where it noticeably takes the load off: in sales, service and administration.
How the takeover works.
Three steps, clearly paced. From the first confidential conversation to the handover.
Meet
A confidential first conversation, directly with a partner.
Assess
We take a close look at the numbers, the market and the team.
Take over
A clear agreement, a clean transition, immediate support.
Frequently asked questions
Let's talk.
You are responsible for a unit or a holding that needs a solution? Talk to us — confidentially, and at an early stage too.
Your contact
Björn Jopen
Partner
Your first conversation is with a partner directly — no pre-screening by third parties.
Or directly
Address
Grosostr. 27, 82166 Graefelfing, Germany
Confidential
Every enquiry stays confidential. We work without drawing attention until a decision is made.