Private Equity

Operators, not visitors.

Controlling stakes in small European businesses. We buy to build.

Build, don’t flip.

We take controlling positions in small industrial businesses — companies with real customers, defensible operations, and room to grow under better structure. Every acquisition is an operational project, not a financial one.

Growth comes from professionalising management, opening new markets, and reinvesting cash flow. Not from leverage, not from multiple expansion, not from timing an exit.

Position Controlling
Strategy Operational growth
Leverage Conservative
Horizon Indefinite

No venture. No turnarounds. No auctions.

The business is profitable, generates cash, and has been operating for years. The owner is retiring, or has built something that outgrew their management, or wants a partner with a longer horizon than a fund.

We do not participate in competitive processes. If the thesis requires financial engineering to work, it is not a thesis.

Sector Industrials, essential services
Size Small enterprise
Trigger Succession, growth capital
Geography Europe

When the time
is right.

General Inquiries info@carthagoholdings.com
Location 35-37 avenue de la Liberté
L-1931 Luxembourg