Investment
Focus

What we look for

Investment
criteria

We focus on control or co-control investments, aiming to strategically partner with businesses to drive growth and success. Our target equity deployment per investment ranges from €100 million to €300 million, allowing us to provide substantial capital support for the companies we invest in.

Our Requirements

Relevant
transactions

Transaction types

  • Private companies
  • Secondary buyouts
  • Public to private
  • Carve outs
  • Venture / early stage
  • Infrastructure
  • Pure asset plays

Investment theses

  • Buy & build
  • Industry consolidation
  • Organic growth
  • Operational improvement
  • Turnaround / restructuring
  • Development projects
  • Technology bets

Where we specialise

Our sector
Preferences

Business Services

Business Services is a broad sector, where we apply a disciplined and selective approach to our investment strategy, focused on business models that provide mission-critical services within global, resilient, and structurally growing markets that benefit from long-term tailwinds and high fragmentation. 

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Consumer

We are inspired by the Jacobs family’s successful history of building and supporting consumer facing businesses with strong brands and products in resilient sectors. At Jacobs Capital we build on this heritage to invest behind long-term, structural trends supported by consumer preferences.

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Education

Education has been a key part of the Jacobs family’s endeavours for generations, both from a philanthropic as well as an investment perspective. We build on this successful legacy and invest in dynamic companies that provide excellent education and opportunities to students around the world.

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Healthcare

We are committed to building leading businesses for the long term across the healthcare ecosystem. We take a targeted approach, investing in companies benefiting from compelling demand dynamics, with differentiated business models and opportunities for outsized growth. 

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