— What StratCore focuses on

StratCore focuses on established, profitable small and medium-sized companies across Europe, typically with an enterprise value between €2.5 million and €10 million.

It targets businesses with strong fundamentals and clear potential for further development, acquires controlling stakes, actively enhances performance and seeks to realise the value created through a planned exit.

This opportunity is especially compelling in a market where many business owners are nearing retirement and smaller companies are frequently overlooked by larger private equity funds. 

The strategy

BUY

Identify the right businesses.

Established, profitable companies are sourced through a European network, succession channels, advisers and direct relationships with owners.

BUILD

Turn good companies into great ones.

Management teams are supported to strengthen financial controls, sales, operations, systems and growth. Where it adds value, selective add-on acquisitions are pursued.

SELL

Realise the value created.

After a typical holding period of 3–7 years, an appropriate exit is sought to a strategic buyer, a larger private equity platform or the management team.

This core strategy is already embedded in the business plan.

"STRATCORE

Buy. Build. Sell.

Acquiring and scaling European small-cap companies for global investors."

StratCore is a privately held investment vehicle established to acquire established, profitable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe, enhance their operations and management, and exit them within a defined timeframe for capital gains. The focus is on companies with an enterprise value of €2.5 million to €10 million — a segment largely overlooked by traditional private equity funds, which typically pursue larger transactions, yet offers a steady pipeline of opportunities driven by ownership succession, fragmented markets, and under-professionalized management.

Capital is being raised from international investors — family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional allocators outside Europe — seeking direct exposure to the European small-cap buyout market without having to source, execute, and manage transactions themselves. Capital is pooled in a closed-end structure, invested into a portfolio of acquisitions, actively managed for value creation, and returned to investors through structured exits.

The objective is to acquire, hold for approximately 3–7 years, and profitably exit a diversified portfolio of companies, targeting a net return in the range of 15–25% IRR over the life of the fund. This document outlines the opportunity, strategy, target investment criteria, fund structure, and the team and processes that will be used to execute it.