BoldMind Capital

Overview

Established in 2024 in the Netherlands by 4 partners with extensive business & investment experience, BoldMind Capital Partners is managing BoldMind Fund I, a private equity fund investing in companies with ambitious founders & managers actively helping them achieve their full potential.

We approach growth equity investments with the eyes of experienced entrepreneurs, as we are convinced that opportunities start with people and not with numbers. You should think of us as your trusted partners on the pathway to becoming great businesses, as we love nothing more than rolling up our sleeves to help great people build great businesses.

Our
Approach

We live everyday by our mission to build enduring businesses by combining strategic & financial support, hands-on partnership, and a commitment to operational excellence. We aim to partner with highly motivated entrepreneurs and help them accomplish their vision. We are also comfortable to acquire full ownership and then add strong management teams aligned with the specific investment thesis.

Either way, we will share our extensive experience accumulated in 2 decades of investing in various sectors, business models and economic cycles, while also opening access to an extended professional network developed over time.

Our approach to value creation post-investment
usually consists of 3 key pillars:

partnering with the management to identify and implement operational efficiency initiatives (i.e. supply chain & procurement activities, production processes, digitalization etc);

securing investment capital to accelerate growth (i.e. M&A, adding capacity, sales & marketing, product development, etc);

helping enhance management systems and capabilities (i.e. budgeting & reporting, IT systems, organizational development etc);

By targeting high-growth markets in Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, we benefit from the rapid economic development of these countries. The primary geographical focus for our investment mandate is Romania, with at least 75% of the fund's capital allocated here.

We build on over 20 years of building and developing entrepreneurial companies, being exposed to various industries (business services, healthcare, retail, technology, media, energy, food processing, construction materials, consumer goods, financial services etc) and exit routes (strategic investors, private equity funds, public listing on the stock exchange).

Investment
Criteria

We aim for dynamic companies operating in attractive or fragmented markets with high potential for acceleration through organic or M&A growth, where we can invest between EUR 3 - 10 million equity per transaction. Potential target companies should generate revenues of minimum EUR 3 million with EBITDA of at least EUR 0.30 million. Our investment criteria do not include start-ups or early-stage companies, real estate, agriculture, energy projects, metallurgy or highly polluting industries, alcohol & tobacco, gaming.

Responsible
investing

Excellent returns for our investors are fully compatible with a responsible attitude towards all stakeholders of our portfolio companies.

At fund and portfolio company level we emphasize high ethical standards, giving us the practical benefit that it is also a strong value driver for businesses that we invest in. Our robust policy framework embodies BoldMind's fundamental values, while improving the performance of our companies. ESG procedures are developed and included in all stages of the investment cycle, from the selection of a transaction and its assessment, through building the company's value after completion of the investment.

Many SMEs have strong ties to their local communities. We aim to enhance their ability to give back to these communities through corporate social responsibility initiatives and supporting local collaboration. This creates a win-win situation, where thriving businesses contribute to the prosperity of their local communities, which in turn serve as the backbone of those businesses.

Our team

We are a strong and balanced team of seasoned professionals with over 100 years of cumulative experience in M&A and private capital investments, as well as financing and operational management of businesses. Our previous track record comprise investment into 18 companies and hundreds of other companies from different sectors that we screened, interacted with and negotiated for a potential investment.

Our expertise and hands-on approach have helped companies expand their operations and capacities, build and reinforce management teams, launch new products, make add-on acquisitions and set the strategy & action plans to gain market leadership.