Your partner for growth.
OGV partners with talented founders and management teams that are building category-defining businesses. OGV structures win-win capital solutions that deliver superior risk-reward propositions for its investors while being responsive to its prospective partner companies and their shareholders' strategic and financial objectives.
We partner with small and medium sized enterprises in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe and grow them into larger and more valuable market leaders.
A Global Presence with Local Expertise
Old Georgian Ventures is a private investment firm headquartered in Amsterdam, with presence in New York and Copenhagen.
A Tailored Approach to Every Opportunity
We are able to take a custom yet disciplined approach to every situation.
Versatility Across Industries and Capital Structures
We have invested in generalist and specialist capacities, up and down the capital structure, and enjoy strong pattern recognition across a broad range of industries.
Proven Experience in Driving Growth and Success
We bring a collective 30+ years of hands-on experience in executing transactions, implementing strategic and operational changes, scaling organizations, and managing portfolio companies through economic cycles and to successful monetization.
Core Values That Define Us
We pride ourselves in our core ethos of hard work, excellence, humility, transparency, alignment, and doing the right thing by all of our stakeholders.
Focus on Sustainability and Long-Term Success
We believe that long-termism and sustainability are key attributes to gauging investment success.
How we think about every opportunity.
Decisive and Thesis-Driven
We are decisive, hard-working and thesis-driven investors.
Long-Term Secular Growth
We look beyond today's trends to identify and focus on long-term secular growth themes.
Conviction-Backed Action
We act nimbly and with conviction, backing businesses and extraordinary business leaders with the potential to win.
Disciplined, Custom Approach
We believe that no single approach fits all and can take a disciplined yet custom approach to each situation.
Investment Focus
Private Equity
We seek to partner with operating companies through majority/minority recapitalization, buyout, take-private and PIPE transactions. We incline towards situations that involve intact management teams but can help supplement and re-incentivize managers and provide interim leadership, as appropriate.
Special Situations
We provide bespoke financing solutions to companies in support of their business expansion and growth strategies, to strengthen corporate liquidity profiles and balance sheets and provide a partial exit to ownership. Our capital may be control or non-control in nature.
Real Estate
We utilize a thematic investment approach to source, acquire and manage investments, with an emphasis on properties requiring recapitalization, repositioning or a strategic capital investment. Our investments may comprise outright asset acquisitions, note purchases, portfolio and corporate-level investments.
Fund and Coinvestments
We actively invest as limited partners in funds and direct deals led by top-tier general partners where we see strong alignment, compelling track records, and sector expertise.
Advisory
Where an asset or a business is not a clear fit with our investment mandate, our team may be willing to facilitate introductions to other capital partners and advise on aspects of capital raising and structuring to help you meet your objectives.
Range of transaction experience.
Founder and Family Owned
- First-institutional capital transactions.
- Ability to provide partial or full liquidity to current ownership.
- Willing to work with the family's next generation or bring in new management team.
Corporate Carveouts
- Simplify complex carve-out requirements for corporate sellers.
- Highly-embedded or stand-alone units of public and private parents.
- Co-develop Transition Service Agreements & 100-day plans.
Special Situations
- Control-oriented investments that have an element of dislocation.
- Situations in which we can identify a fulcrum security to gain control.
- Secondary buyouts of controlling positions in companies.
Growth and Recapitalization
- Collaborative partnership-capable of providing solutions to multiple constituents.
- Working with sellers and management teams who seek long term value creation.
Distress and Turnarounds
- Investing in underperforming businesses, requiring buyer's speed, certainty, and creativity.
- Maximizing enterprise value by restructuring, stabilizing, operating and growing these businesses.
We combine disciplined investment criteria with "muscle memory" from decades of accumulated investing experience.
Investment Types
- Buyouts
- Majority Recapitalizations
- Carveouts
- Minority (with governance)
- Stressed and Distressed Credits
Sectors
- Services (B2B/B2C)
- Industrials
- Distribution
- Consumer Products & Retail
- Aerospace & Defense
- Technology
- Healthcare
Location
- USA
- Canada
- Western Europe
Market & Competitive Positioning
- Large, growing, and fragmented market or high barriers to entry
- Non-discretionary, stable, or less cyclical demand
- Strong strategic or market positioning
Financial Characteristics
- $1.0M to $10.0M of EBITDA
- Capital efficient with return on tangible net assets exceeding 25%
- Track record of or potential for revenue and earnings growth
Adding value to entrepreneurs, portfolio companies, and employees.
Our Employees
- Culture of apprenticeship, transparency, healthy debate, and responsibility.
- Meritocratic governance providing advanced insight into pathways for upward mobility and formulae for reward-sharing.
Our Partner Companies
- Duty of care to business' legacy, brand, employees, and communities.
- Implement programs to promote financial literacy, skill enrichment, and stock ownership.
- Uphold labor standards and promote diversity, inclusion, and employee engagement.
Entrepreneurs
- Thematic approach with high industry and competitive awareness.
- Patience with nuance and flexible structuring that is responsive to seller goals while maintaining alignment with OGV.
- Commitment to being transparent and always doing the right thing.
- Thoughtful value creation plans involving active partnership versus cheerleading from the sidelines.
Our mission is to create lasting value by driving innovation, fostering growth, and empowering businesses to reach their full potential.
Beyond Capital
We share the mindset, energy, resilience and passion it takes to build and grow a world-class business.
Expertise and Networks
Our sector expertise, insights and extensive network creates a competitive advantage for the businesses we partner with.
Data as a Culture
We inspire data-centric leadership that improves visibility, builds trust, fosters ownership, and aligns compensation with results.
Operational Excellence
We provide support in key areas including accessing and developing talent, scaling sales and marketing, upgrading business processes, and optimizing supply chain and back-office operations.
Strategic Growth Support
We help evaluate and execute key strategic objectives including optimizing product strategy, entering new markets, making large infrastructural investments and strategic acquisitions, and accessing capital markets.
Through strategic guidance and a commitment to excellence, we transform challenges into opportunities and ambitions into success.
The people behind every partnership.
Passionate Investors
We are an experienced and relentless group of investors who are united by our common purpose of backing high potential businesses and entrepreneurs and helping them win.
Deep Investment Expertise
OGV principals have invested in generalist and specialist capacities, up and down the capital structure, and enjoy strong pattern recognition across a broad range of industries.
Track Record Of Success
Our team members share a long history of collaboration and have enjoyed above-market returns on investments that they have led or supported at leading investment firms.
Jahanzeb
Jahanzeb is a Partner at Old Georgian Ventures. Prior to founding OGV, Jahanzeb has held investment and advisory roles at various global asset managers, family offices and investment banks across private equity, real estate and credit strategies. Jahanzeb earned his Bachelors in Accounting and Finance between the University of Warwick (UK) and the University of Georgia (USA).
Shahzad
Shahzad is a Partner at Old Georgian Ventures. Shahzad has spent 13 years investing in general and specialist capacities on behalf of various private equity firms. Shahzad earned his Bachelors in Accounting and Finance between the University of Warwick (UK) and University of Georgia (US).
Sien
Sien is an advisor at Old Georgian Ventures. Sien has spent her career assessing areas of organizational risk, establishing contingency plans and managing crisis communications at leading consulting firms and financial institutions. Sien has a triple masters in Crisis & Security Management, Decision Support & Risk Analysis and Information & Cyber Security from Leiden University, Stockholm University and Skövde University.
Sahar
Sahar is an advisor at Old Georgian Ventures. Sahar has spent 15+ years at top strategy consulting firms leading complex, integrated technology implementations (financials, procurement, tax), program management and business transformation for clients in over 80 countries.
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