3TS Capital Partners

3TS Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 1999. The firm specializes in providing growth capital and buyout funding to small and medium-sized businesses, with a strong emphasis on technology and related sectors, including media, communications, and technology-enabled services. It primarily focuses on investment opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in European Union accession countries, but may also consider exceptional cases in Ukraine and Turkey. The firm typically invests between €1 million and €30 million in companies with enterprise values ranging from €1.5 million to €300 million, often seeking significant minority or majority stakes. 3TS aims to enhance the value of its portfolio companies through active partnership and strategic support, while planning to exit investments within three to five years through sales or initial public offerings. The firm has garnered over €300 million from various investors, including prominent financial institutions and corporations.

Wojtek Degorski

Investor

Marius Ghenea

Managing Partner

Laszlo Hradszki

Partner

Andreas Huber

Partner & Chief Operating Officer

Jozsef Köver

Partner and Chief Legal Officer

Daniel Lynch

Managing Partner - Prague

Pekka Santeri Mäki

Managing Partner

Katarzyna Pac-Malesa

Investor

Mihai Sfintescu

Partner

Piotr Sliwa

Investment Manager

Svetoslav Stefanov

Investment Director

Sever Totia

Partner, Washington DC & Bucharest

Elbruz Yılmaz

Investment Director

Zbigniew Łapiński

Senior Partner

Past deals in Czech Republic

ZOOT

Private Equity Round in 2015
ZOOT a.s. is an online fashion retailer based in Prague, Czech Republic, specializing in a diverse range of clothing, footwear, and accessories for men, women, and children. The company, founded in 2012 by Ladislav Trpak and Oldrich Bajer, offers a multi-brand platform that includes not only fashion apparel but also housing and design products. ZOOT serves customers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania, providing its products through an accessible web platform and mobile application. Its offerings encompass a wide variety of items, such as jeans, shirts, dresses, jackets, and home decor, catering to a broad demographic and promoting a stylish lifestyle.

Visual Unity

Series A in 2014
Visual Unity is a global provider of video and digital media solutions, enabling our clients to deliver premium quality video content. Our clients can measure, analyze and optimize their libraries over time and achieve optimal business success. Our platform capabilities inspire our clients to deploy their assets across multiple devices, screens, and media formats. Visual Unity helps clients manage, deliver and monetize their digital content.

MALL.cz

Venture Round in 2008
MALL.cz is an online retailer in the Czech Republic. The site also operates in Germany, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The company runs more than 45 e-shops in the region with 1,200 product categories.

NetRetail Holding

Venture Round in 2008
The roots of Netretail Holding Group date back to the year 2000, when our first shop, www.bilezbozi.cz, was launched. It became a truly legendary shop with kitchen appliances in the Czech Republic, mainly for its unbiased customer service it offered. Shortly afterwards, we launched additional shops with other mass consumer items. We have ventured into DIY, petfood, sport and fashion. Our Czech venture has gained the status of the pure play market leader, a position that has continued to strengthened over time. We launched our shops in Slovakia and Hungary in 2005 and Poland in 2006 and Germany in 2007. We divested Germany in 2011, and refocused ourselves in CEE. We acquired a minority position in Slovenian market leader later in 2011 and we are actively looking for opportunities to grow our business both organically and through partnerships. Netretail Holding Group is now a part of Naspers (JSE: NPN), a global media company with notable investments in Internet companies worldwide.

Nej.cz

Venture Round in 2008
Nej.cz is an independent cable TV and internet service providers throughout Czech Republic. It operates in more than 50 cities providing services to 70,000 households.

CV-Online

Venture Round in 2001
CV-Online is a internet recruitment company, established in 1996 in Estonia and rolled out to Latvia and Lithuania in 1999. CV-Online achieved promptly the market leader status across the Baltic Countries based on its well elaborated technology in combination with the service minded organisation culture. Currently CV-Online holds the market leadership not only by the sales turnover, but also as the forerunner of innovation in its segment. CV-Online is not only a jobboard in the internet, but strong service organisation that works to be the best partner to all stakeholders: employers, jobseekers, own staff and investors. To add value to whole society by making the jobseeking and employment easy and transparent process hence increase the well-being of everyone. Since 2012 CV-Online belongs to Alma Media OYJ – one of the leading Finnish media concerns listed on Helsinki stock exchange. Alma Media has wide portfolio of leading online job portals across the region: www.monster.fi in Finland, www.monsterpolska.pl in Poland, www.jobs.cz and www.prace.cz in Czech Republic, www.profesia.sk in Slovak Republic, www.monster.hu in Hungary, www.posao.ba in Bosnia and Herzogvina, www.poslovi.infostud.com in Serbia and www.mojposao.net in Croatia. From January 2014 the global leader of internet recruitment: www.monster.com have obtained a share in Alma Media recruitment portals. Now CV-Online belongs to the world biggest internet recruitment group and can offer services around the globe. Belonging to group of leading online players enables CV-Online to stay continuously in forefront of innovation and improved customer service quality.