Capvis

Founded in 1999 as the successor organisation to SBC Equity Partners, Capvis Equity Partners AG is a private equity firm based in Switzerland which focused on investing in mid-market companies with headquarter in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands.

Philippe Bucher

CFO and Partner

JD

Julie Darbellay

Investor Relations

UE

Ueli Eckhardt

Value Creation Team

Ulrich Eckhardt

Partner, Head of Portfolio Team

LF

Leif-Niklas Fanter

Investment Team

Daniel Flaig

Managing Partner

Rolf Friedli

Partner

SL

Simon Lussi

Partner

André Perwas

Partner

Marco Ruch

Risk Management and Finance

Andreas Simon

Partner

ET

Eric Trüeb

Investment Team

Boris Zoller

Managing Partner

Past deals in Austria

Benninger

Acquisition in 2006
Benninger is develops and manufactures textile finishing and cord production machineries. It offers solutions for textile finishing processes, as well as specializes in the continuous open width treatment of fabrics and interlaced yarns. The company also provides tire cord installations, single end installations fabrics and yarns, conveyor belt fabrics, impregnation solution preparation units, and cutting installations systems; and calendar accessories for tire manufacturers.

Saia-Burgess Controls

Acquisition in 1996
Saia-Burgess Controls and their technology have been built on grassroots democracy. Both operate according to the “bottom up” principle. The needs of the grassroots are taken seriously and integrated into the development and manufacturing process. The quality management system, certified according to ISO 9001, can be viewed on internet by anyone and demonstrates with openness and transparency the rules by which they operate and the objectives they work towards.

LISTA

Acquisition in 2006
LISTA manufactures and sells workshop and warehouse furnishings. It offers drawer cabinets, drawer storage walls, workshop trolleys, storage and transport systems, workbenches and workstation systems, cabinet systems, shelving systems, partition material and labeling systems, access control systems, and dynamic systems.

SFC Koenig

Private Equity Round in 2008
Leading the field of high-quality, sealing and flow control technology, SFC KOENIG® manufacturers and develops a wide range of products and highly reliable solutions, both standard and customized, for an unrivalled means of delivering precise sealing, flow control and regulation. SFC KOENIG solutions meet the highest safety and environmental requirements, achieving increased system reliability and efficiency while preventing damage to components. They design and manufacture their sealing and flow control solutions to reduce waste in the supply chain and lower lifecycle costs, producing parts with lower total production costs.

Faster Srl

Acquisition in 2014
Faster Srl designs, develops, manufactures, and sells couplings, check valves, multi fasters, casting solutions, and accessories and spares in Italy and internationally. The company’s products are used in various applications, such as agriculture, air conditioning refrigeration, construction equipment, high pressure tools, industrial, oil and gas, vehicles and road machines, and optical fiber cable blowing machines. Faster Srl was formerly known as OMBA. The company was founded in 1951 and is based in Rivolta d'Adda, Italy. As of April 5, 2018, Faster Srl operates as a subsidiary of Helios Technologies, Inc.

Xovis AG

Private Equity Round in 2019
Xovis is a swiss high-tech company that has been incorporated in 2008. Xovis develops and commercializes systems and sensors for people counting and tracking and similar applications with a focus on airports. Their mission is to constantly improve their vision-based person tracking technology to be able to reach outstanding tracking results close to perfection. This will enable airports to solve the future challenges in passenger flow analysis and steering, from displaying of predictive waiting times to the seamless tracking of passengers in terminals.

Findlay Industries

Acquisition in 2014
Findlay Industries is manufactures interior parts for the automotive and heavy truck industry. Its products include headliners, door panels, rear and sidewall panels, cabinets, curtains, sleeper bunks, and non-automotive parts, as well as seats and seating, trunk, and console systems.

Wittur

Venture Round in 2010
Wittur Group is one of the world’s largest independent suppliers of components and solutions for the lift industry.

Bartec

Acquisition in 2008
Bartec develops and manufactures safety technology products for oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and mining companies. It offers analyzers, analyzer systems, and seismic instrumentations, as well as HVAC/cooling, humidity measurement, vibration measurement, and temperature measurement systems; human-machine interface devices, mobile computing systems, barcode scanners.

Amann Girrbach

Acquisition in 2018
Amann Girrbach AG manufactures and supplies articulators, laboratory equipment, and digital milling units for the global dental sector. The company offers model management articulators and masticatory loading simulators for the dental practice and laboratory applications; functional scanners; milling machines; pin drills for model fabrication; various dental materials for aesthetics; and CAD design software and other modules. It offers its products through distributors. Amann Girrbach AG was formerly known as Amann Dental Equipment GmbH and changed its name to Amann Girrbach AG in 2004. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Koblach, Austria with operations in Pforzheim, Germany; Charlotte, North Carolina; Beijing, China; Singapore; and Curitiba, Brazil.

Gotha Cosmetics

Acquisition in 2016
Gotha Cosmetics Srl is a private label cosmetics manufacturing company. The company manufactures face primers, foundations, powders, tinted moisturizers, blushes, serums, and highlighters for face; eye shadows, eye brow products, cream eye colors, eye liners, mascaras, and eye lash treatments; lip balms, lip treatments, lip primers, lip stains, and specialty lip products; and shimmer powders, dry body oils, body bronzers, and multi pressed powders. It also provides marketing, packaging, and freight and logistics services. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Lallio, Italy with additional locations in the United States.

hessnatur

Acquisition in 2012
Hessnatur is an online retailer that sells environmentally friendly clothing. It is a pioneer in natural clothing in German-speaking Europe. The company focuses on the design and distribution of organic and sustainable apparel and home textiles and is recognised internationally for its commitment to the highest ecological and social standards.

ORIOR AG

Acquisition in 2006
ORIOR is a Swiss food group with a long tradition. It specializes in fresh convenience foods and refined meats. With its innovative products it occupies leading positions in fast-growing niches in the retail and food service markets, as well as in selected sales channels in neighbouring countries.

RENA

Acquisition in 2015
RENA is a supplier of production equipment for wet chemical surface treatment. The company serves most of the largest global photovoltaic module manufacturers, predominantly in Asia.

De Sede Group

Acquisition in 2007
De Sede Group is engages in the design and manufacture of leather furniture for international market. It offers sofas, chairs/benches, armchairs/loungers, beds/room dividers, and tables. The company’s products are used in private homes, yachts, hotels, restaurants or bars, public areas of buildings, and sales and consulting rooms.

Xovis AG

Acquisition in 2019
Xovis is a swiss high-tech company that has been incorporated in 2008. Xovis develops and commercializes systems and sensors for people counting and tracking and similar applications with a focus on airports. Their mission is to constantly improve their vision-based person tracking technology to be able to reach outstanding tracking results close to perfection. This will enable airports to solve the future challenges in passenger flow analysis and steering, from displaying of predictive waiting times to the seamless tracking of passengers in terminals.

Arena Italia S.p.A.

Acquisition in 2013
Arena Italia manufactures racing, training, and leisure swimwear and accessories for swimmers and watersport enthusiasts. It offers racing swimsuits, training and shaping swimwear, beachwear, sports apparel, triathlon, water tribes, and others for men, women, and kids. The company's mission is to develop and market a product range, leveraging experience and competence in racing swimwear, deep understanding of consumer needs, market and competitive scenario and continuous investments in research and innovation. Arena was founded on 1973 and has a location in Italy.

Etavis

Acquisition in 2004
Etavis is provider of electrical installations to the commercial and industrial sectors as well as for infrastructure facilities, and also installs and maintains mobile phone antennas.

SF-Chem

Acquisition in 2004
SF-Chem is supplier of chlorine- and sulfur-based products.

WMF Group

Acquisition in 2006
Since its foundation in 1853, WMF produces high-quality cookware and household goods. From knives to pressure cookers, our product range includes virtually all the kitchen gadgets you will need for a well equipped kitchen today. For preparing, cooking and savouring – WMF offers the ideal tools that are "Made in Germany".

Wer Liefert Was

Acquisition in 2017
WLW is a professional supplier search engine for products and services in the business-to-business segment. WLW has been on the Internet since 1995. Since 2008, “Wer liefert was?” has been a member of the corporation Bisnode. Bisnode is one of Europe’s leading providers of digital business information, including credit reports, company and consumer information, direct marketing tools and market information for the general business-to-business market.

Hennecke GmbH

Acquisition in 2016
Hennecke designs and manufactures polyurethane processing machinery, systems, and technology for customers worldwide. It offers dispensing machines, mixheads, slabstock plants, sandwich panel systems, molded foam systems, equipment for technical insulation, and plants for spray; and peripherals, such as commodity conditioning, product conditioning, storage, and profiling products.

Polytec Holding

Acquisition in 2000
Polytec Holding is manufactures and sells engine bay or vehicle exterior components and modules, and original accessories and components for the automotive industry worldwide. The company offers passenger car engine parts, including battery panels, timing belt protections, cooling water tubes, engine and water box covers, oil pans, charge-air ducts, fuel distributor rails, electronic boxes, air separator vent pipes, brake fluid reservoirs, chain adjustment systems, expansion pressure systems, cylinder head covers, intake manifolds, and crank case vents.

ProXES GmbH

Acquisition in 2017
ProXES (www.proxes-group.com) is a provider of machines and production lines primarily for the food industry. The group’s products are used to make and process liquid and semi-liquid food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products in a variety of processes. With its installed base of more than 100,000 machines worldwide, the group profits from its broad application knowledge and systems competence. It possesses expansive engineering expertise and is able to provide integrated production lines, in addition to single machines. Customers of the group’s companies include major globally operating producers of consumer goods.

Variosystems

Acquisition in 2018
Variosystems AG engages in electronic design and manufacturing services for electronic assemblies. It offers smart solutions, which includes project management, development, procurement, cable assembly, electronics manufacturing, special processes, testing, box build, logistics, and after sales services. The company was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Steinach, Switzerland.

Thermamax Group

Acquisition in 2017
Thermamax is recognized worldwide as a specialist for the design and production of thermal and acoustic insulation systems for small, medium and large engines. By the North American sister company Thermamax, Inc. (Aurora, Illinois), the Chinese trading company Taicang Thermamax High Temperature Insulation Equipment Co., (Taicang, China) and the Thermamax doo (Železnička, Serbia) as well as sales and marketing offices in the USA and Italy, Thermamax has a broad, international sales and production network. The high-temperature insulation systems are used both in vehicles in the automotive, on- and off-highway sector, in stationary power generation, In ships and on-shore and off-shore platforms.

Kaffee Partner

Private Equity Round in 2010
Kaffee Partner is a distributor of coffee and water dispensing machines targeting small and medium sized enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The company offers both the servicing of the machines and provision of the consumables for the dispensers such as beans, ground coffee, tea, cocoa, cream and sugar together with supplementary products like cookies, cups and filters.

ACP

Acquisition in 2006
ACP is a vendor-neutral IT provider that provides end-to-end solutions for businesses, government agencies and organizations of all sizes. We offer consulting, procurement and integration, managed services, data center services and IT financing for the entire IT range. Founded in 1993 in Vienna, ACP is one of the leading IT providers with 1200 employees and 36 branches in Germany and Austria.

Nicko tours

Acquisition in 2013
nicko tours AG provides river cruise services.

Felss Holding GmbH

Acquisition in 2017
Felss Group, under the brand name Felss Shortcut Technologies, produces machines for metal processing as well as components for various industries such as the automotive industry. Technically, the focus is on the cold-forming processes of circular kneading, axial forming, bending, autofrettage and finishing.

REMP

Acquisition in 2000
Brooks Automation, Inc. provides automation, and vacuum and instrumentation solutions primarily to the semiconductor manufacturing industry worldwide. It operates in three segments: Automation Systems, Critical Components, and Global Customer Operations. The Automation Systems segment provides automation products for vacuum and atmospheric equipment, as well as mini-environment products, calibration and alignment products, and high-precision airflow controls primarily for the semiconductor and electronics industries. The company’s competitors in the vacuum cryogenic pumps market include SHI and Genesis. Its competitors in the vacuum measurement market include MKS Instruments and Inficon. It also identifies competition from Applied Materials, Novellus, KLA-Tencor, and TEL. Brooks Automation, Inc. was founded in 1978.

Stadler Rail

Private Equity Round in 2006
Stadler Rail is designs and manufactures rail vehicles. Its products include suburban and regional transport trains, light rail vehicles, trams, high-speed and intercity trains, city transport vehicles, locomotives, passenger trains, and tailor-made vehicles.

Ondal Medical Systems

Acquisition in 2012
Ondal is an original device manufacturer of medical pendant carrier systems for use in operating rooms, intensive care and outpatient units (e.g. diagnostic centres) supplying the global blue-chip medical OEMs.

VAT Group AG

Private Equity Round in 2013
VAT Group AG operates as a holding company, which through its subsidiaries develops, manufactures, and distributes vacuum valves, multi-valve modules, and edge-welded bellows worldwide.