Capman

CapMan is a prominent Nordic private asset management and investment firm founded in 1989, with a focus on private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. With over 30 years of experience, CapMan has established a strong presence in the Nordic region and Russia, managing a diverse portfolio that spans various industries. The firm aims to enhance the value of unlisted businesses by fostering better organization and financial stability, which contributes to economic growth and societal well-being. CapMan operates through two primary divisions: CapMan Private Equity, which includes funds like the Growth Equity and Mezzanine funds, and CapMan Real Estate, which focuses on core and value-added real estate investments. The firm targets investments in sectors such as technology, retail, and residential properties, emphasizing the importance of quality environments and utilities for thriving communities. Through its international networks, CapMan seeks to create sustainable value for its investors while supporting innovation and job creation in the regions it serves.

Sari Ahonen

Fund Manager

Tomi Alén

Partner, CapMan Growth

Sauli Antila

Investment Director

Sampsa Apajalahti

Investment Director

Anna Autti

Investment Director

Magnus Berglund

Investement Director

Torsten Bjerregaard

Managing Partner, Real Estate

Anders Björkell

Partner

Christian Borgström

Managing Partner

Torborg Chetkovich

Partner

Juhani Erke

Partner

Elina Eskola

Investment Associate

Robert Feldt

Investment Director

Joakim Frimodig

Chief Executive Officer

Peter Gill

Investment Director

Pekko Haaksluoto

Senior Investment Manager

Niko Haavisto

Chief Financial Officer

Harri Halonen

Partner

Emil Hambäck

Co-Managing Partner of CaPS

Eero Hautaniemi

Investment Manager

Ninni Hietaniemi

Investment Associate

Mikael Hjorth

Investment Director

Linn Hultberg

Investment Manager

Simon Hultén

Investment Manager

Hanna Ideström

Investment Director

Daniel Joelsson

Investment Manager

Dan Johnson

Deputy Head of CapMan Buyout and Partner

Heikki Juntti

Partner, Growth

Laura Karikko

Investment Manager

Antti Karppinen

Partner

Tobias Karte

Investment Director

Antti Kiviluoto

IT Director

Oskari Konkarikoski

Investment Manager

Aleksi Konsti

Investment Manager

Antti Kummu

Managing Partner, CapMan Growth

Noora Kuvaja

Investment Director

Ari Kyöstilä

Senior Investment Manager

Pia Kåll

Managing Partner, CapMan Buyout

Thomas Laakso

Investment Director

Marcus Lotzman

Investment Manager

Ibrahim Makdessi

Investment Associate

Maximilian Marschan

Managing Partner

Mika Matikainen

Managing Partner

Jan Mattlin

Partner

Juha Mikkola

Senior Partner

Nikke Mikkonen

Investment Associate

Alberto Morandi

Partner

Kalle Myllymaki

Partner

Daniel Nejman

Investment Manager

Pirjo Ojanperä

Partner

Nigel Pedroz

Partner

Ville Poukka

Managing Partner, Infra

Johan Pålsson

Co-Managing Partner

Tuomo Raasio

Partner

Heli Rantala

Fund Manager

Anna Reuterskiöld

Investment Director

Tuomas Rinne

Partner

Atte Rissanen

Director, Strategy and Business Development

Petri Saavalainen

Partner

Juha Salokoski

Partner

Mari Simula

Head of Fund Investor Relations

Markus Sjöholm

Head of CapMan Buyout and Partner

Pirjo Snellman

Fund Manager

Julia Sokolova

Investment Manager

Jani Särmäkari

Director, Fund Investor Relations

Nadia Söderling

Investment Associate

Robin Tallberg

Investment Associate

Linda Tierala

Manager of Communications and IR

Maria Timofeeva

Investment Manager

Anna Tynkkynen

Investment Manager

Per Tängerstad

Partner

Antti Uusitalo

Partner

Jari Vikiö

Partner

Alexander Vlasov

Partner

Robin Westberg

Investment Manager

Heikki Seppo Westerlund

CEO

ED Williams

Senior Partner

Hasse Wulff

Investment Director

Mikhail Zotov

Investment Director

Niklas Östborn

Head of CapMan Credit and Partner

Hans Christian Dall Nygård

Managing Partner, CapMan Russia

Past deals in Russia

Voxys

Series A in 2021
Voxys is a leading provider of outsourced contact center services in Russia, with over 20 years of experience in enhancing customer engagement. The company has consolidated major market players, developing a robust platform that supports a wide range of services, including customer care, market research, sales, and self-service digital solutions. Voxys operates in 33 cities across Russia and employs more than 8,000 individuals, ensuring a strong commitment to employee well-being and professional development. The company handles over 10 million multi-format interactions daily, integrating seamlessly with partner teams to address challenges effectively. Utilizing advanced IT solutions based on Cisco Systems and proprietary technologies developed by a dedicated team of IT professionals, Voxys maintains high standards of operational efficiency and quality control. The organization's focus on individualized client support and innovative practices has established it as a trusted partner for both Russian and international brands, reinforcing its position as a leader in the customer service sector.

Maximum Education

Series B in 2019
Maximum Education is an educational and technology company based in Moscow, Russia, specializing in offline and online test preparation services. Founded in 2013 by Michael Magkov, Pavel Belorusskiy, and Alexey Chalimov, the company operates two learning centers located in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It provides a range of educational services and products aimed at supporting students and educational partners in their academic pursuits.

Medisorb

Private Equity Round in 2017
AO Medisorb manufactures generic drugs. It company’s products include different pharmacotherapeutic groups, such as analgetics, analgesics, spasmolytics, and enterosorbents. The company offers Carbopekt for stomach and intestines disorders. It caters to national, interregional, and regional pharmaceutical distributors. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Perm, Russia. AO Medisorb has an additional office in Moscow, Russia.

Kokoc Group

Private Equity Round in 2017
Kokoc Group operates as an advertising agency in Russia. It develops a multi-format integrated Internet advertising platform which provides marketing solutions. Kokoc Group is based in Moscow, Russia.

Maximum Education

Series A in 2015
Maximum Education is an educational and technology company based in Moscow, Russia, specializing in offline and online test preparation services. Founded in 2013 by Michael Magkov, Pavel Belorusskiy, and Alexey Chalimov, the company operates two learning centers located in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It provides a range of educational services and products aimed at supporting students and educational partners in their academic pursuits.

Kidburg

Private Equity Round in 2014
Kidburg, OOO, founded in 2009 and based in St. Petersburg, Russia, specializes in children's educational entertainment services. The company operates various interactive facilities, including Skazkin Dom, an interactive theatre-museum, LabirintUm, an interactive museum focused on recreational sciences, and Kidburg, a children's city of professions. With approximately 400 employees, Kidburg has expanded its reach, opening a service unit in Rostov-on-Don and planning to launch another in Moscow. These venues aim to provide engaging and educational experiences for children, blending entertainment with learning.

MAYKOR

Private Equity Round in 2013
MAYKOR is the largest group of companies in the Russian service and outsourcing market, and a specialized provider of integrated maintenance services for IT equipment, building utility systems and business applications. MAYKOR’s mission is to provide effective infrastructure maintenance and development services for large and medium-sized businesses country-wide. The MAYKOR Group unites such companies as NST, CRT Service, Expertek and BetterFly Services that have been on the IT market for more than 13 years. With our own nationwide network of 83 branches and 400 local offices, MAYKOR is an one-stop-shop service provider. The company employs more than 3000 certified engineers. The MAYKOR's customer base is comprised of more than 950 businesses, including the largest geographically distributed companies from all industries. MAYKOR has a unique competence center, advanced specialized training programs for technical personnel, a developed logistics infrastructure, an automated service tracking and control system, as well as an ISO-compliant quality management system.

Vital Development Corp.

Private Equity Round in 2012
Vital Development Corp. is a developer, producer and provider of reagent test sets, analyzers and equipment. Vital Development Corp. offers Clinical Chemistry reagent kits, ELISA reagent kits, and Rapid Latex slide tests, as well as Prodeion, a water purification system.

KDL Test

Private Equity Round in 2012
KDL Test, LLC provides laboratory diagnostic services. The company operates five regional labs in Perm, Omsk, Kazan, Krasnodar, Astrakhan, and 60 blood collection points. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Siberian Networks

Private Equity Round in 2011
Siberian Networks is provide wireless Internet, digital television, top-rate tariffs, and, of course, intranet services, which even subscribers with completely different tastes like.

VIRIAL

Private Equity Round in 2011
VIRIAL is produces and services industrial machinery and equipment for generation and transfer of electrical power. Virial manufactures ceramic and cerametallic bearings, cutting tools, and custom-designed hardwearing components for various customer industries. The company has production facilities in St. Petersburg with Russia-wide customer base.

Havator

Private Equity Round in 2010
Havator Oy provides industrial and construction solutions. It offers crane, special transport, special equipment and heavy haulage, section assembly, harbor crane, installation, and engineering services. The company was formerly known as Hanhirova Yhtymä and changed its name to Havator Oy in 1981. Havator Oy was founded in 1947 and is based in Tornio, Finland with operations in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and the Baltic States.

Giraffe Crane Technologies

Private Equity Round in 2010
Giraffe Crane Technologies produces a wide range of lifting equipment: Top-slewing flat-top tower cranes TDK with the maximum lifting capacity from 8 to 16 tonnes, cat head tower cranes SMK-10.200 with the max. lifting capacity up to 10 tonnes, fast self-erecting cranes with the max. lifting capacity up to 5 tonnes (SMK-5.66, SMK-3.33), portal cranes and gantry cranes for production facilities, warehouse and terminal complexes. Through improving technologies and modernizing production processes GIRAFFE combines validity and reliability of constructions in their production with serviceability and mobility of their operation. Due to the uniqueness of used materials, modularity of constructions and new engineering decisions, the cranes GIRAFFE will meet with any needs in modern construction. Many largest companies in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Armenia have already appreciated the cranes GIRAFFE.

Papa John’s LLC

Private Equity Round in 2009
Papa John's provides food products and services. The Company owns and operates a chain of restaurants with a focus on pizza, bread sticks, and chicken wings.

MPT Sweden AB

Acquisition in 2009
MPT Sweden AB manufactures and distributes ferrochrome for welding and hard facing industries worldwide. The company specializes in customized powders. It offers XHC, HC, MC, and LC ferrochrome; ferromolybdenum; ferrovanadium; chromium metal; nitrided ferrochrome; and manganese metal. MPT Sweden AB distributes its products through agents in Brazil, Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Middle East, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Russia, South Africa, and Taiwan. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Ekshärad, Sweden.

Russia Baltic Pork Invest ASA

Venture Round in 2008
Russia Baltic Pork Invest ASA produces pig meat products (pork). It also operates a construction company that handles infrastructure works, including electricity, gas, and water supply aspects.