FIDURA Private Equity Fonds

About FIDURA Private Equity Fonds

FIDURA, operating through FIDURA Capital Consult GmbH under the brand FIDURA Private Equity Fonds, is a German closed-end private equity retail fund issuer founded in 2001 in Munich, with operations in Grunwald near Munich. It launched its first closed-end private equity fund in 2004 and is one of Germany's leading providers of direct-investing retail private equity funds. To date it has placed four funds raising a total volume of approximately €110 million from more than 4,000 private investors. The funds are administered by IWF Fondsconsult GmbH, the capital-management company for all FIDURA vehicles. The structure is a BVK-member issuer of four closed-end retail private equity funds.

Investment thesis

FIDURA pursues a deliberately conservative capital-preservation-oriented private equity strategy designed to make the asset class accessible to ordinary retail investors. It makes direct minority growth-equity investments covering mid-venture, late-venture, expansion and mature financings in growth-oriented innovation-driven small and medium-sized companies, primarily in German-speaking countries. Target companies typically hold unique patented technology with large addressable markets. Ticket sizes run roughly €0.3 to €3 million with holding periods of three to nine years. The limited partner base is distinctive: more than 4,000 German private retail investors rather than institutions. Value creation comes from long-term growth-equity support of innovative Mittelstand companies, with an explicit ethics-and-security overlay across the fund range.

Recent activity

Portfolio investments include VEACT, an automotive marketing-data software company in technology and software (2018), m2p-labs, a microbioreactor and life-sciences instruments maker, Senorics, an organic-semiconductor sensing company in deep tech, and WEBfactory, a web-based industrial automation software provider in software (2006). Recent exits include m2p-labs in life sciences and diagnostics (2020) and WEBfactory in industrial software (2016). The platform continues to deploy retail private equity capital across innovative German-speaking Mittelstand companies. Detailed buyer names and multiple data available on Pro at €29/month.