We are a Nordic investment company dedicated to small and medium-sized entrepreneur-led businesses. Established to be a premier growth partner for successful founders and entrepreneurs, our team brings extensive expertise in developing and executing growth strategies in close collaboration with entrepreneurs.
We work alongside exceptional entrepreneurs to accelerate long-term value creation. Our collaborative approach ensures that we are deeply involved in every stage of the growth journey, providing the support and resources needed to succeed.
We are driven by a clear vision to create meaningful, lasting impact. We believe that a purposeful approach to business unlocks the true potential for long-term value creation.
Trust is the foundation of our business. We foster trust and transparency in all our interactions, ensuring strong relationships with our partners.
Our playbook is based on experience from previous growth and buy-and-build journeys, starting with thorough research to identify promising industry niches, followed by recruiting board members and executives, partnering with the right founders, and providing comprehensive support to drive accelerated growth.
We identify a rapidly expanding, fragmented industry niche, conduct thorough research, build conviction, and evaluate its potential.
We find board members and executives with complementary expertise and networks, setting the stage for future growth.
Applying our industry knowledge and relationships, we build connections until we find the right founder or entrepreneur to launch a platform company.
We support our entrepreneurs with data-driven decision-making, unmatched operational support and innovative strategies to accelerate growth.
The founders have a unique mix of extensive experience in large-cap private equity and the other in mid-market investment banking. Combined, they bring experience from several previous growth journeys and industry consolidations, with a wide network of industry experts, advisors, and experienced industrialists.
Carl Robin Kirchmann
Carl Robin has experience from entrepreneurship, private equity, investment banking and management consulting. He has worked at several firms such as Nordic Capital, Investor, Boston Consulting Group, Royal Bank of Scotland and is co-founder of Hellström Gin and CG Equity. Experience from several growth as well as buy-and-build journeys. He graduated from Royal Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich with a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (civilingenjör från KTH) and has studied Economics at Stockholm University.
carlrobin@cgequity.se
Gustav Glans
Gustav has experience from entrepreneurship and investment banking. He has worked at MCF Corporate Finance, Keystone Advisers, D.A. Davidson and is co-founder of CG Equity. He has experience of several buy-and-build journeys from his work at MCF Corporate Finance, advising both entrepreneurs and private equity firms. He graduated from Royal Institute of Technology and Nanyang Business School with a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (civilingenjör från KTH).
gustav@cgequity.se