The leading private equity boutique with focus on private equity investments in Russia, EU and the UK.
ABOUT US
About Us
We are a leading global private equity investment firm with over 15 years of experience in providing capital and strategic support to experienced management teams and high-quality, profitable niche-winning companies or disruptive startups with potential to build a billion dollar business.

In addition, we acquire portfolios of unlisted companies on the secondary market or portfolios of real estate assets on behalf of our clients.
Our Services
Our management team, venture partners and advisors provide ongoing strategic and operational support to our portfolio companies. We bring our skills and expertise to each of our investments and use them to help our portfolio companies to deliver solid operating results and drive innovation.
Private Equity
Venture Capital
Investors
Investment Criteria
We acquire companies in specific industry niches in order to benefit from particularly well performing products and services as well as a strong market position and to be able to demonstrate disproportionate growth, often through cross-border expansion. We are looking for portfolio companies that exhibit the following characteristics:
Geography
We prefer to invest in companies who are headquartered either in the UK or EU.
Characteristics
All our investment targets are fast growing businesses with attractive fundamentals and high returns.
Revenue
We like to invest into companies who are already generating revenue of £10 million to £100 million.
Earnings
We only target well established businesses with an EBITDA of £3 million to £30 million.
Investment Criteria
Our focus is on revenue-generating startups that have developed a disruptive technology and built a scalable business model. Rather than just acting as a passive investor, we are looking for companies that can benefit from an active partnership with us and where management has a meaningful equity stake in the company. We are looking for portfolio companies that exhibit the following characteristics:
Geography
We prefer to invest in companies who are headquartered either in the UK, EU or USA.
Verticals
Our investment focus is primarily on startups in sectors such as FinTech, PropTech, B2B SaaS and Marketplaces.
Stages
While our investment focus is on the growth and expansion phase, our PE fund allows us to go all the way to buyout.
Check size
We typically invest in the range of £1 million to £10 million to fund expansion plans and acquisitions.
Investor Profile
We maintain long-term relationships with high-net-worth individuals, family offices, private foundations, private equity and private debt funds and other sophisticated investors who consider opportunistic investing an important part of their portfolio. Our clients must meet the following criteria:
Geography
We prefer to partner with clients from Russia, the CIS and GCC countries and China.
Sectors
We help our clients to acquire assets from the financial and business services, real estate, IT, and HoReCa sectors.
Investment horizon
We maintain a long-term business relationship, i.e. the investment horizon should be designed for at least 5 years.
Capital
We work exclusively with wealthy clients who have assets in excess of £10 million.
Contact us:
Phone: +44 754 812 7555
E-mail: info@isterncapital.com
London | Moscow