The portfolio company of KKA Partners, the Xantaro Group, expands its portfolio with the acquisition of
NetDescribe
August 2024
The Xantaro Group, Europe’s leading solution provider for high-performance networks, IT security solutions and managed services, today announced the acquisition of NetDescribe GmbH, a specialist for automated and highly scalable IT solutions for performance, compliance and security in complex IT infrastructures. The two companies had already been working together as strategic partners since mid-March.
The portfolio company of KKA Partners, the SSF/Cho-Time Group, expands its portfolio with the acquisition of TALENT FACTORY
July 2024
As a successful call center organization, the SSF/Cho-Time Group continues its remarkable growth trajectory with the acquisition of TALENT FACTORY.
The acquisition marks an important milestone for the SSF Group, which is now represented with 3,300 highly qualified German-speaking call center agents across 4 countries and 30 on- and nearshore locations: Germany, Greece, Kosovo, and Albania.
Successful investment in Healthcare Holding Schweiz AG
June 2024
KKA Partners are happy to announce the successful investment in Healthcare Holding Schweiz AG, an independent Swiss Medtech distributor and service provider, together with current owner and investor Winterberg Advisory. KKA will provide fresh equity to further accelerate the group’s Buy & Build strategy and introduce technology-enabled transformation. The ambition is to supply Swiss customers with the world’s most innovative and high-quality medical products and services and claim the spot as the undisputed Swiss market leader in Medtech Services and Distribution.
Martina recently joined the KKA team in Berlin
January 2024
Martina recently joined the KKA team in Berlin. Before coming to us, she was a Vice President in the investment team at Triton in Stockholm. Prior to that, she gained extensive experience at Bain & Company in the Nordics, where she conducted numerous commercial due diligences for private equity clients. Martina began her career at McKinsey & Company in Berlin, where she worked on major transformation and strategic projects for both German and international clients. She holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Welcome to the team, Martina! We're excited to have you on board!
KKA Partners closes significantly oversubscribed
€230 million Fund II
July 2023
Berlin, 6 July 2023 – KKA Partners (“KKA”), a Berlin-based private equity firm that invests in DACH based SME companies, growing enterprises through technology enablement, today announced it has closed on €230 million in external commitments for its Fund II.
Welcome to the new team members at KKA!
February 2023
Lukas Klipper and Maximilian Weber join the KKA team. Lukas joins us as General Council. Prior to joining KKA, he worked at Kenfo, Germany’s first sovereign wealth fund, where he built up the legal department and was responsible for the legal and tax topics of the investments. Before that, he was a lawyer at the international law firm Linklaters. Maximilian joins us as Principal Value Creation. He worked for a Munich-based family office with focus on value creation for the portfolio firms focused on the IT services sector. Directly before joining KKA, he already worked for 1 year at one of KKA’s portfolio companies, reporting directly to top management and earning his spurs as lead for special projects and technologization initiatives. Prior to that he was at Siemens Venture Capital.
Welcome aboard, Lukas and Maximilian! We are excited to have you here!
We will have one additional new team member, the head of finance, join us in May – so stay tuned for that.
KKA backs Cho-Time management to take over SSF Sales & Service Factory GmbH (“SSF”) and the majority of the Cho-Time group companies
November 2022
SSF provides bespoke outsourced CRM and sales services with over 1,800 employees in over 15 German and international locations. SSF provides value to its customers via (i) successful issue resolution, (ii) customer acquisition and retention, as well as, (iii) up & cross selling opportunities. The company successfully transforms customer service from a cost center to a revenue driver.
KKA Partners supports WHU Campus for Family Business
September 2021
With an emphasis on the digital transformation of German SMEs, KKA Partners supported the WHU Campus For Family Business as a partner. The topic of this year's event: “Entrepreneurial Families in Transition – Disruption as a Chance?”
KKA Partners acquires shares in CuraMed clinics
September 2021
Our company joins forces with CuraMed clinics as a majority shareholder. The partnership will help the clinics to provide even better care for its patients, while at the same time, creating urgently needed capacities for the psychosomatic field in Germany.
Kaspar Hartmann joins BVK executive board
August 2021
In line with our philosophy and investment strategy at KKA, Kaspar's activities as a member of the board will focus on the importance of equity capital as a driver of innovation for German-speaking small and medium-sized businesses.
KKA Partners invests in leading communication network service provider Xantaro
June 2021
Founded by Ingo Kierse and Gerold Arheilger in 2007, Xantaro is a leading European multi-vendor service provider for high-performance communication networks. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.
We are delighted about the partnership with Xantaro’s management team and will closely collaborate to make Xantaro an even more valuable partner for its customers.
KKA Value Fund II holds first close
May 2021
We are honored and thankful for the continued support of our existing investors and for the trust placed in us by new investors! Together they have helped us achieve the first close of our second fund. Together we will endeavor to create value following our investment strategy in DACH-based Mittelstand-firms.
KKA hosts Post-Covid19 Inflation & Investing roundtable
April 2021
The results in brief reflections when selecting investments across different scenarios:
Look for secular growth
Look for cash distributions
Retain or build up “staying power”
Irrationality (of others) can be a blessing
KKA leads further TEV & growth investments in the live entertainment industry
January 2021
KKA increases its investment into the technologization and growth of the live event industry.
LiveEvent GmbH and Evago Group receives additional equity capital to expand their activities and to support the industry wide online platform initiative unitedevents.live.
KKA is growing
December 2020
Elena Tsoukka, Dennis Klein, Jan Mickel and Joscha Radeck are our four worthy and valued new team members.
Together we will be even better equipped in our efforts to help futureproof the Mittelstand. All are passionate about Technology Enabled Value-Creation and growth, which is the core of our investment strategy and what we apply across all our portfolio companies. Together we strive to support our companies using our know-how in Europe – for the long-run. Together we can help the Mittelstand master this accelerating wave of technological change.