Success through Equity Capital
We are an entrepreneur-led and partnership-based investment company based in Vienna. INVEST EQUITY was founded by us in 1998. INVEST EQUITY is wholly owned by three partners who run the business operationally. We are completely independent.
For more than 20 years, we have been intensively involved with companies in the SME sector. We know their innovative strength and believe in their great potential. In the same way, we know the key success factors and understand the needs of SMEs. We invest our own private capital in successful SME-companies. For large transactions, we regularly work with first-class national and international institutional investors.
We have a long-standing, tried and tested and excellent network to companies, investors and managers and financial institutions. With over 70 years of combined experience and best practice in private equity and venture capital, INVEST EQUITY is one of the most sustainable management teams in all German-speaking countries.
Team
Jörgen Hausberger
Managing Partner

Has been a member of the INVEST EQUITY team since its foundation in 1998. Prior to that, Jörgen Hausberger worked in corporate finance at Investkredit Bank AG and as an assistant to the board of a large Austrian insurance company. He graduated in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Jörgen Hausberger is co-founder of the Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation (AVCO) and member of the Investment Committee of Genesis Capital/Prague.
Günter Lessig
Managing Partner

Active in INVEST EQUITY since 1999. Prior to that, he worked for four years in the field of seed and start-up financing of high-tech companies. From 1987 to 1995 he worked for Hörbiger, an Austrian machine manufacturer, where he was most recently divisional managing director of the industrial hydraulics division. Günter Lessig is a mechanical engineer and completed a university course in business administration. He is a member of the investment advisory board of the AWS Gründerfonds.
Karl Vieider
Managing Partner

Karl Vieider has been with INVEST EQUITY since 2000. In his previous position at a private bank in Vienna, he was responsible for the equity analysis of medium-sized and growth companies in Austria and looked after international institutional clients. Karl Vieider graduated in commercial sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.
Focus
INVEST EQUITY specialises in direct majority investments in medium-sized companies with an annual turnover of around € 10 million or more and an EBITDA of over € 2 million. Our focus is on transformational deals that fundamentally and sustainably change the nature and operation of a company. Through its entrepreneurial approach, INVEST EQUITY strives to achieve sustainable growth in its investments and is guiding profitable companies individually to achieve a long-term increase in value.
Our goal is to work with the management to permanently increase the company's success through focused operational and strategic actions and trough providing know-how and growth capital. With our tried and tested, flexible and long-standing successful approach, we also invest in selected projects in the areas of mezzanine capital, distressed/ underperforming assets and public equities.
INVEST EQUITY does not have any pressure to invest or to exit an investment.
Investments

Secondary Buyout, 2008-2019
Powerlines
Technical energy infrastructure services
www.powerlines-group.com

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2015-2018
Lenzing Plastics
Manufacturer of products made from thermoplastic materials and fluoropolymers
www.lenzing-plastics.com

Growth Capital, 2013-2016
SPL Tele
Installation and maintenance services for mobile as well as fixed telecommunication networks
www.spl-tele.com

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2007-2013
Roltechnik
Production and distribution of sanitary products
www.roth-werke.de

PIPE-Investment, 2008-2013
Roltechnik
Specialist in machinery and complete systems for processing technology, environmental technology and packaging technology
www.binder-co.com

PIPE-Investment, 2008-2013
Kapsch TrafficCom
Road traffic telematic solutions
www.kapsch.net

PIPE-Investment, 2009-2013
update software
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software solutions
www.update.com

PIPE-Investment, 2010-2013
Austria Email
Specialised in the manufacturing of high-end water heaters
www.austria-email.at

PIPE-Investment, 2010-2013
Wolford
Production and marketing of high-quality bodywear and legwear
www.wolford.com

PIPE-Investment, 2009-2012
Pankl Racing Systems
Engine and drivetrain components for racing cars, and aerospace industry
www.pankl.com

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2006-2011
Glogar
Technical distributor for hydraulic components
www.glogar.com

Owners Buy-Out, 2006-2008
Powerlines
Technical energy infrastructure services
www.powerlines-group.com

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2000-2008
Chemson
Additives for the plastics and glass industry
www.chemson.com

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2004-2008
Kolbe-Coloco
Production and printing of advertising material and packaging
www.kolbe-coloco.de

Leveraged Buy-Out, 2004-2007
Leobersdorfer Maschinenfabrik
Manufacturer of high pressure piston compressor systems for air, natural gas as well as other technical and industrial gases
www.lmf.at

Growth Capital, 2000-2006
Infoniqa
IT-System Integration and Outsourcing Services. HR Software und Payroll-Services