Name

Monacum Partners

Legal name

Monacum Partners GmbH

Website

https://monacumpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Private Equity Investment Returns: Monacum Partners generates returns through acquiring underperforming companies, implementing operational improvements, and exiting investments at higher valuations. The firm likely earns management fees on committed capital and performance fees (carried interest) on investment gains, typical of private equity structures. Revenue is realized upon successful portfolio company exits or through ongoing portfolio value appreciation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Monacum Partners is a private equity firm that acquires underperforming European small- and mid-cap enterprises (the "Mittelstand") and executes operational turnarounds. The firm delivers three core transaction types: carve-outs from larger corporate groups, special situations/restructuring of distressed companies, and succession solutions for family businesses. Returns are generated through operational improvement, balance sheet restructuring, and subsequent exit at higher valuations.

Product overview

Monacum Partners is a private equity firm offering investment and turnaround services for European SMEs. The firm acquires underperforming companies with operational improvement potential across four main sectors: Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods, Business Services, and Pharma/Life Science. Their service offering encompasses three transaction types: carve-outs (separating business units from larger corporate groups), special situations (restructuring underperforming or distressed companies), and succession (family business transitions). The current portfolio includes four companies: DAPIN GmbH (pharmaceutical CDMO carved out from Evotec), DWE (industrial reactor systems from Everllence), ExOne Global Holdings (additive manufacturing from voxeljet/ExOne merger), and Turma IT GmbH (IT consulting joint venture).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DAPIN GmbH A Halle (Westphalia, Germany) based CDMO focused on the development and manufacturing of complex pharmaceutical active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates for global pharma and biotech clients. Emerged from a carve-out of Evotec's API manufacturing site.
• DWE A long-established industrial site in Deggendorf that evolved from a Danube shipyard into a specialist for custom reactor systems and heavy equipment for the chemical and petrochemical industries.
• ExOne Global Holdings An industrial technology group combining ExOne and voxeljet operations, focusing on binder jet 3D printing systems, sand and metal printing, and related engineering services for automotive, aerospace, energy and heavy industry.
• Turma IT GmbH A Germany-based IT service company providing consulting, support and intermediary services for corporates, with expertise in ERP and IT carve-out services for complex transformation and separation projects.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OrillioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Monacum Managing Partner Ahmed Sallam co-founded Orillion, a UK-based investment firm, in 2021. Senior Advisor Richard Clarke is also Partner at Orillion. This represents a strategic affiliation through shared leadership, with potential for deal collaboration and referral relationships between the firms.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Sun Capital Partners: Operationally focused PE firm investing in underperforming and carve-out situations globally. Comparable to Monacum in value-creation philosophy (hands-on operational turnaround) and appetite for complex situations.
• AURELIUS Equity Opportunities: European-headquartered turnaround and special-situations PE firm focused on acquiring underperforming businesses and carve-outs. Closely comparable to Monacum in transaction archetype, sector breadth (industrial, consumer, services), and mid-market ticket size.
• Triton Partners: European mid-market PE firm focused on industrial, business services, and consumer companies. Comparable to Monacum in geography, ticket size, and operational orientation, with a longer track record of operational improvement plays.
• Lone Star Funds: Global special-situations and opportunistic PE investor with deep European franchise. Comparable to Monacum in willingness to acquire distressed, carved-out, or balance-sheet-pressured assets, though at a materially larger scale.
• BC Partners: Pan-European mid/large-cap PE firm with long history of corporate carve-outs and operational transformations. Comparable to Monacum in DACH and broader European focus and willingness to execute complex situations, though at materially larger fund size.
• Centerbridge Partners: Multi-strategy alternative asset manager with a dedicated special-situations and operational-turnaround PE practice. Comparable to Monacum in willingness to acquire distressed, complex, or carved-out industrial and consumer businesses in Europe.
• Cinven: Pan-European mid-market PE firm with strong DACH presence and sector breadth across industrials, services, and healthcare. Comparable to Monacum in regional focus and willingness to do carve-outs and complex situations, though at larger cheque sizes and with multi-fund track record.
• H.I.G. Capital: Global mid-market private equity firm with a dedicated special-situations and turnaround practice, actively investing across Europe. Comparable to Monacum in targeting underperforming SMEs and complex carve-outs with operational improvement as the core value-creation lever.
• One Equity Partners: Operationally driven mid-market PE firm with European activity and explicit special-situations capability. Comparable to Monacum in carving out non-core units from larger corporates and applying operator-led restructuring.

Broad incumbents

• Apollo Global Management: Mega-cap alternative asset manager whose hybrid value and special-situations franchise directly competes in the European carve-out and turnaround market. Comparable to Monacum only in transaction style; scale, capital base, and track record are vastly larger.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments

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