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Carl Finance launches matching platform for investors and SMEs

Private equity investors are looking for takeover opportunities, while many SMEs are urgently looking for a successor. The new Carl Connect platform aims to bring the two sides together.

Lars-Thorben Niggehoff · Stuttgart, 01. April 2021

Carl Finance launches matching platform for investors and SMEs — Der Carl-Finance-CEO Kurosch Habibi. (Foto: Carl Finance)

Private equity investors are looking for takeover opportunities, while many SMEs are urgently looking for a successor. The new Carl Connect platform aims to bring the two sides together.

Many SME entrepreneurs are desperately looking for a successor to take over their company. Berlin-based fintech Carl Finance now wants to help these managers: Via its new platform Carl Connect, it wants to bring companies and investors together to prevent succession crises.

Investors can register free of charge on Carl Connect and specify the sectors, regions and sizes in which they are looking for takeover candidates. Some well-known investors are already active on the platform, including Deutsche Industrie Holding, Deutsche Private Equity, Auctus and EOS.

The offer is about more than just an investment opportunity, explains Carl-Finance CEO Kurosch Habibi: "With the impending demise of hundreds of thousands of German SMEs, not only are jobs being lost, but also innovation and value creation in Germany."

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