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With a clear mission to empower European ETA entrepreneurs to acquire, lead, and scale outstanding businesses, NXT.era Ventures, founded by seasoned operators and investors with international experience, combines a people-centric investment approach with long-term strategic guidance.
Co-founder Marco Xie-Bo has navigated both investment banking and private equity across Europe, and has also built and sold his own investment company. Jan Koch, the other co-founder and managing partner, brings extensive expertise in global commodity trading, business development, transformation, and risk management across multiple continents. Leveraging this blend of financial and operational know-how, they provide hands-on, high-impact guidance to their searchers, without micromanaging them.
NXT.era Ventures stands out for its entrepreneur-first philosophy that prioritizes the individual over the transaction. The firm backs value-driven leaders who combine integrity, resilience, and long-term vision with analytical rigor and empathy, fostering an active yet respectful partnership grounded in strategic guidance and board-level support. By investing exclusively their own capital, NXT.era ensures full alignment, transparency, and trust while focusing on building enduring, fundamentally strong businesses rather than pursuing short-term returns.
NXT.era aims to build a diversified, double-digit portfolio of operating companies primarily across Europe with a particular focus on the DACH-region. The firm partners with both traditional and self-funded searchers, taking a flexible approach to equity needs, typically investing between €250k and €700k per deal, with the capacity to support larger transactions when appropriate.
The types of businesses they seek are typical for the SF model: privately held (often founder-owned), with stable and predictable cash flows, recurring or repeat revenues, relatively simple operations with low capital intensity, and operating in industries with room for growth and consolidation while remaining sector agnostic.
NXT.era represents a refined model that equally values the quality of the entrepreneur, the health of the business, and the durability of the partnership. For ETA entrepreneurs seeking more than just financial backing, and who value experienced, principled investors with a long-term perspective, NXT.era is a new player to watch. The firm is currently evaluating its first searchers and equity opportunities, with initial investments expected to close before year-end.
