Independent Investment & Strategy Advisory
Investment in seed and early-stage start-ups · Fundraising and Investor Relations · Consulting and Interim Management · Transaction Management · Financial Restructuring Services · Portfolio and Capital Allocation Solutions
An independent investment and strategy advisory boutique founded in Berlin in 2018. Active investing in technology ventures and partnership across every stage of business development.
Enfilade Capital is an independent investment and strategy advisory boutique providing a broad range of services for both young and established businesses. We see ourselves at the intersection of operational strategy in the digital age and traditional financial services.
We actively invest in seed and early-stage tech start-up companies and provide support in different areas ranging from consulting and interim management, nearshoring of IT-projects to fundraising and investor relations. Furthermore, we are your reliable partner when it comes to transaction management, financial restructuring as well as capital structure composition.
We have extensive experience and in-depth expertise in a variety of industries. We are convinced that our operational know-how and proactive hands-on approach are the critical success factors for value creation to businesses in the relevant industries. Being an independent outlet, we are in a position to invest flexibly with long-term time horizon and accompany our clients throughout every development stage of their businesses.
When your business needs a skilled, experienced leadership partner to pursue planned or unexpected opportunities, drive strategic transactions — we offer expert knowledge to strengthen your management structure and decision-making process, while assuring stability through periods of transition.
If you are facing financial problems — whether cash-flow shortfall, falling sales or excessive debt — we help you deliver hands-on financial, operational, and strategic restructuring solutions for the quick recovery of your business. By working closely with the management we refocus your capital structure in alignment with your objectives.
In times of rigged and highly inflated markets, proper capital allocation is crucial for sustaining the upcoming turbulences in the financial markets, which are by many metrics already long overdue. We are convinced that at this point in time we should care more about capital preservation than outperforming the markets.
We live in extraordinary times. The giant quantitative-easing programs we have embarked on are as much a monetary experiment as a sociological one. Printing and borrowing enormous amounts of money and credit without complementary growth response — which has been the prominent case at least for the last decade — can never make a nation thrive.
It brings a shift in income and wealth from some groups to others, but it inevitably impairs the prosperity of the whole nation. History shows us that it has always been that way.
In the real world, there are practical limits to growth. Beyond a certain level in any ripe system, further growth results in either obesity or severe disease. The major world economies are suffering from the weight of massive amounts of debt and highly leveraged paper assets.
Artificially low interest rates give rise to malinvestments — global and systemic, with no place to hide. Housing and commercial real estate, corporate and sovereign markets, equity markets — all overheated. These debts will never be repaid, except in devalued money.
Our society and economic model are based on perpetual and exponential economic growth. The very concept of growth is destroying ecosystems and has been depleting both renewable and non-renewable resources at a staggering rate. We strive for more consumption in times when we should consume less.
Technology will not save the world, but it shows us the path going forward and will remain in place independent of the state of markets and political turbulences. We need more clever technology that will help us preserve the resources of our planet while providing a wider share of the population with a solid foundation for existence.
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