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    Blacksquare Ventures

    Independent
    strategic advisory

    at any scale
    for entrepreneurs
    and tech leaders

    exits, fundraising, buyside advisory

    experienced interdisciplinary team

    full partner focus from start to finish

    Get in touch:

    +49 (0) 151 25133018 info@blksqr.com
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    Trustful Partnerships

    We work together with the most accomplished as well as the most promising entrepreneurs every day and help take ventures to the next level. Trust and truth are our currencies to build prolific long-lasting relationships.

    Experienced and interdisciplinary team

    Blacksquare's main asset are its outstanding people. Synergistic skillsets, complementary backgrounds and a battleproven history to always negotiate the best outcome for our clients. We are a unique squad of entrepreneurs, investment bankers, PE investors, CFOs and data-scientists with decades of experience.

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    matthias dukat
    Founding Partner

    15+ years of experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity and as CFO in Frankfurt, London and Berlin. Experienced in negotiating complex, large-scale international transactions

    dr. daniel p. smith
    Founding Partner

    15+ years of experience in Investment Banking, as CFO and data-scientist in Frankfurt, Berlin, LA and New York. Experience in operationally scaling and exiting own SaaS business

    lars scheffel
    Senior Associate

    7+ years of experience in financial advisory, business valuation and financial due diligence

    david smith
    Associate

    8+ years of experience in information technology, data-analytics, branding and design strategy

    "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe."

    The blacksquare difference

    Independent strategic advisory focused on exits and fundraising for fast growing ventures, as well as selected buyside advisory for strategic and financial investors – that is our bread and butter, and that is what we do best. But we are more than just another advisory boutique: we are investors, and we invest our most valuable asset – ourselves: our experience, our unrelenting dedication and our full focus on a partner level. Furthermore, we set the highest market standards due to our analytical and numbers driven approach with our own proprietary analytical methods for every industry and vertical. That is what makes us different. The entrepreneurs and investors we partner with are looking for much more than just a rolodex, and understand that processes are analytical marathons, not sprints.

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    Our services

    Tailored entirely to your need: bringing together 50+ years of experience, a meticulous mindset and unmatched data analytical methods, we are the ideal partner for every step of the transaction process. Nimble in action and seasoned across all verticals and company sizes, blacksquare is always primed for the demands of our collaboration in a fast-moving market environment

    Exit
    Support

    With cross-border focus and a broad international network of financial and strategic players, we bring exits of any size to a successful finish at maximum valuation. Our experience includes full exits, mergers, carve-outs, earn-outs and MBOs / MBIs

    Fundraising

    Focused on growth equity financing rounds from €5m series A to €100m+ series X, we provide support from setting up the initial equity story before the first meeting to negotiating late-stage rounds. Our expertise ranges from priced equity rounds, convertibles of any structure, hybrid structured instruments to internal bridge rounds. Our clients benefit from our extensive investor network, including VCs, Growth Investors, PEs, Family Offices, CVCs and many more.

    Buy Side Due Diligence

    Always data-driven and holistic with a deep commercial focus, we provide commercial and digital due diligence support to help investors identify core business model viability, deep dive on all KPIs and model scenarios, and provide an independent experienced view. Our experience ranges from Private Equity and Corporate Strategic advisory in large investments to venture support in buy-and-build acquisitions

    Strategic Operational Advisory

    Drawing from our own vast experience as founders and C-level managers, we act as strategic operational advisors to help our clients in adjusting and navigating their financial and operational business developments, both in situations of rapid growth as well as in a turnaround or business pivot

    We're looking
    for talent

    In every candidate, we look for a unique skill set which adds value to us and our partners. There is no strict role model. You can be a successful serial entrepreneur, an online marketing guru, an investment-banking rainmaker or a VC cherry-picking wunderkind – if you are one of the best at what you do, we’re interested.

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    We're always looking for a new challenge. To get in touch, reach out to someone we both know or drop us a message either via mail or directly via Whatsapp.