Our approach

At CGE Partners, we bring extensive investment and operational expertise to every company we invest in. Our approach is consistently collaborative, constructive, and tailored to the strengths and ambitions of each business.

We typically invest in €30-100 million per transaction, for majority positions, focusing geographically on Northern and Western Europe.

We focus on global megatrends that are reshaping the economy and creating enduring structural tailwinds:

Productisation of Intelligence

The transformation of raw data and expert knowledge into scalable, high-margin data products that are often subscription-based and deeply embedded in customer workflows. As a global megatrend, it is reshaping the economy by driving efficiency, enabling smarter decision-making, and creating long-term value through recurring revenues, strong customer retention, and defensible innovation.

Compliance and Transparency

Solutions that help businesses meet growing regulatory demands through robust reporting, auditability, and risk mitigation. This global megatrend promotes corporate accountability, builds trust, and reduces risk, while offering businesses long-term value through mission-critical tools, strong customer retention, and structural growth fuelled by increasing regulatory scrutiny.

Digitisation of Education

The transformation of traditional teaching, learning, and assessment into digital formats using technology. It expands access to quality education, enables lifelong learning at scale, and creates resilient, high-growth opportunities for businesses in a sector defined by strong demand, reputational moats, and long-term structural relevance.

Energy Transition

The energy transition is the global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy, supported by technologies and services that optimise how energy is generated, distributed, and consumed. This transition is reshaping the economy by driving decarbonisation, accelerating clean infrastructure investment, and creating long-term value for businesses that provide essential software, data, and solutions critical to a low-carbon future.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the application of algorithms and data to automate tasks, enhance decision-making, and increase productivity across industries. As adoption accelerates to meet demands for efficiency, cost savings, and improved customer experience, AI is emerging as a transformative enabler that strengthens the competitiveness and defensibility of businesses.

Resource Efficiency

Resource efficiency refers to the broad concept of how effectively natural resources – such as energy, water, raw materials, land, and ecosystems – are used across the entire life cycle of a product, service, or process. Growing pressure from rising demand, climate change, and stricter regulation is driving investment in technologies that make resource efficiency more practical, scalable, and impactful, while strengthening the resilience of the natural world.

The businesses we partner with provide solutions that sit at the heart of these structural shifts – mission-critical, data-rich, with specialised IP and positioned for long-term growth.

Tailored involvement

We tailor our involvement to what each business needs – never imposing a one-size-fits-all playbook.

We can help where our assistance is welcome or needed and our value creation model typically focuses on four core areas:

Optimising Strategy:

We invest in companies with rich IP, proprietary data, and deep industry expertise and then help them strategically to capitalise on their unique strengths. In many cases we can help unlock new revenue streams, expand the total addressable market and improve the positioning of the business.

Strategic M&A:

We support businesses in making transformational acquisitions that expand their product capabilities and accelerate their market leadership.

Improving Business Functions:

Our functionally focused Operator Panel brings considerable hands-on experience and functional excellence to the businesses we support. From sales and marketing to talent and people, technology and product, we can provide support to management teams in executing their ambitious plans.

Excellence in Talent Sourcing:

We invest time in ensuring our management teams have access to the best talent, and our functional operators regularly support by hiring best-in-class talent across functions and leadership, including at board level.