Finance / Regulatory
Financial services, insurance intermediation, payments and regulated financial infrastructure — and more broadly, any business built on regulatory compliance, certification or quality standards.
Founder succession, handled personally
A trusted successor for your life's work
ORENDA Nachfolge GmbH is looking for one founder-owned company in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg or Austria to carry forward — led by an operator who bought and ran a business of his own before he ever knocked on your door.
- Experience
- 20+ years senior leadership
- Track record
- His second acquisition
- Committed capital
- EUR 520,000 search capital
Thomas Breitenbaum, Founder & Searcher · Vienna, Austria
“Thomas sourced, financed and personally led MikroVeda's buy-in in November 2024 — and he's run the company ever since.”
A track record, on paper
A German health-supplements producer, bought alongside two co-investors and run by Thomas day to day since closing. ORENDA is the next step up.
Read the full story →What ORENDA looks for
Three fields. One kind of company.
Enduringly profitable, founder-led businesses with recurring revenue, light capital needs and a team that can carry on without their founder in the room every day.
Health / Supplements
Healthcare-adjacent and nutrition/supplement businesses, grounded in direct operating experience as co-lead of a health-supplements producer.
Opportunistic
Industry-agnostic targets, including franchise businesses, outside those two fields — pursued wherever the business model and financial upside are independently compelling.
- EBITDA
- EUR 2M – 7M
- Revenue
- EUR 15M – 80M
- Company age
- 10+ years
- Leverage
- None, or manageable
Regional focus
Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Austria
The 2nd, 3rd and 4th largest economies in the German-speaking world — and home to a large wave of founder successions in the years ahead.
34MCombined residents
EUR 1.9tnCombined GDP
Bavaria
13.4M residents · EUR 796.2bn GDP
Baden-Württemberg
11.3M residents · EUR 652.0bn GDP
Austria
9.2M residents · EUR 484.2bn GDP
Stabilize. Transform. Scale.
What happens after you hand over, planned from day one — not bolted on at the end. Every step accounts for a 4–6 year hold, so the business (and the people in it) are never left to guess what comes next.
- 01
Stabilize "Get on the horse"
Establish the status quo across operations and finance, build trust with the team, and agree strategy together before anything changes.
- 02
Transform "Overhaul the system"
Commercialization and digitalization initiatives, automation, and structural cost improvements — implemented with the people who already know the business.
- 03
Scale "Scale the business"
Create value along the supplier and customer chain, deepen key relationships, and build deliberately toward a well-prepared next chapter.
For business owners
Thinking about who comes next?
A confidential, no-obligation conversation is the easiest way to find out whether ORENDA is the right fit for your company.