For founders
Hand over your company without selling it on.
You built something that should outlast you. We take it into a technology group that will never sell it, and we decide together how it fits in.
Who we talk to
- Where
- Companies wherever they are. The group is built to grow worldwide, by horizontal and vertical expansion.
- What
- Technology companies first: IT services, software, security and data. And companies in other sectors that technology can make stronger.
- Who
- Founder-led, with a founder thinking about what comes next.
The context
Many Swiss founders are looking for a successor.
Around 90,000 Swiss SMEs need a successor, year after year.
SMEs with an open succession, snapshot each spring
Two ways to join
Your company joins a technology group. How it joins, we decide together.
Some companies are strongest under their own name. Others are strongest as part of a sister company that does the same work. We are honest about which is which.
Your company stays your company.
It keeps its name, brand and customers, and carries one small line: “Part of ENIXEN Group”. Behind it, the group adds finance, people, technology, security and operations where they make it stronger.
For example: tesweb, Recruitingers.
Your company becomes part of a stronger one.
Where two companies do the same work, they are stronger as one. Your team joins a sister company in the group and takes on its name, processes and culture. The company is not sold: it stays in the group, under a sister company's name.
For example: SIDMAR, joining KIDAN.
What is always true
Whichever path you take.
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Your company is never sold
Not after five years, not after fifty. We take on companies to keep them.
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We pay with our own capital
No interest-bearing loan sits behind the purchase, so no lender can set a deadline or force a sale.
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Your people join a group that stays
They become part of a group of companies with shared finance, technology, security and people, owned by one family.
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It stays confidential
From the first meeting your company has a code name, and we never name a company in a process.
How we own
We take on companies to keep them.
We pay with our own capital, we choose with the founder how each company fits, and we never sell. Three rules, and the reasons behind them.
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Own capital, no interest-bearing finance.
We pay with our own capital. No interest-bearing loan sits behind a purchase, so no lender can set a deadline or force a sale.
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Companies sold: never.
ENIXEN Group AG is owned entirely by the SYED family. We do not sell companies. We take them on to keep them, and a company that merges into a sister company stays in our register.
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The company keeps its team and customers, and usually its name.
Most companies keep their name and add one line: “Part of ENIXEN Group”. Where a sister company does the same work, the company joins it and takes its name, as SIDMAR is doing with KIDAN.
Why we finance this way
We do not borrow at interest. Our faith asks it of us, and it lets us hold without a clock.
The model
How the group grows stronger.
Five steps, in a circle, with no exit at any point.
- Acquire
- Strengthen as owners
- Generate cash
- Develop the people inside
- Compound
Plan your path
Sketch it in three choices.
Choose how to start, which path suits your company and when you want to step back. The plan redraws as you go. It is a sketch to start a conversation, not an offer.
Your path, year by year
Years from signing
- In place
- Planned with you
Keep your brand
For example: tesweb, Recruitingers.
The process
From a first conversation to the first 100 days.
Confidential from the first meeting. Your company gets a code name, taken from a Swiss tree, which we use until signing.
- 01
First conversation
You and one of the family. No documents needed.
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Getting to know each other
We visit, listen and learn how the company works.
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Choosing the path
Your own brand, or a sister company. Minority stake or full handover.
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Signing
The code name is retired. The company enters the register.
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First 100 days
Agreed together, written down, and followed through.
Confidential by design
Project Larch
An example. Every company in a process gets the next unused Swiss tree as its code name, and we never write its real name in a document. At signing, the code name is retired and the company enters the register under its own.
Questions founders ask
Short answers.
Will you sell my company later?
No. Never. We take on companies to keep them, and we do not sell them.
Will the company keep its name?
It depends on the path. Many companies keep their name and add “Part of ENIXEN Group”. Where a sister company does the same work, the company joins it and takes its name, processes and culture, as SIDMAR is doing with KIDAN. We decide this with you, before signing.
Do I have to hand over everything at once?
No. We can start with a minority stake and move to a full handover later, on your terms.
How do you pay for an acquisition?
With our own capital. We use no interest-bearing finance, so no lender sets a deadline.
What happens to my role?
That is yours to decide. Some founders stay and run the company for years; others hand over to a successor they choose with us.
What happens to my employees?
They keep their contracts. Their employer stays the company they work for, or, where two of our companies merge, its sister company in the group. Only the owner changes.
How do you arrive at a price?
Together with you, from the company's own figures, after the first conversations and under a confidentiality agreement.
Who will know that we are talking?
Only the people you agree to. From the first meeting the conversation runs under a code name, and we never name a company in a process.
The founder guide
Handing over without selling on
An eight-page guide on handing over a company to a permanent owner.
Start a conversation
A confidential conversation.
Tell us a little about your company. One of the family will reply to you personally. Nothing you send leaves ENIXEN Group AG, apart from the email and network providers named in our privacy notice.