Entrepreneurial families as investors

Not only in Germany are there more entre­pre­neurs inves­t­ing in start-ups, growth compa­nies and now very often in estab­lished compa­nies than in the last 10 years. They parti­ci­pate indi­vi­du­ally as inves­tors or found invest­ment compa­nies alone or with seve­ral other fami­lies, such as the Samwer brot­hers, Sixt invest­ments or Tengel­mann ventures. In the case of the compa­nies in which invest­ments are made, they often meet compe­tence crite­ria, such as promo­ting further growth, the expe­ri­ence of the inves­tor and the inves­tor’s network.