• We are a European specialist
    Financing small and
    middle-market companies
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  • We provide long term liquidity
    and credit solutions
    OUR COMPANY
  • We are a long term
    and relationship driven investor
    OUR COMPANY
  • Kartesia is a pan-European platform
    with offices in Amsterdam, Brussels,
    London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan,
    Munich and Paris
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  • Our focus is on the small and mid-cap
    segment of the European market rather
    than specific sectors
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  • We are a signatory of the
    United Nations-supported Principles
    for Responsible Investment (PRI)
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Welcome to Kartesia

Kartesia is a leading European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies. We provide smart and bespoke value-added financing solutions to sponsors, management teams and corporates in all types of situations allowing them to speed up and secure value creation. We are a long-term and relationship-driven investor aiming to offer our investors stable and superior risk-adjusted returns by building a diversified portfolio with solid downside protection.

We currently manage over €5 billion in four credit strategies – Opportunistic Credit, Senior Direct Lending, Impact debt and Structured Credit (CLOs). Our track record spans over 10 years of delivering strong risk-adjusted returns across strategies and vintages, with limited historical losses.

Awards

In the past 7 years, Kartesia has received 17 of the most prestigious and selective awards in the industry:

•  Environmental Finance - ESG Fixed Income Fund of the Year, Europe 2023 (KIF I)
•  Private Debt Investor - Europe Lower Mid-Market Lender of the Decade 2023
•  Unquote British Private Equity Awards 2021 - Responsible Investor of the Year
•  AltCredit Intelligence European Performance Award 2021 - Direct Lending 
•  Creditflux Manager Awards 2021 - Best European direct lending fund (KCO V)
•  The Hedge Fund Journal Alternative & Private Credit Award 2021 - Best performing funds (KCO III & KCO IV)
•  Private Debt Investor - Lower Mid-Market Lender of the year 2020
•  AltCredit Intelligence European Performance Award 2020 - Mid-market Lending 
•  AltCredit Intelligence European Performance Award 2020 - Special Situations 
•  Private Debt Investor - Lower Mid-Market Lender of the year 2019
•  AltCredit Intelligence European Performance Award 2019 - Niche Lending 
•  AltCredit Intelligence European Performance Award 2018 - Direct Lending Fund
•  Creditflux Manager Awards 2018 - Best European direct lending fund
•  Private Debt Investor - Lender of the year 2017
•  Private Debt Investor - Junior Lender of the year 2017
•  Private Debt Investor - Lower Mid-Market Lender of the year 2016


6

generations
of credit funds

+5b

assets under
management

25

Years of
Experience

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We target opportunities in which
we can invest between €10m and €100m .

 

Our companyAdded value

 

Quotes from our Partners

Kartesia care about important matters and will challenge management appropriately.

PORTFOLIO COMPANY CEO

Kartesia will find a solution on a deal that others would not have thought of. There is one transaction that I am working with them on at present, and the team at Kartesia has been particularly inventive in proposing an innovative and bespoke solution for structuring the debt priorities.

BROKER

Kartesia is interested in helping to grow a business and therefore was keen to support this transaction. They were able to provide a fully funded and committed transaction within 60 days.

SPONSOR

Other mezzanine providers tend to focus on plain vanilla transactions whereas Kartesia is more flexible and […] supports the external growth plans for the business. Ultimately Kartesia became the sole mezzanine financing provider, as well as the minority shareholder.

SPONSOR

Our company was the best restructuring of debt I have ever seen, as Kartesia was able to propose a solution which enabled the company to continue where others would have weakened it. It was a highly complex situation.

PORTFOLIO COMPANY CEO

What differentiates Kartesia is they are very responsive and adaptable. They have a flexibility that others do not possess. Kartesia is good at creating relationships in the markets and behave as a market participant.

BANK

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