Cornelius Becker

Cornelius Becker is an investment professional associated with Ancoth Capital, a Munich-based private investment firm focused on scaling essential services and product companies across DACH and Western Europe. His public LinkedIn profile lists Ancoth Capital in Munich and describes his work as partnering with owners, operators, and investors to grow and scale B2B software and related businesses.

Before Ancoth, Becker spent several years at Hg, the European and transatlantic software and services private equity investor. XING lists him as an Hg investment professional in Munich from June 2017, with skills including private equity, software, technology, TMT, growth capital, and M&A. MarketScreener also identifies him as a private equity investor / principal at HgCapital LLP beginning in 2017.

Earlier in his career, Becker worked in investment banking and M&A: as an Associate at Citi from July 2014 to March 2017 and as an Analyst at Berenberg from January 2013 to June 2014, according to XING. He studied Business Administration at Technische Universität München; LinkedIn lists TU München attendance from 2007 to 2012.

Becker has also served as a trustee of The Hg Foundation. Hg’s 2020 launch announcement named him as a Senior Associate in Hg’s Munich office and one of the Hg trustees representing the foundation’s geographic reach. In 2021, he was quoted as a trustee in The Hg Foundation’s €750,000 partnership with the Technical University of Munich.

• Ancoth Capital says it invests in “businesses that deliver mission-critical services and products” that customers rely on day to day and that have “clear opportunities to scale further.”
• The firm targets essential services and product companies with resilient fundamentals, strong cash generation, recurring or highly visible revenues, and leadership in specific niches.
• Ancoth’s preferred transaction contexts include founder and shareholder successions, management buy-outs / buy-ins, corporate carve-outs, and strategic partnerships.
• Ancoth’s operating approach centers on management and organization, strategy and commercial focus, M&A, and digitalization.
• Becker’s prior Hg profile points to software, technology, TMT, growth capital, private equity, and M&A as his core investment skill areas.