Hans Jurgen Even

Hans-Jürgen Even is a Düsseldorf-based investor with a long career spanning venture capital, private equity, and alternative investments. He holds a Diplom-Kaufmann degree from the University of Düsseldorf and an MBA from the University of California, Davis (completed around 1998–1999). His professional focus is on private equity and value creation, particularly for the German Mittelstand (mid-market), alongside a substantial angel and fund-of-funds venture portfolio.

He is the Managing Director / Managing Partner of 3E Capital Group, which he has run since roughly September 2006 (the current GmbH & Co. KG structure dates to 2018). The firm is headquartered at Gerhard-Domagk-Str. 4, 40474 Düsseldorf, and positions itself as an "Exponential Evolution Investment Office" and "Partner of Next Generation Living." It invests across four buckets — Mittelstand, venture capital, private equity, and real estate — describing itself as a sustainable, reliable, long-term entrepreneur-partner. Even also serves as Managing Partner at BEO Capital Partners GmbH, a private-equity vehicle focused on value creation in the German Mittelstand. Corporate registries (Northdata, CompanyHouse) list him as managing director of several related entities, including 3E Capital Partners GmbH and 3E Capital Asset One GmbH.

Beyond his own firms, Even is unusually active as a limited partner and business angel across the European venture ecosystem. Public profiles associate him with investor/LP positions at btov Partners (since ~2011), Acton Capital Partners (since ~2013), GP Bullhound and Seedcamp (since ~2017), Project A Ventures, Berlin Technologie Holding, and The Nordic Web, as well as advisory-board ("Beirat") and investor roles at First Momentum Ventures, Blockwall, and Apollo Health Ventures. This breadth gives him exposure to seed-stage software, proptech, web3, and health/biotech across Germany and Europe.

• Invests primarily at seed and early stage through 3E Capital's venture arm, while the broader group also does growth, private equity, and Mittelstand deals.
• Backs "outstanding, entrepreneur-minded individuals in all phases of company development to build excellent companies," emphasizing active partnership over passive capital.
• Firm tagline signals the thesis: "Innovation. Capital. Passion." and "Creating value with vision to reimagine the way we live and work" — pointing to next-generation living/work, proptech, and digital-transformation themes.
• Diversifies venture exposure by committing as an LP and business angel across many European seed/early funds (Seedcamp, btov, Acton, GP Bullhound, First Momentum, Blockwall, Apollo Health), rather than relying only on direct deals.
• On backing First Momentum Ventures, he framed his rationale as building "a scalable platform for the next generation of successful founders."