Marc Oliver Jauch

Dr. Marc-Oliver Jauch is an Investment Partner and Co-Founder of Castik Capital, a European private equity firm he helped establish in 2014. Castik pursues a long-term "buy-and-build" strategy, acquiring majority ownership of European businesses and partnering with management teams on value-creation plans — expansion into new markets, add-on M&A, and reinvestment into the core business (digitization and new technology). Uniquely for private equity, its vehicles can hold investments for ten years or more, rather than the traditional five-year horizon.

Before co-founding Castik, Jauch was an Investment Professional in the Business Services team at Apax Partners, working across the firm's London and Munich offices. Prior to Apax, he was a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group in Munich, where he built his strategy and operations background.

His academic credentials are unusually strong: a doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), awarded summa cum laude; an MBA from ESSEC Business School in Paris; and a Master's in Finance and Economics from the University of Mannheim, completed with highest distinction.

Alongside his role at Castik, Jauch is Managing Director of Amber Oak Capital GmbH, a Munich-based personal investment company (registered at Mandlstr. 1, 80802 München; incorporated July 2014). This entity is the most likely vehicle behind his classification as an angel/private investor, though specific early-stage deals are not publicly documented.

• Primary vehicle (Castik / EPIC funds): majority-control investments in European market leaders "in highly fragmented markets, that are headquartered in Europe and led by strong management teams or founders."
• Value creation over financial engineering: the firm partners with management on "specific value-creation plans to achieve an improved growth trajectory — through expansion to new markets, add-on M&A, and investments into the core business, such as digitization and new technology."
• Long-hold conviction: willing to stay invested "for ten years or more," signaling a preference for durable compounding businesses over quick flips.
• Sector lens: technology-enabled business services, software/internet platforms, specialist healthcare, and industrial technology.
• Personal/angel activity: conducted through Amber Oak Capital GmbH; the seed-stage tag in aggregator databases reflects this side of his activity, but a public thesis or check-size range for it is not disclosed.