Peer Weder

Peer (Peer David) Weder is an investment professional at AUCTUS Capital Partners AG, the Munich-based private equity firm widely described as the leading PE house for the German "Mittelstand." Public org and corporate registry records list him as a Principal / Investment Manager on the firm's investment team. AUCTUS was founded in 2001 by entrepreneurs to back German-speaking medium-sized companies, has completed more than 150 transactions, and manages over €500m in committed capital, taking majority stakes in profitable companies or providing equity for growth and acquisitions.

Weder's academic background is in economics and physics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where he also worked as a teaching assistant in theoretical physics. Before moving into private equity he spent time in the statistics department of the Deutsche Bundesbank and completed an M&A internship at the Dutch investment bank NIBC, focused on the Technology, Media & Services sector — where, per AUCTUS, he "learned about the transaction business."

At AUCTUS he has acted as a deal lead and portfolio overseer, sitting on the management/holding structures of multiple portfolio companies. German commercial-register (Handelsregister) data shows him as managing director of a series of AUCTUS investment holding vehicles, including TE Holding GmbH (Team Electric), the Tank und Silo Regensburg group, the häussermann Gruppe, asap Holding / asap Global Holding (Landshut), DIGITAL VISION GROUP, Gorgeous Smiling Hotels Holding, Profunda Geothermie, and AUCTUS-numbered Beteiligungsgesellschaften. He has also served as a supervisory board member (Aufsichtsrat) at Smaser AG and Stranet AG.

Alongside his AUCTUS roles, registry data shows personal/holding entities in his name — PW Invest GmbH, Weder-Wuest UG, HH Immoinvest UG and Münchner Lebensraum GmbH — consistent with private investment and real-estate vehicles rather than firm activity.

• Invests through AUCTUS, which takes majority positions in established, profitable Mittelstand companies (≈€10m–€150m revenue) rather than making seed/angel bets.
• Deal types: management buy-outs/buy-ins, ownership succession, buy-and-build / roll-ups, and corporate spin-offs and carve-outs, including "complex transaction structures."
• Check size roughly €2m–€10m of equity per transaction, with capacity for follow-on/buy-and-build add-ons (AUM >€500m).
• Sectors: software/SaaS and web marketplaces, education, business solutions, hardware & manufacturing, HealthTech, plus industrial and B2B services niches — reflecting AUCTUS's broad sector-agnostic Mittelstand mandate.
• Geography: strictly the German-speaking region (DACH).
• What gets a "yes": profitable, growing companies where AUCTUS can be an active partner in succession or buy-and-build — the firm positions itself as "founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs," a partner to the SME sector.