Sebastian Kahm

Sebastian Rolf Kahm is a British-based M&A and private equity professional, born March 1990. He studied at the European Business School (EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht) in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, earning a Bachelor of Science in International Business (Chinese) from roughly 2011–2014, with part of his studies at Tongji University in Shanghai. He is fluent in English and German.

He began his career in the Investment Banking Division at Nomura in London, then spent about two years at Doughty Hanson (DH Private Equity Partners) working on several European private equity investments. In September 2018 he joined Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP, one of the longest-established European mid/large-cap buyout firms (Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London). Companies House records confirm his tenure: he became an LLP member of Charterhouse Capital Partners on 3 September 2018 and of the affiliated Watling Street Capital Partners LLP on 1 September 2022. He served as an Investment Manager (Sept 2018–June 2022) and then as Director (July 2022–May 2023).

Kahm resigned both Charterhouse LLP memberships on 14 May 2023 and moved to Inspired Education Group, a global premium private-schools operator, where he is Director of M&A and Business Development — leading acquisitions and corporate development for the group rather than acting as a financial investor. His stated skill set centers on private equity, investment banking, financial modeling, and project management.

Because his role is buyout/corporate M&A, the source stub's framing of him as an "angel investor" backing "seed rounds" does not match the evidence; readers should treat that classification as a data error. (Note also the unrelated "KAHM Capital," a US Cambridge-based seed VC, which surfaces in searches but has no connection to Sebastian Kahm.)

• Operates within institutional private equity / corporate M&A, not personal angel investing — deals are on the balance sheet of his employer, not personal checks.
• At Charterhouse Capital Partners: control buyouts and significant minority stakes in established, cash-generative European mid- and large-cap companies (Charterhouse historically targets Western European businesses with enterprise values broadly in the hundreds of millions to low billions of euros).
• At Inspired Education Group: acquisition and consolidation of premium/private education assets (schools and education businesses) as part of the group's global roll-up strategy.
• No publicly stated personal investment thesis, sector-agnostic seed criteria, or founder-facing "what makes me say yes" statement could be found — consistent with a PE/corporate-development professional rather than a startup investor.