Silvan Fehst

Silvan Fehst is an Investment Manager at Ufenau Capital Partners AG, an independently owned lower-mid-market private equity firm based near Lake Zurich in Switzerland. In his own firm bio, he "supports the Investment Team in the execution of transactions and in the portfolio companies operationally" — a deal-execution and portfolio-value-creation role rather than a fund-leading partner position.

Before Ufenau, he spent time in private equity at Halder (Halder Beteiligungsberatung GmbH), a Frankfurt-based buyout firm focused on the German Mittelstand — this is the "mid-market focused investment firm in Frankfurt" referenced in his current bio and the source of the stub's `[hidden]` email and Frankfurt phone number. Halder is no longer listing him on its team page, consistent with his move to Ufenau. Earlier, he gained experience in Private Equity & Debt at Rantum Capital (a DACH mid-market financier) and in Transaction Advisory at EY and Deloitte.

Academically, Fehst holds a Master of Science in Finance from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in Dublin (2016–2017) and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, and spent an exchange period at Sun Yat-sen University in China during his studies.

Note on the stub data: the original record classified him as an "Angel Investor" writing "Seed Round" checks. Verified sources contradict this — his entire career is in institutional mid-market buyout private equity (Ufenau, Halder, Rantum) and advisory (EY, Deloitte). Founders seeking seed/angel capital are unlikely to find a fit here.

• Strategy (Ufenau): "Systematic Buy-&-Build" — acquiring profitable service companies as platforms and growing them through add-on acquisitions, working "at eye-level with entrepreneurs and management teams."
• Stage/structure: Majority (control) participations in established, profitable SMEs; company sales, succession/ownership transitions, and equity partnerships — not early-stage venture or seed.
• Sectors: Asset-light services — business services, IT, education, healthcare, lifestyle/consumer services and financial services.
• Geography: Primarily DACH, extending to Benelux, Iberia, the UK and Poland, where the firm has local networks.
• What earns a "yes": Profitable, cash-generative businesses (frequently family-owned) with scalable models and buy-and-build potential — the opposite of pre-revenue startups.