As a prospective entrepreneur, you’re thinking about what ‘different type investors’ exist and might be helpful. Investors get a label of being a Capital Allocator, or, a former Operator/Entrepreneur, or, ‘a Fund’. Sure, a diversified capitalization table includes it all - ‘Funds with deep pockets for M&A’, ‘Investors who know much about deals’, and, ‘Operators’. But what you actually need from your Investors…..is Time. The secret sauce of Search Funds and Private Equity teams, is collaboration. You want a working relationship in which you dare to pick up the phone, to ask supposed ‘dumb’ questions. At Novidam, dumb questions don’t exist.

Novidam’s people have lived each phase of the entrepreneurial journey, deeply. Including the pains.

We’ve lived the risk of entrepreneurs’ next steps of starting businesses from nothing and finding the little first bit of capital. Next, the stress and endless grind of finding a proper business while working tirelessly with Sellers and crafting a relationship (with key LOI’s expiring multiple times pre-close). Thenm the phase and the delicacies with Sellers of closing a deal, while at the same time raising Seller Debt and managing expectations of that same Selling Entrepreneur. At the same time, putting together Senior Debt and Mezz financing, keeping the deal attractive while critically modeling covenants. Lastly, we’ve frequently experienced finalizing the ‘perfect’ cap table and recruiting a complementary Board of Directors - actively working with them and navigating thoughtful Board Meetings and Executive Sessions.

While operating, we’ve refinanced balance sheets including bank hired ‘work-out-groups’. We’ve acquired competitor companies from lender hostility, in times of equity distress. We’ve executed a programmatic and intentional M&A strategy; financing and integrating tuck-ins (>10x and with deals in excess of $200m). We’ve led teams and parted with them, we’ve raised long term and short term equity instruments, we’ve acquired and divested across the globe.

If a partnership sounds intriguing, we’d love to hear from you. With Novidam, you have people in your corner who have lived most experiences of your upcoming or your present entrepreneurial journey. Each improvement and small detail shared, to problem-solve together, benefits all stakeholders. 

We are global investors. Our invested capital is weighted to the United States, with a growing portion rest of world (Europe leading). We don’t discriminate geographically. We have companies and searchers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. With ~ 100 search funds and ~30 acquired businesses in 2025, with many still searching, our portfolio will become more flobal. In newer or less active search fund regions (be it for limited lender capacity, higher interest rates, floating exchange rates, different educational backgrounds of talents, or smaller TAM’s), we opportunistically assess (perhaps with extra rigor). But we don’t shy away. In sound, growing macro-economic climates, where we can perform thorough due diligence tactics, we believe the drivers of high long term returns will come. They come mostly from the unique combination of the right entrepreneur with the right business, with the right help and in the right industry niche.

We have significant Assets Under Management in Search Funds, direct Private Equity and in Long Term Holds - with a team waiting to help our companies flourish in offices in New York, Amsterdam and London.