Our Approach
Item of Christian’s private collection of historic artefacts centering around the ritualistic use of psychedelics.
Dionysus is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and the theatre.
It is important to understand in this context that the wine of the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman times cannot be compared with our today’s wine. It was often spiked – especially in religious context - with psychedelic substances – especially magic mushrooms and ergot.
We currently manage more than US$ 3.5 billion across seven strategies.
Four of them - Presight, Presight Partners, Elevat3 and re.Mind - are open for institutional investors via closed-end venture funds.
All of our investment teams deploy an extreme value-add and hands-on approach, aiming to be an entrepreneurial, reliable and long-term partner to our portfolio companies, and in the case of Presight Partners, to our portfolio funds.
Our core belief is that every company, at any given moment in its development, has between one and three “triggers”, which - if executed successfully - will immediately bring the company to the next (valuation) level. We focus on companies where we believe we can influence or ideally even control these triggers and hence create value for all stakeholders.
Our
Strategies
Incubation & Platform Companies (internal capital only)
We make long-term bets on scientific & technological breakthroughs. When we have original ideas – such as being the first in this century to re-think the medical use of psychedelics - we incubate companies inspiring radical structural change.
We particularly like platform and roll-up strategies with centralized services, leadership & business development, supporting founders and scientists with our entrepreneurial vision and company-building capability.
We have raised more than US$ 1 billion outside money in recent years for our various platform companies.
A few selected portfolio companies:
Head of Company Building & Co-Head ECM
Apeiron Investment Group Ltd
Principal
Apeiron Investment Group
Listed Equities & SPACs (internal capital only)
We take active minority stakes in listed companies mainly through IPOs & SPACs, but sometimes also later in a company’s life cycle.
We offer our listed companies the same attention and value-add as we give our venture portfolio.
Primarily, we are initiating and sponsoring our own SPACs – often together with strategic partners – focusing on certain high growth industries and/or regions.
Additionally, we are investing into the SPACs of other sponsors, offering SPAC sponsors an entrepreneurial, long-term investor & partner who not only provides capital, but also and especially deal flow.
A few selected portfolio companies:
Head of Public Markets Investments & Co-Head ECM
Apeiron Investment Group Ltd
Investment Advisor
Apeiron Investment Group Ltd
ELEVAT3 - Lead Venture Deals in Europe
Our Venture Capital fund Elevat3 Capital focuses on lead or co-lead investments in European tech companies across the Apeiron sectors.
The fund is managed by Christian Angermayer, Thomas Hanke and Dr. Marlon Braumann with Peter Thiel's Founders Fund as strategic partner.
A few selected portfolio companies:
Founding Partner
Elevat3 Capital
Founding Partner
Elevat3 Capital
PRESIGHT CAPITAL - APEIRON’S GLOBAL FLAGSHIP VENTURE FUND
With our flagship fund Presight Capital we follow a very flexible, diversified approach, investing globally in the most ambitious founders, at any stage and any sector, always together with leading VCs.
Presight’s mission is to be a steadfast and committed partner to outlier entrepreneurs. Presight Capital is a full lifecycle investor and writes tickets in the range of $500k to $20m and from seed to growth.
Across its 2 funds and several SPVs, Presight Capital manages more than $700M in Assets under Management.
Presight currently has more than 50 portfolio companies. A few selected portfolio companies:
Founding Partner
Presight Capital
Principal
Presight Capital
PRESIGHT PARTNERS - INVESTMENTS IN VENTURE FUNDS
Presight Partners is a new fund-of-funds building a concentrated global portfolio of exceptional early-stage venture funds.
We leverage the Apeiron network and ecosystem to be a value additive investor and gain competitive access to top performing managers.
With Presight Partners, we exercise the same entrepreneurial approach to investing in funds as we do when investing directly in companies.
Our focus lies on first-time funds and emerging managers, to whom we want to be a long-term, reliable partner and investor.
Founding Partner
Presight Partners
re.Mind - Mental Health Venture Investments
re.Mind is a venture fund exclusively focused on mental and neurological health.
We invest from Seed to Pre-IPO, particularly in biotech, digital, clinics and brain-computer interfaces.
With US$ 150 million under management, re.Mind ONE is the leading global fund focusing on mental health.
re.Mind benefits from Apeiron’s extensive network of entrepreneurs and investors in the sector, thanks to our pioneering work with psychedelics.
Founding Partner
re.Mind Capital
Founding Partner
re.Mind Capital
LIMESTONE CAPITAL - VERTICALLY INTEGRATED HOSPITALITY INVESTMENTS
Limestone Capital is a vertically integrated investment firm dedicated to identifying and creating value within the hospitality sector.
The Switzerland-based private equity firm manages multiple funds on behalf of its investors utilising a highly selective value-add investment approach through repositioning, management change and quality design. Limestone was founded by an experienced team of investors and operators that leverage technology, efficient asset management and trends in consumer behaviour. With over €100m EUR in assets under management, Limestone focuses on destinations within the EU where it sources, develops and operates unique hotels & member clubs.
Limestone has also incubated and invested in next generation hospitality brands such as Aethos Hotels and Emerald Stay, which are redefining the guest experience for the next generation of luxury travel.
Founder
Aethos
CO-Founder
Aethos Hotels