About
3TS – A Leading European Tech Growth Capital Investor
3TS Capital Partners is one of the leading European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including Technology & Internet, Media & Communications and Technology-Enabled Services. Investors in the current and past 3TS funds totaling over €400 million include EIF, Erste Group, Tesi, Cisco, OTP, EBRD, AWS, Sitra, KfW, and 3i among others.
Our team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, we often augment our core team by our sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like – Invest Europe.
INVESTMENTS
Sample Current and Past Technology, Communications and Services Investments
ClickAd Sp.z.o.o.
Local Leader
Online advertising and digital marketing solutions
STK SP.Z.O.O.
Local Leader
Cable TV operator and ISP
Team
Entrepreneurial Investors and Active Business Partners
Pekka Mäki
Pekka Mäki
Managing Partner
Vienna, Budapest & Helsinki
Zbigniew Lapinski
Zbigniew Lapinski
Senior Partner
Warsaw
SEVER TOTIA
Sever Totia
Partner
Washington DC & Bucharest
Andreas Huber
Andreas Huber
Partner, COO
Vienna & Luxembourg
Markus Fleischer
Markus Fleischer
Investment Director
Vienna
Katarzyna Pac-Malesa
Katarzyna Pac-Malesa
Investment Director
Warsaw
Barnabas Vincze
Investment Analyst
Vienna, Budapest
Katarina Hudakova
Katarina Hudakova
Financial Manager
Vienna, Bratislava & Luxembourg
JOZSEF KOVER
Jozsef Kover
Partner, CLO
Vienna & Luxembourg
Ivelina Koleva-Katelieva
Ivelina Koleva-Katelieva
Marketing
Vienna
Alica Mozolíková
Alica Mozolíková
Fund Operations Analyst
Vienna, Bratislava & Luxembourg
Šimon Bečica
Šimon Bečica
Fund Operations Manager
Vienna, Bratislava & Luxembourg
MARIUS GHENEA
Marius Ghenea
Managing Partner – Catalyst Romania
Bucharest
ALIN STANCIU
Alin Stanciu
Partner – Catalyst Romania
Bucharest
Antonela Dragomir
Antonela Dragomir
Investment Manager – Catalyst Romania
Bucharest
ALINA GEORGESCU
Investment Manager– Catalyst Romania
Bucharest
News & Materials
Some of Our Latest Press Releases
3TS Portfolio Company Interactive Travel Holdings Acquired by Resource Partners
3TS Capital Partners, along with its affiliated fund Catalyst Romania, is thrilled to announce the successful exit of Interactive Travel Holdings (ITH) to Resource Partners, a regional private equity fund. ITH operates popular online travel agencies across CEE including Vola.ro, the market leader in Romania, and Fru.pl, a key player in P[...]
3TS Newsletter June 2024
Dear Friends,As the first half of 2024 comes to a close, we have a sense from the broader investment and company community there’s a more balanced, cautiously optimistic environment out there. Customer demand seems to have leveled off or is inching back up again in certain sectors, with anything AI-related being growth outliers. The risk[...]
Perfect Gym Acquired by PSG-backed Sport Alliance
Press Release Warsaw, Hamburg, April 2024 3TS Capital Partners is thrilled to announce the completion of the acquisition of Perfect Gym Solutions by Sport Alliance GmbH, backed by PSG Equity, a premier global private equity firm. The acquisition marks a new chapter for Perfect Gym Solutions, a leading international[...]
3TS Newsletter April 2024
Dear Friends,One quarter down in 2024 and three to go, in what look like the year of a “new-normal”. While its clear there won’t be a rapid return to the 2018-2022 period of heavy spending by clients and the go-go days of investing, there are green shoots all around. It seems as though we are back to the pre-2018 environment for the fore[...]
3TS Capital Partners Closes New €111m Fund
Press Release Helsinki-Vienna-Luxembourg, 30 January, 2024 3TS Capital Partners, a European technology-focused growth capital investor, announces the final closing of Fund IV with €111m. For this new fund LP commitments have come from a broad group of premier institutional investors including EIF (European[...]
3TS Newsletter January 2024
Welcome to 2024! A fresh year full of new beginnings. The major milestone for 3TS is the final closing of our new TCEE Fund IV. Despite the tail end of the pandemic, a tragic war in the region and a substantial market correction, we are proud of reaching this objective. We want to thank all the existing LP investors that r[...]
3TS Newsletter December 2023
Dear Friends, In one word, 2023 has turned out to be a year of “transitions”. Transitions to a new business environment with higher interest rates, reductions in valuations, declines in funding, lower revenue growth rates, lower exits, a world-changing AI wave, and maybe avoiding a global recession. The good news is that with ne[...]
3TS Newsletter September 2023
SEPTEMBER 2023 Dear Friends, We hope everyone had a chance to take some time off this summer to recharge and came back ready for a strong rest of 2023. After a few quarters of uncertainty and trepidation, we are hearing across portfolio companies that corporate customer budgets seem to be opening up again, and demand is increasing,[...]
3TS Newsletter July 2023
JULY 2023 Dear Friends, All of a sudden half of 2023 is behind us, and while the market environment is still uncertain, many of our CEOs and management teams have already started thinking about 2024 plans and beyond. On the one hand, it's clear corporate budgets and spending are under some pressure, with 25-30% longer sales cy[...]
3TS Newsletter May 2023
MAY 2023 Dear Friends, As we are approaching the mid-year mark it seems in some ways that the macro picture and business dynamics are settling down into a new-normal, compared to the past tumultuous 12 months in the public and private markets. Of course there’s a war raging in Ukraine, which remains an ongoi[...]
3TS Newsletter March 2023
MARCH 2023 Dear Friends, The start of 2023 has not been short on excitement, after everyone had hoped for increased stability following a tumultuous 2022. While new world changing innovations like Generative AI take hold, the demand environment, capital raising and the credit markets (driven by SVB’s demise) have all[...]
SafeSize Raises €14M Series B Round
Vienna, 28 March, 2023 - 3TS Capital Partners, a European technology-focused growth capital investor, congratulates SafeSize on closing €14M in new financing. 3TS was one of the original institutional investors in SafeSize, a leading footwear personalization platform. The Company’s successful vision, leadership team and growth culminated[...]
3TS Newsletter December 2022
DECEMBER 2022 Dear Friends, No one could have forecasted the challenges that 2022 brought. Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, inflation, energy crises, higher interest rates, real fears of broad based recession, and lingering effects of Covid. Building great companies is hard enough without all these obstacles. One silver lining[...]
3TS Newsletter November 2022
Dear Friends,As we head toward the end of Q4, we hope everyone will have a successful end to this challenging year. Beyond some exciting new investments, we are proud to see how our portfolio companies continue to reach new heights and important milestones, as you’ll see in this newsletter. Since everyone is in 2023 planning mode, at a t[...]
3TS Newsletter September 2022
Dear Friends, We hope all of you had a great summer and had a chance to unwind. At 3TS, while we all see headwinds and growing uncertainties, we are proud that our portfolio companies continue to scale by growing revenues 80% y-o-y on average. What an awesome achievement and congratulations to all the management teams. Take a look at[...]
3TS Newsletter June 2022
Dear Friends, While summer is upon us, investors and companies will have to continue to navigate through ‘storm clouds and rough waters’ for at least the next few quarters, or longer. Through the challenging first half of 2022, it’s exhilarating to see how 3TS portfolio companies and their teams continue to accelerate growth, establis[...]
3TS Newsletter May 2022
Dear Friends,Everyone in Europe and in countries around the world are in shock and condemn the war started by Russia in Ukraine. 3TS and our portfolio companies have helped in the refugee crisis directly or through many direct-aid organizations. In these tumultuous times, we look to one of our core 3TS principles for guidance – Resilienc[...]
3TS Newsletter February 2022
FEBRUARY 2022 Dear Friends,The holidays already feel far away in the rear-view mirror. Meanwhile, 2022 has started off with a roar. The lingering pandemic, geo-political standoffs, ongoing inflation and of course what followed, market volatility. On the heels of a record-setting 2021, what will be in store in 2022 and h[...]
3TS Newsletter December 2021
This Christmas we will continue sponsoring our three godchildren - Gregorio Mali, Roger Josue Corrales Carcamo, Tinotenda Mabunda - through “Plan Intermational”. Plan is a humanitarian, child centered development organisation without religious, political or governmental affiliation. (www.plan-international.org) DECEMBER 2021 Dear[...]
3TS Capital Partners Exits SALESmanago to SilverTree Equity and Perwyn
Press Release Vienna, Warsaw, London, 2 December, 2021 3TS Capital Partners, a leading European growth capital investor, announced today that its portfolio company, SALESmanago has been successfully acquired by a private equity consortium composed of SilverTree Equity and Perwyn. SALESmanago is a leading SaaS no-code CDP &[...]
3TS Newsletter November 2021
Dear Friends, So just as we all thought we had a chance to get past this pandemic, October and November have proven otherwise, not only with infection spikes but a potential new variant. How will 2021 end? How will 2022 unfold? No one knows exactly. Our mantra remains Stay Calm and Grow. Our companies have continued to release new pro[...]
3TS Newsletter October 2021
Dear Friends, No one expected the majority of 2021 to be impacted by COVID, but here we are. It seems everyone has adapted to new ways to thrive at work and in life. As in-person events are returning, we held a successful Tech Lounge in Helsinki. It is impressive and humbling to see how our portfolio companies’ management teams contin[...]
3TS Newsletter September 2021
Dear friends, We hope everyone had a great summer and had a chance to re-charge. At 3TS, we reached a major milestone recently by having the First Close of our new Fund IV. Everyone at 3TS is thankful to the institutional LPs that continue to entrust their capital with our investment strategy. And equally pleased to see a broad group of[...]
3 Key Learnings from the New Investment in Tosibox
By Sever Totia This is a Big Market Indeed We focus on backing companies with unbounded market opportunities. By 2025, there will be 6x more IoT devices than people worldwide. While many innovations leverage IoT, the bulk of IoT devices are needed in industrial, building automation, manufacturing and utility sectors, which rep[...]
3TS Capital Partners Announces the First Closing of Its New Fund IV
Press Release Helsinki-Vienna-Luxembourg, 15 September 2021 3TS Capital Partners, a European technology-focused growth capital investor, announces the first closing of its Fund IV with a target size of €150m. The firm’s prior multi-generation funds totaling over €300 million have made a strong, positive impact on the innovation and[...]
3TS Newsletter May 2021
Dear friends,As you might now, 3TS Capital Partners has been helping companies to expand not only in Europe but very often also to the US. With an office in Washington, D.C., we brought 15 companies into the US over the years, out of which 8 are already exited and 7 are currently active in our portfolio.One of the largest is the New[...]
3 Key Learnings on Entrepreneurs’ Exit Mindset
By Alina Georgescu, Investment Manager Catalyst Romania Over the last 5 years with Catalyst Romania, I have had the opportunity to take part both in making new investments and in developing our portfolio companies. Further, I have also helped some of the companies through successful exit processes, which are one of the most import[...]
3TS Newsletter April 2021
Dear friends, We are glad to be able to share more good news from our funds and our portfolio with you this month. What we are most excited about is that Catalyst Romania has had the second closing of its second fund and reached the target size 6 months before the deadline. On our portfolio side, new fundraising rounds, succ[...]
3 Key Learnings about Diversity & Inclusion
By Jasmina Henniova, Communications & Investment Manager, 3TS Capital Partners The fact that diverse teams perform better is already a well-known fact. A 2019 McKinsey study of 1000 large companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 36% more likely to have financial retu[...]
3TS Newsletter March 2021
Dear friends,The first quarter of the year has been a quarter of good news for 3TS and Catalyst Romania. We have started the year with a newly launched fund and accelerated discussions with many interesting companies in the region. We have exited two portfolio companies, Green Horse Games (read a short interview with the founder below!)[...]
3 Key Learnings for LP/GP Relationship Management
By Andreas Huber, Partner and COO, 3TS Capital Partners As COO of 3TS Capital Partners, I am among others responsible for investor relations and the day-to-day communication with our limited partners (LPs). Before joining 3TS almost six years ago, I have been an LP for more than 10 years managing the private equity program of a ba[...]
3TS Newsletter February 2021
Dear friends, we are beyond excited to share some major EXIT NEWS with you in this newsletter issue: It has just been publicly announced that Catalyst Romania has sold its stake in mobile games developer Green Horse Games to Tencent and generated spectacular returns. You can find more information and a link to the press releas[...]
3TS Newsletter January 2021
Dear friends, While being in full speed in the new year already, we would still like to wish you a successful 2021. It goes without saying that the most important wish this year is for everyone’s good health and we have high hopes that 2021 will be a good year when it comes to business too. With a new fund raised, several companies ap[...]