About Armada
Armada is a Zurich-based entrepreneurial driven investment firm owned by its founder Daniel S. Aegerter. Our focus is on exciting growth companies and visionary entrepreneurs who drive innovation and progress. Founded in 2000, we are pursuing the most promising companies and investments in private equity, public market securities and real estate. For the past 20 years we have invested in many great companies and have been fortunate to back some great ideas.
Daniel S. Aegerter
Daniel Aegerter is Chairman and founder of Armada. He is a serial entrepreneur and long-term investor. Daniel established Armada as his family office at the age of 31 after the successful merger of his founded B2B software company Tradex Technologies to Ariba for $5.6 billion dollars in 2000. It was one of the largest software acquisitions at the time.In 2012 Ariba was acquired by German software maker SAP.
Daniel’s business experience as investor and entrepreneur, gives him unique insights in business formation and capital markets. Over the last decade at Armada, Daniel worked with many entrepreneurs to help them reach their goals and execute their business plans.
«As a founder you need capital to build your company. But, even more important, you need an experienced, straightforward capital partner to help navigate through choppy waters and shifting winds.»
For his investments, Daniel enjoys leveraging his extensive, global personal network to connect people, ideas and capital.
- As a philanthropist, he is committed to power modern civilization without destroying.
- He co-founded Energy for Humanity, a key global advocate for solving environmental challenges and enabling universal access to modern energy services.
- Daniel is a member of numerous well-respected international networks including the World Economic Forum since 2002.
- He is a benefactor of START the Europe’s leading student initiative at the interface between technology and entrepreneurship (HSG)
Investments
INVESTMENT STYLE
Since 2000, Armada has partnered at every stage of growth with companies and management teams to aggregate significant value. Our focus is in venture capital, public equity and real estate. We are active investors and we partner only with very selected management teams. If we invest, we want to work with our partners to build a meaningful company and great businesses. We invest in entrepreneurs and great business ideas and if we take an equity stake, we expect the capital to be used for the expansion of the business. We are seeking companies with a unique insight focused on a market poised for growth. Companies that work with us are afforded numerous value-added benefits, including access to a wide range of knowledge, experience and networks.
Venture Capital
At Armada we invest and partner with entrepreneurs and companies that change the way we do things today and push the edge of what’s possible. We focus on selected venture capital investments where we identify unique opportunities for growth. We are looking for entrepreneurs who have both a strong vision and proven execution skills. Our investment can include every stage of growth.
Amaro
AMARO is Brazil's largest pure-play online fashion brand. Based in São Paulo, the company leverages vertical integration to launch bi-weekly collections with the latest trends at disruptive prices.
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Arago
Arago is a leading artificial intelligence company that helps businesses automate their IT processes through intelligent automation.
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Factory
The Factory is a Berlin centric physical and digital platform where startups and corporations come together to learn from each other. Factory provides multi-year memberships for corporations to join the Factory community and to propel the digitalization of their businesses.
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Flytrex
Flytrex develops drone delivery systems that simplify deliveries & enhance efficiency by shortening delivery times & lowering overall costs.
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GetHeal
Heal is an “Uber-like” app-based service that sends doctors to people's home or office via its app in under an hour. Heal is on-demand or on schedule primary care.
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N26
One of our unicorn portfolio companies which currently counts 3 m customers and holding a bank license. Europe's First bank account completely on a smartphone which provides modern mobile & real-time online banking. A N26 customer is able to withdraw and pay with a MasterCard or Maestro-Card worldwide free of charge. Additionally, the user profits from smart statistics which show how one spend money and help to plan better.
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Nutmeg
Nutmeg builds and manages investment portfolios for people who don’t have the time, expertise or inclination to do it themselves. It’s safe, online, low-cost and very easy to use.
They recently raised £45 m by Goldman Sachs.
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Is Austria’s largest and oldest Distributor of Apple Inc. Products. Target’s customer base consists of large electronics retailers and specialized Apple resellers.
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Vivino
With a community of millions of wine drinkers Vivino is the world’s largest Wine App. By taking a photo of any wine label or scanning a wine list the user will instantly learn these wine’s ratings, reviews, and average prices. It also tracks and organizes the user’s own taste portfolio.
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xbAV
xbAV is the leading provider of digital solutions for managing corporate retirement solutions in Germany to automate the processes between employees, insurance companies, employers and insurance brokers.
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Selected EXITS
Alegra Capital AG
Alegra Capital is an Asset Management firm specializing in Asset Backed Securities.
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Gutburg Immobilien
Gutburg Immobilien sold to Grand City July 2015.
Public Equity
We have extensive experience and insight into businesses and capital markets. Based on this we form our own view on the economic development and its impact on the markets. Our public investments focuses on selected themes to identify, develop and manage promising opportunities. Armada is also co-founder and anchor shareholder of Acoro Asset Management AG.
Acoro Asset Management
Acoro Asset Management Ltd. is an asset management company running a fundamental bottom-up long/short equity fund.
REAL ESTATE
We believe in the value of good real estate investments. As an entrepreneurial investor we aim for market projects that have unique characteristics regarding structure, potential and return. Together with our partners and co-investors, we realize attractive real estate projects at selected locations offering value creation opportunities and great returns. Armada is also anchor shareholder of Lakeward Management AG.
Lakeward
Lakeward is a specialized real estate investment firm focused on acquiring and managing properties on behalf of private and institutional investors. The investment focus is on German real estate.
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Team
Daniel S. Aegerter, Founder and Chairman
Silvano Cominelli, Chief Investment Advisor
Hampus Thorson, Investment Director PE & VC
Martin Rechsteiner, Chief Financial Officer
Robert Leitz, Investment Director
Oliver Liechti, Investment Controller
Shirin Wani, Office Manager
Svenja Allgaeuer, Personal Assistant
Contact
ARMADA Investment
Seestrasse 39
CH-8700 Küsnacht / Zürich
Switzerland