Our Approach

We invest equity capital in small- and medium-sized specialty coffee businesses with good profitability and strong market positions in growing markets. We have a decentralised governance structure where we empower strong management teams and provide help and guidance when needed.

Alignment of interest

We aim to ensure that management teams act with their company’s best in mind, therefore we align owner’s long-term incentives with management. We encourage investment by management teams and key individuals in their respective companies and enable individuals to invest alongside us. We pride ourselves with transparency and alignment of interests between investors and portfolio companies and believe this approach makes people work toward a common goal and focus on developing the company.

How we work

We look for companies that can evidence good financial performance and strong positions in their respective markets. The continued value creation will be achieved jointly with the management team without interference from us at Madhatter. We allow our respective companies to continue to operate independently with us as a sounding board with a perpetual ownership mindset.

Team

Madhatter is a team with various backgrounds in investing, consulting, digitization and coffee that is working together with investors, management teams and between ourselves towards common goals. We aim to build a group of independent and strong businesses that are managed in a decentralised manner with selective assistance from the central team.

Execution speed

We work with the management teams of the respective companies in which we invest and pride ourselves in being an agile owner that enables speed of execution through efficient governance. We encourage and favour management teams that have a proactive mentality and sense of urgency.

Decentralisation

Our model is predicated on working with independently managed companies where the leaders maintain autonomy. Therefore we focus on ensuring that the portfolio company leadership provides opportunities for ambitious and driven individuals who shall thrive in Madhatter’s portfolio companies.