An acquisition and operating company

We buy and build Iberian companies for the long term.

Caldrew is an investor based in Lisbon, led by operators. We acquire established businesses and stay to build them.

Our approach

Operators, not financiers

Our partners have run, turned around and sold companies themselves. We make decisions the way owners do, because we have been owners.

Long horizons

We buy to build. Good companies become leaders over years, and we hold for as long as that work takes.

Growth by consolidation

We acquire platform companies in fragmented sectors and build around them, acquisition by acquisition. Scale is earned through discipline, not financial engineering.

Who we partner with

Founders and families at a turning point.

Succession without an obvious successor. A transition that deserves a careful owner. A partner for the next phase of growth. These are the conversations we are built for.

If that sounds like your situation, we should talk.

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