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About Us

With €3.4Bn+ in transaction volume from over 380 successfully closed deals, our team brings a century of combined transactional experience, with a strong focus on tech, M&A, private equity, and growth capital. Leveraging our deep regional market knowledge, extensive network, data-driven approach, and industry insights (with a fresh perspective on market trends), we provide the strategic edge to elevate our clients’ success.

We understand what it takes to build a business - we’ve been there too. And we know how invaluable it is to have an experienced partner who not only recognizes the challenges and pitfalls but also knows how to navigate and overcome them. Our brand, Absolvo, reflects our commitment to helping you (ab)solve challenges and secure the best possible deals.

Why Absolvo Stands Out

Sell-side
M&A Advisory

Selling your company, especially one built on a unique know-how or technology, is a significant decision. We have the right processes, extensive deal experience and deep market knowledge and data set to support you on this road. And we may have just spoken to your ideal investor, giving you a better chance at securing a great deal and maximizing your outcome.

Buy-side
M&A Advisory

We help you achieve your growth objectives in the Central Eastern European region by identifying and engaging with the right acquisition targets. Leveraging our in-depth market knowledge, we guide you through the challenges of deal structuring and execution.

Growth Capital
Advisory

When it's time to scale, we help you secure the right financing – whether from venture capital, private equity firms or other investors. With strong connections to key players, we understand their needs, allowing us to tailor our approach and build a solid growth strategy that positions you for long-term success.

Sell-side
M&A Advisory

There are various reasons to consider selling your high-growth scaleup or startup. We help you assess the key indicators that will influence your outcome and evaluate whether it's the right time to move forward.

Buy-side
M&A advisory

We help you achieve your growth objectives in the Central Eastern European region by identifying and engaging with the right acquisition targets, ensuring a successful, value-enhancing transaction.

Growth Financing
Advisory

When you feel it’s time to scale, we help you secure the right financing from venture capital, private equity, or multi-stage funding (Series A, B, C). By focusing on your unique needs, we ensure that your growth strategy is built on a strong foundation, positioning you for sustainable success.

a Snapshot of our deal history

Successful deals speak volumes.

From listed companies and family businesses to Private Equity firms, multinationals, SMEs, and PE-backed scaleups – we’ve worked with them all. We bring this extended experience and deep insights to every deal we work on.

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Our reach

Absolvo combines global reach with
deep regional ties.

When it comes to finding the perfect match for your transaction, geography is no barrier. But if you want to find the hidden gems or close the best deal possible, you need to have a local guide. Whether you’re looking to connect with a few pre-selected or a wide pool of targets or investors, our embeddedness into the CEE ecosystem opens doors, extending your reach through personal introductions. 

At Absolvo, we leverage a large network of investors, built through years of collaboration. We partner with 200+ experts from 65+ offices worldwide. By continuously pitching them opportunities, negotiating deals, discussing trends, sharing exclusive insights, aligning on priorities, and maintaining active dialogue, we deeply understand investor preferences and can master effective deal strategies.  

Beyond the negotiation table, we are also regular attendees and invited speakers of CEE’s largest tech and investment-related events, trusted mentors for startup and scaleup founders, market specialists providing insights for members of the ecosystems, thus creating relationships that that we can leverage to support the ambitions of our clients.

We leverage
65+
Partner offices worldwide
200+
Experts
28 600+
Actively investing contacts
160+
Investor interactions/month 
Looking to acquire or invest into a tech company in CEE or Europe?
Absolvo is at your service.
Exploring private equity deals in CEE?
We’re on it. Every single day.
Planning an exit to a strategic or financial investor?
We might have just talked to the right one yesterday.

Our strategic partners

Through the the past decades we have made partnerships with other advisory firms, teamed up for joint projects, involved them into transactions or reached out for special industry expertise.

Proventis Partners

Proventis Partners is one of the leading independent M&A advisory firms in the German-speaking region and looks back on more than 20 years of M&A experience and over 430 completed transactions. Proventis Partners is part of Mergers Alliance, leveraging 280+ M&A specialists across the globe.

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CDI Global

CDI Global, established in 1973, has 46 offices in 30+ countries and is a leader in middle-market, cross-border transactions with over 3,000 transactions to its credit. They successfully partner and collaborate with clients around the world, in multiple vertical sectors.   

cdiglobal.com

atares

atares has advised on over 200 technology-focused transactions in more than 20 years. It has long-standing personal contacts with strategists, private equity investors and M&A advisors in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

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Our strengths are best defined by our clients and partners.

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Nailing better deal outcomes

"They really created the maximum deal for us - supported us very intensively from the beginning beyond creating the materials. Absolvo helped us understand what is possible and what is not, where to be satisfied and where to give investors a little bit more room."

Stefan Fritsch
Founder @ 11 Entertainment

We have seen it all - and more

"M&A is a quite specialized field where gaining practical and up-to-date knowledge is very challenging. Having managed many of these and seen various cases helps them understand how to approach, negotiate, and handle different situations to maximize outcomes."

Zsolt Kocsmárszky
Founder & CEO @ PingPong UX

Stories worth listening to

"I can recommend Absolvo as they lay emphasis on deal balance: namely that the two different parties are interdependent and must work together in the future. Therefore we pay particular attention if Absolvo suggests us an investment opportunity."

Andras Molnar
CEO @ Portfolion

Data-driven approach

"After understanding our business goals and needs, Absolvo provided us with insights unlike any we had received before. Their experts helped us better understand the different markets, gathered key competitive intelligence for us and thus shaped our overall international growth strategy."

Zoltan Gyorko
ex-CEO @ BalaBit

Negotiation skills day&night

"We spent countless hours together with the Absolvo team - sometimes at 2-3 AM negotiating deal terms. Those late-night discussions often bring up situations that look quite different in the light of day. Even then they remained calm, composed, and diplomatic, which was of high value for us."

Peter Csillag
CEO & Co-Founder @ Starschema

Stories beyond Excel tables

"Absolvo played a key role in helping us properly present our business goals and the story of our company for investors. Their deep expertise in successful fundraising proved invaluable, enabling us to connect the dots in a highly complex deal."

Zsolt Somogyi
Founder & CEO @ Parkl

Nailing better deal outcomes

"They really created the maximum deal for us - supported us very intensively from the beginning beyond creating the materials. Absolvo helped us understand what is possible and what is not, where to be satisfied and where to give investors a little bit more room."

Stefan Fritsch
Founder @ 11 Entertainment

We have seen it all - and more

"M&A is a quite specialized field where gaining practical and up-to-date knowledge is very challenging. Having managed many of these and seen various cases helps them understand how to approach, negotiate, and handle different situations to maximize outcomes."

Zsolt Kocsmárszky
Founder & CEO @ PingPong UX

Stories worth listening to

"I can recommend Absolvo as they lay emphasis on deal balance: namely that the two different parties are interdependent and must work together in the future. Therefore we pay particular attention if Absolvo suggests us an investment opportunity."

Andras Molnar
CEO @ Portfolion

Data-driven approach

"After understanding our business goals and needs, Absolvo provided us with insights unlike any we had received before. Their experts helped us better understand the different markets, gathered key competitive intelligence for us and thus shaped our overall international growth strategy."

Zoltan Gyorko
ex-CEO @ BalaBit

Negotiation skills day&night

"We spent countless hours together with the Absolvo team - sometimes at 2-3 AM negotiating deal terms. Those late-night discussions often bring up situations that look quite different in the light of day. Even then they remained calm, composed, and diplomatic, which was of high value for us."

Peter Csillag
CEO & Co-Founder @ Starschema

Stories beyond Excel tables

"Absolvo played a key role in helping us properly present our business goals and the story of our company for investors. Their deep expertise in successful fundraising proved invaluable, enabling us to connect the dots in a highly complex deal."

Zsolt Somogyi
Founder & CEO @ Parkl

Why Absolvo Stands Out?

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We talk to investors every day.

We engage with them at least 40-times per week to be exact. This involves pitching, negotiating deals, discussing trends, providing regular updates, actively listening, and addressing their key priorities.

Additionally, they also share with us some key insights into their motivations, strategic way of thinking or other ‘behind the scenes’ information

Investors are not just inboxes for outreach. We are sitting at the (right) tables either beside or across. Therefore, we understand investor preferences and the right strategy to successfully close deals with them.

Negotiation tables are just the beginning. We are often invited by investors to speak at their events, attend as VIP guests, and facilitate workshops. In return, they seek our market insights and look forward to attending the events we organize.

Your success is our business.

We understand the path that led to us, because we’ve been there too, building a business ourselves, some of us several times.

We’re in a people-driven business, built on personal trust. Therefore we always dedicate targeted attention and senior overlook to each and every deal.

The importance of being in the right hands is crucial, knowing that the pitfalls and challenges you face are real but can be overcome.

Absolvo stands for our drive to help you (ab)solve challenges and make the best deals possible.

We've got a century of combined experience, plus a fresh take on recent trends.

Our colleagues have worked for and also within industries for extended periods as C-level executives and/or entrepreneurs, thus gaining real industry expertise.

We have colleagues who bring in the investor perspective (having worked at private equity firms or strategic investors) and best practices of Big4 companies.

We also provide strategic advisory know-how, including hands-on sales and marketing knowledge, gained through experience on the execution side.

The numbers prove our capabilities: we’ve collaboratively done more than €3.4 Bn in transaction volume and 380+transactions.

Unlike many advisory firms, we always dedicate the senior attention that your deal deserves from start to finish and we never use one-size-fits-all models.

We love and live Tech.

Absolvo has completed the most tech deals in the CEE region, leveraging our team members' years of experience in tech companies and our constant engagement with sector-focused investors.

This unique combination equips us with deep insights into how your tech business operates, the challenges it faces, and the latest valuation trends.

When it comes to our projects and deal-making, we also apply a different approach than traditional invetment bankers: we dig into data, trends, and benchmarks to shape deal strategies, crafting business plans and materials that are built on solid insights.

The world is changing fast and Absolvo adapts technology and different methods to align with your needs today and prepare for future opportunities.