Capital
The firm invests directly. There is no committee to satisfy, no fund mandate to respect and no outside investor to convince. When the answer is yes, the decision is already final.
Investment firm
We back entrepreneurs turning good ideas into great companies
A principal investment firm backing companies around the world, with the operating capability to take them to market and the network to take them further.
Twenty-four
Ventures built and backed
Global
Investment footprint
Since 2017
Building operating companies
Principal investment
Investment approach
The Firm
Capital and the ability to deploy it, arriving together.
Van Marcke Scott & Muñoz Investments was built on a plain observation. Money and the ability to use it almost never arrive at the same time. Companies are funded by people who cannot help them execute, and advised by people with nothing riding on the result.
The firm takes a position, builds the commercial engine alongside management and stays until the business can carry itself. It holds for as long as the company requires rather than as long as a fund life permits.
Investments
A diversified portfolio, across sectors and across two continents.
- Advisory
- Applied AI
- Consumer
- Cybersecurity
- Digital services
- Education
- Healthcare services
- Healthcare technology
- Hospitality
- Mobility
- Real estate
- Technology
- Telecoms
- Travel
The firm's individual holdings are private. What is public is the sectors it invests in and the criteria it invests against.
How we invest
Three commitments, made at the same time.
Most companies are offered these one at a time. Money without help, or help without exposure. Separating them is precisely what makes both of them fail.
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Operating platform
The investment does not end at the transfer. The firm builds the commercial engine alongside management: positioning, brand, digital infrastructure, demand generation and route to market.
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Access
Decades of relationships with operators, buyers, co-investors and advisors across two continents, opened deliberately when they move a company forward.
Leadership
Operators who invest, rather than investors who observe.
Lieven Van Marcke
Founding Partner
Strategy and international business. Management consulting, investment banking, and building internet companies from formation.
Stuart Scott
Founding Partner
Leadership and chief executive advisory. Large scale transformation, modernising operations and top line growth.
Manuel Muñoz del Río
Founding Partner
Demand and distribution. Search and artificial intelligence visibility, performance marketing, and digital infrastructure.
Whatever the firm recommends, the firm carries the consequence of it.
Our position
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