Method
What is a Company Building Investor
A Company Building Investor partners with founders from the earliest stages to turn an opportunity into a company, bringing capital, team, strategy and operating expertise. It stays engaged through the hard chapters, helping founders build towards an enduring business.
Our Method
Our Company Building Investor method runs through every company we back, whether we lead a round or co-build from early stages.
Select: we commit where evidence and conviction meet
Signal
Data proving the business is succeeding: a real customer problem solved, with customers coming back.
Conviction
Judgement on founders' capability, the quality of the product and technology, and the company's ability to win in a competitive market.
Build: we work closely with founding teams
Capital
Money deployed effectively and an equity story that attracts the right funding at the right pace.
People
A results-driven team built on proven capability, not familiarity; strengthened as the company grows and united by a strong culture.
Compound: we share what works across our portfolio
Judgement
Knowing which question matters most now, where the next growth trajectory is, and how to scale without breaking.
Amplification
Helping portfolio companies benefit from the fund's network and one another, so talent, customers and lessons compound across our portfolio.
How our method drives investor returns
Select
We meet ambitious founders early, before the market catches up. That lets us invest on conviction at attractive entry points, rather than taking a spray-and-pray approach or chasing expensive deals.
Build
Our involvement is deepest when the risk of failure is highest: deploying capital effectively, building and retaining a strong team, and helping founders make the decisions that matter most.
Compound
Staying close to our companies allows us to make better-informed follow-on decisions and deepens our portfolio intelligence across EMEA.
Proven over a decade
OneTarget, formerly Target Global, has invested in technology companies since 2013. We backed Berlin’s early wave of consumer internet businesses, including Delivery Hero and Auto1. We then expanded across EMEA, backing companies such as Perk, Rapyd, DocPlanner and Fresha.
We have always been active partners: present in the boardroom and working alongside founders well beyond it. We deepened this approach with businesses we helped build, including Essor (formerly Branded), one of the largest Amazon roll-ups; Finom, a digital bank for small businesses; and Palta, the group behind health apps including Flo and Simple.
Today, with over $3b in assets under management, we apply the same method whether we lead a funding round or co-build a company. We work with founders as one team towards one target: building enduring technology companies that are globally scaled, sustainable and valuable.
What we are not
Not a venture studio
We back founders — not hired teams — and stay selective by design.
Not a passive VC
We stay involved beyond the boardroom.
Not an accelerator
We don't run short-term programmes or optimise for demo days.
Not a network-only fund
We bring capital, people and a method for building — not just introductions.
Not capital influencers
We prefer quiet, deep work and long-term accountability.