Buyout PE
Explorer Investments
Explorer Investments acquires controlling stakes in established, profitable businesses, from Lisboa, Portugal. It states a focus on software & internet, energy & utilities, media & communications and real estate.
Stated investment criteria
What Explorer Investments says it buys
Read from Explorer Investments’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.
| People listed on its team page | 131 |
A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Explorer Investments states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Explorer Investments to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.
Portfolio
Disclosed holdings
Companies Explorer Investments lists on its own website. 1 carry a stated investment year.
| Company | Invested | Years held | Recorded transaction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biogerm | 2024 | 2 | — |
| ASBW | — | — | — |
| Adla | — | — | — |
| Alfasom | — | — | — |
| BBG | — | — | — |
| BERD | — | — | — |
| BHOUT | — | — | — |
| Bial | — | — | — |
| Brandcare | — | — | — |
| Caixiave | — | — | — |
| Coeos Digital, Lda | — | — | — |
| Wagtails | — | — | — |
| apcr | — | — | — |
| bcsd | — | — | — |
| cmvm | — | — | — |
| invest_europe | — | — | — |
Compiled from Explorer Investments’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.
Recorded transactions
Buying and selling
Deals in which Explorer Investments is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2016.
| Company | Side | Counterparty | Year | Consideration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nutricafes | Sold | Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group S.p.A. | 2016 | $84m |
Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.
Valuation context
Transaction values in Software & Internet
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