Private equity
Investing is about more than just money
When we invest, we don’t just administer financial injections. Our approach to investing is much more hands-on. Experience has taught us that it is the best way of increasing the value of our investment. We invest in medium-sized companies, in interesting projects in early stages of development, as well as in companies in distress. The most important aspect is that we always actively manage our investments. We want to help them to fulfil their potential. We are interested not only in financial potential, we also evaluate and solve motivations of owners, managers and other key participants.
"My best investment was the capital I put into starting Natland."
We have extensive experience
If companies are to function well, it is never enough to inject them with cash. We inject them also with our experience and our expertise. We have a team of smart and enthusiastic people who have personally helped numerous companies to stand back on their own two feet again. Our other specialists concentrate on the further development of already established companies.
- 13 Active projects
- 50 Delivered projects
- 1496mil. CZK
equity - 150 mil. CZK net
profit
Growing our portfolio
We do not specialise into only one industrial sector. We seek to invest in projects which are creating an interesting product, working on an interesting idea, or have good potential. When you combine these qualities with a team who are as enthusiastic as we are, it creates something extraordinary. Investment for us is not just about financial planning and results. Investment means people, ideas, or products. Over our two decades on the market we have collected an abundant experience on both domestic and international projects. Our main emphasis remains on the European market.
Investment projects
The Příbram Heating Plant delivers heat (hot water and steam) for the town of Příbram south-west of Prague. Steam is used in numerous local plants.
In the summer of 2019, Energo Příbram took over the heating plant from the insolvency administrator and the distribution network from city ownership, ending almost 20 years uncertainty about the future. Natland financed the whole transaction and gained a 33% stake in the company.
CZK 100 million adaptation will take place before the start of the 2019/20 heating season. Most of the capacity will be converted from burning brown coal to renewable biofuel of wood chips, producing also 40 MW of electricity in an environmentally friendly way.
Technology hub investing in projects using machine learning, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.
MindForge is domiciled in Brno and develops projects with global ambition.
CleverAnalytics allows users to analyse business data over a map, offering a vital tool for decision-making. Previously cumbersome analyses are now only a mouse-click away. The solutions are user-friendly for all, from managers to data analysts.
Develops a web app for complete management of farms of any size. It offers cost-effective management, control of legislative compliance for farm subsidies, and other efficiency and productivity gains.
Specialists developing products in security, client data safekeeping and detection of anomalies.
Colpirio combines a unique Artifical Intelligence technology with data analysis about the behaviour, interests and needs of users. It gets the data on from websites and other online and offline partners, offering an incomparably better and more effective targeting of marketing campaigns in real time.
Analysis of Big Data, Machine Learning, predictive analysis and Artificial Intelligence development.
Digital agency concentrating on software development, online marketing and social networks.
EC Financial Services is one of the leading companies offering non-bank loans (branded as ExpressCash) and mortgaged loans.
EC Financial Services was one of the first companies to be licenced by the Czech National Bank to offer loans. This confirms the success of development and management of a company which Natland originally. As early as 2016, two years after the acquisition, it was already making after-tax profit of CZK 25 million. Subsequent years have further improved these results.
KLIKA-BP is one of the leaders on the Czech market for complex solutions of fire protection.
The company was founded in 1999 in Jihlava. It managed to survive the cooled market during the financial crisis years of 2008-2010 and in 2011 it bought several companies from the Tyco group, the then leader on the market.
One of the treasures that KLIKA-BP's solutions protect are the achives of the National Library in Prague's Clementinum historic building.
Over 2100 nozzles are installed on 33 thousand square meters at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
KLIKA-BP sprinklers are also installed in IKEA warehouse in Malacky, Slovakia, for example.
Bello owns and runs the photovoltaic power station at Mastířovice near Litoměřice, Czech Republic. Total installed capacity exceeds 4,9 MW.
One of the best golf courses on the outskirts of Prague.
Prague City Golf takes its inspiration from links courses in Scotland and Ireland. Its design is the result of cooperation between the experience British architect Jeremy Ford, the German golfing professional with Czech roots Alex Čejka, and the shaper Mick McShane, nicknamed "Leonardo da Vinci with a bulldozer".
Players will encounter spill offs, artificial terrain features, red sand areas (sandy wastes) as well as the classic links cours pot bunkers. Extensive training grounds are available, including one of the largest driving ranges in the country, a practice 19th hole and the largest putting green in the country.
Czech energy group managing solar parks. By the time Natland's exit from the project, Energy 21 had become one of the largest players in Central and Eastern Europe and a leading operator on the Czech photovoltaic market.
Natland investment group was one of the first investors in solar energy when it entered the Energy 21 project, owning a 50% share of the company. E21 then grew to become a leader in renewable energy production. The company ran 33 solar power stations at the time, with a total output of 62 MW. This represented about 3.3% of total installed output in the Czech Republic.
A year after partial exit in 2010 Natland decided a to sell also the remaining share to the Mid Europa Partners investment fund. This marked the end of Natland’s activities on the renewable energy market in the Czech Republic.
Investments totalled CZK 5 billion and they involved all important domestic banks and international bank groups.
Merger of two market leaders in IT equipment sales and distribution - Levi International (Czech market) and BGS Distribution (Slovak market).
Natland investment group initiated the merger between Levi International and BGS Distribution in 2006. The aim was to create a transnational corporation and in cooperation with majority owners to find a strategic partner.
Thus BGS Levi Group was created, distributing over 250 brands and around 20,000 different items of IT equipment. In addition, the group produced its own PCs successfully branded as LYNX.
Natland exited the project through a sale to strategic investor – eD’system.
Rapidly growing Czech consultancy group active on the market since 2001.
APOGEO has commercial clients among medium and large enterprises across the sectoral spectrum - in development, banking, healthcare, legal profession, manufacturing, education, media, IT and communications, etc. .
Fourth largest non-banking fund manager on the Czech market and second largest manager of funds for qualified investors
Company specialising in telecommunications systems. First international joint venture of the Vietnamese state telecommunications company VNPT.
The company offered cheap phone calls to Vietnam from the Czech Republic, using a system of prepaid calling cards.
VNPT Global Communication company was founded in 2008 as a joint venture of Natland investment group and the vietnamese telecom VNPT. Natland held a 50% stake in the project until executing successful exit.
Specialist in underground, transport and waterways civil engineering. Active on the Czech market since 1992.
The company delivers whole projects and/or fulfils partial subcontracts in housing development, transport infrastructure and in water management projects.
Natland investment groupd took over Prominecon Group in 2010 and immediately started its reconstruction: defined its primary business line, sold off auxilliary and non-core activities (such as development projects or facility management), acquired new teams (especially in railways infrastructure construction). The restructuring also involved changing the group's structure in order to focus on construction work.
Upon a successful completion of the restructuring, the PROMINECON CZ group was sold in a management buyout.
The company manages the Žluté lázně leisure park and organises exhibitions, trade fairs and other events in the centre of Prague.
In addition, the company also stages live public screenings of ice hockey word championship finals or Olympic Games on huge screens, and organises traditional Christmas and Easter markets at the two main squares in the centre of Prague.
Natland investment group as a minority shareholder executed a successful restructuring which concentrated on cost structure, project portfolio and fundamental changes to the team composition.
Upon completion of this four-year engagement Natland sold its minority holding to the majority shareholder.
Natland investment group held a minority share in this successful distributor of electricity from 2007.
The aim of the investment was to support an effective and growing company in further expansion on the Czech and Slovak markets. Having successfully jump-started the expansion, Natland sold its share to the majority shareholder in 2008. In 2014 the company merged with another electricity distributor E.ON Energie, a.s.
Plans for a new golf course were drawn by the parisian architect C. Noskowski, a foremost specialist course designer of the interwar era.
The 18-hole course was completed under his stewardship in 1933. Unfortunately, the Great Depression and the subsequent war stood in the way of fully completeing the project and building a clubhouse.
After 1948, golf was considered ideologically tainted. As a result, profesional quality of golf did not come to the spa region until the arrival of the Golf Resort Karlovy Vary company. Today it is one of the most prestigious golf courses in the Czech Republic.
Umbrella company for several firms involved in the multi-purpose stadium park Eden.
The park hosts also the most modern football stadium in the Czech republic. The most traditional Czech football team Slavia Prague plays its home games there.
Natland acquired an 80% majority stake in Eden Sport Investments in 2011. Restructuralisation concentrated on financial aspects of the company. When the restructuring plan was presented to the creditors, Natland sold its stake to Kingswater Holdings Limited.
CleverMaps is an incubator of projects which help users get a better sense of direction in their business. They develop cloud-based apps which visualise data over layers of maps, and provide other follow-up services and consulting. Current applications concentrate on infrastructure, property management, agriculture and location analysis.
Traditional basketball club founded in 1956 consistently ranks among the top teams in the Czech national league.
One of the team's most significant achievements was undoubtedly winning the National Championships in 1984. Since Natland' entry the team regularly occupied the first four ranks in the National Baskeball League.
Natland has participated in rescuing a traditional Czech basketball team from the town of Pardubice. It became the majority owner in 2007 with the aim to restructure the team into a well functioning sports business. Upon successful transformation (which involved a new design for both sporting and business strategies), Natland sold its stake in 2009 to minority shareholders.
Oldest and one of the most famous Czech football teams. Since its foundation in 1892 it has won the national title 17 times. Home games are played at the Eden stadium in Prague.
Natland bought a stake in the Company SK Slavia Prague Football Ltd. on 12th May 2011, pursuing 2 goals: to win back the licence to participate in the top national league in the following year, and to rescue one of the most popular Czech football teams from very serious financial and legal difficulties.
Natland managed to avert the threat of the club's dissolution and to stabilise the situation. Among other measures, the Group resolved disputes among former owners, financed the debt and started to restructure the club. As a result, the licence to participate in the top national football league could be retained.
Natland sold the rejuvenated football club in August 2011.
Natland held all trademarks to the renowned Prague Bistro "Jan Paukert" which was a favourite of the rich and famous (not just) in the interwar years.
In cooperation with the heirs of the founder Jan Paukert, Natland developed the brand into a franchisable form and run a pilot Bistro in the popular Prague neighbourhood of Karlín.
Production and Marketing sports agency Ad Base owns the renowned brand Golf Promo.
The brand holds an exclusive licence to host international tournaments of amateur golfers World Amateur Golfers Championship (WAGG) in the Czech Republic.