We buy profitable, founder led companies and hold them for good. You get liquidity, and your company keeps its name, its people and its way of working, in the same transaction. No fund, no clock, no exit to engineer, because we are not building toward a sale. We are building toward keeping it.
We buy profitable, founder led businesses and hold them with no sell date. The owner gets liquidity and the company gets continuity, in the same transaction. Teams keep their name, their people and their way of working. We add capital, governance and a network, then we stay out of the way.
We start companies from our own convictions. A repeatable thesis, an operator who will run it, and funding from our balance sheet. We hold what we build the way we hold everything else, for the long term.
For founders, boards and families facing a decision that shapes the next decade, we advise on capital structure, transactions and succession. We have sat in your chair, so we give you the counsel we would want ourselves.
Tingis was founded by people who have built, scaled, sold and run companies. Our partners and operating bench have held the founder’s chair across software, services, industry and consumer.
We commit our own capital first, alongside a small circle of families and institutions who invest the way we do: patiently, and with no expectation of a return date. Nothing here is owed back on a schedule, so nothing here is engineered for an exit. We hold what we buy, and to date we have never sold a company we bought.
Everyone at the table has founded or run a company. We help where we genuinely add value and stay out of the way where we do not.
We invest from our own balance sheet. No fund, no limited partners, and no clock counting down behind every decision.
One partner owns your deal from first call to close, with no rotating analysts and no handoffs. A written offer inside two weeks, and a signed deal inside nine. When the fit is right, we do not let it drift.
We back two things. Pure software companies, and the unglamorous physical businesses, in distribution, maintenance and specialty services, where better software has become the difference between winning and losing.
Brand, team, customers and culture are preserved. The work of a generation is not something we rearrange to suit a model.
From Abu Dhabi, London and Paris, operators, customers and capital across the Gulf, Europe and North America are one introduction away.
If any of that is what you are looking for, we are the wrong buyer, and we will tell you so early.
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
We look for one specific kind of business. Quiet, durable, profitable, and built on a real reason to exist.
We reply to every founder we hear from within two business days. The first conversation runs sixty minutes and is entirely off the record.