Sweav launches first Private Equity community in the Netherlands

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In addition to bringing them together to do deals, the objective is to make it easier for them to share information and experiences, especially when it comes to value creation.

For operational partners who concentrate on optimising businesses and guaranteeing the effective completion of transactions, the community offers insightful information. Since it's still difficult to structure this position sustainably, more and more PE companies are focussing on these operational issues.

Operating partners usually have less opportunity to interact with their peers at other PE firms because of their internally focused positions, which restricts the amount of expertise that can be shared.

Sweav's platform seeks to remove these obstacles and facilitate this communication.

The fact that companies like Parcom, Egeria, Torqx, and Mentha have already joined the community shows how much demand there is for a premium platform.

In the past two years, we’ve built a thriving community of top strategy and M&A freelancers in the Netherlands, now consisting of over 250 professionals, and this number is rapidly growing. Through our app, we connect these freelancers with ambitious corporates, PE, and mid-market companies," says Joeri Schouten, co-founder and CEO of Sweav.

Given our close collaboration with many private equity firms, we recognised the need for a space where the top players in Dutch PE can meet in an informal setting, without being bombarded by traditional advisors or lawyers. Launching this private equity community felt like a natural next step for Sweav as a connector. Our ultimate goal is to build dynamic, exclusive communities of high-profile clients, PE firms, and freelancers, and link them together through Sweav. We’re more than just a dull, transactional platform.

Sweav will provide operational teams with knowledge-sharing sessions all year round.

A community area within the Sweav app will be introduced by Sweav in the first half of 2025. To maintain exclusivity, this area will be invite-only. Potential clients are currently connected to the strategy and M&A freelancers through the app.

About Sweav

Sweav is a new model for strategy and M&A support. Professionals from the most elite firms are jumping off the traditional career ladder and join our freelance community. Our human-first, tech-powered model finally makes these A-level professionals accessible to work with.