About Alea Capital Partners
At Alea Capital Partners, we are passionate about exploring untapped investment opportunities and making the best out of business.
We are a multi-strategy investment firm, basing our investment thesis on key structural trends/gaps, led by an investor’s rigor and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Our
Approach
Our support to companies goes beyond capital, as we provide consultancy and management, often rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands in the dirt.
Only a founder
knows the feeling.
We understand what it is like to lead a business as well as what it takes to build a business from scratch. We know a CEO’s pain points because we have shared the same ones ourselves.
That is why we are solution-oriented, looking to uncover the opportunity in each individual situation by assisting and going deep into the numbers and, most importantly, the people behind the business.
We help companies lift their gaze to a more enticing horizon.
In our Private Equity play, we tend to approach companies from a proactive perspective – we seek proven resilient businesses in the industrial sector that meet our investment criteria, especially those with great potential to expand further across borders.
From the get go, we aim to understand the story behind each business, getting to know all the founders and their motivations. We come prepared to our conversations — we study the sector, the product, the existing processes and people, examining all in the context of macro trends and risks. That’s how we straightforwardly discuss the hot topics and make the most of everyone’s time.
We implement institutional-grade management, operational and sales processes. Our approach to companies is always both strategic and human.
We make available
a bank of skills for fostering growth.
We know that artificial intelligence is enhancing business growth in ways we can’t yet fully predict. As optimists, we are excited about the future and all that lies ahead. In our Venture Capital strategy, our approach is to nurture those who share this enthusiasm, and we dedicate our best resources to growth: our people.
“Our aim is to help the companies in the areas where they may need assistance. Whether that’s hiring, legal, strategic, finding the right expertise, bringing the right skill sets or team, helping with the organization structure… Yeah, everything else.” – John Lambe, Fund Advisor, Venture&Innovation strategy.
We are building strong long-term businesses.
When implementing our Alternative Living strategy, our approach features comprehensive, in-house control and expertise, which makes it the most “entrepreneurial” strategy of ours. Given that, in this case, the know-how is with Alea, we manage the business from end- to end, meaning that our teams are fully involved in each and every process. This includes financial analysis, planning, and investment, development and asset management. Investment and execution all under one roof.
Given this dual role, we have dedicated a significant amount of time to build and maintain a wealth of deep relationships with key stakeholders such as local municipalities, lenders and contractors, to name a few , as they play a key role in executing our business plan.
Our deep involvement forms the backbone of this strategy, and we are committed to delivering long-term value for all stakeholders.
Once Upon
a Time
The creation of Alea was driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, first to develop what the partners believed would be a successful business.
When Roey Shoef came across a city that couldn’t meet the demand for student accommodation, he identified a structural gap, which would later become the basis for an investment strategy.
“We are not afraid of going into a site, a company, and go deep and help them to do the smallest tasks.”
Rui Escaleira, Founding Partner
In search of complementary skills and national and international networks, Roey Shoef teamed up with Pedro Antunes where they implemented the first successful strategy.
Aspiring to foster collective growth and synergy they decided to transform their capabilities, in creating strategies, raising capital, implementing deals and operating by creating an institutional vehicle capable of attracting broader and more supported investments.
With Rui Escaleira joining the team, they founded Alea Capital Partners, an institutional entity focused on business strategies that address structural gaps and long term trends in the market. With two more strategies in place, the company has been proving to be a powerful engine for raising capital, investing and generating substantial returns for its investors.
Alea Capital Partners sets out to establish itself as an entity with consistent and lasting activity, creating solid investment bridges to undetected opportunities, starting in Portugal.
2018
First strategy, new market identified
2021
Initial operation and proof of strategy
2022
Beginning of institutionalization and diversification of strategy
2023
Diversification strategy and 1st divestment in initial strategy
2024
Expansion 1st strategy and launch other strategies