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Industrial Ventures

Some of the best technology sits in the wrong place.
Often it needs a company of its own.

Inside many manufacturing companies sits a technology, a patent or a product line that would grow faster on its own. We help turn it into a company, connect it to production and customers in Asia — and put our own money behind it.

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Where a venture starts

Two ways in. Both need the same three things.

Either way, it needs a company of its own, a way to build at scale, and a market large enough to grow into.

A part of your company.
A technology, patent or product line that does not fit your core business — or that is worth more on its own than inside your company.
A young company with industrial technology.
The product works. Now it needs production at scale and customers beyond Europe.

How it works

From a technology to a company — and on to the right partner.

From a technology to a company, and on to a strategic partner A technology leaves the company where it was made and becomes a company of its own. Two lines connect it to Asia: production and sourcing, and customers. Both lead to a strategic partner — a customer, a co-owner or a buyer. From there the route continues into Echo Nova's M&A advisory. Inside your company A company of its own Production and sourcing in Asia Customers in Asia A strategic partner customer · co-owner · buyer M&A advisory 1 · Separate 2 · Build 3 · Partner From a technology to a company, and on to a strategic partner A technology leaves the company where it was made and becomes a company of its own. Two lines connect it to Asia: production and sourcing, and customers. Both lead to a strategic partner — a customer, a co-owner or a buyer. From there the route continues into Echo Nova's M&A advisory. Inside your company A company of its own Production and sourcing in Asia Customers in Asia A strategic partner customer · co-owner · buyer M&A advisory

  1. 01

    Separate it cleanly

    What goes with the new company — people, patents, customers, contracts — and what stays with you. Then the terms on which the two keep working together: supply, licences, shared services. Your lawyer and tax adviser stay at the centre.

    Your decision

    What goes, what stays, and who leads it.

  2. 02

    Build it where it can scale

    Production, sourcing and first customers in Asia. Daniel Chua has set up a new manufacturing operation there in under four months.

    Your decision

    Where to build, and with whom.

  3. 03

    Find the partner that takes it further

    A strategic partner in Europe or Asia — as a customer, a manufacturing partner, a co-owner or, in time, a buyer.

    Your decision

    Who comes in, and on what terms.

What we bring

We have done this from the inside.

Someone who has lived through it.
LEDVANCE began as the lamps business of OSRAM. Tim Chen worked on its acquisition, chaired its board and ran it as a company of its own.
Production in Asia, fast.
Daniel Chua built OSRAM’s and LEDVANCE’s global sourcing unit and works from Singapore and Shenzhen.
Customers and strategic partners in Asia.
The Asian groups that buy European companies are often looking for exactly this: a technology, a product, a way into a market.
Our own money.
Small amounts, early — alongside the work, not instead of it.

A partner leads from the first conversation — usually Tim Chen — and Daniel Chua builds the Asian side.

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What we look for

Things that are built, not only coded.

Manufacturing and hardware.
Electrification, machinery, materials — with particular depth in lighting.
A reason to go to Asia.
Lower production costs, new customers, or both.
Someone ready to give it its own life.
An owner willing to let it go, or a founder ready to scale.

Early stage, small amounts. If you need a large financing round, we are not the right partner — and we’ll tell you who is.

To be clear

Our own money. Nobody else’s.

We are advisers. We invest only our own money, in small amounts. We do not run a fund, manage money for others or give investment advice.

Tell us about the technology.

Where it sits today, what it needs, and what you want for it. A first conversation is confidential, without obligation — and with a partner, not a junior.

Arrange a confidential conversation

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