TMC is a leading Dutch provider of technical and R&D expertise to global high-tech customers and operates through a consulting model. TMC primarily focuses on the higher-end of the market.

Objective

Partnership with management and founders to fuel TMC’s growth trajectory by leveraging TMC’s unique ‘Employeneurship’ model to expand internationally through the opening of new locations globally. The ‘Employeneurship’ model enables TMC to attract, retain, motivate and develop best-in-class engineering talent that are highly praised by TMC’s clients. Acquisitions are selectively pursued to strengthen TMC’s market positions in attractive engineering niches and industries, or enter new geographies.

ENTRY
Jun 2019
TREND

Increasing Global Digitization; Increasing Market Cycle Risk

COUNTRY

Netherlands

SECTOR

Services

The Team

Pieter Lambrecht - Apheon Team
Pieter Lambrecht
Partner | 
Belgium, Netherlands
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Bas Kea - Apheon Team
Bas Kea
Managing Director | 
Netherlands
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Louis Gabriels - Apheon Team
Louis Gabriels
Principal | 
Belgium
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Herbert Vanden Eynde - Apheon Team
Herbert Vanden Eynde
Director | 
Belgium
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Our manifesto: contributing to the development of sustainable finance

Sustainability generates long-term and higher value

Apheon’s ambition is to contribute to the development of sustainable finance by placing sustainability at the core of its strategy and demonstrating by example that it delivers higher and better value for portfolio companies and investors.
 
We are convinced that businesses that respect the planet, that look after their employees and that support their communities will in turn attract the best talent, differentiate themselves from their competition and ultimately emerge as the strongest in the future.

A holistic and collective approach

To succeed with this strategy, Apheon believes a holistic and collective approach is fundamental.

Holistic: it is essential that all aspects of ESG are equally and continuously supported. This is why we are active at every stage of the investment cycle by applying proprietarily developed methodologies and initiatives which are built on 5 priorities covering the broad ESG spectrum:

  • Sustainable revenues (strategy): increasing, when applicable, the share of revenues which directly benefit the environment and/or society

  • Carbon (environment): reducing emissions

  • Talent (social): creating a positive working environment which will attract, develop and retain the best talent

  • Youth, diversity and inclusion (societal): fostering a more inclusive society

  • Transparency (governance): reporting on metrics transparently, and being transparent on potential obstacles
Collective: we believe that it is only through collective action that we can create significant impact. This is why it is our intention to pull together Apheon’s entire ecosystem to undertake our ESG initiatives. This includes mobilizing our employees, portfolio companies, investors, external experts, charitable organizations, public institutions and peers. At this time of global transition, we believe that sustainable finance plays a key role in advancing towards a sustainable planet and society. Financial players, in particular private equity firms such as Apheon, are in a position to drive forward action by leveraging their business model of transforming companies. Apheon is keen to play such role and to move forward every day with humility but also conviction.