Backing the infrastructure and automation that power the real world.

Ostler Financial is a focused private investment firm, with a clear eye on technology and real-economy assets across Europe and Central America.

We invest where finance, technology and industry meet. From regulated financial platforms and digital infrastructure to advanced manufacturing and robotics, we look for businesses that can compound over time and matter in their markets.

Our platforms

Private equity

Our capital backs control and significant minority positions in companies with established revenues and room to grow.

The focus is in three areas: financial services & capital markets, technology & digital infrastructure and industrial & advanced manufacturing.

Alongside management, Ostler Financial helps to scale operations and strengthen governance, over many years.​

Structured capital

We use structured minority capital to back businesses that fit our themes but do not require or desire a full buyout. For founders and families, this can add flexible long-term capital without a change of control.

We focus on a small number of themes

Focus allows us to go deeper and stay present through cycles.​

Financial services & capital markets

We invest in:

  • Regulated platforms and specialist financial businesses that serve the real economy.
  • Capital markets infrastructure, asset and wealth platforms, payments and transaction services and niche credit strategies.
  • We look for strong regulatory footing and recurring revenues underpinned by clear risk frameworks.

Technology & digital infrastructure

Our portfolio separates core technology from the physical fabric that carries data.

Core technology (software, AI, SaaS)
Growth equity and late-stage venture in B2B software and applied AI, with a focus on financial services and industrial technology, especially data-led business models. We look for product in market and clear regulation, alongside partners who value a long-term capital base.

Digital infrastructure (data centres, fibre, cloud infrastructure)
Platforms that build and own essential digital infrastructure: data centres, fibre networks and related cloud or edge assets. Our capital typically supports platform build-outs and expansion, including selected control positions.

Industrial & advanced manufacturing

Capital is directed to industrial and manufacturing companies that build real assets and equipment, including automation and robotics as well as specialised components. Priority goes to revenue-generating businesses where additional capital can accelerate capacity, international expansion and product development.

Our focus leans toward:

  • Growth equity in revenue-generating companies.
  • Buy-and-build platforms around strong cores.
  • Turnarounds and succession-driven buyouts when strategy, governance and capital structure need a reset.
Our Investments

Recent direct investments

Ostler Financial has selectively participated in large‑scale real asset and innovation‑focused opportunities alongside institutional investors and specialist sponsors over the last few years.

European hyperscale data centres, EMEA

Ostler Financial has co‑invested, alongside an institutional and private investor consortium, in a hyperscale data centre platform comprising six stabilised campuses across key European markets, with approximately 1.8 million square feet of space and 177 MW of IT capacity. The €2.5 billion partnership supports further EMEA expansion to serve AI and cloud workloads, with a focus on long‑term customer contracts, energy efficiency and disciplined development.

EV battery gigafactory expansion, United Kingdom

Ostler Financial has gained exposure, alongside government‑backed support and private investors, to the expansion of an EV battery gigafactory in Sunderland that will supply cells to a major automotive OEM. The circa £1 billion funding package, including around £320 million of private financing and equity, underpins a planned 15.8 GWh of annual capacity (roughly 300,000 EVs) and more than 1,000 new jobs, reinforcing Europe’s electric‑vehicle supply chain.

Get in touch

Thinking long term? So are we.

We welcome dialogue around long-term partnerships in financial services, technology and industrial businesses across Europe and Central America.

info@ostlerfinancial.com

Rue des Bains 33, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland