12
Jun
Case study: Winning the era of ‘re-industralisation’
The global re-industrialisation will drive major M&A activity as large industrial players continue to acquire new and transformative industrial technology companies to stay competitive. The Nordics have a unique position with its strong centres for innovation and its mature financial ecosystem. However, scaling and ultimately selling green hardware technologies introduce a new level of complexity. Nordic Alpha refers to this complexity as ‘hypertransformation’. Several factors affect the new battlefield, and it requires a new framework if investors are to evaluate risk and exposure in a meaningful way. In this session, Nordic Alpha will unpack the four core complexities shaping the hypertransformation landscape. The firm will also share how its approach delivered outsized results: growing the revenue of Danish greentech company Spirii by 2,400% over 11 quarters before its sale to a CAC40 buyer, and scaling German charging startup Wiferion by 2,600% over 14 quarters ahead of its acquisition by Tesla. The session will introduce:
- The immense financial opportunity that re-industrialisation represents
- The four complexities that transformative industrial ventures are exposed to
- The core parts of the toolkit that Nordic Alpha uses to manage companies in hypergrowth
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SpeakersGustav Højmark-Jensen Head of Platforms Nordic Alpha Partners
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Gustav Højmark-Jensen is Head of Platforms at Nordic Alpha Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on greentech growth and industrial transformation. Based in London, Gustav leads the firm’s external partnerships, strategic platforms across Europe. Gustav plays a central role in shaping Nordic Alpha’s investment activities, aligning them with its operational value creation models and platform strategy. He has been instrumental in conceptualising the fund playbook and advancing Nordic Alpha’s position as a thought leader within re-industrialisation and value creation. He spearheaded the recent landmark collaboration with the Technical University of Denmark (#3 worldwide), launching an executive education programme on green re-industrialisation, hypergrowth and hypertransformation — the first of its kind in Europe. Prior to joining the firm, Gustav was a senior financial journalist in London, where he reported extensively on private equity, M&A, fundraising, and fund strategy for one of the world’s largest financial data and news providers. He has covered hundreds of transactions across the European mid- and upper-mid-market, building a wide network across the GP, LP and investment banking communities. He holds a Master’s degree in Journalism, Media and Globalisation from City St. George’s, University of London and Aarhus University in Denmark.