Stableton is an award-winning fintech platform and investment firm specializing in growth equity investments. Institutional and qualified investors benefit from the firm's sourcing of outstanding growth companies, and the creation of unique top-tier investment opportunities with improved liquidity. Stableton´s unique approach and proprietary technology makes it possible for investors to access hard-to-find, high-growth opportunities and build their investing portfolios.
Christian Schmid
Head of Investments
Stableton
2018
Founded
>40
Employees
Working smarter, not harder
At Stableton, employees across functions challenge themselves every day. They work hard to identify top-tier investment opportunities with the potential for rapid growth and have smart tools in place for doing that efficiently and successfully.
Proprietary systems help the team source investments. From there, a team of 10 analyses each sourced opportunity, screening over 50 companies every week in verticals spanning:
- FinTech
- B2B SaaS (software as a service)
- Mobility
- Consumer
Making that high volume of due diligence and documentation even more challenging, the Stableton investment team is completely remote, spread across Switzerland, Germany and Latvia. This necessitates a powerful tool for collaborating to identify unique, unicorn-like opportunities that lead to big wins for investors.
Stableton was recently named “Growth Stage Startup of the Year”
—Swiss Fintech Awards
PitchBook solution
Christian Schmid heads the investment team at Stableton. Prior to Stableton, Christian worked at a variety of investment firms—and all of them used PitchBook. Many of his colleagues also had a history of working in PitchBook. When the time came to conduct a review and pare down the firm’s various investment resources and tools, PitchBook was clearly one to keep.
“Our decentralized approach requires a robust, centralized data repository that integrates well with our proprietary tools to give us a clear picture of the investment target’s growth potential. With PitchBook, this all comes together easily, quickly and clearly so we can deliver opportunities that will be fruitful for investors.”
—Christian Schmid, Head of Investments
Funneling opportunities
A testament to their success, the Stableton team fields a lot of inbound pitches. The PitchBook Platform integrates PitchBook research and Stableton’s due diligence results and records, so the investment team can quickly assess any new opportunity.
“Ideally, we have days to prepare for a meeting, but sometimes it’s only minutes or hours. With the data from PitchBook, we can get a pretty deep understanding of the company, what it does, the market it’s in and any potential issues so that we ask the right questions and make strategic use of our time with founders.”
—Christian Schmid, Head of Investments
Key features of PitchBook that Stableton advisors leverage to stay up-to-speed on target markets and filter opportunities include:
Excel Plugin
The Excel Plugin supports Stableton's proprietary tools, enabling analysts to pull information from the platform into Excel for in-depth analysis and modeling, which they do several times each day.
Email Alerts
Stableton has alerts set to get updates on targeted verticals or companies. Email alerts include detailed information on new investors, deal amounts and/or personnel changes. By keeping tabs on the target companies and industries, the team is able to act fast.
Market Maps
During the sourcing process, Stableton does a lot of market mapping. The automated tools in PitchBook help them get a more comprehensive view of the space with deep insights on capital raised, over what time period and from which sources. It can get a clear picture of growth in the space.
“One of the things that sets Stableton apart is fast reaction times. This is possible because we do all our sourcing in house and because PitchBook enables instant information flow. It’s a powerful combination.”
—Christian Schmid, Head of Investments
Winning returns
PitchBook enables Stableton analysts to be fast while still meeting the firm’s high standards for thorough due diligence. Having a single source of well-vetted, extremely reliable data has lent them a distinct speed-to-invest advantage.
Now into their fourth year, Stableton recorded 15 successful transactions over the last year. One of those was completed in only three days and has generated a 45% return in just six months. The firm recently raised a successful Series A financing round and were granted a FINMA (Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority) license as a portfolio manager.
“Because of the quality of data PitchBook provides, we’re able to move quickly and invest early and achieve long-term, high-yield wins. PitchBook is a key to creating a competitive advantage for our firm.”
—Christian Schmid, Head of Investments
