| Website | centralway.com |
| Blog | centralway.com |
| @centralway | |
| Employees | 1 |
| Founded | 1999 |
Centralway was founded in Switzerland in 1999 by Martin Saidler.
Centralway is a venture capital company that acquires shares in up-and-coming internet companies worldwide and develops these companies in collaboration with their founders, with the objective of selling them for the best possible price at a later date. Centralway is an internet pioneer. Since 1999, Centralway has acquired shares in a large number of companies in the internet sector and, by selling these shares, has to date generated a sales volume (exit volume) of more than EUR 500 million.
Centralway is run by entrepreneurs, and not by managers. No funds, no third parties and no banks which will make pressure on our decisions. Every investment is done with our own money. We are eating, what we are cooking.
Centralway’s core business is the acquisition of shares in good companies, working with the founders of these companies to make them even more successful and then selling them for the best possible price. We merely play a strategic role, that is, we do not interfere with the operational management of the companies in question.
The Centralway manifesto is based on the extensive experience we have gained over the past few years and comprises 8 key points:
The Best Centralway only concentrates on fulfilling its mission of having interest in the world’s best web-based companies, further developing these companies and selling them at the best price.
Simplicity “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.â€, Albert Einstein.
This is exactly why there are no meetings, no controlling, no Excel spreadsheets, no PowerPoint presentations, no redundant deadlines, no confusing technical jargon, no long discussions, no humiliation and no pessimism.
Independence Decisions as to in which companies we will have interest must be made on the basis of freedom. That is why no fund, no bank or no financial investor has any interest in Centralway.
Entrepreneurs Only Centralway is run by entrepreneurs and it enters only companies that run by entrepreneurs.
We Eat What We Have Cooked Every investment is carried out with our own money. If we fail to reach the goal, we lose our own money. That is the best precondition for making the right decisions.
No Operative Management We do not interfere in the operative management of companies in which we are involved. Instead we focus only on the strategy, on our joint goal to build an excellently working company and then sell it at the best price possible.
Contracts There are no complicated contracts and no small-print texts; each person that has a stake can make free decisions.
Speed A good plan today is better than a perfect one tomorrow. The speed of accomplishing our goals is substantial to us.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| c-crowd | 3/11 | Angel | 1 |
