Operating and investment holding · Milan
We invest our own capital in a few sectors we understand and find exciting, and help families and founders with their deals.
$54M
structured and executed across 7 private debt and equity vehicles
2/3
of that capital from private investors: family offices and UHNW individuals
5
companies co-founded and built, incl. a strategic exit in 2022
3
regions where we invest: Europe, Africa and the Gulf
Investments
Our own capital, as equity or credit, and sometimes as operators. Real businesses, held for years rather than quarters.
Advisory
For family offices, founders and the platforms they build. By project or on retainer, always with a principal on the work.
The six sectors
Alongside
Some of the investors and partners we have worked alongside in our portfolio companies.
How we run
We built our own tools on current AI models. They handle around 80% of the investor-relations workflow and most of the paperwork around a deal, which leaves our time for people.
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Where we work
Founder
Guy delle Piane runs Snowball, an operating and investment holding. He has spent fifteen years on private deals, from M&A at a European investment bank to co-founding two buy-and-build platforms, and has founded companies himself, selling one in 2022. He has lived in Germany, France, Spain, the US, India, Italy and the UK.
Having sat on both sides, he understands what investors look for and what founders go through.
Selected work
E-mobility · Pre-Series A
Brought a prominent European family into the round before they had met the founder. The founder then closed in one call.
Mobility · Corporate carve-out
Acquired a global tyre group's mobility division, funded with a convertible loan with profit share. It now trades under a joint brand.
Energy · Secondary buyout
Structured and raised a $23M secondary buyout of a leading African solar asset-finance business, funded by family offices.
Why Snowball
Compounding, not timing.
Contact
Family offices, founders and advisers: we read every message and reply within two working days.
