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"At PurpleShares, we believe that success is only real when shared."
About
Purpleshares in a nutshell
PurpleShares is an investment holding company specializing in the acquisition and sustainable transfer of SMEs.
In contrast to traditional financial approaches, we retain companies for the long term and gradually open up their capital to employees, who become shareholders in their means of production.
Our ambition is to offer a fair exit for the manager, to preserve jobs and to allow companies to continue their local development.
Faced with the mass retirement of business leaders, we have designed a unique model combining financing, human support and technology to make the transfer simpler, faster and more accessible.
Our team
The founders of Purpleshares
Our story
Purpleshares is first and foremost a personal story
PurpleShares was born out of a silent injustice: seeing leaders dedicate their lives to building an SME without ever being able to pass it on.
Our fathers, business leaders, experienced this impasse: years of work, united teams, recognized expertise, but when it came time to hand over the reins, there was no solution.
This experience left a deep impression, which over time became a conviction: we need to invent a fairer and more humane model for the transfer of SMEs.
It is on this basis that PurpleShares was born in 2024, with a simple idea: the best transfer is that which is made to those who keep the company alive: its employees.
By combining finance, technology and a collective spirit, we are building a bridge between those who built and those who will make it last.
Charles Wayenberg
Small business owner
Father of Benjamin Wayenberg
Our values
What motivates us every day!
Our Vision
Every year, thousands of SMEs disappear for lack of a buyer. We propose another way: buying SMEs and then passing them on to those who keep them going.
Our Mission
Ensuring the continuity of SMEs at a time of mass retirements of managers, by creating transfer models that combine value, human meaning and local impact.
Our Impact
Each transfer preserves jobs, shares value more fairly with employees, and offers sellers an exit that is also measured by its human impact.
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