The Case for Search Funds in Japan
It is not often that we hear about M&A activity in Japan, despite it being home to the world’s (!) oldest (!) company. Kongo Gumi, headquartered in Osaka, is a construction company that was founded in 578 AD and its first project was building the Shitenno-ji Buddhist temple. The company is operational until today, handling […]
The first panel on search funds at South Summit…and we were on it!
Last week in Madrid, Ibrahim Abdel Rahim took the stage alongside Ivona Butcher, Mafalda Almeida Carvalho and Newton M. Campos, on the first panel ever about search funds at South Summit.
Round two on Search Funded, the ETA Podcast
After our $5M close, Ibrahim and Khaled got together again with Nick Lall to share updates about Moonbase Capital. https://www.buzzsprout.com/2025469/12796142-episode-10-round-2-with-ibrahim-and-khaled-of-moonbase-capital
Ibrahim spoke to INSEAD alumni in Amsterdam
We were invited to speak to a room of INSEAD alumni in Amsterdam. Ibrahim presented the search fund model and the opportunity it presents. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moonbasecapital_inseadalumni-insead-searchfunds-activity-7084426090898726912-NN7u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
How to adapt your search strategy amid worsening debt conditions as a searcher in France
15 minutes with… is a Moonbase Capital series that picks searchers’ brains on current market conditions, what challenges they are facing and the actual technicalities of what it takes to be a searcher. Pierre Donvez, the founder and principal of search fund Sillage Partners, raised EUR 390,000 over two years, and is currently looking to […]
Moonbase Capital achieves first close of €5ln out of €15mln “Search Fund Squared” fund of funds
The fund has attracted family offices, managers, and entrepreneurs from the Middle East and Europe Press Release Barcelona-based Moonbase Capital has announced that it has achieved the first closing of its €15M fund of search funds, “Search Fund Squared”. The fund has attracted family offices, managers, and entrepreneurs from the Middle East and Europe in […]
How we adjust our sails amidst Europe’s tumultuous investment landscape
With the tides of global macroeconomic and investment realities across the world twisting, turning and changing directions (hello, SVB), we, at Moonbase Capital, take to heart that we are in the midst of tumultuous times and that the only way to safely transition to the other side of it, is by adjusting our sails and […]
Moonbase Capital atrae inversión de Oriente Medio a las pymes españolas
El floreciente mercado de los fondos de búsqueda (search funds) sigue creciendo en España. Carlos Arenas, ex McKinsey & Company, y los hermanos egipcios Ibrahim y Khaled Abdel Rahim, han lanzado Moonbase Capital, la firma de inversión con sede en Barcelona que está logrando atraer capital de Oriente Medio a las pymes españolas y europeas. Moonbase Capital acaba de […]
Quoted as a source for the “Enterprise Explains: What are search funds?” article
Enterprise Explains: What are search funds? Enterprise Explains: Search funds. Exactly one year ago, we wrote about alternative investment vehicles that were popping up in Egypt’s StartupLand in 2021, including venture debt and venture studios. Today, we dive into one that is not suitable for startups, but for small- and medium-sized enterprises: The search fund. What are search funds? These […]
We were live on TEN TV!
Ibrahim Abdel Rahim interviewed live about Moonbase Capital and search funds on Tech Week, TEN TV’s weekly business program.
