Kaikaku Holdings is the group behind a portfolio of operating businesses, property and shares in other companies. We own what we back. We take a stake and do the work, we buy businesses outright, and our own money goes in alongside the people running them.
Kaikaku is the Japanese word for radical change, the counterpart to kaizen, the small improvement made over and over. A business is usually built by the second and changed by the first.
Acquiring a business outright, usually where the owner wants to exit or step back from the day to day.
Coming in as a shareholder and working on the business, rather than sending an invoice for advice. If it does not grow, we have worked for nothing.
Putting money behind people running businesses we believe in, along with private investors who want a share of something real.
Joint ventures where each side brings something the other needs. Property, know-how, reach or money.
The portfolio is European today, and Asia is the next market we are looking at seriously. We are not restricted to one geography.
Buys businesses, takes stakes in the businesses he works inside, and partners with private investors on property. Author of The Operator Trap and host of The Reckoning.
lewis-hunter.comWorks with business owners who have hit a ceiling, builds the systems and artificial intelligence behind the businesses in the group, and runs the mastermind the group convenes.
vincenthovorka.comWe are always looking, and we are always raising. If you are thinking about selling your business, if you want a partner who takes a stake instead of a fee, if you invest privately, or if you simply know someone we ought to meet, the quickest route in is through either of us directly.
We would far rather hear about a deal too early than too late.