The Vertical International Investments Holding through its subsidiary, The Vertical Group Holding Limited is an investment arm founded by its chairman Mr Jacob Agam. The Company is owned and affiliated by Mr Agam and the Agam family trusts founded in 1991.
With no external institutional investors who may constrain investment decisions, we deploy the group’s own capital for a variety of investments, hence our passionate and pro-active involvement with our investee companies in order to implement their business tasks. Our operational model is driven by flexible, prompt, non-sectorial or territorial investment considerations. Our capital base is testimony to our unprecedented performance and results since it derives from its investments over the years - achieving average investment returns of more than 500% per investment since inception. Over the years and under our leadership and investment approach, our investee companies have collectively created and enjoyed equity valuations in access of Euro 3.5 Billion.
Our investment approach therefore must be qualitative and focused rather than quantitative. Whilst capital base in the world market seems endless, it usually suffers from scarcities of innovation and know-how immensely desired by investee companies, shareholders and their respective managements. The collective management know-how, vision and brain resources are our primary assets to be contributed to and leveraged for our investee companies. Our capital base is only deployed once these resources can be leveraged for our investee companies. In today’s day and age capital resources are just part of the puzzle for successful enterprises.
Our investment philosophy compels us to engage in only one or two investments annually.
Our external resources in varieties of technological and industrial sectors consist of a network of international advisory firms, financial institutions and consultants, who are being constantly deployed in order to assist our targeted investments to realise their respective business endeavours. We have an active presence in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malta and South Africa.