The IR data room — DACH
Private equity in the DACH region, in numbers
Germany anchors the region — 75.5% of DACH PE deal count in 2025 — with Switzerland's fund managers and Austria's minority-stake tradition around it. The national statistics here come with a methodology footnote your LPs will know: BVK data count equity only, not total transaction volume.
Germany PE investment, 2024
€11.3bn
Down ~13% vs 2023 (€13.0bn), preliminary: buyouts €5.5bn, venture €3.4bn (+26%), growth €2.4bn.
BVK-Statistik 2024 (EDC data), preliminary · 2024
DACH dry powder
€70bn+
Waiting to be deployed as of mid-2024 — the overhang any German fundraising pitch competes with.
Preqin Territory Guide: The Rise of Private Capital in DACH · 2024
DACH PE exit value, 2025
€50bn
A record, +15% and level with the 2021 peak — but over 50% of the value came from sponsor-to-sponsor deals.
PitchBook, 2025 DACH Private Capital Breakdown · 2025
Germany portfolio, structural
6,500+
Companies in German PE portfolios, employing 1.6 million people, with €320bn of portfolio revenue — €79.3bn invested 2021–2025.
BVK-Statistik 2025 · 2021–25
The market
Germany PE investment by segment, 2024
€bn invested (equity only, EDC methodology)
Venture grew ~26% while buyouts fell by about a third. BVK counts equity deployed, not leverage — a different basis from PitchBook or EY deal figures, so quote the source when you compare.
Source: BVK-Statistik 2024 (preliminary)
German divestments to financial investors
€bn divested (market statistic)
A 55% collapse, with 27% of 2025 exits ending in a total loss for the investor. The German exit story runs opposite to the record DACH-wide exit value — narrow at the top, painful below.
Source: BVK preliminary 2025 statistics, as reported by Börsen-Zeitung (Mar 2026)
The DACH LP landscape
Who funds German-speaking private equity
| LP fact | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Family offices in the DACH region | 471 (Jun 2024) | Up from 115 in 2019 — now the region's largest private-capital investor type, ahead of private-sector pension funds (166) |
| German private capital fundraising trend | €43.6bn → ~€26bn | 2021 to 2024 per Preqin — the squeeze pushing German GPs toward private wealth channels |
| Bayerische Versorgungskammer in PE | ~€12bn | Germany's largest pension scheme group, and an ESG Data Convergence Initiative member — its data demands set the tone |
| PE investors holding German assets | 66% in 2025 | Of PwC-surveyed PE investors, up from 58% — Germany stayed the most-watched European destination |
| Swiss VC investment 2025 | CHF 2.95bn (+24%) | A strong rebound on 2024's CHF 2.4bn; SECA publishes no own national PE statistics beyond this VC series |
Source: Preqin Territory Guide DACH 2024 · Börsen-Zeitung · IPE · PwC Private Equity Trend Report 2026 · Swiss Venture Capital Report 2026
IR practice in DACH
The frameworks your reporting is judged against
Single-entry reporting standard
BVK / EDC
German market statistics run through the European Data Cooperative: one submission per firm, a pan-European methodology co-owned by 18+ national associations, equity-only amounts, retrospective revisions. Your reported numbers here enter a standardised machine.
BVK-Statistik 2025, methodology annex · 2026
ELTIF 2.0 open to German retail
Jan 2024
Since 10 January 2024 German retail investors can subscribe to ELTIFs (PE, private debt, infrastructure) without the old €500k/10% rules being prohibitive — BaFin published FAQs and practice notes.
BaFin, ELTIF Regulation FAQs · 2024
Austria: no aggregate published
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No 2024/2025 aggregate Austrian PE investment figure from AVCO/invest.austria or aws was findable with a named source. Invest Europe country tables are the fallback — stated here rather than estimated.
LP Ready research note · 2026
What this page does not claim
- No Germany-only or DACH 2025 dry powder figure from a named publisher was found.
- SECA publishes no own aggregate Swiss buyout-PE statistics; Austria has no retrievable 2024/25 aggregate. Stated, not estimated.
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