Waterland Private Equity

Waterland Private Equity is a Bussum, Netherlands-based private equity firm founded in 1999 that partners with entrepreneurs on buy-and-build growth strategies across Europe. The firm employs roughly 180 investment professionals across teams in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Norway, and Denmark, and has completed more than 1,300 investments over 25+ years. Waterland organizes its strategy around four structural themes — ageing population, digitalisation and outsourcing, leisure and wellbeing, and sustainability — spanning business services, consumer, healthcare, information technology/SaaS, and life sciences sectors, and in April 2026 closed its 10th flagship fund plus a partnership fund at a combined €4.6 billion, bringing total assets under management to over €20 billion.

Bussum, Netherlands · 4+ investments · 4 portfolio companies