About us.
Alion Holding Ltd invests its own capital in companies and real estate that we can actively help to shape.
What we look for.
Tech with substance
We invest in technology companies with a proven product and recurring revenue, from software and AI to robotics. On the board, we contribute what we have experienced ourselves: the path from licence to cloud and from Switzerland to international markets.
- Profile
- Technology companies with recurring revenue: software, AI, robotics, technology-enabled services
- Situation
- Growth, transition to recurring revenue, internationalisation, succession
- Stake
- Minority or majority, with co-investors
- Our contribution
- Experience with the transition to SaaS and internationalisation, board work, financing, M&A
Homes where they are needed
Through our development brand Sphera, we replace old buildings with new homes, from land acquisition to sale. Discreet offers from owners and brokers are welcome.
- Properties
- Buildings for demolition and replacement, building land
- Region
- City of Zurich and Glatt valley, Winterthur and surroundings, the lake region from Lake Zurich to Höfe and March, Central Switzerland with Zug, Baar and Cham
- Plot
- Land in full ownership, from around four residential units
- Volume
- CHF 4 to 15 million per project
- Delivery
- Architecture with Studio Jakob, each project in a separate company with co-investors
Succession with an entrepreneurial spirit
We acquire healthy SMEs in German-speaking Switzerland whose owners are looking for a successor and develop them further with a strong management team.
- Profile
- Sustainably profitable, clear market position
- Size
- Revenue CHF 3 to 30 million, EBITDA from CHF 0.5 million
- Sectors
- Industry, services, tourism
- Stake
- Majority, gradually if preferred
- Our contribution
- Board work, financing, succession planning, business development
Not in our focus: Start-ups without revenue · Turnaround cases · Leasehold plots · Pure investment properties
We stay as long as we can add value.
We are not a fund and have no fixed term. We can hold good companies indefinitely.
If a company needs a different owner for its next step, we plan the transition together with management and co-investors, in good time and with care.
Whoever talks to us talks to the person who decides.
Entrepreneurial
Decisions are made quickly and without committee loops.
Hands-on
We sit on the board and work closely with management, especially on financing, strategy and succession.
With partners
Larger projects are backed by a close circle of experienced entrepreneurs who have been investing together for years. Each transaction is structured individually. This makes holdings possible that would be too large for a single holding company.
From our own experience.
Trust.
Honesty and transparency are the basis of every partnership.
Respect.
Every company has its own story. We listen before we judge.
Responsibility.
We build companies and properties that last.
Severin Reichenbach.
Has led Alion Holding since 2019 and is responsible for new investments and the development of the holdings. As a developer under the Sphera brand, he also realises real estate projects. Board member of Luware Holding AG, Chairman of the Board of the SKAG Group around R|EX, Kultour, Surprise and Carreisen Ostschweiz.
Previously M&A adviser at ZETRA International, CFO of Cruisetour AG and risk management at Swiss Re. MSc in Corporate Finance from Bayes Business School, London, and BSc in General Management from ZHAW, Winterthur.