Stephan S.

Founding Partner at Yana Investment Partners

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Feb 2023
Xynteo is a unique organisation of exceptional people brought together with the purpose of reinventing growth. We help businesses tackle global societal and environmental challenges that are too big, too expensive, and too complex to tackle alone. We believe that business is a force for good when leaders think long term, work with, not against nature, and use their influence and resources for the many, not the few. For us, this is good growth. We work with some of the world’s largest businesses, helping leaders and their organisations in three ways. To shape cultures and organisations to think and act differently; to create innovative, regenerative business models to compete and grow in new ways; and to embrace radical cross-sector, cross-border collaboration to tackle system challenges.
Board Member
Aug 2019
For 10 years, Coffee Circle is driven by the mission to improve lives by delivering outstanding coffee. The Berlin coffee roasting company sets new standards for exceptional coffee quality, fair trade and social impact through innovation along the value chain. We invested more than 4m € into coffee communities around the world, improving the lives of over 500.000 farmers and their families. We are hiring! Have a look at our job openings: https://www.coffeecircle.com/de/e/jobs-und-praktika
Board Observer
Jan 2015
Rioglass Solar is an international renewable energy company with more than 15 years of experience in the solar power industry. Rioglass, founded in 2007, helps our customers all over the world to capture and harness the sun’s energy. Rioglass is the global market leader in the design and manufacturing of key optical components for concentrated solar power (CSP). Rioglass provides operation and maintenance services for renewable power plants as well as other specialized services to assess and improve the performance of CSP and other renewables assets leveraging Rioglass unparalleled know-how in key solar components. Additionally, leveraging Rioglass industrial profile, the company offers to commercial and industrial customers, green energy solutions such as the supply of electricity from rooftop photovoltaics.
Board Observer
Jul 2009
Grupo Empresarial Palacios Alimentación is a leading group in the Spanish food sector with over 50 years'​ "know-how"​. Since 1960, Palacios has maintained clear objectives: "Satisfying our customers'​ needs by offering them traditional, high quality and nutritionally healthy products to match their lifestyle."​ We are fully aware that we like the taste of a job well done and so the Palacios Group 700-strong workforce strives to improve on a daily basis.
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2025
Board Observer
Apr 2025
Complea er en stærk samarbejdspartner inden for IT, hvad enten det gælder installation, drift eller support. Vores mål er at gøre det nemt for din virksomhed og medarbejdere at fokusere på kerneopgaven, alt imens vi sørger for dine IT-løsninger. Complea er ISAE-3402, type 2 certificeret, hvilket er en revisorerklæring som dokumenterer, at Complea har ordentlige IT-forhold med en høj grad af sikkerhed.
2023
Board Observer
Feb 2023
Xynteo is a unique organisation of exceptional people brought together with the purpose of reinventing growth. We help businesses tackle global societal and environmental challenges that are too big, too expensive, and too complex to tackle alone. We believe that business is a force for good when leaders think long term, work with, not against nature, and use their influence and resources for the many, not the few. For us, this is good growth. We work with some of the world’s largest businesses, helping leaders and their organisations in three ways. To shape cultures and organisations to think and act differently; to create innovative, regenerative business models to compete and grow in new ways; and to embrace radical cross-sector, cross-border collaboration to tackle system challenges.
2019
Board Member
Aug 2019
For 10 years, Coffee Circle is driven by the mission to improve lives by delivering outstanding coffee. The Berlin coffee roasting company sets new standards for exceptional coffee quality, fair trade and social impact through innovation along the value chain. We invested more than 4m € into coffee communities around the world, improving the lives of over 500.000 farmers and their families. We are hiring! Have a look at our job openings: https://www.coffeecircle.com/de/e/jobs-und-praktika
2017
Founding Partner
Oct 2017
Yana partners with institutional investors, family offices and asset managers to invest directly in outstanding privately held small-cap companies across Europe. Our investors get exposure to highly attractive, entrepreneurial “off-market” investment opportunities in an organised and risk-controlled manner. To access entrepreneurial companies and unlock their value, we always cooperate with specialised local deal partners. Our deal partners are experienced independent sponsors, emerging private equity managers and tested entrepreneurs. We believe we invest in the most exciting and rewarding space of the private equity market, where entrepreneurship at all levels drives superior performance. Fostering collaboration between our investors, deal partners and entrepreneurs is what we call co-investing! HOW WE INVEST SMALL-CAP INVESTMENTS We invest in outstanding privately held European small-cap companies with EV of typically EUR 20 – 150 million that are in a growth financing or buyout situation. Together with our deal partners we take majority or significant minority positions. OUR INVESTORS KEEP CONTROL Whether our clients invest with us on a deal-by-deal basis or entrust us a mandate, they can decide on each transaction or delegate investment decisions to us. RISK REDUCTION As we invest in 4-5 transactions per year, our investors can build portfolios of 10-15 companies over time, diversified across countries, sectors, deal types and deal partners, and therefore reduce risk. LOCAL DEAL PARTNERS Successful small-cap investing requires strong local expertise and local networks. We always collaborate with entrepreneurial, hands-on local deal partners, be it independent deal sponsors, emerging managers or entrepreneurs. We have built one of Europe’s leading networks of experienced deal partners and foster these partnerships over the long term with respect and care.
2015
Board Observer
Jan 2015
Rioglass Solar is an international renewable energy company with more than 15 years of experience in the solar power industry. Rioglass, founded in 2007, helps our customers all over the world to capture and harness the sun’s energy. Rioglass is the global market leader in the design and manufacturing of key optical components for concentrated solar power (CSP). Rioglass provides operation and maintenance services for renewable power plants as well as other specialized services to assess and improve the performance of CSP and other renewables assets leveraging Rioglass unparalleled know-how in key solar components. Additionally, leveraging Rioglass industrial profile, the company offers to commercial and industrial customers, green energy solutions such as the supply of electricity from rooftop photovoltaics.
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