Norwegian growth companies need:
- Ambitious and dedicated owners with extensive experience in supporting and developing high-potential companies.
- Owners who contribute with significant resources such as capital, experience, and network.
- Owners who dare to challenge and find solutions.
- Owners who support management in building robust organizations – ready to deliver on expectations from employees, customers, and the society, today and in the future.
- Owners who see the bigger picture and understand that the key to long-term prosperity is to grow the pie so that key stakeholders also benefit from the value created.
Longship is such an owner:
- Norwegian-based private equity investor with a long-term, dedicated focus on Norwegian small and medium-sized growth companies.
- Specialists in identifying great companies with the potential to grow and develop, ultimately becoming highly valuable to society.
- We are at our best when we act as active owners of companies that both we and employees can be proud of.
Experienced and unbureaucratic
We have a highly competent and diverse team representing all parts of Norway. We apply our extensive experience to realise your growth potential. Those who work closely with us, describe us as unbureaucratic, direct and action-oriented. We are a partner to count on in both highs and lows. We are ambitious and not afraid of hard work. In collaboration with ambitious owners, managers, and employees, we have contributed to the growth and development of a number of highly successful companies.
Our involvement builds on:
We work together with the management of our portfolio companies. By complementing their competency and being a constructive challenger, we work towards shared goals.
We spend time understanding our companies to be able to add real value. Our experienced team apply a hands-on approach throughout the ownership period.
We believe creating momentum and enabling fast decision making and implementation are vital elements in a successful growth strategy. This requires that management, the board and owners are fully united, involved, and share the same goals.
We respect roles and responsibilities in a well governed company. Integrity, fairness, and decency are key values in all our work.