Fährhaus Investment Group

Fährhaus Investment Group

Fährhaus Investment Group was founded in 2007 by Dr. Mathias Krahl, a former Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, where he built a practice focused on energy, mobility, and real estate. Krahl is joined by Managing Director Lasse Lütjens, also an ex-BCG consultant and trained architect, who previously held leadership roles at Quantum and Engel & Völkers before founding and selling his own firm. The group operates from Hamburg and has a formal subsidiary presence in Austria, reflecting a dual-market footprint across Germany and the Alpine region. The firm structures its activities across five distinct verticals: venture capital and advisory, SME equity stakes, hospitality, holiday properties, and commercial real estate holdings. The venture capital arm, Fährhaus Equity Invest GmbH, makes direct investments in early-stage companies in the energy and mobility transition sectors, leveraging the team's consulting background to identify technical and regulatory inflection points. The hospitality division, operating under CAB 20 GmbH, owns and runs a design-led cabin hotel in Hamburg's St. Georg district. On the real estate side, Fährhaus Immobilien Verwaltung holds a portfolio of residential and commercial properties, while Fährhaus Austria GmbH manages a collection of Alpine holiday lodges and properties across Austria and southern Germany. Fährhaus maintains a lean, partnership-based structure with Dr. Krahl as owner and Lütjens as managing director, supported by Jan Peter Kleinert, who serves as Prokurist across several subsidiaries. The group does not disclose AUM or total deployment figures. Its operational approach mirrors the dynastic, multi-asset holding structures common among German family offices — vehicles like Fährhaus Austria GmbH and the Fährhaus Lodges brand suggest a long-duration, yield-oriented accumulation strategy rather than a fund model with third-party LP capital. The group's structural differentiator is its hybrid operating model: it competes for venture deals using a consulting-native sourcing lens — scanning regulatory-driven sectors like energy and mobility — while simultaneously acting as a hands-on owner-operator in hospitality and real estate. This positions Fährhaus less as a passive allocator and more as a permanent capital vehicle that converts industry expertise into controlled, income-producing assets. The Austrian Alpine property portfolio, managed through a dedicated subsidiary, hints at a family-origin or principal-capital backing that the firm has chosen not to publicly detail.