Private Values Media

Private Values Media

Private Values Media AG was founded in Frankfurt in 2022, though the investment activity under Sascha Magsamen reaches back over a decade through predecessor entities. The firm operates as a publicly listed holding company — an unusual distinction in private equity — that gives it flexibility to acquire, restructure, and influence the governance of small and micro-cap businesses across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Magsamen deploys a concentrated, handcrafted activism: buying into distressed public companies, insolvent vehicles, and founder-succession enterprises where share registers are thin and other professional capital has retreated. The posture does not sit cleanly in any one asset class. Confirmed positions include activist campaigns at online optician Mister Spex SE, fintech creditshelf AG (where PVMM stepped in as insolvency plan sponsor in December 2024) and defunct holding Tiscon AG. Simultaneously, the firm executes buyout transactions — the January 2026 acquisition of SG Akustik & Video Karlsruhe, a carve-out of nutrition-program provider Metabolic Balance in October 2025, and the 2021 purchase of landmark hospitality property Hallgarter Zange. Asset classes span listed equities, private buyouts, real estate, and operating subsidiaries including League WorX (sports media) and MediKompass (healthcare-auction marketplace). Operations focus on the DACH region. The firm's Siebzehneck structure includes a board with Peter Magsamen as chairman, and a small, flat team which the website describes as filtering opportunities from the large German-speaking market. In March 2026, PVMM formally ended its activist engagement at Mister Spex after more than 24 months, stating that previously criticized management deficiencies had been addressed. PVMM's architecture upends the standard PE model. Rather than blind-pool funds, it uses a permanent-capital listed vehicle to write equity checks directly from its own balance sheet — no LP calls, no exit clocks. The same corporate shell serves as activist, buyout sponsor, insolvency-plan sponsor, and operating-company parent. This structure creates governance reach unmatched by traditional minority investors: the firm can install its own board members, appoint itself liquidator, or draft insolvency plans when a portfolio company requires surgery, not capital.