SeraVerse

SeraVerse

SeraVerse was formed in 2023 as a holding and services entity for the non-industrial ventures of the Serafin Group, which Philipp Haindl founded in 2010 as a diversified industrial company. The Haindl family’s wealth originates from a paper manufacturing enterprise. SeraVerse sits deliberately apart from Serafin’s industrial core, housing financial services, asset management, television, and private equity activities. The firm deploys across four distinct channels. Its private equity arm, Sevest, operates as a mid-market buyout fund targeting industrial technology businesses in the DACH region. In renewables, Windward Offshore — a consortium with SeaRenergy, Blue Star Group, and Diana Shipping Inc. — pursues offshore wind farm construction and maintenance via an owned fleet including VARD 4 19 CSOVs. The media portfolio, held through Serafin Media, comprises scripted distributor Eccho Rights, UK unscripted producer Curve Media, factual distributor BossaNova, and co-financier Night Train Media. On the asset management side, Serafin Wealth Management runs a single broadly diversified family-office-style fund strategy, while SeraVerse retains a minority holding in the recently management-bought-out AWEA Fonds AG, a Swiss equity specialist. The firm’s team spans corporate development, operational excellence, M&A, financial structuring, legal, and HR, and can draw on resources from the Serafin Industrial Holding. Outside Munich, the portfolio extends to Stockholm, London, Cardiff, Istanbul, and Madrid through its media companies. In a notable shift, AWEA Fonds AG (formerly Serafin Asset Management) completed a management buy-out, leaving SeraVerse with a minority stake. The structure is unusual: SeraVerse is neither a pure family office nor a standalone fund manager. It is a holding company and shared-services platform purpose-built to support a portfolio of mostly majority-owned joint ventures — with Sevest, Windward Offshore, and Serafin Media each functioning as semi-autonomous businesses — all tied back to a single-family governance spine.