About CAPVIA

The Story Behind CAPVIA

Founded in 2022 in Zurich, CAPVIA grew out of a traditional Swiss sell-side M&A advisory background. Early on, we experienced first-hand that conventional processes often fail to reflect the realities of small and mid-cap transactions.
These situations are frequently shaped by incomplete information, inexperienced ownership structures, and highly individual circumstances that must be understood before a transaction can be executed successfully. Broad, auction-style processes often lead to high drop-out rates and avoidable friction.
We quickly realized that higher closing certainty comes from process efficiency and selective matching - leveraging a large network of active investors across the DACH region. With every transaction, we further refine our approach.

Best of both worlds: sell-side & buy-side support.
By the end of 2025, CAPVIA merged with ZFU, a leading buy-side advisor for corporates and buy&build investors. Through this step, we have complemented our M&A execution team with a dedicated in-house deal origination team. This allows us to offer the best of both worlds, strong M&A execution and scaling a steady, strategy-aligned deal flow.
Through our extensive network, we understand where leading investors are actively looking for new platforms or add-ons, and we bring the right companies into the process.
CAPVIA was built to operate differently: combining selective counterpart matching with hands-on deal  execution and holistic advisory across everystep of the M&A transaction process.