Aurelius Groupis an investment company with offices in five European countries.
History
In 2005, Dirk Markus and Gert Purkert, both former McKinsey consultants, founded Aurelius as a privately held investment vehicle investing in small- and medium-sized companies.
In 2006 listed subsidiary Aurelius AG (today: Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KgaA) was set up with a start-up capital of €500,000.
On 1 October 2015 Aurelius changed from a joint-stock company into an SE & Co. KGaA.
In April 2021, Aurelius announced that it had launched a €500 million investment fund specializing in corporate spin-offs and companies in transition, whose investors include US and European university endowments, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices.