# Arada Capital Partners

Spain's regulated fund of search funds.

A Madrid private equity firm, registered with the Spanish securities regulator, that invests through the search fund model in small and mid-sized European companies. It finances the search phase, then invests alongside the entrepreneur at acquisition for a meaningful minority position, and sits at board level through to exit. Its portfolio page carries eight companies with a year each, and its insight posts name the searcher behind six of them.

- Category: Capital & Investors
- Pricing model: Custom Pricing
- Where it fits: Learn & Choose Your Path, Set Up & Fund the Search
- Website: https://aradacp.com/

## At a Glance

The one Spanish backer that funds the search and the deal under a regulator's number and names its [searchers](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/searcher): a first call for a southern European search.

## What It Costs

Investment terms, not fees. Its home page says the management team invests its own capital alongside investors and that carried interest is tied to performance; no searcher ticket, step-up or carry figure is published. Its posts put the target company at 1 to 3 million euros of EBITDA.

## Best For

A traditional searcher in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France or the United Kingdom who wants one regulated backer from the first search dollar through the board years

## Pros and Cons

- Pro: Funds both halves and says so in one paragraph: the search phase for the eighteen to thirty months it takes, then the acquisition, then the board
- Pro: Names the searcher and the vehicle on a dated post for six of its eight companies, so who bought what can be read rather than counted
- Pro: Publishes its own fund size and plan in its posts, fifteen million euros and a second vehicle its legal page now names as registered
- Con: Its counts move with its dated posts, fourteen funds then seventeen then more than twenty, and its plan moved from around twenty companies to around ten
- Con: No form and no named partner: the only route is a general email address, and its legal page says the site has no form by design
- Con: Its portfolio cards carry a year and no person, and two cards' years disagree with its own dated posts

## What Searchers Say

Read whole, thirty-two pages: a home page with the strategy, team and eight portfolio cards, a legal page naming the regulator, and twenty-nine dated insight posts that carry every searcher's name, every announced acquisition and the firm's own counts.

## Sources

- https://aradacp.com/
- https://aradacp.com/legal.html
- https://aradacp.com/insight-first-closing.html
- https://aradacp.com/insight-expansion-europe.html
- https://aradacp.com/insight-new-roglass.html
- https://aradacp.com/insight-cnmv-approval.html

Also on this site: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/category/capital.md
Source: https://searchspheresource.com/resources/arada-capital-partners
Last checked: 2026-09-18

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