Hugo & Pierre founded a first entity in 2015 as a family office in Dubai to develop an innovative financing model. Two years and over 30 transactions later, they decided to take the next step to implement their vision.

Having demonstrated a capacity for ‘thinking outside the box’ and creating never-before-seen financing solutions to their portfolio companies, they realized that to extend the ability of a firm to be at the forefront of innovation, financial engineering wasn’t enough. Thus, they associated with Jean-Luc Elhoueiss (PhD) for his demonstrated legal expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions and Amaury Mamou-Mani for his entrepreneurial experience and his expertise in digital transformation.

Together, the new team has gone on to found Alpha Blue Ocean, the name of which refers to both the concept of Alpha and the INSEAD-born concept of Blue Ocean Strategy®.

Our team members are ambitious and reliable young leaders ready to revolutionize the industry while maintaining their inherent commitment: to invest with the utmost ethical standards.

ABO was created with the untamed will to build a better world. We believe that early stage and mid-sized businesses are the backbone of the future economy and the world’s next outperforming leaders. However, banks and traditional institutions have become more conservative, making it increasingly challenging for small businesses to raise funds.

ABO sees itself as a non-invasive and passive investor, acting in the best interest of its portfolio companies and their stakeholders. As a matter of fact, mid-sized & early-stage businesses or turnaround situations see most of their value concentrated in the hands of a few highly qualified individuals. Hence, we place a key emphasis on human capital in our analysis and dedicate particular attention in people due diligence and screenings.

We believe in developing relationships based on trust and expertise. Tailoring a fit-for-purpose offer and operating within a circle of trust with our business partners, thus, preferring qualitative over quantitative approach.

Our disciplined and research-intensive investment approach aims at the identification of sectors and businesses with sustainable long-term competitive advantage and motivated managerial teams.

We devote our capital to unrealized value to deliver attractive risk-adjusted cash flows and aim to provide financing at the lowest cost of capital for our partners. Likewise, the aforementioned due diligences ensures that we acquire the best grasp of the risks involved in the operations we undertake and furthermore, to mitigate those.

Finally, ABO has never been about making meaningless profits but enabling the growth of its partners in being the cornerstone and pillar of a new wave in finance.

ABO prides itself in excellent corporate, legal & capital markets technical expertise. We have never defined ourselves as traders, nor traditional asset managers, but entrepreneurs that believe in other entrepreneurs.

Our aim is to finance outstanding but not yet fully recognized business models that need uplifting capital to achieve their true potential. We believe in sleek and abiding but swift transactions relying on all available asset classes to allow for both cutting edge flexibility and best risk adjusted return.

We allocate capital to a wide variety of purposes ranging from working capital, horizontal & vertical growth to debt restructuring – while ensuring the implementation of a swift and non-invasive transaction for our portfolio companies.

Our main model is to provide upfront capital injection featuring delayed and staged dilution over time, coupled with the de-risking of a company’s financing allowing for a full and unbiased alignment of interests with all stakeholders, both current and future, in any given portfolio company.

Our teams identifies growth drivers and competitive advantages through in-depth and thorough, while non-interfering, expert-led due diligences. This involves regular conversations between our executive team and the management of the business we take an interest in.

As entrepreneurs, we always foster our portfolio companies to activate intra and extra portfolio synergies and we understand the importance of continually improve and develop innovative solutions tailored to our portfolio companies’ needs and profiles in order to remain attractive and at the forefront of a very competitive market.

Finally, it entails developing relationships based on trust and expertise, being at the vanguard of innovation to add value to the customer experience through excellence.

Fondation Bleu Ocean.

ABO has never been about meaningless profits, but all about social impact. Improving our society, making a difference.

The founders created the “Fondation Bleu Ocean” foundation with the sole purpose of supporting endeavors toward a better world.

The major portion of the foundation’s fund are committed to supporting access to education worldwide and knowledge sharing initiatives.

We believe that the root of any sustainable future thrives through improving the access to the knowledge for everyone, everywhere.