Investment
Nova Capital Partners AG is in formation and currently being capitalized. The intention is a single strategic partner who enters the structure with us and stays.
What We Are Looking For
Everything about how this round is structured follows from one decision: to be owned by people who understand the business, rather than funded by people who observe it.
Nova is being capitalized once, deliberately, with a single strategic partner alongside the founder. We are not raising from a pool of passive investors and we are not marketing a product. The intention is a durable shareholding relationship in which both sides carry the same structure.
We are looking for a partner — not only money. Capital alone is available in many places. What is scarce is a partner who already stands somewhere in the chain — refining, industrial offtake, trading, banking or Gulf market access — and who can open doors we cannot open alone. In the best case the relationship runs in both directions: networks are widened, mandates are passed back and forth, and each side makes the other stronger. Capital is part of that partnership, but never the whole of it.
The Swiss parent holds contract, capital and governance; the Dubai subsidiary holds trading and refining access. A partner enters that structure, with the rights, information and formal position that follow from it — not a side letter.
A financial investor can fund this firm. A strategic partner can make it work.
Why this round is structured the way it is
Use of Capital
Standard first, access second, scale last. Capital is deployed in that sequence, not in the sequence that produces the fastest visible growth.
The working capital that allows Nova to act as a contractual principal rather than as an intermediary: to buy, to refine and to deliver on its own book, and to settle only against verified assay and acceptance.
Capitalization, licensing and operation of the subsidiary through which refining access and physical execution run — the side of the structure where the market actually trades.
Internal legal capacity, external counsel in Switzerland and the UAE, counterparty verification, origin documentation and sanctions screening. The cost of being examinable is paid before the first transaction, not after it.
A small, deliberately composed team, retained long enough that the standard survives growth. We are building capacity to hold the platform, not headcount to demonstrate momentum.
Timeline — capitalization of CHF 10 million to be completed by end of September
Now
Conversations
Confidential discussions with a small number of strategic candidates. Intent before documents.
Within weeks
Examination
Mutual confidentiality, full access to structure, governance and transaction logic.
Thereafter
Structure
Shareholding, rights and terms drafted with counsel in Switzerland and the UAE — negotiated individually, never published.
End of September
Capitalization complete
Target: a completed capitalization of CHF 10 million, with the partner formally inside the structure.
The Process
Each step is reversible until the last one. If a structure is not right for both sides, we prefer to establish that early.
An open, confidential discussion of what each side is looking for. No documents, no pressure — only whether the intent is compatible.
A reciprocal non-disclosure agreement before structure, counterparties and economics are discussed in detail.
Full access to the corporate, legal and governance framework, the Dubai structure and the transaction logic. Due diligence runs in both directions.
Shareholding, governance rights and the terms of the partnership are drafted with counsel in both jurisdictions. Figures are discussed personally, never published.
Figures
Capital requirement, shareholding and terms are discussed personally, under mutual confidentiality, with counsel present where appropriate. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer, a solicitation or investment advice.
