Innovating for clients, investing for our future
We deliver innovative software development and consultancy services, while strategically managing our own investments and proprietary trading to generate sustainable returns.
About Us
At Highlight Holdings, we operate across three core business lines that together define our identity and growth strategy.
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Software Development & Consultancy Services
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Investment Holding
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Proprietary Trading
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Software Development & Consultancy
We provide tailored software development and consultancy solutions designed to help clients innovate, streamline operations, and achieve sustainable success. Our team combines technical expertise with strategic insight to deliver impactful results in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
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Investment Holding
Beyond client services, we manage our own portfolio of investments. Our investment holding activities focus on building long‑term value by strategically allocating our company capital into equity, startup ventures, and other financial assets. This disciplined approach strengthens our financial foundation with returns generated from capital appreciation, dividends, and interest income.
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Proprietary Trading
We also engage in proprietary trading, deploying our own capital to capture opportunities across various assets and financial instruments. Through careful risk management and strategic execution, we generate returns through arbitrary trades, directional trades, and algorithmic strategies.
Mission
Our mission is to be the preferred partner of entrepreneurs by leveraging our business network or providing capital as an engaged and contributive partner.
What Differentiates Us
Our objective is to create intrinsic value in the businesses we get involved in by organically growing existing profitable businesses; transforming traditional business models; or auditioning new ventures to consolidated businesses.
It is important where possible, to retain and enhance the current business models of our underlying investments through strategic dialogue with their management teams. It is equally important, to identify the emergence of new concepts and businesses by partnering with industry-changing entrepreneurs, leading to leveraging our expertise and connections to improve business models or seek alternative strategies.
A diversified portfolio of passive and trading activities across a number of different industries allows us to have a balanced investment strategy.
Investment
Focused primarily on financial technology, this approach provides the capital to the underlying investment as part of a long term business strategy focused on executing and consolidating the business model. This involves privately held companies with an enterprise value in the range of EUR 5 million to EUR 500 million with steady and sustainable growth plans and in need of active involvement in management and business development opportunities.
Investment in VC and Funds
As part of this strategy we also invest in very early stage endeavors as venture capital or even at an angel investment stage; these investments are perceived high risk but with an equally high return. To balance this strategy, we also invest in traditional licensed investment funds yielding a reasonable return with moderate to low risk hence, balancing the overall portfolio risk of this particular strategy.
Joint Venture Trading Business
One strategy that sets us apart and generates a substantial return in our portfolio, is the partnering in joint venture strategies with existing trading companies. The intention is to expand their existing business through offering new customers/connections; alternative business models; opening new markets; and creating synergies between multiple parties. We facilitate our extensive network of connections, companies and other trading partners, to add value to an existing business. For this strategy, we focus heavily on companies involved in commodities trading; those enabling new technologies such as streaming and hardware optimization; and media rights.
Investment in Fast Growing Businesses
Businesses, whose growth is exponential, in need of early stage capital or growth capital, are at the heart of this strategy. Leisure and entertainment and educational technology are two good examples of sectors where we have seen disruptive strategies that have enabled fast growing alternative business models. The profile of the targets is very diverse as is the required capital or partnership support offered.
Investment Strategy & Trading Activities
The company has been focused mainly on the leisure and entertainment; software development; commodities trading; financial technology; educational technology industries; among others.
We have divided our investment approach and trading activities in several sections:
Advisers to Family Offices
Subject to certain exceptions, a "family office" is generally excluded from the definition of "investment adviser." For these purposes, a "family office" is defined as a company that:
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Has no clients other than “family clients”
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Is wholly owned by family clients and is exclusively controlled (directly or indirectly) by one or more family members and/ or family entities; and
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Does not hold itself out to the public as an investment adviser.
"Family clients" include among others, family members and former family members, key employees and certain former key employees, certain non-profits charitable organizations or certain trusts, and certain entities owned by and operated for the benefit of clients
