Beaufort Capital was founded in April 2000 in Hamburg, Germany.

Beaufort Capital believes in focusing on a company's innovative capabilities. The firm is geared towards making growth capital investments in Technology, Healthcare, and Telecoms investments in German-Speaking SME's.

Beaufort Capital intends to achieve long-term results for not only clients but for portfolio companies. We work together with management, exploiting our industrial network and expertise to significantly improve top and bottom line growth in our investments.

We always engage in thorough analysis and gain a good understanding of the company situation before proceeding: a prerequisite in achieving our results. We only partner with people in whose skills we believe and where our strong network adds value.

Our goal is to succeed together.

Admiral Francis Beaufort, the eponym of Beaufort Capital was born in 1774 in County Meath, Ireland. At the age of 13, he started his nautical career as a cabin boy in the British Navy. In 1805, Beaufort was given his first command, H.M.S. Woolwich, and assigned to conduct a hydrographic survey of the Rio de la Plata region of South America.

In 1806 he developed the first versions of his Wind Force Scale and Weather Notation coding. Originally, the Wind Force Scale consisted of 13 degrees of wind strength and was based upon the effects of various wind strengths upon the amount of canvas carried by the fully rigged frigates of the period. First, the Beaufort Wind Scale was only used for nautical purposes, until it was adopted in 1874 for the international use in meteorological telegram.

Finally 1955 the US-Meteorological Office extended the scale to 17 values, as higher wind strengths were measured in hurricanes (117 - 220 km/h).