Veles Capital partners with ambitious UK companies to engineer scalable growth, invest in projects we believe in, and restructure businesses that have lost their footing. Senior, hands-on counsel from a leader who has done it at the highest level.
Most businesses don't fail for lack of ambition. They stall on the structure beneath the ambition.
Veles Capital exists to remove the constraints that hold good companies back — the org design, operating model, commercial focus and financial discipline that decide whether a business scales or stalls.
We work shoulder-to-shoulder with founders and leadership teams across the UK, combining operator-grade experience with the clarity of an investor's lens. When the opportunity is right, we don't just advise — we invest.
Whether you are scaling, raising, or fighting to stabilise, we bring the same disciplined playbook and an owner's mindset.
We redesign the operating model, organisation and go-to-market so your business can grow without breaking — turning ambition into a repeatable engine.
Learn more →For select projects we believe in, we go beyond advice and commit capital and time — aligning our success directly with yours.
Learn more →When a company is failing or stalling, we move fast: diagnose the real issues, stabilise the core, and rebuild a credible path forward.
Learn more →A proven sequence we run with every client — calibrated to where you are, not a one-size template.
A sharp, honest read of the business — where growth leaks, where structure strains, where the real constraints sit.
A practical blueprint: operating model, org, commercial focus and the financial discipline to support the plan.
We stay in the room — coaching leadership and driving execution until the change is real, not just documented.
We embed the rhythm of measurement and review so growth keeps compounding long after we step back.
Rene Schuster is the sole director of Veles Capital. Over more than 25 years at CXO level, he has led some of the world's best-known technology and telecoms businesses — from Compaq and Hewlett-Packard to Vodafone, O2 and Telefónica.
As CEO of Telefónica Deutschland he grew the company from a €3bn to a €14bn market cap, made O2 the number-one consumer brand in Germany, and led one of Europe's largest IPOs. That operator's instinct is what every Veles client gets in the room.
Read Rene's story →"Great companies are built on structure as much as vision. My work is helping leaders build both — and backing the ones with the courage to scale."
When we build conviction in a business, we open the door for like-minded investors to participate alongside our own capital — fully aligned, deal by deal.
For certified high-net-worth & sophisticated investors only. Capital at risk.
For businesses: hands-on consulting and investment to help you scale, raise or restructure.
For investors: the chance to co-invest with an operator who has scaled at the highest level, in businesses we know from the inside.
Practical do's and don'ts from the front line of building, scaling and turning around companies. Free to read, built to be used.
The habits that separate startups that survive their first three years from the ones that don't.
Read guide →What to do — and what to stop doing — as you grow from a team into an organisation.
Read guide →Best-practice marketing principles that build durable demand instead of one-off spikes.
Read guide →Tell us where you are — scaling, raising, or rebuilding. We'll tell you, honestly, how we can help.
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