Private Capital
Direct investments in private equity and venture capital, guided by entrepreneurial judgment, aligned interests and a long-term horizon.
Independent advisory · Principal investing
Private capital.
Exceptional assets.
An independent private capital and asset office — investing its own capital, advising entrepreneurial families on strategy and execution, and representing owners across complex assets.
Discover diham ↓01 · Perspective
One owner’s perspective across capital and assets.
diham capital combines the discipline of a private investment office with the hands-on experience required for exceptional assets. We invest exclusively our own capital in private equity and venture capital, support selected families in strategy and execution, and act as owner’s representative for complex real assets.
02 · Capabilities
We invest. We advise. We manage.
Strategic Advisory
Strategy, opportunity assessment and execution support across private markets — working alongside each client’s legal, tax and other specialist advisers.
Exceptional Assets
Owner’s representation across acquisition, development, operation and sale of yachts, aircraft, real estate and other complex assets.
03 · Selected investments
Capital with an operator’s perspective.
diham capital combines long-term ownership with active entrepreneurial involvement. Further selected indirect participations extend this perspective across technology, financial infrastructure and new business models.
diham capital’s largest participation. We contribute at an operational level to the acquisition, development and delivery of residential projects shaped by quality, sustainability and design.
Further selected indirect participations
01
Black Manta
Digital capital markets
02
Adola
Applied artificial intelligence
03
andys
Flexible real estate
Selected indirect participations · Company names and trademarks belong to their respective owners
04 · Selected assets
Owner’s representative · Sea
M/Y RoMa
A multi-year assignment spanning shipyard selection, construction oversight, international structuring and operational supervision — delivered with the owner’s interests at the centre.
05 · Family-office mindset
Aligned interests. Independent judgment. Personal accountability.
Aligned
Capital, advice and execution are evaluated from the owner’s perspective and against the long-term objective.
Independent
Judgment remains free of product agendas. Legal, tax, commercial, technical and design specialists are integrated wherever the assignment requires them.
Accountable
Senior attention, discretion and rigorous oversight connect strategy with implementation from the first decision to the final result.
06 · The principal
Twenty-eight years on the owner’s side of the table.
Markus Hanny · Founder & Managing Director
Investment banking, then the holding of a Viennese industrial family, then the family office of an entrepreneurial family — more than 40 companies, listed participations, complex real estate and exceptional assets. diham has been his own house since 2006.
- since 2023
- Deputy chairman of the supervisory board of an international catering and hospitality group
- since 2016
- Member of the board of a Viennese private foundation
- since 2007
- Managing director of a single family office in Vienna · 40+ holding companies
- since 2006
- Founder and managing partner, diham
- 1999–2006
- Group holding of a Viennese industrial family · listed stakes and exits to international investors
- 1998–1999
- CA IB Investmentbank, Vienna