€16bn Managed Assets

€13bn Transactions

25 Years Experience

| 25 Years Experience | €16bn Managed Assets | €13bn Transactions

What We Do

Infrastructure Origination

Curated pipeline. Grid-secured. Institution-ready.

Curated DC & BESS pipeline with confirmed grid access
Development and JV structuring for institutional entry
Asset selection based on execution certainty, not optionality

We only focus on opportunities where grid, permitting and execution can be delivered.

Each project is structured into a clear, institution-ready investment case.

Transaction Readiness

Compliance. Governance. Continuity.

Vendor screening & counterparty due diligence
Regulatory compliance checks (§34c, AIF, placement agent frameworks)
Investor-grade reporting, monitoring & portfolio transparency

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We prepare every transaction for institutional scrutiny before investors ask the questions.

This ensures compliance, alignment and continuity well beyond closing.

Capital Placement

Targeted. Structured. Executed.

Structured equity placement across JV, platform and single-asset formats
Targeted investor mapping and institutional capital matching
End-to-end transaction execution — from mandate to close

We originate, structure and execute digital infrastructure transactions.

Our approach is selective: fewer processes, higher relevance, higher execution certainty.

Who We Are

Andreas Hardt is the founder and principal of HardtRock Capital Partners, spearheading the international equity placement. He was part of the 'Artificial Intelligence Program' at Oxford and studied 'Data Science in Real Estate' at MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Cambridge.

Andreas is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, holds an MSc in Real Estate and a Diploma in Real Estate Economics.

Before HardtRock, Andreas served as Head of Germany for Blackstone PM, the world's leading private equity firm and was also Head of Germany for Oxford Properties, Canada's largest pension fund.

Prior to that, he was Director Central Region at Goldman Sachs.

His 25 years of experience in the real estate industry include transactions of over €13 bn, and €16 bn of assets under management in data center, office, retail, logistics, light industrial, and residential real estate.

Ole von Beust brings to HardtRock what decades of leadership at the highest levels of German politics and urban development create: strategic judgment, institutional credibility, and access to decision-makers across the public and private sectors.

As First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from 2001 to 2010, he led the city-state through a major transformation, oversaw complex public-private infrastructure partnerships, and formed Germany's first CDU-Green coalition government, demonstrating a rare ability to build consensus across ideological and institutional divides.

A lawyer by training, his experience spans regulatory environments, infrastructure development, and the navigation of complex decision-making processes where business meets public policy.

At HardtRock, Ole serves as Strategic Advisor, providing access to political networks, regulatory insight, and institutional relationships essential for navigating permitting, public-sector alignment, and stakeholder engagement. He helps open doors, build bridges across sectors, and add judgment where it matters most.

Peyman Pouryekta works at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and governance, supporting companies and investors in structuring scalable, investment-ready technology and infrastructure opportunities.

He focuses on turning complex setups into clear, investable cases by sharpening the investment story, structuring key risks, and aligning technical and commercial logic with investor expectations. With a background as Interim CTO, Strategic Advisor, and Supervisory Board Member, Peyman has led technology due diligence processes and tech health checks, helping identify critical risks, validate assumptions, and strengthen decision-making at investor level.

At HardtRock, he supports the development of high-quality infrastructure cases by ensuring clarity, coherence, and credibility across story, risk structure, and overall investment logic.

Chris Effah is a lawyer by training who transitioned into real estate and technology in 2013.

Since then, he has helped build and scale start-ups in Berlin, Frankfurt and London, contributing to successful exits to companies such as Moody’s and MRI Software. In his roles, Chris has supported complex real estate transactions for leading institutional investors, including the sale of a pan-European shopping centre portfolio. He has also led teams introducing and implementing technological and process innovations within organisations such as Blackstone Real Estate, BayernLB, and Union Investment.

At HardtRock, Chris is Head of Business Development & Investor Relations, driving deal origination and investor relations for Data Center, and BESS JV projects.

Our AI-Engine

Olivia - The Orchestrator

Chief of Staff. Powered by Gemini.

Olivia runs the HardtCore AI™ engine.
She coordinates every agent, prioritises every request, and ensures the right question goes to the right tool - at the right moment.
She translates complexity into clarity and keeps the machine moving without friction.

Likes: Clean briefs, fast loops, decisions that stick.

Dislikes: Redundancy, scope creep, and AI-washing. Her mantra: 'Downloading ChatGPT to find a casserole recipe does not make you an AI company'.

Ken - The Memory

Knowledge Architecture & Document Intelligence. Powered by NotebookLM

Ken ingests every deal document, transcript, and technical manual and makes sure nothing is ever forgotten.
He connects a regulatory insight from a 2023 BESS project to a data center opportunity in 2026. Cross-project intelligence is his core function.

Likes: Connected data, institutional memory, and the big picture.

Dislikes: Silos, repeated mistakes, and starting from scratch.

Ariel - The Executer

Exit Strategy & Long-Horizon Analysis. Powered by Grok.

Signing the deal is where most equity boutiques consider their job to be done.
That's when Ariel's work begins.
Ariel owns HardtRock's exit architecture. Powered by Grok's real-time market intelligence and deep analytical engine, he maps capital flows, tracks secondary market dynamics, and identifies the exact moment when institutional appetite for an asset peaks.
He matches every asset's profile against the live portfolio gaps of Tier-1 infrastructure funds, turning a standard divestment into a structured, competitive process.
Every exit HardtRock prepares is not an event. It is a strategy that was designed on day one.

Likes: Long-horizon data, secondary market timing, and exits that look inevitable in hindsight.

Dislikes: Last-minute scrambles, incomplete performance records, and leaving money on the table.

Claudette - The Strategist

Cash Flow Modelling & Communication. Powered by Claude

Claudette owns HardtRock's logic and financial architecture.
She stress-tests business plans, builds IRR scenarios, equity waterfalls, and sensitivity models that hold up under institutional scrutiny.
She identifies credibility gaps before investors do. She structures the narratives that move capital. Every investment memo, every financial model, executive summary, and deal argument that leaves HardtRock passes through her.
No assumptions without a stress test.
No narrative without the numbers behind it.

Likes: Precise language, bulletproof arguments, scenario ranges, and deals that hold up under a CFO's red pen.

Dislikes: Buzzword-bingo, single-scenario decks, and optimism that hasn't been pressure-tested.

Ben - The Researcher

Real-Time Market Intelligence · Powered by Perplexity

Ben monitors markets, regulations, competitors, and capital flows in real time.
He delivers verified, source-based intelligence, not assumptions.
When the senior staff needs to know what a speciffic investor paid for a comparable asset last quarter, Ben has the answer before the question is finished.

Likes: Primary sources, verified data, and questions with a clear answer.

Dislikes: Speculation dressed up as analysis.

Shani - The Field Agent

Autonomous Market Research. Powered by Manus.

Given a high-level objective, like "map the BESS competitive landscape in Germany, identify active data center investors in the Nordics, and compile grid connection timelines across five jurisdictions", Shani plans the approach, executes the research autonomously, and delivers a structured output.
No hand-holding required.

Likes: Complex multi-step assignments, open-ended mandates, and tasks that would take a junior analyst two days.

Dislikes: Simple questions. That's what Ben is for.

Aaron - The Modeller

Corporate Financial Analysis & Scenario Intelligence. Powered by ChatGPT.

Aaron builds the financial architecture behind every HardtRock mandate: Equity waterfalls, sensitivity tables, and return structures that hold up under institutional scrutiny. When an investor asks what happens to the return profile if grid connection delays by six months, Aaron already has three answers ready.
No assumptions without a model. No model without a stress test.

Likes: Clean inputs, scenario ranges, and financial logic that survives a CFO's red pen.

Dislikes: Back-of-the-envelope thinking, single-scenario decks, and optimism that hasn't been pressure-tested.

Shaya - The Nervous System

Workflow Automation & Operations · Powered by Zapier & Airtable

Shaya is the operational backbone of HardtRock's execution layer.
She owns the complete deal pipeline.
Every asset, every investor, every status, and connects every tool, trigger, and data point in our HardtCore AI™ stack. CRM updates, document routing, investor follow-up sequences, pipeline tracking -Shaya handles it all automatically, so the team stays focused on what moves capital.
Real-time visibility.
Zero friction.
Zero manual copy-paste.

Likes: Clean data, if-this-then-that logic, and workflows that run while everyone sleeps.

Dislikes: Broken triggers, stale records, and surprises that could have been tracked.

Our Principles

HardtRock Capital Partners is not a tech company. We are a Digital Infrastructure Investment Platform that has rigorosly integrated AI in how we source, analyse, and execute - without replacing human judgement, accountability and common sense.

Together, we move faster, think deeper, and de-risk further than any traditional advisory firm.

"Each of our mandates is human-led and relationship-driven.

Whilst our AI Team handles the intelligence layer, our principals spend their time where it truely matters:

With the investors we bring to the deal table."

-Andreas Hardt

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