Anno MMXXII — Founded
Founder · Investor · Technologist

John Wink.

An entrepreneur at the intersection of software, financial services, real assets and human performance. I build, hold and accompany companies operating in industries where trust, substance and time still matter.

Portrait — private
— I —

A philosophy of the long line.

Substance is not built in quarters. It is built in decades — through careful selection, patient ownership and the conviction that good companies need time.

I invest and build along a simple belief: technology only creates lasting value when it is anchored in real domains of life — where people work with their hands, build wealth, train their bodies and put up houses.

My approach is that of a technologist who has learned to think in balance sheets and in human stories. Code and capital are two dialects of the same discipline: trust in what endures.

What I am building should be able to outlive my grandchildren.

— II —

The vehicle.

Private holding, est. 2022
CyHolding
GmbH

Private holding company for the stewardship of entrepreneurial holdings and real assets. Founded and managed personally.

Purpose
Holdings & Real Assets
Seat
Bavaria
Ownership
Sole
Horizon
Multi-generational

CyHolding is not a fund. It is the personal platform from which I build, hold and develop companies.

Where venture capital demands speed, this vehicle seeks the opposite: patience, persistence and the freedom to think in cycles beyond a fund's lifetime. Holdings are not entered into to be sold again — but to remain.

This affords the founders I work with a quality that has become rare in the market: a partner who is not forced to exit in five years' time.

The holding invests exclusively from its own capital and manages no third-party funds. What is held here is mine.

— III —

Selected holdings.

— No. I —

YSConsulting

Health · Coaching Software

Platform and mentoring house for the coaching industry. Operator of Online Coach App — the operating system of hundreds of personal trainers and nutrition coaches across the German-speaking region.

Partner & Chief Technology Officer
— No. II —

X Capital

Financial Services

Independent advisory house for capital investment, real estate financing and wealth management. Offices in Lüdenscheid, Hamburg and Zurich.

Partner & Chief Technology Officer
— No. III —

Estate of the Art

PropTech · Switzerland

Swiss platform for the digital orchestration of real estate distribution. A combination of institutional rigour and modern software discipline.

Managing Partner & Chief Technology Officer

Further holdings exist and are not commented upon publicly.

— IV —

Domains in which I operate.

i.
Vertical Software
Applications for clearly defined industries — skilled trades, real estate distribution, financial advisory, coaching. Software that understands a specific craft and reflects the processes that are actually lived in daily practice.
ii.
Human Performance
Platforms and brands that help people grow physically, mentally and entrepreneurially. Coaching, nutrition, training science — a market that grows older than any piece of software.
iii.
Financial Services
Advisory and brokerage within the regulated sphere — capital investment, real estate financing, insurance, wealth management. Businesses in which trust is the central currency.
iv.
Real Assets
Real estate and other tangible assets as a long-term foundation of wealth. Conservatively selected, held for the long run, through the cycle if need be.
Active in
Erlangen·Lüdenscheid·Hamburg·Zurich
— Correspondence —

Let us speak.

office@johnwink.de

Enquiries are read personally. A response is given where a matter aligns with the domains of the house.