Azini Capital

Azini Capital Partners is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2004, specializing in direct-secondary transactions for growth stage private and public technology companies. They acquire shareholdings from historical investors, providing existing shareholders with options for liquidity while offering the company additional capital to maximize value and potential for successful exits. Azini Capital aims to provide solutions for historical investors seeking liquidity for structural or strategic reasons, allowing management and remaining investors to enhance the value of their company.

Michael Bennett

Managing Partner

Nicholas John Habgood

Managing Partner

Paul Hill

Partner

Keith Hoad

Finance Director

24 past transactions

Focus Solutions

Private Equity Round in 2008
Founded in 1995, they are a financial services software house with an enviable track record of providing effective advice & business automation, CRM, T&C and financial planning solutions. They work with leading financial advisers (at both network and firm level), bancassurers, product providers and mortgage lenders to deliver highly valued solutions across a range of products such as investments, pensions, protection, mortgages and general insurance.

Sonim Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
Sonim Technologies, Inc. provides ruggedized mobile phones and accessories for task workers. It offers ruggedized mobile phones, such as Sonim XP8, Sonim XP5s, and Sonim XP3 based on the Android platform that are capable of attaching to public and private wireless networks; industrial-grade accessories, including remote speaker microphones, multi-bay charging accessories, and in-vehicle hands-free voice communications solutions; cloud-based software and application services; and Rapid Deployment Kit, a portable communications system. Sonim Technologies, Inc. sells its mobile phones and accessories primarily to wireless carriers in the United States and Canada. The company serves transportation and logistics, construction, manufacturing, facilities management, energy and utility, and public sectors. The company was formerly known as NaviSpin.com, Inc. and changed its name to Sonim Technologies, Inc. in December 2001. Sonim Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

AIM Technology

Acquisition in 2008
AIM Technology provides analytical performance management software solutions for contact centers and service organizations. Its solutions enable contact center managers to enhance customer service, lower staff attrition, increase employee job satisfaction, and contribute to their organizations sustained growth. The company offers Quality Scoring, a Web-based call monitoring and grading application that helps standardize call monitoring and scoring in a contact centre environment, and AIMPerformance a purpose-built and operational performance management application that allows consumer-facing enterprises to transition management of the call center from a traditional cost center to a strategic operational asset aligned with corporate objectives. Its products are used in contact center and back office environments in the financial services, insurance, retail, travel, and outsourcing industries. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Basingstoke, the United Kingdom with additional offices in San Francisco, Denver, and Boston. As of January 7, 2009, AIM Technology operates as a subsidiary of Aspect Software.

Starhome Mach

Acquisition in 2010
Starhome Mach enables seamless and secure roaming and IoT connectivity. In 1999 Starhome Mach revolutionized the Mobile industry with the introduction of its game changing international Roaming solutions. With exceptional customer base that encompasses more than 300 mobile network operators, in over 130 countries, including 24 leading telecom groups, Starhome Mach provides a comprehensive portfolio of value-added global roaming for wholesale and retail, clearing, IoT connectivity and real-time anti-fraud solutions. Starhome Mach’s innovative solutions overcome the complex challenges and unexpected obstacles of the hyper-connected world, in order to drive real-time business impact and deliver outstanding user experience. Simple as that. For more information about Starhome Mach, visit starhomemach.com.

OneSpin Solutions

Acquisition in 2011
OneSpin Solutions is a leading provider of certified IC integrity verification solutions for building functionally correct, safe, secure and trusted integrated circuits. These solutions are based on OneSpin's widely used formal verification technology and assure the integrity of SoCs, ASICs and FPGAs. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, OneSpin partners with leaders worldwide in automotive and industrial applications; defense; avionics; artificial intelligence and machine learning; consumer electronics; and communications. Its advanced solutions are well-suited for developing heterogeneous computing platforms, using programmable logic, and designing and integrating processor cores, such as RISC-V. OneSpin's customer-oriented commitment is fundamental to its growth and success. OneSpin: Assuring IC Integrity. Visit www.OneSpin.com to learn more.

Investis

Acquisition in 2008
Investis Digital is an international, digital corporate communications company, working with nearly 2,000 public companies in over 30 countries.[1] Headquartered in London, the company has offices in New York City, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Phoenix, and Vadodara. Investis Digital mixes expertise, technology, and service to elevate brands by building connections with corporate, employee, and customer audiences, boosting brand affinity and reputation resilience, influence, revenue, and engagement.

Mobixell Networks

Venture Round in 2010
Mobixell Networks provides intelligent mobile Internet solutions to mobile operators that optimize data networks and maximize data profitability. Mobixell’s flagship product, Seamless Access, enables mobile operators to intelligently manage, optimize, and monetize the surging mobile data and video traffic while giving subscribers an exceptional user experience. Mobixell has dozens of deployments around the world, including Verizon, Vodafone, Bharti, Orange, XLcom, TIM, and Telefonica. Founded in 2000, Mobixell has offices in the US, UK, and Israel, and presence in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, India, Indonesia, and China.
Kalibrate Technologies formally known as KSS Fuels. KSS Fuels is the pre-eminent global leader in fuels pricing and retail location intelligence, with proven software, analytics and consulting solutions that draw upon more than 40 years of expertise and insight into the needs and opportunities of petroleum retailers. Clients benefit from having a single, integrated source for the data-driven intelligence necessary to optimize pricing strategies and to evaluate and manage retail network locations to enhance profitability and build long-term business value. With global headquarters in Manchester, United Kingdom, the company has North American headquarters in Florham Park, NJ as well as offices in Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Canada and international operations in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Korea and Africa.

iForce Limited

Private Equity Round in 2009
iForce Limited provides logistics services to multichannel retailers and manufacturers in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company offers a range of outbound logistics services from processing orders, picking and packing, optimizing carriers, tracking and tracing orders, and delivering the order; rebound logistics services; and a facility for onward sale to protect brand and margins. It also develops and delivers Route Genie, a SaaS-based carrier routing software application for carriage management to the retail sector. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. iForce Limited operates as a subsidiary of iForce Group Ltd.

Attraqt

Post in 2015
Attraqt (LON: ATQT) powers exceptional shopping experiences for over 240 of the world’s leading retail brands. Attraqt’s core product, Fredhopper Discovery Platform, drives relevant and inspiring ecommerce experiences through personalization, search, recommendations, internationalization and Merchandising SaaS solutions. Simple-to-use interfaces and efficient workflows enable Merchandisers to take full control and enhance the value of smart automation with their own strategic expertise and creativity. Attraqt is publicly listed on LSE: AIM and headquartered in London, with offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, Paris, Sofia, Hamburg and Sydney.

Tungsten Network

Acquisition in 2008
Tungsten Network Limited provides e-invoicing network for companies worldwide. The company also includes invoice and workflow automation featuring standards-based validated integration for Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards, and SAP certified integration. It offers services for accounts payables and accounts receivables professionals, such as e-invoicing, invoice validation, tax and VAT compliance, program management, invoice workflow automation, supplier self-service, supplier enrollment, and PO services.

Antenova

Venture Round in 2008
Antenova, Ltd. engages in the design, development, and supply of standard and custom antennas, and radio frequency antenna modules. Its products are used in mobile handsets, adapters, portable devices, laptop computers, and wireless devices. Antenova, Ltd. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Stow-cum-Quy, the United Kingdom. It has design, and sales and support centers in Taipei, Taiwan; Chicago, Illinois; and Shanghai, China, as well as manufacturing operations in Taiwan and China.

Keronite

Venture Round in 2007
Keronite International is a global technology company with an environmentally-friendly process for the surface treatment of light alloys. The Keronite process is the world’s most advanced plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) technology and delivers unrivaled performance characteristics for many titanium, aluminum, and magnesium components deployed in demanding environments. Keronite is a trusted production partner to global leaders in industries as diverse as motorsport, sub-sea exploration, aerospace and consumer electronics.

Shazam Entertainment

Venture Round in 2008
Shazam Entertainment provides an application for connecting artists and fans through music discovery. It offers Shazam, a mobile application for iOS, Android, and Windows phones that enables people to discover, explore, and share their favorite music and TV. Shazam Entertainment also provides application for MAC and Windows PC platforms. It has a strategic alliance with iHeartMedia, Cumulus, Entercom, Cox, and Sun Broadcast Group. Avery Wang, Chris Barton, Dhiraj Mukherjee, and Philip Inghelbrecht founded Shazam Entertainment on May 22, 2000, with its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom. It has additional offices in New York City, Redwood City, Los Angeles, and San Diego in California, Chicago in Illinois, and North Sydney in Australia.

Cluster Seven Services Limited

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Cluster Seven Services Limited, doing business as ClusterSeven, develops and delivers solutions for discovering, managing, and monitoring sensitive end user computer (EUC) applications, spreadsheets, data assets, and other applications. It offers Model Risk Management, a solution for managing model risk; End User Computing Risk Management solution for spreadsheet risk management, LIBOR transition risk management, and Dodd-Frank Act; and EUC Health Check, a solution to discover/inventory, risk assessment, and control monitoring. The company’s solutions are used by users to identify, track, audit, inventory, and manage EUCs to identify and mitigate risk using dashboards, regular reports, and exception alerts. It serves customers in capital markets, retail banking, asset management, hedge fund, insurance, energy, and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as audit firms in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in New York, New York; and Boston, Massachusetts. As of January 29, 2020, Cluster Seven Services Limited operates as a subsidiary of Mitratech Holdings, Inc.

Centerbeam, Inc.

Acquisition in 2010
CenterBeam, an EarthLink Business company, is a U.S.-based IT managed service provider (MSP) serving mid-size businesses. Acquired by EarthLink in 2013, CenterBeam offers a 14-year track record delivering cloud-based IT services to customers with on-demand IT capacity utilizing a subscription pricing model. CenterBeam offers executives an alternative to funding and running IT the “traditional way” (i.e. adding bodies, equipment and overhead)

Tungsten Network

Venture Round in 2011
Tungsten Network Limited provides e-invoicing network for companies worldwide. The company also includes invoice and workflow automation featuring standards-based validated integration for Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards, and SAP certified integration. It offers services for accounts payables and accounts receivables professionals, such as e-invoicing, invoice validation, tax and VAT compliance, program management, invoice workflow automation, supplier self-service, supplier enrollment, and PO services.

Incadea

Post in 2014
Incadea is a provider of enterprise software solutions and services to the global automotive retail and wholesale market and is the vendor of choice for car manufacturers and their dealer networks around the world. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, and with a presence in 87 countries, Incadea serves a growing community of approximately 70,000 end users across the globe, and supports more than 2,400 dealerships of market-leading car manufacturers.

ClusterSeven

Acquisition in 2015
ClusterSeven Ltd. provides enterprise-wide spreadsheet and data management software to financial institutions and financial reporting divisions. The company offers ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager that watches business-critical operational spreadsheets; and ClusterSeven Access Database Manager that watches Microsoft access databases. Its products are used to monitor and track spreadsheets and databases to enable users to manage governance, risk, and regulatory compliance obligations. The company serves its clients in capital markets, retail banking, asset management, hedge fund, insurance, energy, and pharmaceutical sectors, as well as audit firms. ClusterSeven Ltd. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom with an additional office in New York.

Frontier Silicon

Acquisition in 2010
A supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices

1Spatial

Post in 2015
1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data. We work with users and creators of the largest geospatial databases on earth, helping them collect, manage, plan, maintain, publish and interpret location-specific information. Our clients include National Mapping Agencies, Land Registries, utility and telecommunications companies, and government departments including emergency services, defence and census bureaus. A leader in our field, we have over forty five years’ experience and a record of continual innovation and development. Today, with an ever increasing reliance on spatial and location-critical data, demand for our expertise has never been greater.

Bolero International

Private Equity Round in 2000
Bolero is a global leader in the handling of electronic trade finance documentation and automatic settlement. As pioneers of structured documents for corporate trade, today our solutions power more than 6 million trade documents and $80bn worth of trade transactions per annum. Bolero has led the world in electronic document presentation for 12 years, bringing the industry's first electronic Bill of Lading solution to market. We provide a range of solutions designed specifically for the fully electronic management and communication of trade finance documents and related messages, including open account, letters of credit, guarantees, standbys and collections between a corporate’s trade finance function and its panel banks.

Keronite

Venture Round in 2008
Keronite International is a global technology company with an environmentally-friendly process for the surface treatment of light alloys. The Keronite process is the world’s most advanced plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) technology and delivers unrivaled performance characteristics for many titanium, aluminum, and magnesium components deployed in demanding environments. Keronite is a trusted production partner to global leaders in industries as diverse as motorsport, sub-sea exploration, aerospace and consumer electronics.

BlueArc

Private Equity Round in 2010
BlueArc is a leading provider of high performance unified network storage systems to enterprise markets, as well as data intensive markets, such as electronic discovery, entertainment, federal government, higher education, Internet services, oil and gas and life sciences. Their products support both network attached storage, or NAS, and storage area network, or SAN, services on a converged network storage platform. Aquired by HDS as of September 7th 2011.