YFM Equity Partners

YFM Equity Partners LLP is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in growth capital, recapitalization, development, expansion, management buy outs, and management buyins. The firm seeks to invest in mid and late venture, mature, and emerging growth companies. It seeks to invest in firms which are not involved in primary industries. The firm invests in small and medium sized entrepreneurs (SMEs) and companies across a range of sectors and has a particular interest in energy, materials, manufacturing, consumer staples, consumer electronics, healthcare, financials, business services, information technology, telecommunications, utility, software and services, internet, computer hardware, computers and peripherals, electronic equipments, instruments and components, retail roll-outs, utilities, consumer brands, and companies with proprietary technology. It seeks to invest in companies based in United Kingdom including; South-West, Yorkshire with a focus on North Yorkshire; South Yorkshire; West Yorkshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Humberside, and North Lincolnshire. The firm also seeks to invest in North West region with a focus on England including Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Merseyside. It also invests in the United States. It seeks to invest between £0.1 million ($0.19 million) and £10 million ($14.51 million) of equity in companies with sales value between £5 million ($0.19 million) and €50 million ($71.36 million). The firm seeks to provide £10 million ($16.13 million) for late stage and buyout investments. It seeks to take Board membership in its portfolio company. The firm prefers to hold majority stake. It seeks to exit its investments within five years through sale or listing. YFM Equity Partners Limited was founded in 1982 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Sheffield in United Kingdom.

David Bell

Partner - Head of Portfolio

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Roux Brits

Portfolio Director

Paul Cannings

Partner

Victor Christou

Partner - Head of Growth

Mike Clarke

Partner

Dan Freed

Partner

David Gee

Investment Committee Member

Colin Granger

Investment Director

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David Hall

MD

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Steve Harrison

Partner

Adam Hart

Investment Director

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Marcus Karia

Partner and CFO

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Aaron Lowery

Investment Manager

Tracey Nice

Investor Relations Support Manager

Eamon Nolan

Partner

Nigel Owens

Investment and Portfolio Director

Roshan Puri

Investment Director

Jamie Roberts

Partner

James Savage

Partner

Jonathan Simm

Partner

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Laura C. Sisson

Investment Manager

Andy Thomas

Partner

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Helen Villiers

Investment Manager

Mike White

Partner - Investor Relations

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David Wrench

Partner

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Tiffany Young

Investment Manager

117 past transactions

RMS Group Holdings Limited

Acquisition in 2007
RMS Group Holdings Limited owns and operates marine ports. The company offers shipping, stevedoring, warehousing and storage, transportation and logistics, lashing and security services, ships agency, labor supply, and chartering and shipping services. It also handles cargoes, such as containers, unit cargoes, timber, steel, and bulk and agricultural bulk products. RMS Group Holdings Limited was founded in 1983 and is based in Goole, United Kingdom.

Macro Art

Acquisition in 2014
Macro Art Ltd. provides digital printing services. It offers professional large format printing, finishing, and other digital services for indoor and outdoor solutions and substrates, as well as installation services. The company also provides UV printing services banners, vehicle and trucksides, exhibition graphics, backlit signage, building wraps, and dye sublimation printing services. In addition, it supplies dye sublimated textiles. Macro Art Ltd. was founded in 1992 and is based in St Neots, United Kingdom.

Elucidat

Private Equity Round in 2019
Elucidat Ltd operates cloud-based e-learning authoring tool and platform for global organizations. Its platform helps users to create, manage, and measure people-centered e-learning. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Amino Communications

Series C in 2003
Amino Communications is an IPTV and hybrid/OTT innovator – bringing new entertainment products and solutions to a global market. With over 850 customers in 85 countries – and over five million devices sold – Amino’s award-winning solutions are deployed by major network operators and service providers worldwide. Amino’s speed-to-market, agility and leading-edge technology has secured important partnerships with global vendors, including Intel® and Ericsson, to deliver the rich entertainment experience consumers are demanding.

Connect2Media

Venture Round in 2010
Connect2Media, a Manchester, UK-based digital entertainment publisher. The company, which publishes, develops and distributes games across multiple platforms including mobile, web and interactive TV, will use the funds to expand its North American operations, following the acquisition of US business Sennari, a market leader in prize incentivized games for mobile phones.

Selima Ltd.

Acquisition in 2012
Selima provides software solutions and managed services to public sector organizations and large businesses in the United Kingdom. It offers human resource, payroll, and expense management software solutions. The company provides EnvoyWorld, a human resource, payroll, and expenses solution that provides solutions to companies and public sector organizations.

e2E Engineering

Venture Round in 2017
e2E Services was established in November 1999 to provide expert consultancy to the telecommunications industry. In May 2010 a sister company was formed to develop an innovative technology that now forms the basis of the NEATTMaccess product development. e2E Engineering was also created at this time serving as a holding company and parent to the other companies, completing the current group structure. Both e2E Services and e2E Satcom are owned by e2E Engineering .

Cozart

Venture Round in 2001
Cozart is a developer of the first hand-held device using saliva samples for drugs of abuse testing.

Cambrian Park & Leisure Homes

Acquisition in 2014
Cambrian Park & Leisure Homes Ltd. designs and manufactures lodges for individuals and families in the United Kingdom. It manufactures Cottage, Horizon, Lakeshore, Maritime, Menai, Oakley, Oakmere, Plantation, Prospect, Reef, Sandalwood, Shearwater, Plantation Plus, and Verity models. Its lodges are available at various holiday or residential parks. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Porthmadog, United Kingdom. As of March 21, 2017, Cambrian Park & Leisure Homes Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Sovereign Park & Leisure Homes Ltd.

Ness Clothing

Private Equity Round in 2015
Ness Clothing design and produce gorgeous women's clothing, handbags and accessories. Taking the staple Scottish tartan, adding a unique and contemporary twist, the Ness range is full of bold colours and style that gives tweed clothing a modern look.

Freshroast Coffee

Acquisition in 1996
Freshroast Coffee provides processes, packages, and markets coffee, tea, and other vending ingredients to distributors and beverage systems.

TravelTek

Venture Round in 2021
Traveltek Group Ltd. delivers travel technology solutions to travel agents, tour operators, and wholesalers. Its portfolio includes packaging solutions; consumer-facing Websites; integrated booking platforms; back-office systems; a customer relationship management solution to manage clients and enquiries; a tour operating platform that helps to control pricing and distribute contracts; and an application programming interface that connects to a database of travel suppliers. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in East Kilbride, United Kingdom.

Innovative Safety Systems

Private Equity Round in 2020
Innovative Safety Systems Ltd manufactures and supplies safety systems for commercial vehicles and automobiles. Its products include reverse camera systems, vehicle CCTV, hard disk recording (DVR), reversing radar, fuel-saving devices, vehicle tracking systems, light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, and warning beacons. Innovative Safety Systems Ltd was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Pershore, United Kingdom.

Tonkotsu

Private Equity Round in 2019
Tonkotsu Limited, trading as Tonkotsu, operates Japanese ramen restaurants in Birmingham and London. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sarian Systems

Private Equity Round in 2000
Sarian Systems, Ltd.was acquired by Digi International Limited. Sarian Systems, Ltd. manufactures wired and wireless communications devices for the mission critical applications. Its products include Internet protocol, integrated services digital network (ISDN), wireless and wired, multifunction, asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), and multi port routers, as well as ISDN multiplexers, ISDN/virtual private network concentrators, terminal adaptors, global positioning system antennas, SIM card protectors, mounting brackets, GSM network and external antennas, telemetry devices, filters and adaptors, and power supplies. The company’s products are used for broadband backup, network performance monitoring, and EPOS transactions. Sarian Systems serves retail, finance, lottery, telemetry, remote access, and broadband markets. It sells its products through distributors. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Ilkley, the United Kingdom with additional offices in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Professional Music Technology

Acquisition in 2019
Professional Music Technology is an award-winning musical instrument and equipment retailer.

TeraView Limited

Venture Round in 2012
TeraView Limited develops and provides terahertz instruments that generate, detect, and manipulate radiation to characterize a range of materials in the United Kingdom and internationally. Its terahertz products include imaging modules, spectroscopy modules, large area terahertz scanning systems, medical imaging probes, stand-off explosives detection systems, imaging for tablet coatings and cores, and fibre-launched external terahertz devices, as well as time domain reflectometry systems for fault analysis in semiconductor packages. The company's services include pharmaceutical contract terahertz analysis, terahertz applications support, and service support. Its products are used in various applications, such as paint coating inspection; semiconductor packaging inspection; pharmaceutical research for attributes, including crystalline structure, thickness, and chemical composition; non-destructive testing; material characterization; and solar industries. TeraView Limited was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Relative Insight

Private Equity Round in 2022
Relative Insight Ltd offers a platform for brands to understand and resonate with audiences by turning language into data. It offers audience research tool, that uses comparative language analysis which is helpful for marketers to discover real insights. Relative Insight Ltd was formerly known as Isis Forensics Ltd. and changed its name to Relative Insight Ltd in October, 2014. Relative Insight Ltd was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Lancaster, United Kingdom with additional office in London, United Kingdom.

Quality Clouds Ltd.

Venture Round in 2022
Quality Clouds Ltd provides code analytics solutions for SaaS platforms. It helps organizations understand the quality and software architecture of their SaaS development. The company is based in London, United Kingdom.

PowerOasis Limited

Private Equity Round in 2011
PowerOasis are a UK based company providing an Energy Management platform that enables Licensees, such as Lithium Ion battery vendors, to build and market new energy propositions and enter new markets. The Platform is a comprehensive software suite which enables the internet of energy by providing control, monitoring and management of all energy generation, energy storage and energy efficiency assets. The 4 layer software architecture, allows the platform to be easily customised to meet the specific needs of licensees.

Force24

Series A in 2020
Force24 is proud to be the only UK-grown marketing automation company, built on a solid foundation of core values which run deep within the business. They give their clients access to marketing techniques and technology proven to deliver results. They provide the highest quality creative output along side a completely account managed service, delivering results through best practice. Their values allow each and every individual to shape their business, move forward with purpose, remain lean and agile, and above all, continue to deliver excellent work to their clients.

ARRACO Global Markets

Private Equity Round in 2020
ARRACO Global Markets is an interdealer broker specializing in matching buyers and sellers in global physical & OTC cleared commodity markets.

Bluebell Telecom

Venture Round in 2010
Bluebell is a fast-growing telecommunication reseller business based in the North of England. They are a customer-centric business with a heritage of servicing corporate customers both large and small. They position themselves as being a competitive rather than a cheap alternative to BT. Our objective is to make a real difference by improving service levels & reducing overhead.

Matillion

Series B in 2018
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

dsp

Private Equity Round in 2021
Award-winning managed and professional services for Microsoft and Oracle database, Oracle E-Business Suite and Agile development. dsp develop systems, support customisations, implement upgrades, deliver fully managed or hosted IT systems and offer best practice professional consultancy.

Insider Technologies

Acquisition in 2012
Insider Technologies Limited (ITL) is a UK-based software house and services company.

FreshT

Series A in 2010
FreshT Limited, a development stage company, intends to develop a global SaaS business. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Daresbury, the United Kingdom.
CPMS stands for Collaborative Project Management Services. It's not just a name, it's our delivery philosophy. We work with our clients to achieve common goals.Originally specialising within the rail industry across all disciplines.CPMS simplify highly complex and extremely political multi-disciplinary projects. They systematically break down problems, set out strategic and realistic.

President Engineering Group

Acquisition in 2010
President Engineering Group designs, manufactures, and distributes cryogenic valves for industrial and liquefied natural gas industries. The company offers manual globe, needle globe, actuated globe, gate, emergency shut-off gate, ball, check, actuated ball, float level isolation, and safety relief valves; and pressure regulators, manifold fill assemblies, strainers, and flow divertors. It also manufactures and sells dust and fire suppression products; flow and pressure measurement and control products; and machine safety systems and filtration equipment.

Digital-Healthcare

Venture Round in 2008
Digital Healthcare is a health care company. The company has been acquired by EMIS Group.

Formstack

Venture Round in 2014
Formstack is a workplace productivity solution built to transform the way people collect information and put it to work. With its powerful data collection and process automation capabilities, Formstack reduces data chaos and solves important business problems. Formstack’s offerings include intuitive data collection products, advanced workflow functionality, payment processing capabilities, automated document generation, and a suite of advanced application integrations.

Mtivity

Series C in 2007
Mtivity Limited provides Web-based marketing and print management solutions for marketing departments, printers, print buyers, and studio managers. Its products include Services Hub, a technology platform that enables print service providers to streamline workflow and increase visibility across the supply chain; Print Cycle, a software as a service solution that automates and streamlines day-to-day operations; and Campaign Centre, a multimedia platform that enables to store and manage various digital assets, campaigns, and marketing materials. The company also provides various services, such as on-site analysis, support, training, and development. Its customers include print services companies and non-profit environmental agencies. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Gentronix Limited

Venture Round in 2005
gentronix provides services and solutions that help companies reduce attrition rates and ensure safer products across a wide range of chemistry driven industries. Their primary focus is on providing better hazard identification assays for genotoxicity through the use of their patented human cell GADD45a reporter assays GreenScreen® HC and BlueScreen HC.

Leengate Valves Ltd

Acquisition in 2014
Leengate Valves engages in the wholesale supply of valves for gas, water, HVAC, steam, process, power, and agriculture applications.

Sirigen

Venture Round in 2012
Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen’s amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence™ (HSF™) detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. Sirigen’s versatile and HSF™ technology simplifies sample processing and instrumentation requirements in both immunodiagnostic and nucleic acid based applications, and facilitates high volume screening in theradiagnostics and other personal care applications.

Ness Clothing

Debt Financing in 2015
Ness Clothing design and produce gorgeous women's clothing, handbags and accessories. Taking the staple Scottish tartan, adding a unique and contemporary twist, the Ness range is full of bold colours and style that gives tweed clothing a modern look.

Harvey Jones Kitchens

Acquisition in 2008
Harvey Jones is a philosophy is to offer understated, premium-quality cabinetry, combined with the best in thoughtful design and service, whilst always offering exceptional value for money. All of our kitchens are designed and made to order, unique to the needs of their owners. No matter what sort of look you choose for your home, our talented designers are on hand to make your dream space a reality. They will work closely with you to design a space that meets your brief and exceeds your expectations.

Intelligent Office UK Ltd

Acquisition in 2014
Intelligent Office UK Ltd. provides support services to the legal sector in the United Kingdom and internationally. It offers managed services, including print and mailroom, front of house, matter management, and procurement and contract management. The company also provides secretarial services, such as team assistants and document production; and transcription services. Intelligent Office UK Ltd. was formerly known as Docuserve Limited and changed its name to Intelligent Office UK Ltd. in January 2006. The company was founded in 1982 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom.

MMIC Solutions

Series A in 2008
MMIC Solutions is deploying technology to allow the commercial use of high frequencies in the millimeter wave bands. The company develops, manufactures, and supplys innovative solutions for a range of systems operating at frequencies between 50GHz and 250GHz

Peckforton Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2012
Peckforton Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a fast growing, dynamic speciality pharmaceutical company that manufactures, distributes and sells prescription and OTC products in the UK and Europe.The company is focused into two divisions, Branded and Hospital. Each division has distinct and separate requirements to support both the patient and the healthcare professional, with the primary focus on ensuring and maintaining the ‘quality of supply’ and the ‘quality of medicine’.

Business Collaborator

Acquisition in 2014
Business Collaborator make software that helps Their customers build the future. Since 1998, They have developed document management, project collaboration and Building Information Modelling (BIM) software, supporting Their customers at every step of the journey. To deliver the best document management, project collaboration and BIM software, wrapped up in a delightful user experience.

RMF Engineering

Acquisition in 1997
RMF Engineering designs and fabricates process plant equipment. Its products include heat exchangers, pressure vessels, and pipeworks.

Micrima

Venture Round in 2008
Micrima Ltd. spun out from research at the University of Bristol. The Micrima team is developnig radio-wave technology for detecting breast cancer. The technology is non-invasive, non-ionising and inexpensive. The imaging technology has received extensive validation in the laboratory and is now undergoing first human use trials.

B2M Solutions

Private Equity Round in 2016
B2M provides ‘best-of-breed’ solutions for managing the mobile enterprise. Their Line-of-Business (LOB) offerings take enterprise-class mobile device management to an unprecedented level; from asset and device management to supplier and application monitoring. Our innovative approach enables you to easily keep track of your entire mobile enterprise; including end-users, technology and suppliers.

EvoDental Centre Limited

Venture Round in 2012
EvoDental Centre Limited, a dental implant centre, provides dental implant treatment solutions. It offers simple and complex implantology services. The company also operates as a teaching centre for The University of Manchester postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, and M.Sc. courses in dental implantology. EvoDental Centre Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in Huyton, United Kingdom.

CellTran

Venture Round in 2005
CellTran Limited engages in the research and development of products for the regeneration of tissue and the healing of wounds. The company offers Myskin that is used for the treatment of difficult to heal wounds; Lyphoderm, a freeze-dried lysate from cultured human keratinocytes that is formulated into a hydrophilic gel; and Ulcodress, an integrated wound care dressing that provides control of moisture, infection, and proteases within the wound area. It provides skin banking services, as well as contract manufacture services in the fields of materials fabrication and cell culture. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Sheffield, the United Kingdom. As of October 28, 2008, CellTran Limited operates as a subsidiary of York Pharma plc.

Ncam Technologies Limited

Private Equity Round in 2018
Ncam develops augmented reality technology for the entertainment industries. At its core is a unique camera tracking solution that offers film & TV productions virtual and augmented graphic technology without limits. The device uses a lightweight sensor bar attached to a camera to track natural features in the environment, allowing the camera to move freely in all locations while generating a continuous stream of extremely precise positional and rotational information that can feed all industry standard graphics engines via Ncam's powerful and flexible SDK.

Digital-Healthcare

Venture Round in 2005
Digital Healthcare is a health care company. The company has been acquired by EMIS Group.

CellTran

Venture Round in 2007
CellTran Limited engages in the research and development of products for the regeneration of tissue and the healing of wounds. The company offers Myskin that is used for the treatment of difficult to heal wounds; Lyphoderm, a freeze-dried lysate from cultured human keratinocytes that is formulated into a hydrophilic gel; and Ulcodress, an integrated wound care dressing that provides control of moisture, infection, and proteases within the wound area. It provides skin banking services, as well as contract manufacture services in the fields of materials fabrication and cell culture. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Sheffield, the United Kingdom. As of October 28, 2008, CellTran Limited operates as a subsidiary of York Pharma plc.

Frescobol Carioca

Series A in 2019
Frescobol Carioca Limited manufactures and sells men’s swimming trunks and resort wear. The company offers shorts, shirts, T-shirts, polo shirts, active wear, trousers, and robes; beach bats and accessories; shoes, linen towels, beach accessories, hats, bags, and scarves; and gifts for him, her, and kids. It sells its products through its own and other retail stores, as well as online. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
The International Recruitment Group (IRG) offer a tailored recruitment service, focusing on the delivery of both business and IT specialists across select industries on both a permanent and contract basis.

VYPR

Private Equity Round in 2021
Vypr is a data validation platform that enables manufacturers and retailers to understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and costs spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster. Their industry-leading process combines their research into behavioural science with their well-segmented consumer panel. The client is in full control, testing every aspect of their product innovation, from packaging, pricing, naming, product claims, ranging, and more.

GTK UK

Acquisition in 2013
GTK is a world-class provider of high-quality electronics solutions, including standard and custom cable assemblies, connectors and optoelectronics - which include TFT displays and PVMA technologies. We also offer a full manufacturing solutions service, including PCB enclosures, full PCB assembly and packaging options. Founded in 1990, GTK has over 25 years’ experience in sourcing, designing and supplying customers with a range of high-performance products.

Wadaro Limited

Venture Round in 2007
Wadaro Limited offers a performance monitoring technology for the fixed-line, mobile, and wireless communication industry. It offers products, such as VPLMN, which monitors the performance of a roaming partner network as it serves the subscriber; HPLMN that monitors the network and terminals; and Hotspot, which monitors dual mode terminals and wireless access points in a fixed-mobile converged service context. The company has locations in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. Wadaro Limited was founded in 2005 and is based in Daresbury, the United Kingdom.

Sheet Piling (UK)

Acquisition in 2008
Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd is one of the United Kingdom's leading driven steel sheet piling contractors, with our head office in Preston and regional office in London, specialising in all aspects of driven sheet piling including permanent sheet pile basements, all forms of temporary sheet piling works and sheet pile installation. We own and operate a comprehensive range of specialist modern piling equipment including 'state of the art' Giken Silent Piling Vibrationless Hydraulic pile pressing equipment and Telescopic Leader Rigs equipped with the very latest variable moment vibratory hammers and augering equipment. In stock we currently hold over 8,000 tonnes of both new and used steel sheet piles for sale, which enable us to react promptly to any emergency situations and also to offer reduced lead-in periods for commencing even the largest of sheet piling projects. Sheet Piling (UK)'s contractors are experienced in delivering innovative sheet pile solutions in a wide range of sectors including industrial, commercial and residential; permanent steel sheet pile basements and retaining walls; temporary works and bracing; rail and road infrastructure and ports and harbours.

New Net Technologies

Venture Round in 2010
New Net Technologies (NNT) is a global provider of data security and compliance software solutions focused on helping organizations reduce their risk and achieve compliance. NNT delivers Continuous Compliance Assurance, powered by unique, Closed-Loop Intelligent Change Control™. Combined with NNT FAST Cloud™, changes are automatically evaluated as safe in real-time, significantly reducing the time needed to guarantee security for your IT environment. Our mission is to build and bring to market cyber security and compliance solutions that are easiest to use, most fully featured, and most affordable.
SharpCloud is a data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories that make even complex interdependencies easy to digest. The tool enables you to visualize high-level strategic goals alongside tactical initiatives and reveals meaningful insights that inform decision making. In addition, SharpCloud provides a shared workspace that connects your people and accelerates real-time collaboration, all in one tool.

Matillion

Series A in 2016
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

Springboard Research

Acquisition in 2014
Springboard quantifies foot traffic (footfall in the UK) in retail stores, shopping malls (centres), and downtowns (high streets). Using sensors, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, we provide actionable business intelligence informing a wide range of use cases, from customer occupancy to driving retail sales. Our expertise in site implementation and operations make installation seamless. We can leverage your current security hardware and expand site coverage through integrating our own technology, providing customers with a flexible, scalable retail counting solution that works in real-time with pinpoint accuracy. As the trusted expert for the New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, and other leading media, we share insights into the future of retail during times of Covid-19. The Springboard solution has been successfully installed at thousands of locations worldwide. Come see why the world’s leading brands trust Springboard.

DxS

Private Equity Round in 2004
DxS (now a Qiagen company) is a personalized medicine company providing molecular diagnostics to aid doctors and drug companies in selecting therapies for patients. Working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies, DxS will support the development and sales of targeted cancer therapies by providing companion diagnostic products and services. Since its founding in 2001, DxS has experienced considerable growth and firmly established itself as a leader in companion diagnostics, having recently secured deals with leading healthcare companies such as Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, and AstraZeneca. In addition, DxS has an exclusive agreement with Roche Diagnostics for the global distribution of its diagnostic products. DxS has a portfolio of cancer mutation products including both diagnostic and assays for research use. The TheraScreen® range of CE-marked (IVD) diagnostic* kits can identify genetic tumor mutations that affect how patients respond to cancer therapies, thus enabling doctors to provide the most beneficial treatment. DxS currently produce two diagnostic kits, TheraScreen K-RAS and TheraScreen EGFR29. The TheraScreen: K-RAS Mutation kit is a companion diagnostic for Vectibix® (Amgen) and Erbitux® (Merck KGaA) for the treatment of colorectal cancer. DxS was acquired by Qiagen (NASDQ : QGEN) and continues to operate from the heart of Manchester’s Technology Quarter in the UK.

Panintelligence Limited

Series A in 2019
Panintelligence Limited provides business intelligence software. It offers The Panintelligence dashboard, a business intelligence application that allows users to access their data in real-time, as well as summarizes information held in multiple databases as a series of customizable and interactive charts, speedometers, and tables. The company serves education, business solutions, marketing services, fraud prevention and payments, IT, business solutions, distribution and logistics, and services industries. Panintelligence Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom.

TEV

Acquisition in 2017
TEV specialises in the design, manufacture and supply of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC&R) products. It operates through two divisions, Quartz (Chilled Water Fan Coils, Chillers and Chilled Beams) and Marstair (air conditioning and refrigeration products). TEV’s pedigree goes back to 1971 and is proud to manufacture in the UK. It has now occupied the present site at Brighouse in West Yorkshire for 45 years and today this facility employs more than 50 people.

TravelTek

Venture Round in 2016
Traveltek Group Ltd. delivers travel technology solutions to travel agents, tour operators, and wholesalers. Its portfolio includes packaging solutions; consumer-facing Websites; integrated booking platforms; back-office systems; a customer relationship management solution to manage clients and enquiries; a tour operating platform that helps to control pricing and distribute contracts; and an application programming interface that connects to a database of travel suppliers. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in East Kilbride, United Kingdom.

OchreSoft Technologies

Series B in 2007
OchreSoft Ltd is a privately owned company formed in 2003 out of a research program originating within BPE Solicitors. OchreSoft is an independent software house specialising in the legal application market.

Seven Technologies Group

Venture Round in 2012
Seven Technologies Group provides electronic, mechanical, and software engineering services. The company manufactures intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems and long range surveillance systems and rugged sensor systems which includes tracking devices, locating devices, RF transceivers, and monitoring software; and electro-optics, data communications, triggering and, cueing, RF intelligence. It also provides support, repair, and quality and assurance services. The company serves its systems to military, law enforcement, and border security sector. Seven Technologies Group was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Lisburn, United Kingdom.

Intamac Systems

Private Equity Round in 2011
Intamac Systems Ltd. operates a cloud based platform enabling connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT). It helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and product vendors to evolve their business models, service offerings and customer engagement for the connected home with IoT platform. It also offer a full access licence programme where companies can have complete control of the IoT software to own, operate, and develop custom solutions in a low risk way. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Northampton, United Kingdom with additional offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Trivandrum, India.

Binx Health Limited

Series B in 2014
Binx Health Limited, an in vitro diagnostics company, develops and provides diagnostic instrument and disposable cartridge systems for decentralized laboratory, point-of–care, and other near-patient settings. It offers io System, a diagnostic platform that is designed to detect the presence of infectious diseases, such as chlamydia and MRSA; and Callisto, a system that provides a solution to meet a range of throughput requirements. The company provides solutions for sexually transmitted infections and hospital acquired infections. Binx Health Limited has a strategic partnership with Sherlock Biosciences. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Trowbridge, United Kingdom.

Domainex Ltd.

Venture Round in 2008
Domainex Ltd is a contract research company that was established in 2001 and operates from Cambridge UK. In May 2007 Domainex merged with NCE Discovery to form a new integrated company with capabilities in biology and chemistry. Service division offers technologies designed to clone and express challenging genes to give high-quality recombinant protein displaying functional domains of the target. We also provide computational and medicinal chemistry for the design and synthesis of candidate drugs aimed at our customers' target proteins.

GO Outdoors Limited

Acquisition in 1998
GO Outdoors is a small company that set out on a big adventure more than 40 years ago. Sheffield's 'Camping & Caravanning Centre' first opened its doors in 1969, and soon became known simply as 'CCC' to locals. CCC quickly earned a strong reputation for excellent customer service and became a landmark within Yorkshire's outdoor community.

Vibtech Ltd

Private Equity Round in 2001
Vibtech Ltd provides designs, develops, and manufactures seismic recording equipment for use in oil and gas survey and exploration. It provides Infinite Telemetry System, a geophysical recorder that allows users to perform Cellular Seismic acquisition.

Checkmate Fire Solutions

Acquisition in 2018
Checkmate Fire is a specialist passive fire protection installation & survey company, providing professionally managed, cost effective fire compliant services nationally to a wide range of clients.

Silistix

Series A in 2007
Silistix enables semiconductor companies to get "their designs right the first time using predictable NoC (Network-on-Chip) solutions for managing chip complexity."

ImmunoBiology Ltd

Venture Round in 2012
ImmBio is developing next-generation vaccines targeting a number of serious infectious diseases, based on its proprietary technologies. ImmBio is developing next-generation vaccines against serious infectious disease targets, utilising its proprietary technology platforms to directly induce immunity via dendritic cells. ImmBio's lead programme is a vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease, PnuBioVax™, that has recently progressed into full clinical development with the successful completion of a Phase I Clinical trial.

Harris Hill

Acquisition in 2007
Harris Hill is a charity recruitment consultancy with the largest selection of charity vacancies in the UK. Use our charity job search to find your ideal charity role.

Symetrica

Series C in 2007
Symetrica Ltd. provides integrated radiation detection and identification technologies for custom organizations and government departments worldwide. Its technology for homeland security include gamma-ray detection and identification sub-systems; helium-3 neutron detector technology; and spectroscopic PVT detector systems. The company serves the military and homeland security markets. Symetrica Ltd. was founded in 2002 and is based in Southampton, United Kingdom with additional office in Maynard, Massachusetts.

Sipsynergy

Venture Round in 2016
We provide everything for our partners, be it provisioning, management or billing systems, and it all works very simply. Our services are annuity based, which means sipsynergy partners and their customers only pay for what they use. The benefits of the model are easily understood by the end customer, they can relax in the knowledge that they always know exactly where they are. For example if a customer takes on additional staff or sites, they’ll know the uplift in costs in a predictable and manageable fashion. For organisations who may have been used to selling part of a communications solution e.g. servers and workstations there is a ready opportunity to enter into the rapidly growing hosted voice and UC market. For sipsynergy partners things have changed for the better forever.

Mangar International

Acquisition in 2014
Mangar International Ltd. designs, manufactures, and supplies inflatable moving and handling and bathing equipment for the elderly, disabled, and emergency services markets. It offers bath products, such as bath lifts and inflatable bath lifts, bathing cushions, archimedes bath lift, and surfer bather bathlifts. The company also provides bedroom equipment, including handy pillow lifts, sit-u-up pillow lifts, and leg lifters. In addition, it offers patient professional moving and handling equipment, such as elk lifting cushions and camel lifting chairs. Mangar International Ltd. was founded in 1981 and is based in Presteigne, United Kingdom with an additional office in Stockport, United Kingdom; the United States; and Germany.

Money Health Check

Debt Financing in 2012
Money Health Check is handle claims concerning Payment Protection Insurance policies.

Images At Work Limited

Acquisition in 1999
Images At Work provides uniforms, career wear and personal protective equipment to a number of blue chip companies.

Ferrabyrne

Private Equity Round in 2016
Ferrabyrne Ltd. designs, manufactures, and services rubber to metal bonded components, rubber moldings, and anti-roll bar and traction center assemblies. The company provides bearings and bushes, mounts and springs, bump stops, anti-roll bar systems, traction center assemblies, link assemblies, secondary suspensions, couplings and shafts, insulators, and pool cleaners. It serves rail, commercial vehicles, wind turbines, industrial, electrical, and leisure markets worldwide. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Littlehampton, United Kingdom.

DisplayPlan

Acquisition in 2012
DisplayPlan is specialists in delivering retail display programmes for the world's most prominent brands and retailers. 
Displayplan is an international business with over 65 employees in four offices worldwide. Founded in 1984, we have 30 years of experience providing creative solutions for delivering retail display programmes. Three business segments support brand and retailer programmes:

Waterfall Catering Group

Acquisition in 2007
Waterfall Catering Group is a UK based leader in service provision for the education, care, welfare and blue collar B&I markets. Operating in over 700 units, our aim is to deliver not just catering, but specialist food policy, clinic care and nutritional welfare provision to each client.We believe in delivered expert teams through our unique culture of passion, integrity and teamwork.

PowerOasis Limited

Venture Round in 2013
PowerOasis are a UK based company providing an Energy Management platform that enables Licensees, such as Lithium Ion battery vendors, to build and market new energy propositions and enter new markets. The Platform is a comprehensive software suite which enables the internet of energy by providing control, monitoring and management of all energy generation, energy storage and energy efficiency assets. The 4 layer software architecture, allows the platform to be easily customised to meet the specific needs of licensees.

Intamac Systems

Private Equity Round in 2014
Intamac Systems Ltd. operates a cloud based platform enabling connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT). It helps original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and product vendors to evolve their business models, service offerings and customer engagement for the connected home with IoT platform. It also offer a full access licence programme where companies can have complete control of the IoT software to own, operate, and develop custom solutions in a low risk way. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Northampton, United Kingdom with additional offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Trivandrum, India.

Outpost VFX

Private Equity Round in 2021
Outpost VFX creates stunning visual effects for film and high-end TV projects.

Deep-Secure

Venture Round in 2009
Deep-Secure Limited, a Reading, UK-based internet security company. Deep-Secure provides products protecting against threats to security via high defence network border gateway technology. It enables customers to maintain network separation and apply content inspection so as to defend sensitive and protected information from intruders.

Hutchinson Networks Ltd.

Private Equity Round in 2018
Hutchinson Networks to become internationally recognised as a global IT network services provider that offers multi-vendor, impartial solutions to its broad range of customers both in the channel and directly, providing high quality support throughout the entire lifecycle of their customers' networks.At Hutchinson Networks, they believe that their customers' networks should be robust, secure and capable of delivering the services that they desire. Hutchinson Networks has the strategic objective of maximizing its global opportunity by being the most customer focused network services and solutions provider.

The Heritage Window Company

Acquisition in 2013
The Heritage Window Company Limited manufactures aluminum windows and doors for architects and discerning homeowners in the United Kingdom. The company offers traditional style replacement double glazed windows; and slimline aluminum windows for replacing period steel windows. It also offers powder coated aluminum windows and doors, aluminum bi-folding doors, handles, joinery and glazing, and accessories for windows. The company offers its products through showrooms in Kent, Surrey, and Buckinghamshire. The Heritage Window Company Limited was incorporated in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sirigen

Venture Round in 2011
Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen’s amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence™ (HSF™) detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. Sirigen’s versatile and HSF™ technology simplifies sample processing and instrumentation requirements in both immunodiagnostic and nucleic acid based applications, and facilitates high volume screening in theradiagnostics and other personal care applications.

Gnodal

Seed Round in 2008
Gnodal was founded in 2007 by a world-class team of IT infrastructure design experts with a proven track record for delivering best-of-breed networking systems that meet the demands of their customers. The team's experience and collaborative spirit in working together on design, manufacture and deployment, has led to the definition of a technology that is revolutionizing the data center. Gnodal is building the largest, fastest, most efficient and scalable technology in the world for the high performance data center.

Unbiased.co.uk Limited

Series A in 2020
Unbiased.co.uk Limited was incorporated in 2006 and is based in London, United Kingdom. owns and operates a marketplace platform. The company through its platform allows users to look and ask consultation from already register consultant and advisors. Unbiased.co.uk Limited was incorporated in 2006 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Harlands Labels

Acquisition in 2003
Harlands Labels supplier of high quality printed self-adhesive labels supplying decorative, promotional and extended text labels for many leading international brands.

Primal Pictures

Private Equity Round in 2001
Primal Pictures create and publish the world’s most medically accurate and detailed 3D graphic rendering of human anatomy based on imaging data. Their benchmark anatomy, physiology and clinical content is widely accepted as the best in class and used by many thousands of health science educators, students and practitioners worldwide to teach, learn and practice. Today, they continue to revise and upgrade their products to provide their clients with cutting-edge digital resources.

B2M Solutions

Venture Round in 2014
B2M provides ‘best-of-breed’ solutions for managing the mobile enterprise. Their Line-of-Business (LOB) offerings take enterprise-class mobile device management to an unprecedented level; from asset and device management to supplier and application monitoring. Our innovative approach enables you to easily keep track of your entire mobile enterprise; including end-users, technology and suppliers.

Arcus Global Limited

Series A in 2019
Arcus Global Limited designs and develops cloud-based products for the public sector. The company offers citizen services that include, inform-engage, trading standards, taxi licensing, licensing, food hygiene, pollution control, pest control, private water supplies, health and safety, parking and permits, antisocial behavior, registrars, regulatory services, digital services hub, local government CRM, and Insight-as-a-Service services; Place that include, gazetteer, planning, land charges, building control, built environment, waste management, and fire safety services; and amazon web services. Arcus Global Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

KeTech

Venture Round in 2015
KeTech is a multi-disciplined group of companies specialising in communication systems integration. The vertical markets that they target are: transportation, industrial, defense, and services.

Sirigen

Venture Round in 2010
Harnessing the power of novel light-harvesting polymeric materials, Sirigen’s amplification technology offers High Sensitivity Fluorescence™ (HSF™) detection to the Diagnostic and Life Science marketplaces. Sirigen’s versatile and HSF™ technology simplifies sample processing and instrumentation requirements in both immunodiagnostic and nucleic acid based applications, and facilitates high volume screening in theradiagnostics and other personal care applications.

4net Technologies

Private Equity Round in 2017
FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions. The company is delivering the technology that helps to provide better customer experience, the tools that encourage employee collaboration and better ways of working, and the managed support that allows them to focus on running their business, not their communications infrastructure. FourNet identifies the best engineering, customer service, and technical talent from across the country then target, empower, and incentivize them to help them deliver for its customer. It also provides professional services, engineering, and project management skills to help its customers achieve their digital transformation and customer experience goals. They focus on the business objectives that their customers are trying to achieve and then align everyone in delivering that goal. FourNet was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Manchester, UK.

ACC Aviation

Acquisition in 2014
Acc Aviation Ltd. provides aircraft charter, flight management, aircraft leasing, consulting, aircraft sales, and re-marketing.

Wooshii Limited

Series A in 2019
Wooshii is the leading video production marketplace connecting buyers to the video making industry. BUYERS Buyers need quality, bespoke and increasing volumes of video production services. Getting videos made is still however a painful process. VIDEO MAKERS Video makers are mostly freelance and fragmented. They need need paid projects and work. Wooshii is the marketplace that brings these two parties together.

Wakefield Acoustics Limited

Acquisition in 2014
Wakefield Acoustics Limited engages in the design, manufacture, supply, and installation of bespoke industrial and environmental noise control solutions to manufacturing companies worldwide. The company offers acoustic enclosures, rectangular splitter attenuators, circular attenuators, process air/gas silencers, acoustic screens, noise havens, and acoustic louvers. It serves customers in power generation, oil and gas, water and waste water treatment, iron and steel, food and drink, aerospace, industrial processing, waste management and recycling, and general manufacturing industries. Wakefield Acoustics Limited was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Cleckheaton, United Kingdom.

Arcus Global Limited

Series A in 2018
Arcus Global Limited designs and develops cloud-based products for the public sector. The company offers citizen services that include, inform-engage, trading standards, taxi licensing, licensing, food hygiene, pollution control, pest control, private water supplies, health and safety, parking and permits, antisocial behavior, registrars, regulatory services, digital services hub, local government CRM, and Insight-as-a-Service services; Place that include, gazetteer, planning, land charges, building control, built environment, waste management, and fire safety services; and amazon web services. Arcus Global Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

PowerOasis Limited

Funding Round in 2011
PowerOasis are a UK based company providing an Energy Management platform that enables Licensees, such as Lithium Ion battery vendors, to build and market new energy propositions and enter new markets. The Platform is a comprehensive software suite which enables the internet of energy by providing control, monitoring and management of all energy generation, energy storage and energy efficiency assets. The 4 layer software architecture, allows the platform to be easily customised to meet the specific needs of licensees.

Friska Limited

Venture Round in 2017
Friska was founded in 2009 on the idea of Feel Good Food: fresh and creative food made from ingredients we’re proud of and served in a fun and friendly way. At Friska, our mission is to redefine expectations of how a breakfast and lunch place makes people feel. We want our food, service, and values to make our customers feel great about visiting us and make them love what we do.

Douglas Gill International

Acquisition in 2013
Douglas Gill International designs, manufactures, and sells ultra-technical sailing clothing and equipment for men, women, and juniors. It offers sailing jackets, smocks, trousers, shorts, base layers, mid layers, fleeces, shirts and tops, drysuits, wetsuits, rash vests, buoyancy aids, harnesses, gloves, footwear, bags, sunglasses, marine tools, watches, accessories, and product cleaners.

GHG

Acquisition in 2020
GHG is a loss adjusting and claims management specialist.

Bagel Nash

Acquisition in 2011
Bagel Nash Limited produces and retails bakery products. Its bakery range includes bagels and bagel bars. Bagel Nash Limited was formerly known as Highmode Limited and changed its name to Bagel Nash Limited in June 1998. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Mynt Facilities Services

Venture Round in 2012
Mynt Facilities Services (formerly known as ACS Cleaning), a Merseyside, UK-based commercial cleaning business.

Fishawack

Acquisition in 2008
Fishawack provides fully-integrated, cross-border services to global pharmaceutical organisations.

Tekton Group

Acquisition in 2005
Tekton Group was an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provider to the UK construction industry. Its products, which were used by customers such as Carillion, Skanska and Eric Wright Group, included integrated accounting, resource application and planning tools that are particular to this industry.

Indigo Belcom

Private Equity Round in 2016
Indigo-Belcom is an independent global telecom services delivery partner offering high value, mission critical solutions to the fixed and mobile carrier and enterprise market sectors. Indigo-Belcom specialises in the design, planning, build, supply, management and maintenance of UK, European and global telecommunications networks. We offer a comprehensive range of installation, professional and technical services to assist telecommunications operators, carriers, network equipment manufacturers, utilities and private enterprises in deploying, managing and maintaining their multi-vendor telecommunications infrastructure.

Eikon Group

Private Equity Round in 2018
Eikon Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, provide content localisation services. The company also operates as distributor, broadcaster, and OTT provider or VOD platform owner. It provide creative and technical services for post production of movies. Eikon Group Limited was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of December 5, 2007, Eikon Group Limited operates as a subsidiary of ROK Entertainment Group, Inc.

PowerOasis Limited

Venture Round in 2012
PowerOasis are a UK based company providing an Energy Management platform that enables Licensees, such as Lithium Ion battery vendors, to build and market new energy propositions and enter new markets. The Platform is a comprehensive software suite which enables the internet of energy by providing control, monitoring and management of all energy generation, energy storage and energy efficiency assets. The 4 layer software architecture, allows the platform to be easily customised to meet the specific needs of licensees.

The Protein Works

Acquisition in 2019
The Protein Works is the innovative online sports nutrition brand.