Livingbridge

Livingbridge is an independent private equity firm, based in the UK, the US and Australia. They have £1 billion ready to invest over the next 5 years and they invest anywhere from £2 million to £70 million in fast-growing companies. The Livingbridge team have been backing businesses together for twenty years. They have done it over a hundred times, turning many into household names both at home and abroad. They understand that for business owners it’s more than just business. They get growth. With UK offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester and an Australian office in Melbourne, Livingbridge have teams on the ground locally who can provide support to their portfolio companies on a daily basis.

Mark Advani

Partner

Mo Aneese

Investment Director

William Bajraszewski

Associate Director

Taha Bakhtiyar

Investor

Luke Bray

Associate Director

Matthew Caffrey

Partner

Peter Clarke

Partner

Aidan Connelly

Associate Director

Tommaso Crackett

Investment Director

Fiona Dane

Partner, Investor Relations and Fundraising

Sheenagh Egan


COO

Oscar Engqvist

Investor Relations and Fundraising

Joshua Fidler-Brown

Associate Director

Andrew Garside

Partner

Louis Graham

Associate Director

Simon Hollingsworth

Investment Director

Adam Holloway

Partner

Rebecca Hooley

Principal

Amy Hunter

Investment Manager

Matthew Jacobs

Investment Director

Liz Jones

Partner

Steve Jones

Associate Director

Elizabeth Jones

Partner

Curt Kahn

Investor

Louise Kingston

Associate Director

David Kirby

Partner

Wol Kolade

Managing Partner

Paul Landsman

Investment Director

James Lupton

Associate

Nick Manning

Investment Manager

Paul Marsh

Investor Relations Officer

Oliver Mauldridge

Investment Director

Phil Murden

Team Member

Sanjay Panchal

Investment Director

Simon Peet

Investment Director

Vernan Richards

Associate Director

Charlie Ross

Investment Team

Daniel Smith

Partner

Susie Stanford

Investor

James Titmuss

Partner

Matthew Tunna

Investment Director and Associate Director

Mark Turner

Partner

Matt Upton

Partner

Laura Wathen

Associate Director

Emily Williams

Investment Professional

Xavier Woodward

Partner

Amy Yateman-Smith

Investment Director

Gareth Young

MD

Shani Zindel

Partner

154 past transactions

Dorset Village Bakery Ltd.

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
Dorset Village Bakery Ltd. owns and operates a bakery. The company offers breads, patisserie style cakes and biscuits, buns and doughnuts, ginger breads and biscuits, Florentines, and cheddar wafers, as well as gift packs. It sells its products through stores in Asda, Booths, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsburys, Tesco, and Waitrose; farm shops and delis; and online. The company was founded in 1916 and is based in Stalbridge, United Kingdom. As of February 6, 2019, Dorset Village Bakery Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Burton's Foods Limited.

Williams Medical

Acquisition in 2007
Williams Medical is the medical supplies solution provider to the UK Healthcare industry. Williams Medical's medical supplies range is one of the widest in the UK, and its prices are checked daily to ensure the company offers not only the best possible service but exceptional value for money. Williams Medical's online tools allow practice managers and business managers to control spend and ensure that budgets are spent appropriately. With almost thirty years' experience, Williams Medical's experienced sales, procurement, and logistics teams are well-placed to ensure that its clients' business needs for medical supplies are managed in an efficient and cost-effective way.

Plant Impact

Post in 2017
Their products manage a plant’s natural responses to stress factors to build its resilience. This boost in strength helps the plant to flourish in good conditions but also when faced with increasingly common stresses such as heat, salinity, drought and the application of other chemicals. Their head office and primary research facility are at the Rothamsted Centre for Research and Enterprise (RoCRE) in Harpenden, UK and they have additional offices in Brazil, USA and Argentina as well as colleagues based in Turkey and France.

Occam DM

Acquisition in 2004
Occam provides a range of outsourced data services including data processing, database development and management as well as data analysis, to the charity and commercial sectors. Occam’s clients have included Eurostar, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Ministry of Defence, Kia Motors UK, GlaxoSmithKline, Oxfam and the British Heart Foundation.

Equiom

Private Equity Round in 2006
Equiom is a global trust and corporate service provider helping organizations build software from the ground up. It helps organizations build software from the ground up - from a good idea to full production, and all the steps in between. It supports corporations and high-net-worth individuals around the world with their fiduciary and related support-service needs. Equiom’s experienced and highly qualified teams offer services in specialist sectors including trust, corporate, corporate sponsorship services (Middle East), property, family office, eBusiness, yachting, aviation, crewing, shipping, tax and VAT, management accounting, payroll and treasury.

Vendigital

Private Placement in 2019
Vendigital Ltd provides management consultancy services. Its services focuses on the area of cost reduction, cost leadership, and cost transformation. The company serves aerospace, defense & security, transportation, automotive, media & entertainment, and retail sectors. Vendigital Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Broadstone Pensions & Investments Ltd.

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
BDO Investment Management Limited is a subsidiary of Oakley Capital Investments Limited. As of May 4, 2016, Broadstone Pensions & Investments Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Livingbridge. As of May 3, 2016, Broadstone Pensions & Investments Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Livingbridge.

BoilerJuice

Private Equity Round in 2016
Founded in 2004, BoilerJuice was created by a group of friends who wanted to make ordering heating oil easier, cheaper and more convenient. As the UK’s leading online heating oil website, we have worked hard throughout the years to bring our customers a great experience, from the moment they log on to our website, to after their order is delivered. Whether you want to place an order, ask a question or have a problem that needs solving, our fully-trained Customer Services team are only a phone call or email away, offering a helping hand or a friendly word to support you with our unique range of services and benefits.

Onyx Group

Private Equity Round in 2011
Onyx Group, a UK-based provider of business continuity, cloud computing and datacentre services. Founded in 1994 and led by CEO Neil Stephenson, Onyx provides its solutions to a wide range of mid-market and enterprise clients in niche vertical markets such as the professional services and financial sectors. The Group currently has 10 sites throughout the UK including London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Teesside and Sheffield. This includes five data centres and six workplace recovery facilities.

SLR Consulting

Venture Round in 2004
SLR is a international environmental consultancy with offices throughout the UK, Canada, Ireland and the USA. The company provides advice and support on a wide range of strategic and site-specific environmental issues to a diverse and growing base of business, regulatory and governmental clients. SLR specialises in the energy, waste management, planning & development, industrial, mining & minerals and financial & professional services. They also provide sustainability advice that spans across all of these sectors.

Bistrot Pierre

Private Equity Round in 2015
Bistrot Pierre was founded in 1994 by Robert Beacham and his childhood friend John Whitehead. They first operated two successful Pierre Victoire franchises in Nottingham and Derby and a few years later, rebranded the restaurants as Bistrot Pierre. Determined to grow the group, they expanded the business organically, initially in the Midlands and the North and then in the South West.

Sykes Cottages

Private Equity Round in 2020
Sykes Cottages is a self-catering holiday property lettings agencies that provides holidaymakers with handpicked cottages. Its properties range from romantic cottages for two and contemporary properties for large groups to pet-friendly cottages and luxury builds with hot tubs and saunas. It offers pricing, merchandising, marketing/distribution and bookings management services to UK property owners. Founded in 1991 by Clive Sykes, the business has nearly 25 years’ experience in matching customers to their perfect holiday home.

FluidOne

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
FluidOne are communications service integrators, serving the connectivity needs of thousands of business customers and several hundred managed service partners with the best quality connectivity solutions available in the industry.

Create Fertility

Private Equity Round in 2013
Create Fertility is a fertility clinic headquartered in London, specializing in natural, mild and modified IVF. It was founded by Professor Dr. Geeta Nargund and Professor Stuart Campbell in 2000, and its fertility services are provided from its London clinics in Harley Street, St Pauls and West Wimbledon, with regional clinics in Birmingham, Bristol and Hertfordshire. Its philosophy is to promote safe, successful and patient-centered fertility care that combines a natural approach with state-of-the-art technology under the guidance of internationally renowned experts.

Labrador

Private Placement in 2018
The Labrador Retriever is a brand new device that makes sure you’re always on the cheapest deal available, so you never have to think about it again. Once plugged into a mains and router, Labrador Retriever claims to constantly track a household’s energy consumption while monitoring the market for better deals. If Labrador found a better deal for you, it can make the switch for you automatically, or send you a recommendation instead.

Kirona

Acquisition in 2014
Founded in 2003, Kirona has grown to be recognized as the leader in delivering field workforce management software. The company with the vision to design, build, and deliver market-leading field service automation.

Love holidays

Acquisition in 2018
Love Holidays is an online travel agency that enables its users to book holiday packages. Their passion is tp travel and inspiring you to travel. The agency mission is to create the ultimate online travel experience, just for you. They value building trusted relationships with their customers, which is why they work hard to maintain a connection with you long past the day you return from your holiday. Love Holidays was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in, London, England, UK.

SecureCloud+

Private Placement in 2018
SecureCloud+ Limited provides managed secure information and communication technology (ICT) services to United Kingdom's defence, security sectors, and other government departments that have complex and demanding security requirements. It offers various services, such as cloud enabling, secret private cloud, managed mobile information, mission operational command (MOCaaS), networked collaboration, top secret private cloud, and official sensitive private cloud services. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Reading, United Kingdom with an additional office in Crewe, United Kingdom.

Direct Ferries

Private Equity Round in 2016
Direct Ferries is an online platform that provides a selection of ferry routing information to its users. The platform allows its users to compare ferry crossings in its search and find fairs associated with them at the time of travel. Its network covers ports in Europe, with crossings available throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America. Furthermore, it allows its users to choose routes, as well as ferry deals information on their selected routes.

Nexus Vehicle Rental

Acquisition in 2008
Nexus Vehicle Management Limited, doing business as Nexus Vehicle Rental, provides corporate vehicle rental services in the United Kingdom. The company offers various services, including short-term, long-term, and flexible vehicle rentals; wheelchair accessible and adapted vehicles for hire; leisure rentals; and online driver license checking services. It also provides fleet and rental management solutions; Intelligent Rental Information System (IRIS), a vehicle rental software system that streamlines vehicle rental business through automation and integration; managed rentals for organizations running their own rental programs; and white labeling of IRIS platform. It serves companies and businesses, including the construction, retail, and fleet industries. Nexus Vehicle Management Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Leeds, United Kingdom.

Kidsunlimited

Convertible Note in 2001
Kidsunlimited operates day nurseries and preschools in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company’s curriculum includes Growing Mathematicians, which supports children to understand the purpose and importance of mathematics in their life and promotes their confidence to succeed at school; Growing Readers that is primarily created to nurture child to become an independent reader and inspire a love for books and stories; and Growing Writers, a program that supports child’s magical journey to becoming a confident writer.

ScriptSwitch Limited

Acquisition in 2007
ScriptSwitch Limited provides prescribing decision support solutions for healthcare professionals within the primary care sector in the UK. ScriptSwitch is the leading provider of software designed to support GPs with patient safety information, drug switch recommendations and dosage optimisation information at the point of prescribing. It emerged from a small team working out of Warwick University who succeeded in turning their concept into a robust and scalable business.

In The Style

Funding Round in 2017
In The Style is a trend-led, fast growing fashion e-tailer that offers trend led fashion at reasonable prices. Its popularity has been driven, in part, by the business’ royalty-based collaborations with celebrities and fashion influencers including E4’s Binky Felstead, MTV’s Charlotte Crosby and ITVBe’s Billie Faiers along with one of the UK’s leading fashion bloggers Sarah Ashcroft. The Manchester-based business has a social-first marketing strategy that has seen it build strong brand awareness with over 1.4 million direct followers on social media, alongside a wider social media reach of almost 20m via its celebrity collaborators. In The Style aims to redefine ‘fast fashion’, empowering women to feel good about themselves and how they look - to have the confidence to take on the world. It was founded by Adam Frisby in 2013 and is based in Manchester, UK.

Armstrong Craven

Acquisition in 2013
Armstrong Craven is a global insight, talent mapping and pipelining specialist with offices in the UK and Singapore. Armstrong Craven began life as an outsourced partner to traditional recruitment practices. Since then, the business has evolved to become a highly regarded provider of senior talent and HR intelligence to leading global corporates in over 120 countries across all continents. Services also include supporting with workforce planning, business intelligence and HR consultancy. The company was founded by Sue Craven in 1990.

Adarma

Acquisition in 2019
Adarma Ltd provides IT security services. The company offers threat management services including security operations center (SOC) design, build and operation services. It establishes an operational security capability including in-house, co-managed and fully managed SOC environments. The company also provides tailored cybersecurity services to clients to extend existing SOC capabilities to respond to evolving threats and establishes a proactive approach to hunting and effectively defending against attackers through addressing control gaps. Adarma Ltd was formerly known as ECS Security Ltd and changed its name to Adarma Ltd in June 2019. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Munnypot

Private Equity Round in 2018
Munnypot was created by three people who have worked in finance, fund management and financial advice with combined experience spanning in excess of three-quarters of a century.

Happy Days

Venture Round in 2012
Happy Days, a Newquay, UK-based day nursery operator for children between three months and five years. It was founded by Robin and Sarah Karkeek out of their own needs for childcare. It offers both full day care and sessional care that provide parents and their children flexible times at the nurseries to suit their individual needs.

Brownsword

Venture Round in 2002
Brownsword is a provider of road traffic accident investigation services using innovative voice recognition technology. Its clients include blue chip motor insurance companies. Brownsword prides itself on its attention to the most stringent standards and protocols in all areas of ethical compliance, and will ensure that all business is conducted lawfully, transparently and in a socially responsible and principled manner. It believes that every business has the responsibility of contributing to society through its activities, and where it can should strive to further help the wider community by ‘giving back’. Headquartered in Manchester, the business also has offices in Folkestone and Brentwood, enabling it to provide a UK wide coverage.

Eque2

Acquisition in 2013
Eque2 provides business management software for construction and contracting industries. The company provides construction for Sage accounts software that offers various tools to operate and manage business for small and medium size contractors; EVision construction accounting software that helps clients to manage the construction and contracting lifecycle; Evaluate, a pre- and post-contract construction estimating software solution that allows to produce accurate and consistent tenders, budget cost plans, and final accounts; and Eque2 housebuilding software that helps clients to enhance their operations at every stage from site acquisition, land development, building, and selling to customer care. It also provides support-related services, including training, project management, report writing, and business analysis consultancy services.

ILS Group Limited

Acquisition in 2005
ILS, a provider of acute domiciliary care, provides homecare each week to private clients and local authorities across Scotland. Services range from elderly homecare to specialist intensive nurse led packages. ILS provides services on contract to Aberdeenshire Council and supports older people at home and disabled people of all ages. Services are also provided on a private basis to those who want to augment the care they receive through the council, or have other requirements for support.

GettingPersonal

Private Equity Round in 2010
GettingPersonal is online retailer selling personalized and unique gifts. Established in 2005, the business started with just one product, a personalized calendar. It now sells over 4,000 items ranging from personalized cards, notebooks, mugs and chocolate to non-personalized items for general gifting.

Thomas Sanderson

Acquisition in 2001
Thomas Sanderson is a supplier of conservatory blinds and custom-made awnings. Since 1991, the company has handcrafted our blinds and shutters, helping 100,000's of customers restyle their homes and conservatories with our range of stylish window blinds and shutters. Its customers can choose from over 200 beautiful colours and fabrics for its range of blinds and over 80 colours for its shutters. Combined with the very latest technology and a full design to installation service, clients appreciate why Thomas Sanderson lead the way.

Playforce

Acquisition in 2008
Playforce was founded in 1998 by Edward and Rachael Webb with a £5,000 Princes Trust Loan. Identifying the need for high-quality playground equipment, Playforce offers a wide range of creative play equipment from ‘wobble walkways’, timber trails and climbing walls to outdoor classrooms and shelters. All are designed to inspire children to have fun and stimulate their imagination.

Carousel Logistics

Private Equity Round in 2013
Carousel Logistics is a personalized outsourced logistics provider that designs and manages bespoke solutions for clients with time critical, specialist or high-touch customer care needs. Carousel has an extensive range of international clients for whom it delivers complete, flexible supply chain solutions including e-fulfilment, procurement, warehouse, distribution, reverse logistics and in-night services. Carousel puts technology at its heart, including an 'Innovation Hub' designing tailored solutions for clients. Carousel is headquartered in Sittingbourne, Kent and led by brothers Graham and Michael Martin.

Venatus

Private Equity Round in 2021
Venatus is a global advertising technology platform, focused on gaming and entertainment. Co-founded by Robert Gay and Matt Cannon in 2010, Venatus was created to provide advertisers with direct access to gaming audiences. As the gaming ecosystem expanded, Venatus has remained at the forefront of the industry, gaining unique access to gaming and esports publishers for global brands. Venatus exclusively represents the direct and programmatic ad sales for over 600 publishers, including Rovio, EA, Rolling Stone, OP.GG, What Culture and FUTBIN. Supported by in-house sales teams delivering award-winning creative campaigns for the likes of Unilever, BBC, Universal, Hasbro, Activision and Intel. Now in its 10th year of business, Venatus has offices in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Sydney and Seoul.

World of Books

Acquisition in 2021
World Of Books Limited sells used books online to customers worldwide. The company sells books in the areas of arts, biography and true stories, children's books, computing and information technology, earth sciences, economics and finance, English language teaching, fiction, health and personal development, humanities, language, law, lifestyle, cooking and leisure, literature and literary studies, mathematics and science, medicine, reference, social sciences, and technology. It also sells books across various other Websites. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Worthing, United Kingdom.

hurleypalmerflatt

Venture Round in 2011
hurleypalmerflatt ("HPF"), a UK-based multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy.

Stowe Family Law

Private Equity Round in 2017
Stowe Family Law LLP offers legal services in the areas of domestic violence, civil partnership, taxation, divorce solicitors, family law, forensic accountancy, legal rights for grandparents, and collaborative laws. The company is the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, with family lawyers and divorce solicitors in 11 UK offices – Harrogate, Leeds, London, Beverley, Hale, Ilkley, St Albans, Tunbridge Wells, Wetherby, Wilmslow and Winchester.

Southern Communications

Private Equity Round in 2016
Southern Communications Limited supplies business-to-business telecoms products and services for SME businesses in Southern England. It provides digital telephone lines–integrated services digital network; SCL cloud unified communications; data services, such as business broadband, high speed business Internet access, and leased lines; business calls; business telephone systems; and business mobile services. The company was founded in 1965 and is based in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Autologic Diagnostics

Private Equity Round in 2012
Autologic Diagnostics offers advanced aftermarket automotive diagnosis solutions for vehicle manufacturers and garages. It offers Autologic, a software-based automotive diagnostic tool that enables vehicle technicians to repair various car brands and accessories. The company is based in New York, United States.

Key Travel

Private Equity Round in 2013
Key Travel is a travel management company dedicated to serving clients in the third sector (non-profits, NGOs, religious organisations and associations) and the single largest provider to the UK University sector.

Semafone

Acquisition in 2021
Semafone Limited develops and provides solutions for secure voice transactions. The company provides a solution, which sends card data directly to banks from the customer’s telephone keypad avoiding the need for call center agents to hear or see card details; and Cardprotect, a cloud payment solution. Semafone Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in Chertsey, United Kingdom with regional headquarters in Boston.

Contractor Mortgages Made Easy

Private Equity Round in 2015
CMME is a specialist mortgage brokerage offering expert advice and bespoke mortgages. Since its launch in 2004, the company has striven to ensure that contractors are not treated unfairly when trying to secure a mortgage. In the past, many lenders were stuck in their ways of assessing income conventionally. As numerous contractors struggle to prove their income in this way, they had to resort to self-certified mortgages. In effect, this resulted in an unnecessarily costly mortgage with considerably higher interest charges. The company noticed the way in which lenders were treating contractors. CMME argued that contracting or freelancing is a preferable way of working for many people, and those who work in this way should not be penalized when it comes to securing a mortgage. As a company, they have done their utmost to ensure that lenders understand the real risk of lending to a contractor. CMME's hard work and perseverance has influenced many lenders to re-think their lending criteria and become contractor-friendly. At its disposal, the company now has a whole variety of lenders who use bespoke underwriting especially for contractors; meaning that you do not lose out on competitive high street rates just because the way in which you are salaried is not considered ‘conventional’. As an established mortgage broker, CMME had always put its clients at the heart of everything the company does. You can rely on its team of knowledgeable and experienced professionals for advice and guidance throughout the whole process, from an initial consultation right through to completion. They’ve helped thousands of contractors secure mortgage funding and if you’re looking for a mortgage, they’d be delighted to help you too.

Copperfasten Technologies Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Copperfasten Technologies Limited, doing business as TitanHQ, develops Internet security software solutions. Its products include WebTitan, a software that filters web content from malware, phishing, and viruses; SpamTitan, a clam antivirus that detects spam emails and provides email protection; and ArcTitan, an email archiving in the cloud that secures, encrypts, audits international legal and industry standards complaint. The company serves service providers, education, business, healthcare, hospitality, retail, finance, transportation, and non-profit business organizations. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Galway, Ireland.

Exclaimer

Private Equity Round in 2020
Exclaimer Limited develops cloud-based email utility software solutions. The company offers patented solutions that include email signature solutions, email archiving, email auto response, business grade anti-spam, email image analysis, and other solutions. It also provides disclaimer, template editor, outlook photos, and address tagging solutions. In addition, the company offers software maintenance agreement (SMA), SMA renewal, email signature design, and enterprise consultancy services. It offers products through a network of resellers; and online to customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Farnborough, United Kingdom with additional offices in the United States and the Netherlands.

Encore Tickets

Acquisition in 2010
Encore Tickets Limited operates as a ticketing agency. It provides tickets for musicals, plays, broadways, dance and opera, day out, and night out theatre, attractions, and live events in London. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom. As of February 3, 2020, Encore Tickets Limited operates as a subsidiary of TodayTix, Inc.

Red Box Recorders

Acquisition in 2013
Red Box Recorders is a global provider of voice and data recording solutions that solve often technical and complex business challenges in the most simple and effective manner possible. The company’s innovative and proven software enables the capture, authentication, analysis and evaluation of multimedia communications from a wide range of data sources including fixed-line and mobile calls, radio, screen, SMS, instant messaging and social media. This ensures that organisations are not only fully compliant, but also become more competitive, productive and efficient.

Fisher Outdoor Leisure

Acquisition in 2006
As of April 18, 2016, Fisher Outdoor Leisure Limited was acquired by Zyro Limited. Fisher Outdoor Leisure Limited distributes cycling parts, accessories, and bikes to the cycle trade in the United Kingdom. The company also provides apparel to teams and athletes. It offers products through a retailer network throughout the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, and Ireland. Fisher Outdoor Leisure Limited was formerly known as The Concert Grand Gramophone Company. The company was founded in 1934 and is based in St. Albans, United Kingdom.

Visualsoft

Private Placement in 2020
Based in the North East of England, Visualsoft is one of the UK's leading web development companies. Since 1998 the company has continually provided clients with solutions that surpass expectations, enhance brand perception, generate revenue and provide maximum return on investment. Every aspect of a web development project is carried out in-house by the award winning team who develop websites for clients who want more than just a presence; they want results - new customers, more business, better business.

inov-8

Private Equity Round in 2012
Inov-8 is a sportswear brand primarily focused on technical off-road running, functional fitness and minimalist road running products. The unique design philosophy around inov-8 products keeps the foot close to the ground when performing so that athletes can feel and adapt to the terrain beneath them allowing for improved performance. The company was founded in 2003.

Power2contact

Acquisition in 2005
Power2contact is a UK-based provider of field-based customer contact and collection services. It offers services, such as pre-disconnection visits, occupancy verification, gas and electricity disconnection and isolation, meter reading, vacant and void visits, new occupier information-gathering, post-sales audit visits, and meter-tampering investigation to identify theft of gas and electricity to the utility companies. The company also provides collections activity, occupancy verification, status reporting, pre-sue reports, debt counseling, asset recovery, and fraud investigation assistance services to the banking and finance companies.

Catalyst Development

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Catalyst Development Limited provides operations and technology consultancy services to the financial industry. The company offers risk and regulation, technology management, trade processing, leadership, and enterprise-wide collateral services. It serves investment banks, exchanges and CCP clearing houses, asset managers, insurers, and corporate trading/treasury functions worldwide. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Catalyst Development Limited is a former subsidiary of ABeam Consulting Ltd. As of April 4, 2019, Catalyst Development Limited operates as a subsidiary of Sionic Advisors Global Holdings Llp.

TVC Group

Private Equity Round in 2008
TVC is a fully integrated agency, owned by The Economist Group, offering expertise across media and influencer relations, social, digital, and production.

Reed & Mackay

Private Equity Round in 2005
Established in 1962, Reed & Mackay provides business travel services to many of the City’s top legal firms and companies within the finance and insurance sectors. The company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Bonmarche

Private Equity Round in 2001
Bon Marche is a nationwide retailer specializing in value-for-money clothing for women aged 45 and over. It focuses on selling affordable, stylish, premium quality clothing and accessories in a wide range of sizes to mature women via its own store portfolio, website, mail order catalogues, and through the Ideal World TV shopping channel. Established in 1982, the Bonmarché business has more than 30 years of experience in this growing market segment, operating out of 300+ stores across the UK.

Blue 8

Acquisition in 2001
Blue 8 provides real-time location management software to the emergency services. The company was incorporated in 1979 and is based in Nottingham, the United Kingdom.

Rhubarb

Acquisition in 2016
Rhubarb creates and delivers culinary memories for its guests, whether at an event in an iconic location or dining in one of the restaurants within its flourishing portfolio. rhubarb has been creating edible stories since 1996 and has evolved into a truly formidable food company. The company has two offices in London and Surrey and a growing number of restaurant sites in the capital; all driven by teams of skilled and experienced staff members who take a great deal of pride in the rhubarb product and brand. Through hard work and a shared ethos, the team has rightly earned its reputation as a member of the London catering industry’s elite.

Moteefe

Venture Round in 2018
Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media. Moteefe provides a unique end-to-end e-commerce platform designed for merchants of all sizes – from individual entrepreneurs to larger retailers – to turn their brand and creative designs into globally available merchandise in minutes. The company was founded in 2014 by Lev, Mathijs, and Olivier while pursuing an MBA at INSEAD.

Witherslack Group

Private Equity Round in 2011
Witherslack Group has provided inspirational education and care to children and young people, resulting in life-changing experiences and countless stories of success. Witherslack Group is a leading provider of specialist education and care for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs, communication difficulties (autistic spectrum conditions, Asperger’s Syndrome, speech, language and communication needs) and complex learning needs. Witherslack Group’s history of success and sector-leading Ofsted judgments is based on an ethos of high aspiration, placement stability through our ‘team around the child’ approach, unique in-school therapy solutions and our inspiring environments. These all combine to optimize life opportunities for children and young people, give confidence to parents and carers, and deliver unmatched value to local authorities. Witherslack Group's focus on support, care and acceptance allow each young person to develop as an independent individual, equipped with the knowledge, experience and life skills to look to the future with increased confidence and aspiration. We are truly proud of the role we play in changing the lives of young people and helping them to realize their full potential. The Group’s portfolio of schools, children’s homes, and integrated learning centers provide a complete day, residential and 52-week system of education and care. We offer a comprehensive range of academic and vocational options from primary age to post-16. Most importantly though, we go the extra mile for all of our young people to ensure that their time at our schools and children’s homes gives them the foundations and ambitions to achieve in their futures and create their own story of success.

Semafone

Private Equity Round in 2021
Semafone Limited develops and provides solutions for secure voice transactions. The company provides a solution, which sends card data directly to banks from the customer’s telephone keypad avoiding the need for call center agents to hear or see card details; and Cardprotect, a cloud payment solution. Semafone Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in Chertsey, United Kingdom with regional headquarters in Boston.

Thomas J Fudge's

Acquisition in 2016
Thomas J Fudge's was founded in 1916 as a bread bakery in the West Country. It now turns over more than £11m a year and its products are stocked by high-end retailers including Fortnum & Mason.

Active Assistance

Private Equity Round in 2008
Established in 1992, Active Assistance provides care for adults and children with complex continuing health care needs and physical disabilities. As a care specialist for Spinal Cord Injury, they support adults with a high level spinal cord injury but also support people with progressive and neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease and muscular dystrophy.

Exclaimer

Private Equity Round in 2016
Exclaimer Limited develops cloud-based email utility software solutions. The company offers patented solutions that include email signature solutions, email archiving, email auto response, business grade anti-spam, email image analysis, and other solutions. It also provides disclaimer, template editor, outlook photos, and address tagging solutions. In addition, the company offers software maintenance agreement (SMA), SMA renewal, email signature design, and enterprise consultancy services. It offers products through a network of resellers; and online to customers worldwide. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Farnborough, United Kingdom with additional offices in the United States and the Netherlands.

Giacom World Networks

Acquisition in 2017
Giacom World Networks is a cloud IT and communications solutions provider. Founded by Nick Marshall in 1999, Giacom has created a strong, niche position to target the micro SME market, which has traditionally been an uneconomic market to serve. The business currently supports a network of more than 3,500 IT consultants, service providers and re-sellers via its proprietary MessageStream platform.

Simply Conveyancing

Private Equity Round in 2019
The Simply Conveyancing brand was established in 2000 and today they complete thousands of transactions each year for their clients, speeding up the conveyancing process using cutting edge technology and protecting their clients by reducing the threat of Cybercrime.

Moteefe

Seed Round in 2017
Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media. Moteefe provides a unique end-to-end e-commerce platform designed for merchants of all sizes – from individual entrepreneurs to larger retailers – to turn their brand and creative designs into globally available merchandise in minutes. The company was founded in 2014 by Lev, Mathijs, and Olivier while pursuing an MBA at INSEAD.

Enterprise Finance

Private Equity Round in 2014
Enterprise Finance are specialists in Second Charge, Bridging, Commercial and Complex Buy-to-let mortgages and loans. EF specializes in helping intermediaries source the most competitive second charge mortgage, bridging and complex buy-to-let loans in the market. We have access to a wide and varied panel of lenders, and our large volumes of business mean we negotiate the best deals for your customers.

Coversure Branches Ltd

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Coversure Insurance Services is an insurance company that provides commercial Insurance and security insurance.

CSC World

Acquisition in 2008
CSC world provides an innovative structural software and technical support provider to structural engineers for more than 35 years. Thousands of engineers across the globe choose CSC software for their structural design calculations, general analysis, and steel and concrete building design.

Sykes Cottages

Venture Round in 2015
Sykes Cottages is a self-catering holiday property lettings agencies that provides holidaymakers with handpicked cottages. Its properties range from romantic cottages for two and contemporary properties for large groups to pet-friendly cottages and luxury builds with hot tubs and saunas. It offers pricing, merchandising, marketing/distribution and bookings management services to UK property owners. Founded in 1991 by Clive Sykes, the business has nearly 25 years’ experience in matching customers to their perfect holiday home.

Tenth Revolution Group

Acquisition in 2013
Tenth Revolution Group is the global leader in cloud talent solutions, uniquely equipped to deliver digital transformation through people. We’re dedicated to providing our clients with the most sought after cloud talent in the world. Through our portfolio of niche staffing and talent creation brands, we not only source but also create the resource that businesses need to take advantage of all that cloud tech has to offer.

Micro Librarian Systems

Acquisition in 2006
Established since 1981, MLS supplies library and asset management software solutions to primary and secondary schools and colleges.

Nationwide Hire

Private Equity Round in 2019
Nationwide Hire Ltd was founded in 1995 by Howard Piper in response to increased demand by shopfitters for help with hire in different and unfamiliar locations. The help that shopfitters needed was for any hire and this included tools, waste, powered access, and accommodation. From the very beginning Nationwide Hire was obsessive about customer service and did everything to make sure that, no matter what, the shopfitters would have what they wanted, where they needed it and on time.

TitanHQ

Private Equity Round in 2020
TitanHQ makes your network safer. They believe that you should have easy to use, but robust and effective security tools - that hide complexity without compromising functionality. They help protect people like you, in 129 countries, in organizations like yours: SMBs, schools, universities, colleges, ISPs, banks and government.

Kafevend Group

Acquisition in 2005
Kafevend is a drinks and snacks vending machine service provider, supplying hot drinks, coffee vending machines, water and snack vending machines to SMEs and corporates across the UK. It is headquartered in Crawley with offices in London, Epping, Bristol, Manchester and Scotland. Livingbridge’s investment in 2005 funded the MBO of Kafevend from IKON Office Solutions. Following the MBO, the ability to invest in the sales force and improvements in the quality of vended products created huge growth potential for the business. After the investment, Kafevend successfully developed a leading product portfolio delivering refreshments to over 10,000 sites throughout mainland UK. In 2014 Kafevend was sold to Eden Springs, Europe’s leading provider of water and coffee solutions for the workplace.

Pathway Care Fostering

Private Equity Round in 2005
Pathway Care Fostering is an independent fostering agency. Pathway Care, along with fellow fostering organizations Fostering Solutions and Heath Farm, is proud to be part of NFA Group, an independent provider of specialist education, foster, and residential care for vulnerable and hard to reach children.

Crew Clothing Co.

Private Equity Round in 2006
Crew Clothing is a British clothing brand with a wide range of active, outdoor, and casual wear for men and women. Its heritage is in its south-coast roots, having been started in the back of a windsurfing school in Salcombe in 1993. The company now has more than 70 stores and a thriving website, and mail over 1 million catalogues every year.

Visualsoft

Private Equity Round in 2020
Based in the North East of England, Visualsoft is one of the UK's leading web development companies. Since 1998 the company has continually provided clients with solutions that surpass expectations, enhance brand perception, generate revenue and provide maximum return on investment. Every aspect of a web development project is carried out in-house by the award winning team who develop websites for clients who want more than just a presence; they want results - new customers, more business, better business.

CR7 Services

Private Equity Round in 2014
CR7 Services is one of the fastest growing payment solutions providers in Europe. With operations established in the UK since 2014 the Group is planning to extend its reach across Europe and beyond providing retailers with sophisticated, secure and reliable payment acceptance solutions enabling payment acceptance in line with consumer adoption and preference. At CR7 Services we are focused and driven by the one thing that tells us that we’re getting things right; to be recommended by our customers.

Four Eyes Club

Seed Round in 2016
Four Eyes Club is India's first and only vertically integrated eyewear store. They design and work with manufacturers to produce top design and quality eyewear all at a very reasonable price point. Their customers loves them because they bring quality and style to their face without breaking their wallets.

Vendigital

Private Equity Round in 2019
Vendigital Ltd provides management consultancy services. Its services focuses on the area of cost reduction, cost leadership, and cost transformation. The company serves aerospace, defense & security, transportation, automotive, media & entertainment, and retail sectors. Vendigital Ltd was founded in 2000 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Boldon James Ltd

Acquisition in 2005
For 30 years, Boldon James has been a leader in data classification and secure messaging solutions, helping organisations of all sizes manage sensitive information securely and in compliance with legislation and standards, in some of the most demanding messaging environments in the world. Their Classifier product range extends the capabilities of Microsoft products and other solutions to allow users to apply relevant visual & metadata labels (protective markings) to messages and documents in order to enforce information assurance policies, raise user awareness of security policies and orchestrate multiple security technologies, such as DLP and Rights Management. Their customers range from corporates, including global Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Financial and Professional Services businesses, to Government, Defence & Intelligence organisations. They are an accredited Microsoft Global Go-To-Market and Gold Applications Development Partner, a Symantec Technology Partner and McAfee Sales Teaming Partner. Boldon James is a wholly-owned subsidiary of QinetiQ, a FTSE 250 company, with offices in the UK, US, Australia and Europe and channel partners worldwide.

Hays Travel Ltd.

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
Hays Travel is the UK’s largest independent travel agent offering great-value holidays and outstanding customer service. Our independence means you can trust us to offer the most extensive range of low-cost travel; from all-inclusive, long-haul and luxury getaways, to late deals, cruises and tailor-made package breaks. Hays Travel first opened its doors in Seaham, County Durham in 1980. Now, with over 35 years’ experience, we have more than 130 branches nationwide and we’re constantly growing. In 2015, Hays Travel achieved a record-breaking turnover of £800 million thanks to more than one thousand dedicated members of staff and over 200 homeworkers. This year, we have even more expansion in the pipeline, which means more people will be joining the successful Hays Travel family. In 2016, Hays Travel was recognised as one of the UK’s top employers and we placed 60th in the prestigious Sunday Times’ Best Companies in the UK to Work For list, achieving high employee satisfaction and motivation scores. We’re also a company that cares. We have been accredited with the Investors in People (IIP) Gold standard award, which means that as a company we are not just ‘good’, but we are above and beyond what is expected of us by investing heavily in our people and achieving outstanding results. A friendly atmosphere, positive ethos and supportive culture filter through all parts of our company. If you are enthusiastic, have a passion for travel and like working as a team; then join us and be a part of our success. With us you have the opportunity to train and progress within a company that always rewards you for your hard work. Hays Travel can open up a whole world of opportunities and give you the chance to take your career to the next level.

Nationwide Hire

Private Placement in 2019
Nationwide Hire Ltd was founded in 1995 by Howard Piper in response to increased demand by shopfitters for help with hire in different and unfamiliar locations. The help that shopfitters needed was for any hire and this included tools, waste, powered access, and accommodation. From the very beginning Nationwide Hire was obsessive about customer service and did everything to make sure that, no matter what, the shopfitters would have what they wanted, where they needed it and on time.

RealVNC

Private Equity Round in 2021
In 2002, AT&T closed their Cambridge, UK research laboratory, formerly the Olivetti Research Laboratory, ending a productive, decade-long collaboration with the world-famous Computing Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Our founders, the original inventors of VNC®, immediately formed RealVNC® to build upon the enormous popular appeal of screen sharing technology with the open source community, and to leverage the growing commercial appetite for enterprise-class remote access software. Today, RealVNC® is a multi-award winning company with customers in 160 countries, but we're still proud to be local to Cambridge and part of its unique story.

Ardana Bioscience

Series B in 2003
Ardana Bioscience was created in July 2000 to commercialise research by the Medical Research Council (MRC )'s Human Reproductive Sciences Unit (HRSU) in Edinburgh, Scotland which has been at the forefront of this area of research for the last 28 years. The MRC employs nearly 100 staff at the Unit which currently receives total annual funding of £3.8 million.

Autologic Diagnostics

Acquisition in 2012
Autologic Diagnostics offers advanced aftermarket automotive diagnosis solutions for vehicle manufacturers and garages. It offers Autologic, a software-based automotive diagnostic tool that enables vehicle technicians to repair various car brands and accessories. The company is based in New York, United States.

Brainlabs

Private Equity Round in 2019
Brainlabs runs online advertising campaigns for customers including Domino’s, Expedia, Which? and Deliveroo, and builds technology to help the campaigns run more efficiently. Its programmes take into account factors such as the weather, time of day, user location and user profile to help set the right price for clients’ online advertising.

Team ITG

Venture Round in 2010
Birmingham based Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) provides services that help marketing departments operate more efficiently by improving their campaign planning, content control and print management. ITG's central London-based eCRM and data division manages the strategic development of online sales and services for over three billion customer engagements. Helping companies to understand and react to customer behavior, making sense of big data to turn it into revenue opportunities.

YourWelcome

Private Placement in 2018
Your Welcome Limited provides a subscription service that offers Airbnb hosts the ability to offer their guests on-demand services, such as ordering a taxi, a takeaway, restaurant bookings, and more from a tablet device. The company’s subscription includes a customized tablet device, tablet stand and charging cable, YourWelcome software, and data analytics reports to optimize user’s listings. Its solutions also allow hosts to record a video welcome and instructional guide to their home to streamline guest interaction. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

AudioTonix

Private Equity Round in 2011
AudioTonix is a UK-based manufacturer of some of the world’s most popular, successful and ground-breaking digital mixing consoles for the live, theatre, broadcast and post production industries and is exclusively distributed in the U.S. by Group One Ltd. of Farmingdale, New York.

Symphony Ventures

Series A in 2017
Symphony Ventures Limited offers consulting, implementation, and managed services. The firm provides robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, crowd sourcing, and impact sourcing solutions. Additionally, it offers services in banking, healthcare, government, insurance, and Supply chain and logistics. Symphony Ventures Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Upper Street Events

Acquisition in 2014
Upper Street Events Ltd. is a leading UK-based consumer-focused events company. It create and organise 17 innovative, premium and stylish consumer and trade events that target the passions and interests of carefully chosen niche audiences.

Adarma

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Adarma Ltd provides IT security services. The company offers threat management services including security operations center (SOC) design, build and operation services. It establishes an operational security capability including in-house, co-managed and fully managed SOC environments. The company also provides tailored cybersecurity services to clients to extend existing SOC capabilities to respond to evolving threats and establishes a proactive approach to hunting and effectively defending against attackers through addressing control gaps. Adarma Ltd was formerly known as ECS Security Ltd and changed its name to Adarma Ltd in June 2019. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Located in Laval, Digico is a privately owned Quebec company specializing in the manufacture of complex electronic equipment including printed circuits, cables and harnesses, tropicalization, customer test execution and electromechanical integration. For 40 years now, they have successfully responded to the demands and requirements of their loyal customers. Their mission is to be the electronic manufacturing company recognized for its expertise and innovative solutions. In addition, they believe that it is fundamental to place great importance on developing and maintaining lasting relationships with their employees and customers.

Babble Cloud

Private Equity Round in 2014
IP Solutions Limited provides unified communications services in the United Kingdom. The company provides hosted VoIP solutions, including call conferencing, VoIP handsets and soft phones, connectivity and security, implementation and training, and IP SIP trunking; and cloud services, including Microsoft Lync 2013 and Microsoft Office 365 implementation, advanced business continuity, cloud backup and disaster recovery, application delivery, server hosting and virtual servers, and cloud implementation and workshops.

Giacom World Networks

Merger/Acquisition in 2017
Giacom World Networks is a cloud IT and communications solutions provider. Founded by Nick Marshall in 1999, Giacom has created a strong, niche position to target the micro SME market, which has traditionally been an uneconomic market to serve. The business currently supports a network of more than 3,500 IT consultants, service providers and re-sellers via its proprietary MessageStream platform.

Martin Audio

Acquisition in 2003
Martin Audio Ltd. manufactures and supplies professional loudspeaker systems for touring, theatre, and installation applications. It offers active array and subs, passive line arrays and subs, active portable loudspeakers and subs, passive portable loudspeakers and subs, stage monitors, electronics, and accessories for touring, theatre, and portable applications; and active array and subs, passive line arrays and subs, active point source loudspeakers and subs, passive point source loudspeakers and subs, ceiling speakers, outdoor loudspeakers and subs, stage monitors, electronics, and accessories for indoor and outdoor commercial applications. The company was founded in 1971 and is based in High Wycombe, United Kingdom. As of December 19, 2019, Martin Audio Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Focusrite Plc.

Superbike Factory

Private Equity Round in 2017
Superbike Factory is a digital-first business which combines retail and sourcing online with a physical showroom operation in Macclesfield. The company aims to be the cheapest bike retailer on all our motorbikes for age, and mileage. It has grown to become the UK's largest independent supplier of used motorcycles. Superbike offers an extensive range of financing offers for its customers through its Superbikeloans.co.uk business, the UK’s leading finance broker in the motorcycle market.