Horizon Capital

Horizon Capital invests in technology and business services companies. They’ve developed a consistent and proven approach to driving sustainable growth and creating market businesses. They stay ahead of the trends in their markets and evolving business models, enabling them to work with their management teams to build a focused acquisition strategy and an optimal approach to organic growth. Their team has built a deep understanding of the dynamics of growth in technology and business services companies. They undertake market mapping to identify strategic platform investments and transformational add-ons for their portfolio. Their sector expertise also helps them guide their management teams in achieving the maximum valuation for the business.

Philip Buscombe

Chairman

Jeremy Hand

Founding Member and Managing Partner

Luke Kingston

Founder and Partner

Matthew Norrington

Investment Director

32 past transactions

Ridge

Private Equity Round in 2023
Ridge is a contruction company.

Mate academy

Venture Round in 2021
Education Tech startup that teaches people to code from scratch and completely for free and takes money only after they get the job.

KixCare

Seed Round in 2021
KixCare is a Canadian pediatric virtual healthcare platform. The platform connects families and their children with pediatric telehealth services and aims to enable equitable access to quality care for all Canadian children.

Sapphire Systems

Acquisition in 2019
Sapphire Systems offer cloud-based business and financial management software solutions, implementation and support services.

Ascent

Acquisition in 2019
Ascent Software is a provider of software development products and services. Our development methodologies focus on quality and value, a rigorous approach to processes, and not being afraid of challenging the norm.

Juniper Education

Acquisition in 2019
Juniper Education is a provider of world-class pupil tracking software, training and professional services to the education sector.

DMC Canotec

Private Equity Round in 2018
DMC Canotec provides managed print and document management services. They provide document management solutions. They deliver clever print and copy, scan, archive, and document management systems.

Wireless Innovation

Acquisition in 2017
Wireless Innovation is a satellite company that offers M2M, telemetry, and SCADA solutions for the utilities, OEM, tracking, and telematics. It also provides solutions to the Renewables, Water, Oil, Gas and Electricity markets and has deployed solutions and services in over 100 countries around the world. They also work to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet each client's individual needs whether that's a wireless network for CCTV backhaul or a satellite communications system for retrieving critical M2M data from a mountain top. It has the expertise, experience, and people to solve your data communications challenges, whatever their industry. Wireless Innovation has received the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2010 and was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Gloucester, UK.

Churches Fire

Private Equity Round in 2017
Churches Fire is a nationwide company dedicated to supplying our customers with fire safety solutions. Many companies their industry claim to offer an end-to-end service, yet in reality specialize in only one area either performing badly in or outsourcing the others. At Churchesfire they have the breadth and depth of expertise in house to deliver all of your fire safety requirements. Only in this way can we control the quality of their work and the products they supply, ensure that everything works together correctly for your protection and maintain excellent customer service. Churches Fire also offers services sprinkler systems, emergency lighting, dry risers, fire alarms, fire alarm monitoring, fire extinguishers, kitchen suppression, optical beam detection, fire safety signs, aspirating detection, fire risk assessments, and fire safety training. Churches Fire was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Chandlers Ford, UK.

Bellrock

Private Equity Round in 2017
Bellrock Property & Facilities Management provides a property and facilities manager. Their aim is to continue providing our clients with market-leading, technology-driven, FM and property services. They have a range of services that can provide your organization with the right integrated solution for their estate, which for multi-site clients includes industry insight via cutting edge analytics. Whichever Bellrock solution they chose, their expertise and accreditations ensure consistently high quality of service. Their people always ensure they are focused on your priorities, and unlike our competitors, they are flexible enough to accommodate unforeseen changes in your organization. It also provides services in work & compliance, maintenance & engineering, software, and technical & real estate. Bellrock Property & Facilities Management was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Leicestershire, UK.

Timico

Private Equity Round in 2017
Timico is an end-to-end managed cloud service provider of supplying business strength IP solutions. They drive performance at every stage of the business lifecycle and helps them realise their full potential. It also supplies organizations with the cloud, mobile solutions, unified communication, managed IT, and network connectivity. Timico also provides services in digital workplace, managed services, security, network & connectivity, and cloud & platforms. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Newark, UK.

Sabio

Venture Round in 2016
Sabio is an innovative unified communications and contact center services company, focused on delivering exceptional customer contact strategies and solutions from contact center virtualization and IP telephony, to Workforce Optimisation, multi-channel contact strategies, and user-centered speech applications. They can also help with any aspect of your customer contact including consultancy, application development, systems integration, training, and a unique Support offering. Sabio was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, UK.

CORYTON

Private Equity Round in 2015
Coryton is a provider of specialist advanced fuel solutions to our forward-thinking partners across a range of industries. We create 4,000 unique blends each year – more than 14 million litres of bespoke fuels in total – for use across the globe. At Coryton we are passionate about the role we can play in the innovation of blending the highest quality hydro-carbon fuels, that are part of the solution in creating a sustainable future for everyone.

TotalMobile

Private Equity Round in 2015
TotalMobile is an enterprise mobile application platform designed to provide complete mobile working solutions. It also specializes in business applications for state and enterprise. TotalMobile has been designed to integrate with existing back-office systems using a flexible integration toolkit and XML based messaging which facilitates an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture strategy. The concept behind TotalMobile is a suite of fully featured enterprise mobile applications that allow government agencies and businesses to bring the office into the field, and enabling field employees to complete their work and share information in real-time. TotalMobile ha received an awards of Irish News Workplace and Employment Awards Managing Talent 2015 and Best Digital Company UTV Eye Business Awards and UK IT Awards Mobile App of the Year shortlisted 2015 and awaiting announcement. TotalMobile was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Belftast, UK.

Style Analytics

Private Equity Round in 2015
Style Analytics (formerly known as Style Research) is an independent international provider of global investment research and portfolio analysis applications. They specialize in holdings and returns based style, risk and performance analysis of portfolios, funds, and markets and offer a variety of analysis and research services to professional investment institutions worldwide. Over 300 international institutions find our flexible analysis refreshingly easy to use, understand and communicate. Investment managers gain intuitive proof statements of their investment processes and clearly demonstrate how investment views are reflected in portfolios, and drive performance. Style Analytics won the Best Buy-Side Portfolio Analysis Tool at Waters Buy-Side Technology Awards 2018. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in London, UK.

AgriBriefing

Acquisition in 2015
AgriBriefing is a business media company that specializes in pricing, data, marketing solutions, news, market intelligence, and insight. The business began with the launch of TheMediaBriefing - which provides strategic insight and market intelligence for senior decision makers in the global media industry - but expanded significantly in 2012 with the private equity-backed acquisition of Farmers Guardian and Pulse from UBM. Further acquisitions of LAMMA (the U.K.'s leading agricultural equipment and services exhibition) and Agrimoney (an award-winning intelligence portal covering the world of international agribusiness) followed alongside the sale of the Pulse healthcare business to Cogora Ltd. In July 2015 Briefing Media entered into a new financing agreement with Lyceum Capital Partners to support our continued growth. The company currently operates in the media strategy and agriculture industries (where we reach around 250,000 farming decision makers across our expanding range of products and services). AgriBriefing was founded in 2010 by seasoned media executives Neil Thackray & Rory Brown and is headquartered in London, UK.

Isotrak

Acquisition in 2013
Isotrak provides vehicle tracking and transport management software and solutions. It offers Active Transport Management System (ATMS), a managed service that includes Vehicle and Trailer Tracking module, which analyses vehicle activity in real-time; Driver Communications module that offers 2-way communication for drivers and transport offices and Driving Style Management module, which provides managers and drivers with information from the automated analysis of data from the engine management system. Isotrak offers a fleet management solution that enables enterprises to gain real-time visibility, control, and measure their fleet's performance, and improve efficiency through a robust data-driven platform. Isotrak was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Georgia, USA.

Bellrock

Acquisition in 2013
Bellrock Property & Facilities Management provides a property and facilities manager. Their aim is to continue providing our clients with market-leading, technology-driven, FM and property services. They have a range of services that can provide your organization with the right integrated solution for their estate, which for multi-site clients includes industry insight via cutting edge analytics. Whichever Bellrock solution they chose, their expertise and accreditations ensure consistently high quality of service. Their people always ensure they are focused on your priorities, and unlike our competitors, they are flexible enough to accommodate unforeseen changes in your organization. It also provides services in work & compliance, maintenance & engineering, software, and technical & real estate. Bellrock Property & Facilities Management was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Leicestershire, UK.

Sequence Care

Private Equity Round in 2013
Sequence Care Group provides specialist residential care for adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs and challenging behaviors in close proximity to their families and friends. They provided is tailored and individuals receive additional therapeutic input from their specialist teams of Speech and Language Therapy, Positive Behavioural Support, Occupational Therapy, and experienced support workers. The caring teams provide an all-around person-centered, unique package to ensure individuals are encouraged to live as independently, positively helping them to live a richer life. Sequence Care Group was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Clearswift

Acquisition in 2011
Developer of email security and adaptive loss prevention software intended to defend against inbound cyber-attacks and outbound data loss. The company's cyber security software offers inspection, sanitization and threat prevention, thereby enabling its clients to secure collaboration across email, web, endpoint and cloud applications.

Adapt Technologies

Acquisition in 2011
Adapt Technologies is an online advertising campaign management tool for small businesses and advertising agencies. They take a transformative, application-led approach to cloud that makes it easier for customers to change and innovate securely, blending people, platforms, and automation to achieve customer outcomes. Adapt Technologies was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Access Alto

Private Equity Round in 2011
Access Alto is a leading Cloud Hosting provider offering Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions on VMware and Openstack. We have award winning cloud infrastructure in the UK, US and APAC.

The Access Group

Private Equity Round in 2011
The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software. Its portfolio spans ERP, finance, HR, Payroll, recruitment, warehousing, business intelligence, professional service automation, and manufacturing. More than 10,000 UK businesses and not-for-profit organizations use products and services provided by Access to improve their performance, profitability and drive growth, unlocking their business potential through improved business insight. Access Group has received M&A Awards: Buyout of the Year - 2011, SIFT Media Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: Enterprise Accounting & Finance award, Accountancy Age Awards 2010 - Software Package of the Year, SIFT Media Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: SME Human Resources & Human Capital Management award, Construction Computing Awards: Construction Accounting Software of the Year 2010, and Green IT Awards 2010. Access Group was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in London, UK.

EAT.

Acquisition in 2011
EAT. is a retail company producing, making, serving, and creating food products for customers. The company aims to donate as many of our leftover sandwiches and salads as possible to local charities working with the homeless. EAT was named for best Quick Service Restaurant at the MIDAS awards in January 2018. It was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in London, UK.

The Access Group

Acquisition in 2011
The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software. Its portfolio spans ERP, finance, HR, Payroll, recruitment, warehousing, business intelligence, professional service automation, and manufacturing. More than 10,000 UK businesses and not-for-profit organizations use products and services provided by Access to improve their performance, profitability and drive growth, unlocking their business potential through improved business insight. Access Group has received M&A Awards: Buyout of the Year - 2011, SIFT Media Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: Enterprise Accounting & Finance award, Accountancy Age Awards 2010 - Software Package of the Year, SIFT Media Software Satisfaction Awards 2010: SME Human Resources & Human Capital Management award, Construction Computing Awards: Construction Accounting Software of the Year 2010, and Green IT Awards 2010. Access Group was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Compact Media Group

Funding Round in 2010
Compact Media Group, an independent rights administrator and distributor of royalties for TV, film, and music. The company currently provides a broad range of collection and administration services which are designed to maximize royalty income for intellectual property rights owners such as producers, distributors, broadcasters, as well as government-backed agencies and financial institutions. The firm represents over 300 companies including BBC Worldwide, ITV Global Entertainment, Scottish Media Group, Fremantle Media, Channel 4, Discovery Communications, National Geographic, Icon, Echo Bridge, ALL3MEDIA, Shed and Hat Trick. It also provides services to financial institutions, broadcasters, international distributors, super-indies through to start-up independent producers. Compact Media Group was established in 1996 and is headquartered in London, UK and also operates offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Sydney, and Paris.

UKDN Waterflow

Private Equity Round in 2010
UKDN Waterflow sets the standard in the repair and improvement of Britain’s drainage network. With activities ranging from emergency call out to homes and businesses to major infrastructure project management, our 600 directly employed staff, operating from 19 depots throughout the UK, are equipped with lead edge and innovative technology to provide best in class drainage solutions 24/7. Our specialist drainage capability includes, sewer, civil engineering and asset management services to rail, water, highways, construction and facilities management clients. The company has a proud history of achieving the highest industry standards of customer service, safety and protection of the environment and we are recognised within the industry for the introduction, training and execution of new technology. Read our document QUALITY, ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY AND HEALTH POLICY

M&C Energy Group

Venture Round in 2010
M&C Energy Group is an energy procurement and sustainability services company.

M&C Energy Group

Acquisition in 2009
M&C Energy Group is an energy procurement and sustainability services company.

Carewatch Care Services

Acquisition in 2008
Carewatch Care Services offers excellent assisted support and home care services to adults living independently in their own homes. It also provides home care services for older adults, children and families, people with learning and physical disabilities, and people who have mental health support needs. The company offers personal and nursing care, practical help, live-in care, respite care, end-of-life care, convalescent care, dementia care, and long-term care services, as well as person-centered support services.

Synexus

Acquisition in 2007
Synexus is a site network organization that continues to pioneer important developments in the clinical trials industry. Through a global network of 26 dedicated research centres (DRCs) in nine countries, Synexus provides first-class clinical trials data to its clients from pharma, biotechs and CROs. Synexus recruits patients and runs clinical trials at its own dedicated research centres staffed by full-time GCP investigators who work solely on clinical trials. It also expertise in trial planning, spanning patient recruitment, patient retention, and management. Synexus was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Chorley, UK,

National Britannia Group

Acquisition in 2005
National Britannia Group is an environmental service company that provides risk management solutions. It provides solutions in the areas of health and safety, food safety, water quality control, environmental management, occupational health, fire safety, and asbestos management. The company also offers e-riskMANAGER, an interactive Web-based risk management system. National Britannia Group was founded in 199 and is based in Caerphilly, UK,
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