GPE III

Hermes GPE is a prominent independent investor specializing in global private markets. With a 20-year track record, they are known for their expertise in international private equity and infrastructure investments, consistently outperforming industry benchmarks. Managing £6.0 billion for institutional investors and pension funds worldwide, they are invested in around 200 funds and 60 co-investments globally, along with a portfolio of infrastructure assets. Their team also oversees a long-standing co-investment program. Committed to responsible investment practices, Hermes GPE strives to deliver exceptional returns for their clients without compromising on ethics.

Peter Gale

Head of Private Equity

Walker Guffey

Associate

Brooks Harrington

Vice President

Ryan Hayes

Vice President

Emma Howell

Principal

Elias Korosis

Partner, Strategy and Growth Investing

Christian Mankiewicz

Principal

Simon Moss

Founder Partner

Perry Noble

Partner

Dante O'Reilly

Vice President

Cameron Payne

Vice President

Hamish Run

Head of Infrastructure, UK

Sanjoy Sankaran

Senior Associate

Iesan Tsai

Head of Asia, Private Equity

Sean Yoo

Senior Associate

36 past transactions

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new and function like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Job&Talent

Series C in 2021
Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labour market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of the unemployment in the world. We at the labour market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companies are demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labour market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. We at Jobandtalent have created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labour flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike. Our offices are located in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and we have plans of further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.

Stylescape Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Stylescape Limited develops data analytics software for apparel retail industry worldwide. The company’s site provides market analytics, visual merchandising, retail reports, trend dashboard, runway show and street trends, and social monitor features. Its software allows brands and retailers to understand their markets in real-time and trade. Stylescape Limited was formerly known as Stylesignal Limited and changed its name to Stylescape Limited in June 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

ABP (Jersey) Limited

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
ABP (Jersey) Limited owns and operates port facilities. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Saint Helier, Jersey. ABP (Jersey) Limited operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Paysend

Series B in 2021
PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries. PaySend is a trading name of PaySend plc, registered in Scotland, United Kingdom. Company number 376020. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

Arkel

Merger/Acquisition in 2016
ARKEL ELEKTRIK ELEKTRONIK SAN. ve TIC. A.S. manufactures lift control cards, control panels, emergency rescue systems, inspection and alarm sets, and other electronic equipment. The company offers lift controllers for non-collective systems, economy controllers for rope lifts, lift controllers for rope and hydraulic lifts, elevator control systems, inverters for elevators, lift control panels, integrated elevator control units, and door controllers for automatic telescopic lift doors. It also provides auxiliary units, such as emergency rescue units, inspection and alarm sets, door detectors, displays, magnetic switches, and other products. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

ShoppersChoice.com, LLC/Blaze Outdoor Products

Merger/Acquisition in 2020
As of August 31, 2020, ShoppersChoice.com, LLC/Blaze Outdoor Products were acquired by Brand Velocity Partners. ShoppersChoice.com, LLC/Blaze Outdoor Products represents combined operations of ShoppersChoice.com, LLC and Blaze Outdoor Products in their sale to Brand Velocity Partners. ShoppersChoice.com, LLC owns and operates online retail stores. Blaze Outdoor Products designs and sells premium-quality barbeques and accessories. The assets are located in the United States.

Gen Phoenix

Venture Round in 2015
E-Leather is a revolutionary product that is designed and manufactured to provide an advanced upholstery and cladding material, superior to any other alternative. Using a patented, eco-friendly process, we combine leather fibre and a high performance core to produce a composition leather that is reliable, consistent and can be customised to your requirements. E-Leather is engineered to provide unique materials that can meet specific performance criteria, suitable for a range of industries including aviation, bus, coach, rail, marine, domestic upholstery and contract upholstery.

Anesco

Private Equity Round in 2012
Anesco is a national company dedicated to helping businesses, local authorities, housing associations and homeowners to reduce their carbon emissions. They provide comprehensive energy services, from audits through to recommendations, installations and capital funding plans. Their specialist team has managed some of the UK’s largest and most complex energy efficiency projects.

Contentsquare

Series D in 2020
Contentsquare provides a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous web, mobile and app interactions, in respect of data privacy laws such as EU GDPR and California CCPA, and transforms this knowledge into intelligent recommendations for users to increase revenue, engagement and growth. By integrating a set of data including content, UX, product, pricing, acquisition channel and technical performance, the platform provides insights and AI- powered recommendations for improving digital results across the entire customer journey. The solution is used by more than 700 enterprise customers such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora and Toyota.

Anesco

Venture Round in 2013
Anesco is a national company dedicated to helping businesses, local authorities, housing associations and homeowners to reduce their carbon emissions. They provide comprehensive energy services, from audits through to recommendations, installations and capital funding plans. Their specialist team has managed some of the UK’s largest and most complex energy efficiency projects.

Eurostar International

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
Eurostar International Limited provides rail transportation services. It offers its services in France, Netherlands, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. The company also offers services in the areas of Trains hotels, holidays, destinations, and club Eurostar. Eurostar International Limited was formerly known as Eurostar (UK) Ltd. and changed its name to Eurostar International Limited in December 1996. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Eurostar International Limited operates as a subsidiary of SNCF Mobilités Group.

Envirogen Technologies

Private Equity Round in 2011
Envirogen Technologies, Inc. (Envirogen) pairs technology with process guarantees and support services for the treatment of groundwater, wastewater, process improvement, resource recovery and odor control.

Content Square SAS

Private Placement in 2020
Content Square SAS operates as a software company that specializes in the optimization of Web and mobile Websites. The company develops a Software-as-a-Service analytics platform for mobile and Web customer experience optimization. It also offers consulting and training services. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Paris, France. It has additional locations in Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, London, Tel Aviv, and Munich.

Defined.ai

Private Placement in 2020
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling. The company's platform combines machine learning and data science with crowd-sourcing to help companies to easily manage their global data collection and data enrichment efforts, enabling enterprises to improve quality, scalability and time-to-market for their artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications.

EDITED

Venture Round in 2020
EDITED is an information technology company that features a software platform that is designed for real-time analytics of pricing, assortment, and deep product metrics for apparel professionals in merchandising, buying, trading, and strategy. It helps buyers and merchandisers to connect and interact with sellers online.

Huddle

Series D in 2014
From coworkers to clients, Huddle makes document collaboration simple and secure. In Huddle, teams can work together to share, discuss and work on their content. It becomes your hub of activity – so you spend less time organizing documents and tasks, chasing approvals, and searching through email – and more time delivering exceptional results.

Zestia

Private Placement in 2020
Zestia Limited designs and develops Capsule, a cloud-based customer relationship management software for small and medium sized businesses, startups, real estate clients, construction clients, travel agencies, and accountants in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Gen Phoenix

Series B in 2023
E-Leather is a revolutionary product that is designed and manufactured to provide an advanced upholstery and cladding material, superior to any other alternative. Using a patented, eco-friendly process, we combine leather fibre and a high performance core to produce a composition leather that is reliable, consistent and can be customised to your requirements. E-Leather is engineered to provide unique materials that can meet specific performance criteria, suitable for a range of industries including aviation, bus, coach, rail, marine, domestic upholstery and contract upholstery.

GoCardless

Series F in 2021
GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn of payments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany.

Six Shadow Toll Concessions in Spain of Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras, S.A.

Merger/Acquisition in 2019
Six Shadow Toll Concessions in Spain of Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructuras, S.A. comprises toll roads concession. The asset is located in Spain.

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new and function like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Deliveroo

Series D in 2015
Deliveroo is a technology company focused on marketing, selling, and delivering restaurant meals to the household or office. Its technology platform optimizes food ordering and delivery by integrating web and mobile consumers with restaurant tablet-based point-of-sale order management terminals, and their logistics optimization algorithm by equipping delivery drivers with smartphone software.

FundApps

Funding Round in 2021
FundApps provides automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $12 trillion in client assets every day. FundApps tackles the three biggest issues many compliance teams face when determining their responsibility to disclose: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios. Their services: Shareholding Disclosure (major shareholding / beneficial ownership, short selling, takeover panels), Sensitive Industries (industries with special significance) and Position Limits (exchange-based limits, with data sourcing and netting & aggregation). They deliver a managed service to their clients, pairing innovative technology with legal knowledge from their dedicated team of compliance experts. Their compliance experts stay up-to-date with over 400 rules in 100+ jurisdictions, providing rules and legal content that let their clients make disclosures faster and more accurately than ever before. Yearly upgrades, server costs and maintenance fees for traditional software are all made redundant with their single yearly subscription fee and seamless, daily updates mean clients are always using the latest and greatest version of their service. They've received multiple awards for their innovation, including being listed in the FinTech50 (50 most ground-breaking FinTech start-ups in Europe) two years in a row. They’re also a member of TechCity UK’s FutureFifty, an industry group containing 50 of the UK’s most disruptive and promising technology startups.

El Gym Iberia, S.L.

Private Placement in 2018
EL GYM IBERIA S.L.U. operates gyms and health clubs. It offers fitness classes, cardiovascular, strength, and weights training. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Malaga, Spain.

ABP (Jersey) Limited

Merger/Acquisition in 2015
ABP (Jersey) Limited owns and operates port facilities. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Saint Helier, Jersey. ABP (Jersey) Limited operates as a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Rightpoint

Venture Round in 2015
Rightpoint is an independent customer experience agency with technology at our core. We create seamless digital experiences driven by insight, strategy, and technology and design to evolve the way our clients do business. Rightpoint serves more than 250 Fortune 1,000 companies with strategy, site design and development, content, CRM, commerce, BI and cloud infrastructure. Named one of Crain's 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Chicago for four consecutive years, Rightpoint is the largest independent agency with 350 employees across eight U.S. offices. For more information, visit rightpoint.com

Telensa

Venture Round in 2016
Telensa Limited manufactures and supplies wireless smart streetlight and parking control systems. It offers Telensa PLANet, a wireless central management system for smart streetlights that integrates with third party applications; Telensa Wireless Smart Parking, an on-street parking monitoring system that enables cities to automatically inform road users where to find available parking spaces; Telensa ultra narrow band, a low power wide area network for applications, such as parking or asset tracking; and Telensa Smart City API, which enables sensor and application data to be harnessed by a range of smart city data hubs, analytics, and visualization platforms. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Great Chesterford, United Kingdom.

Huddle

Series D in 2014
From coworkers to clients, Huddle makes document collaboration simple and secure. In Huddle, teams can work together to share, discuss and work on their content. It becomes your hub of activity – so you spend less time organizing documents and tasks, chasing approvals, and searching through email – and more time delivering exceptional results.

Readly

Series B in 2017
Readly is the new way of reading magazines on tablets and smartphones Readly's mission is simple: To be on the cutting edge of the digital magazine revolution. Our expert management team has more than 25 years of experience in the publishing, digital gaming, and broadcasting industries. Readly has headquarters in Sweden.

Building Engines, Inc.

Private Placement in 2016
Building Engines improves net operating income across the world’s most successful Commercial Real Estate portfolios. Our customers increase their revenue, deliver the best occupant experience, and reduce their operating costs using our innovative building operations software platform, Prism. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Boston, with offices in New York City and Scottsdale, Building Engines is developing, acquiring and partnering to address long-standing problems in building operations. Today, more than 850 customers—including Beacon Capital Partners, Cushman & Wakefield and SL Green—rely on Building Engines to manage critical operational needs across more than 2.5 billion square feet and 26,000 properties worldwide.

iZettle

Series C in 2015
iZettle is reinventing technologies and banking services that help small-business owners live better, work less and earn more. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2010 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, small-business owners around the world use iZettle’s powerfully simple services to improve the speed and ease of payments at checkout, business management, sales analytics, customer engagement, and funding

Defined.ai

Series B in 2020
DefinedCrowd develops a Crowd-as-a-Service intelligent data platform intended to accelerate enterprise data training and modeling. The company's platform combines machine learning and data science with crowd-sourcing to help companies to easily manage their global data collection and data enrichment efforts, enabling enterprises to improve quality, scalability and time-to-market for their artificial intelligence and natural language processing applications.

Paysend

Venture Round in 2023
PaySend is a financial technology platform that solves the universal problem to securely enable any bank card (Visa or MasterCard) to send and receive money worldwide. It is a next generation money transfer platform allowing its users to send funds from card to card from 40 to over 60 countries. PaySend is a trading name of PaySend plc, registered in Scotland, United Kingdom. Company number 376020. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

EDITED

Venture Round in 2023
EDITED is an information technology company that features a software platform that is designed for real-time analytics of pricing, assortment, and deep product metrics for apparel professionals in merchandising, buying, trading, and strategy. It helps buyers and merchandisers to connect and interact with sellers online.

Stylescape Limited

Merger/Acquisition in 2020
Stylescape Limited develops data analytics software for apparel retail industry worldwide. The company’s site provides market analytics, visual merchandising, retail reports, trend dashboard, runway show and street trends, and social monitor features. Its software allows brands and retailers to understand their markets in real-time and trade. Stylescape Limited was formerly known as Stylesignal Limited and changed its name to Stylescape Limited in June 2010. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.