Hermes GPE

Hermes GPE is one of the leading independent investors in global private markets. Their team's 20 year track record makes them one of the most experienced investors and portfolio advisors in international private equity and infrastructure. This extensive experience and proven investment judgement has helped them deliver returns that beat industry benchmarks. They are currently invested in approximately 200 funds and 60 co-investments across the globe as well as a portfolio of infrastructure assets, and manage £6.0 billion* for major institutional investors and pension funds worldwide. Their team also manages one of the longest running co-investment programmes of any private equity and infrastructure investor. Hermes GPE is committed to responsible investment, aiming to deliver exceptional returns for their clients; but not at any cost.
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Peter Gale

Head of Hermes Gpe Private Equity

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Walker Guffey

Associate

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Brooks Harrington

VP

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Ryan Hayes

VP

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Emma Howell

Principal

Elias Korosis

Partner, Strategy and Growth Investing

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Christian Mankiewicz

Principal

Simon Moss

Founder Partner, Emea

Perry Noble

Partner

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Dante O’Reilly

VP

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Cameron Payne

VP

Hamish Run

Head of Infrastructure, UK

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Sanjoy Sankaran

Senior Associate

Iesan Tsai

Head of Asia, Private Equity

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Sean Yoo

Senior Associate

24 past transactions

Refurbed GmbH

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.

Jobandtalent

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.

E-LeatherGroup

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 Limited

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.

Sefaira

Series A in 2012
Sefaira is the leader in software for high-performance building design. Following years of innovation in the application of cloud computing for building design, Sefaira was the first company to introduce real-time design performance analysis to the benefit of architects, engineers and other building designers. With Sefaira, users can analyze and compare multiple design strategies within a fraction of the time and cost previously required. This includes defining, quantifying, and optimizing the energy, daylighting, water, carbon and financial benefits of relevant design strategies. Sefaira's Real-Time Analysis plugins provide constant feedback on both energy & daylighting metrics as architects work. This frees users to test unlimited design options without worrying about the time or cost of analysis. Sefaira’s Web Apps for architecture and systems are built for comparative and parametric analysis. Cloud computing enables multiple parallel runs with no reduction in speed -- letting you explore options quickly and home in on the best solutions. Sefaira Architecture makes it easy to understand how a design is performing, and helps users connect the dots between geometry, energy use, daylight performance and potential improvements. Sefaira Systems produces high-quality HVAC sizing and energy results directly from architectural Revit and SketchUp models, enabling users to rapidly compare design options and respond to architectural changes. Sefaira’s awards include 2014 Architizer A+ Award, 2014 Architosh AIA Best of Show Award and being included in the 2014 Global Cleantech 100. Sefaira also won Gold at the 2013 Ecosummit award in Berlin as well as the “Green Building Innovation of the Year” award at London’s Ecobuild 2011. It was included in the Red Herring Top 100 Europe list in 2013 and Going Green Global Top 200 private companies in 2012. Sefaira has offices in London and New York.

Refurbed GmbH

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.

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.

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.

RightPoint Software

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

Sefaira

Series D in 2013
Sefaira is the leader in software for high-performance building design. Following years of innovation in the application of cloud computing for building design, Sefaira was the first company to introduce real-time design performance analysis to the benefit of architects, engineers and other building designers. With Sefaira, users can analyze and compare multiple design strategies within a fraction of the time and cost previously required. This includes defining, quantifying, and optimizing the energy, daylighting, water, carbon and financial benefits of relevant design strategies. Sefaira's Real-Time Analysis plugins provide constant feedback on both energy & daylighting metrics as architects work. This frees users to test unlimited design options without worrying about the time or cost of analysis. Sefaira’s Web Apps for architecture and systems are built for comparative and parametric analysis. Cloud computing enables multiple parallel runs with no reduction in speed -- letting you explore options quickly and home in on the best solutions. Sefaira Architecture makes it easy to understand how a design is performing, and helps users connect the dots between geometry, energy use, daylight performance and potential improvements. Sefaira Systems produces high-quality HVAC sizing and energy results directly from architectural Revit and SketchUp models, enabling users to rapidly compare design options and respond to architectural changes. Sefaira’s awards include 2014 Architizer A+ Award, 2014 Architosh AIA Best of Show Award and being included in the 2014 Global Cleantech 100. Sefaira also won Gold at the 2013 Ecosummit award in Berlin as well as the “Green Building Innovation of the Year” award at London’s Ecobuild 2011. It was included in the Red Herring Top 100 Europe list in 2013 and Going Green Global Top 200 private companies in 2012. Sefaira has offices in London and New York.

E-LeatherGroup

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 Limited

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.

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.

Anesco Limited

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.

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.

Bluewater Bio

Venture Round in 2012
Bluewater Bio is an innovative company in the wastewater treatment business, providing a high performance, yet highly cost effective, proprietary wastewater treatment process, called HYBACS.

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.

iZettle AB

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

WEMS

Venture Round in 2012
WEMS is the only wireless building energy management system in the world that is completely wireless and web-enabled. WEMS delivers typical energy savings of 15-30%. Installing their wireless energy management systems is non-intrusive and fast, which helps you realise your building energy efficiency quickly and cost-effectively.

EDITED

Venture Round in 2020
EDITED’s software is the market leader in real-time analytics of pricing, assortment, and deep product metrics for apparel professionals in merchandising, buying, trading and strategy. Used by the world’s best fashion retailers, like Gap, Ralph Lauren and Topshop, across six continents, EDITED helps buyers and merchandisers to make the right trading decisions. For more information, visit www.edited.com.

DefinedCrowd Corporation

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.