GPE III

GPE III is a fund of funds managed by Hermes GPE, a prominent investment firm specializing in private markets. Launched in 2006, GPE III focuses on investments across Europe and Asia, capitalizing on Hermes GPE's extensive experience in international private equity and infrastructure. The firm has a strong track record of delivering returns that consistently exceed industry benchmarks, underpinned by a disciplined investment approach and a commitment to responsible investment practices. Hermes GPE manages a substantial portfolio, which includes approximately 200 funds and 60 co-investments globally, as well as a range of infrastructure assets. The firm serves major institutional investors and pension funds, emphasizing the importance of achieving exceptional returns while upholding high ethical standards.

Sion Colley

Investment Manager

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

Sean Yoo

Senior Associate

20 past transactions

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.

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed GmbH is an online marketplace based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in the sale of refurbished electronic goods. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on offering a wide range of products, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, televisions, and kitchen appliances, all at prices up to 40% lower than new items. Refurbed's products undergo a comprehensive 40-step refurbishment process, ensuring they look and function like new. Each device comes with a minimum 12-month guarantee, highlighting the company's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. By promoting the purchase of refurbished products, Refurbed not only helps consumers save money but also supports environmentally sustainable practices in the electronics market.

Refurbed

Series B in 2021
Refurbed GmbH is an online marketplace based in Vienna, Austria, specializing in the sale of refurbished electronic goods. Founded in 2017, the company focuses on offering a wide range of products, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, televisions, and kitchen appliances, all at prices up to 40% lower than new items. Refurbed's products undergo a comprehensive 40-step refurbishment process, ensuring they look and function like new. Each device comes with a minimum 12-month guarantee, highlighting the company's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. By promoting the purchase of refurbished products, Refurbed not only helps consumers save money but also supports environmentally sustainable practices in the electronics market.

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.

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.

GoCardless

Series F in 2021
GoCardless Limited is a leading provider of online payment processing services, specializing in recurring payments. The company offers various products, including GoCardless for one-off and recurring payments, GoCardless Pro for building a recurring payments ecosystem, and Success+, a software solution designed to predict and manage payment failures. With its technology platform and global payments network, GoCardless simplifies the payment process for businesses with recurring revenue. It serves over 40,000 businesses worldwide, ranging from multinational corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises, processing approximately $10 billion in payments annually. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, GoCardless also operates offices in Paris, Munich, and Melbourne.

Job&Talent

Series C in 2021
Job&Talent operates as an on-demand staffing marketplace designed to enhance the flexibility and transparency of the labor market. The platform addresses the growing demand from companies for adaptable hiring solutions while simultaneously working to reduce global unemployment. As the labor market shifts towards greater flexibility, workers often find themselves in precarious employment situations. Job&Talent offers a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) model that aims to create a mutually beneficial environment for both employers and employees. The company has established a presence in several countries, including the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, with plans for expansion into France and Italy.

Defined.ai

Series B in 2020
Defined.ai is a data science company that specializes in providing artificial intelligence training data for various machine learning applications. The company operates a self-service SaaS platform that allows users to source and enrich structured training data, enhancing the capabilities of models to interpret text, speech, and images. Additionally, Defined.ai offers an API that integrates directly with users' data processes, facilitating the retrieval of enriched training data. The company also features Neevo, an online platform that invites contributions from the public to improve AI systems. Serving industries such as automotive, banking, utilities, fintech, media, and healthcare, Defined.ai combines machine learning, data science, and crowd-sourcing to streamline global data collection and enrichment efforts, ultimately improving the quality, scalability, and time-to-market of AI and natural language processing applications. Founded in 2015, Defined.ai is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional offices in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal, and Tokyo, Japan.

Contentsquare

Series D in 2020
Contentsquare offers a platform that analyzes customer behavior through billions of anonymous interactions across web, mobile, and app environments, while adhering to data privacy regulations such as the EU GDPR and California CCPA. The platform synthesizes various data points, including content, user experience, product details, pricing, acquisition channels, and technical performance, to generate insights and AI-driven recommendations. These insights aim to enhance digital performance throughout the customer journey, ultimately helping businesses improve revenue, engagement, and growth. With a client base exceeding 700 enterprise customers, Contentsquare serves notable companies such as American Express, Best Buy, Dell, Ikea, LVMH, T-Mobile, Salesforce, Sephora, and Toyota.

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.

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.

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.

Deliveroo

Series D in 2015
Deliveroo is an online food delivery platform based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2012 by Gregory Orlowski and William Shu. The platform enables users to order meals from a variety of local restaurants, focusing on providing premium dining options. By connecting customers with their favorite eateries, Deliveroo aims to enhance the convenience of food delivery while supporting local businesses. The company has established itself as a significant player in the food delivery industry, catering to a growing demand for accessible and quality dining experiences delivered directly to consumers' homes.

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

Rightpoint

Venture Round in 2015
Rightpoint Consulting, LLC is a digital customer experience consulting firm that provides a range of services aimed at enhancing client engagement and business performance. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices across the U.S. and in Australia and India, the company specializes in digital strategy, integrated marketing, site design and development, customer relationship management, cloud applications, and business intelligence. Rightpoint serves over 250 Fortune 1,000 companies by creating seamless digital experiences that are informed by insight and technology. The firm has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in Chicago and stands out as the largest independent agency in its field, employing approximately 350 people. Rightpoint also offers innovative solutions such as Spark Workspace, which facilitates digital collaboration for modern workforces. As a subsidiary of Genpact Limited, Rightpoint continues to evolve its services to meet the demands of the digital landscape.

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.

Huddle

Series D in 2014
Huddle is an enterprise content collaboration company that simplifies and secures document collaboration for teams. By providing features such as version control, task management, and mobile access, Huddle enables users to share, discuss, and work on content efficiently. This platform serves various industries, including accounting, consulting, government, marketing, logistics, media, and construction. Huddle streamlines the collaboration process, reducing the time spent on organizing documents, chasing approvals, and searching through emails, ultimately allowing teams to focus on delivering exceptional results. Its transparent tracking of version changes and comments ensures a comprehensive audit trail, giving users control over document visibility and actions.

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.

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.

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.
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