Risk Capital Partners

Risk Capital Partners, established in 2001 by Luke Johnson and Ben Redmond, is an independent private equity firm based in London. The firm focuses on buyout, growth, and distressed investments primarily within the United Kingdom. It targets various sectors, including leisure, retail, media, healthcare, financial services, and information technology services. With a vision rooted in entrepreneurial experience, the firm aims to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs to drive transformative growth through strategies such as acquisitions, roll-out programs, and organic development. Through its seasoned approach, Risk Capital Partners seeks to cultivate significant value in the businesses it invests in.

Jon Jenkins

Investment Manager

Luke Johnson

Co-Founder and Partner

Ben Redmond

Founder and Partner

Joe Tager

Partner

21 past transactions

Curious Brew

Acquisition in 2021
Curious Brew offers distinctive beers and cider made by Chapel Down, England’s leading winemaker. We make beer that we want to drink and which we know is a better beer. We only ever use the best ingredients and apply the unique passion, knowledge, care, and balance of a winemaker’s skill to make products that make people smile. It’s not just about cramming so many hops into a pint that it makes you wince but creating a beer that has balance, depth, flavor and style and which does what great beer should do first and last.

Primrose

Acquisition in 2021
Primrose engages in the online retail of garden necessities, luxuries, and frivolities. Primrose retail product category includes water features, planters, garden screening products, plants, garden furniture, awnings, greenhouses, outdoor heating products, shade sails, pest control products, marquees, outdoor clocks, willow and hazel hurdles.

Xstrahl

Acquisition in 2018
Xstrahl is a designer and manufacturer of superficial orthovoltage X-ray systems used in the treatment of cancers and dermatological disorders, as well as a pioneer in the development of advanced X–ray systems for pre-clinical radiation biology research.

Small Batch Coffee

Acquisition in 2015
Small Batch Coffee Company is a speciality grade coffee roaster with its own artisanal retail coffee chain, throughout Brighton and Hove. The brand is underpinned by the company’s ability to directly source, roast and blend the finest quality coffee beans for its retail and wholesale customer base.

Zoggs International

Acquisition in 2015
Zoggs International is the global swimming products brand. Zoggs sells over 2.5 million pairs of goggles across 50 countries throughout the world. Founded in Sydney, Australia in 1992 it has built on its success as an innovator in the goggles market to develop a full range of swimwear, swim equipment and learn to swim/water confidence products.

The Laine Pub

Private Equity Round in 2014
The Laine Pub Co is a pub operator. It has a circus show, VR gaming, vegan food, 10 screens of interesting sport, live music or immersive games and more. It has an online shopping too to buy beers.

Red Hot World Buffet

Acquisition in 2013
Red Hot World Buffet Limited operates a chain of restaurants in Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton, Keynes, Northampton, and Nottingham, United Kingdom. It offers Indian, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, and Japanese dishes.

Cruise.co.uk

Acquisition in 2013
Cruise.co.uk is an online cruise travel agent in the UK. It provides access to cruise lines for various destinations that include the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, Transatlantic, North America, Alaska, Africa, Australasia, British Isles, Canaries, the Far East, the Middle East, Norwegian Fjords and Baltic, Pacific, Panama Canal, South America, and Antarctica; and offers world, mini, and river cruises.

Grand Union Co

Acquisition in 2013
Grand Union Co operates as a restaurant. The Company offers white and red wine, gin, vodka, cocktails, rum.

The Genuine Dining

Acquisition in 2011
The Genuine Dining Co are a unique independent contract caterer who operate in and around London.

Draft House

Acquisition in 2011
Draft House is an independent pub and bar operator founded by industry entrepreneur Charlie McVeigh . Draft House launched its first site in 2009 in Battersea and since then has opened a further 12 bars in the capital including Camden, Paddington, Tower Bridge and Old Street. In 2016 it opened a bar in Milton Keynes, its first outside London.

GAIL's Bakery

Private Equity Round in 2011
They believe everybody deserves to enjoy good bread every single day. That’s why they bake sourdough for neighbourhoods in and around London — insisting on the finest ingredients, tending to their decades-old starters, and following traditional methods passed down over hundreds of years. They bake by hand with natural ingredients, and whilst they are ordinary people, they want to make extraordinary things. They want to play their part to bring humanity back into the food world, back to local communities. They can’t imagine doing anything more gratifying than baking their, and your, bread.

Feng Sushi

Acquisition in 2010
Feng Sushi Limited is an upmarket sushi delivery and restaurant chain with 8 locations across London. Feng Sushi’s brand is focused on delivering top quality sushi to homes and office across London whilst offering a cosy, modern Japanese local dining experience at each of their London restaurants.

APT Controls

Private Equity Round in 2007
APT Controls provides parking management and access control solutions for vehicle and pedestrian applications in United Kingdom. It offers vehicle access control and traffic management systems for high security vehicle control points, building and asset protection, town pedestrianisation schemes, car parking, and pedestrian access control applications.

Patisserie Valerie

Acquisition in 2006
Patisserie Valerie is an exquisite range of your favourite fresh cakes, wedding cakes, individual treats and gifts all carefully hand-crafted and ready to order online and for delivery

Direct Seafoods

Private Equity Round in 2006
Direct Seafoods is the privately owned distributor of fresh fish to quality restaurants, hotels, pubs and institutional caterers. It distributes fresh fish caught on a daily basis to 8,000 customers across the UK from its nationwide network of 10 depots and a fleet of 150 vehicles.

Loewy Group

Private Equity Round in 2004
Loewy Group is a market research and branding company that designs, develops, and implements integrated marketing, branding, and communications/public relations campaigns across a range of media. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Giraffe

Private Equity Round in 2004
Giraffe World Kitchen is a United Kingdom restaurant and cafe chain, founded in Hampstead as Giraffe Restaurants in 1998 by Juliette Joffe, Russel Joffe and Andrew Jacobs. Giraffe was owned by its founders, with additional financial backing from private shareholders, 3i investment group and chairman Luke Johnson. 3i invested £10 million in the company in 2006, in a deal that valued the chain at £24 million. On 13 March 2013, it was announced that the chain was to be acquired by Tesco for £48.6m. As part of the acquisition, 3i and Risk Capital Partners sold their shares in the company. In June 2016, Tesco reached an agreement to sell the company to Boparan Holdings.

Mayfair Bingo

Acquisition in 2004
Mayfair Bingo operates bingo halls and bingo clubs.
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