Directory

Aquiline

PESeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Aquiline Capital Partners is a New York and London-based private investment specialist focused on financial services and technology, founded in 2005. The firm operates across private equity, venture and credit strategies, investing in businesses ranging from early-stage to established companies with enterprise values up to $2.5 billion. Aquiline has raised over $3.4 billion in capital commitments across its funds.

Ardian

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Ardian is a global diversified private markets firm managing or advising approximately $180 billion of assets across private equity, real assets, and credit. Originally founded in 1996 as AXA Private Equity, the firm became fully independent in 2013 following an employee buyout. It operates from offices in Beijing, Frankfurt, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Milan, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Zurich, with its UK office in Mayfair, London.

Ares

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager with approximately $644 billion in assets under management across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. Founded in 1997 in Los Angeles, the firm operates from over 60 offices worldwide and serves more than 3,500 institutional investors. Its diversified platform spans mid-market buyouts, infrastructure, real assets, and private credit.

Atomico

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Atomico is a founder-built European venture capital firm, founded in 2006 and headquartered in London. The firm invests in ambitious technology entrepreneurs across Europe and beyond, with a focus on areas including digital infrastructure, enterprise AI, frontier tech, fintech, medtech and climate. It has backed companies such as Klarna, DeepL and Hinge Health.

BC Partners

PEGrowth

BC Partners is a British international alternative investment manager founded in 1986 and headquartered in London, with over $40 billion of assets under management across private equity, private credit and real estate. The firm invests in upper mid-market companies across Europe and North America with offices in London, Paris, Hamburg and New York.

BGF

PESeedSeries A+GrowthVC

BGF (formerly Business Growth Fund) is the most active equity investor in the UK and Ireland, providing long-term, minority growth capital to ambitious SMEs and scaling businesses. Established in 2011 and backed by Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Standard Chartered, BGF has deployed more than £4.7bn across over 650 businesses and operates with an evergreen balance sheet, investing across all regions and sectors in the UK and Ireland.

Baillie Gifford

PESeries A+GrowthVC

Baillie Gifford is an independent, partner-owned investment management firm founded in Edinburgh in 1908. It manages a broad range of equity and multi-asset funds and investment trusts with a long-term, growth-oriented philosophy. The firm manages over £286 billion in assets on behalf of institutional and individual clients worldwide.

Bain Capital

PESeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Bain Capital is a global private multi-asset investment firm founded in 1984, managing approximately $225 billion in assets across private equity, venture capital, public equity, credit, and real estate. The firm partners with management teams worldwide to accelerate growth and create lasting value. It operates from 24 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Bain Capital Private Equity

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Bain Capital Private Equity is the private equity arm of Bain Capital, pioneering the value-added investment approach since 1984. It partners with management teams around the world to accelerate growth through operational improvement, strategic guidance, and access to Bain Capital's global network. The firm has completed more than 940 primary and add-on investments across a broad range of industries including technology, healthcare, industrials, and consumer.

Bain Capital Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, founded in 2001 and managing approximately $9.4 billion in assets. It invests in B2B software and technology startups from seed through growth stage, with domain focus areas spanning AI, fintech, commerce, security, healthcare, and industrials. The firm has offices in Boston, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Balderton

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Balderton Capital is a London-based multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2000, backing early- and growth-stage technology and internet companies across Europe. The firm has raised eight funds totalling over $3 billion and has invested in notable companies including Revolut, Wayve, Cleo, Depop, GoCardless, and CityMapper. It operates dedicated early-stage and growth funds, supporting founders from seed through to IPO.

Baring Vostok

PESeries A+Growth

Baring Vostok Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1994 and incorporated in Guernsey, historically focused on investments in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The firm has raised over $3.7bn across five private equity funds and invested in more than 67 companies across technology, media, telecoms, financial services, consumer, and natural resources; following the closure of its Russian business operations after 2022, the firm's principal registered office is in Guernsey.

Battery Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthPEForeign

Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 with offices in the United States, Europe, and Israel. The firm invests across application software, infrastructure software, consumer technology, and industrial tech/life science tools, backing companies from seed stage through to private equity buyout. Battery has raised more than $16 billion since inception and is currently investing from its 15th flagship fund, capitalised at $3.25 billion.

Bessemer Venture Partners

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is one of the world's oldest and most active venture capital firms, founded in 1911 and tracing its roots to the Carnegie Steel empire. The firm invests from early stage through growth and has supported over 420 portfolio companies across AI, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, biotech, and fintech, with more than 150 IPOs and deSPACs. BVP manages approximately $20 billion in assets under management and maintains offices globally including in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Blackstone

PEGrowthForeign

Blackstone Inc. is the world's largest alternative asset manager, founded in 1985 and headquartered in New York City, with over $1.3 trillion in assets under management. The firm invests across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, and hedge fund strategies for institutional and individual investors globally. It is publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Blenheim Chalcot

Incubator / AcceleratorVC

Blenheim Chalcot is one of the UK's leading venture builders, originating, building, and scaling technology-focused companies from its Scale Space campus in White City, London. Founded in 1998, it has built over 60 ventures across fintech, edtech, media, and software, with portfolio companies collectively generating over £500 million in annual revenue and employing more than 3,000 people. It operates globally across offices in London, Mumbai, and Tampa.

Bregal Investments

PESeries A+Growth

Bregal Investments is an international private equity firm providing a platform for direct investment and fund-of-funds teams across North America and Europe, with over 300 professionals and more than €19 billion of assets under management. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, it is part of COFRA Holding, a privately held group owned by the Brenninkmeijer family. Bregal invests in mid-market companies across diverse sectors through majority control equity, minority equity, and credit investments.

Bridgepoint

PESeries A+Growth

Bridgepoint Group plc is one of the world's leading mid-market investors, listed on the London Stock Exchange as a FTSE 250 constituent, with approximately $98 billion of assets under management. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in London, the firm specialises in private equity, infrastructure, credit, secondaries, and private wealth across Europe and North America. Its private equity strategies span flagship mid-market buyouts via Bridgepoint Europe, lower mid-market via Bridgepoint Development Capital, and small-cap growth equity via Bridgepoint Growth.

British Business Bank

GovernmentGrantmaker

The British Business Bank is the UK government's economic development bank, wholly owned by HM Government. Founded in 2013 and incorporated as a plc in 2014, it improves smaller businesses' access to debt and equity finance by working through accredited lenders and fund managers, and is the largest provider of venture finance in the UK.

CD&R

PEGrowthForeign

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is a leading American private equity firm founded in 1978 and headquartered in New York, with an office in London. The firm pioneered an operational approach to private equity, combining financial investment with deep operating capability, and has invested in more than 100 companies across consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare, industrials, business services, and technology sectors in North America and Europe. CD&R has managed the investment of more than $40 billion across its funds, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately $175 billion.

CPP Investments

PEGrowthForeign

CPP Investments (formally the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CPPIB) is a Canadian Crown corporation that manages the assets of the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of over 22 million Canadian contributors and beneficiaries. It invests across public and private equity, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure, and credit globally, with C$793 billion in assets under management as of March 2026. It is one of the world's largest institutional investors and a member of Canada's 'Maple 8' pension funds.

CVC Capital Partners

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

CVC Capital Partners is a leading global private markets manager founded in 1981, with approximately €209 billion of assets under management across private equity, secondaries, credit, and infrastructure strategies. Headquartered in St Helier, Jersey, and listed on Euronext Amsterdam since April 2024, the firm operates through a network of 29 offices across EMEA, the Americas, and Asia.

Carlyle

PEGrowthForeign

The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest global investment management firms, founded in 1987 in Washington DC. It specialises in private equity, real assets, and private credit across four continents, managing approximately $475 billion in assets under management.

Centerbridge Partners

PEGrowthForeign

Centerbridge Partners is a global alternative investment manager founded in 2005, with over $38 billion in assets under management across private equity, private credit, and real estate strategies. The firm pursues upper-middle-market buyouts, distressed securities, and credit investments across sectors including financials, healthcare, industrials, technology and real estate. It is headquartered in New York with additional offices in London, Miami and Luxembourg.