Directory

Cerberus

PEGrowthForeign

Cerberus Capital Management is a global alternative investment advisor founded in 1992, managing approximately $70 billion in assets across credit, operational private equity, and real estate platforms. The firm specialises in value creation through business transformation, middle-market direct lending, and corporate credit. Its European operations are headquartered in Mayfair, London.

Charterhouse

PEGrowth

Charterhouse Capital Partners is one of Europe's longest-established private equity firms, founded in 1934 and headquartered in London. The firm focuses on mid-market European buyouts in the services, healthcare, specialised industrials and consumer sectors, targeting transactions of €150m–€1.5bn across the UK & Ireland, France & Benelux, Southern Europe, and DACH regions. It has raised over €17bn since inception and achieved B Corp certification in 2025.

Cherry Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+Foreign

Cherry Ventures is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012, with offices in Berlin, London, and Stockholm. The firm backs ambitious founders across a wide range of sectors including AI, fintech, SaaS, and consumer technology, investing primarily at seed stage with an 80% graduation rate from seed to Series A. It raised $500m in new funds in early 2025.

Cinven

PESeries A+Growth

Cinven is an international private equity firm founded in 1977, originally as part of the British Coal pension scheme, that became fully independent and partner-owned in 1995. The firm focuses on buyout investments across six sectors — Business Services, Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, and TMT — and operates from nine offices globally including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, New York, Luxembourg, Guernsey, and Hong Kong. It has raised over €50 billion across eight funds, with Fund 8 closing at €13.2 billion in 2023, and manages approximately €44 billion in assets.

Coatue

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthPEForeign

Coatue Management is an American technology-focused lifecycle investment platform founded in 1999, operating across venture, growth, and public equity strategies. The firm backs early-stage startups through to late-stage and public companies, with a particular focus on technology and innovation, and manages funds across private and public markets.

Corsair

PEGrowthForeign

Corsair Capital is a specialist global private equity firm founded in 1992, focused on investments in the financial services and business services industries. It operates across Buyouts and Infrastructure platforms, with approximately $9.8 billion in invested capital across North America and Europe, and maintains offices in New York and London.

Creandum

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Creandum is a leading European early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2003, with hubs in Stockholm, Berlin, London, and San Francisco. It backs ambitious founders building global, category-defining technology companies from Seed stage onwards, with a portfolio including Spotify, Klarna, Depop, Trade Republic, and Bolt.

Crowdcube

ScaleupPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Funding Platform

Crowdcube is Europe's largest equity crowdfunding platform, founded in 2011 in Exeter as the world's first equity crowdfunding site. The platform enables individuals to invest in early-stage and growth-stage private companies in exchange for equity, with minimum investments from £10, and has facilitated over £1.5 billion in investments from more than 2 million registered investors across more than 1,600 businesses. Notable portfolio companies include Revolut, Monzo and Freetrade.

D.E. Shaw

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

The D. E. Shaw Group is a global investment and technology development firm founded in 1988, managing more than $60 billion in investment capital. The firm operates across quantitative and systematic hedge fund strategies, private equity, and a venture and growth equity arm (D. E. Shaw Ventures) that backs companies in the post-seed and growth equity stages. It has offices across North America, Europe, and Asia, including a London office in Marylebone.

DST Global

VCSeries A+GrowthPE

DST Global is one of the world's leading internet investment firms, founded in 2009 and registered in the Cayman Islands, with offices in London, Menlo Park, New York, and Hong Kong. It invests in late-stage, high-growth internet companies worldwide through minority non-controlling stakes, with a portfolio that includes Facebook, Spotify, Alibaba, Snapchat, and ByteDance.

Dawn Capital

VCSeedSeries A+

Dawn Capital is a London-based venture capital firm and one of Europe's largest specialist B2B software investors, with over $2 billion in total commitments since its founding in 2007. The firm partners with early-stage founders across Europe building global software companies, with portfolio companies including Mimecast, Dataiku, and Blackwall. Its investment focus spans fintech, cybersecurity, enterprise AI, and B2B SaaS.

Draper Esprit

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Draper Esprit, now trading as Molten Ventures, is a leading British venture capital firm investing in high-growth European technology companies. Founded in 2006 as Esprit Capital, it was rebranded Draper Esprit in 2015 and renamed Molten Ventures in November 2021, and is listed on the London Stock Exchange with offices in London, Cambridge, and Dublin.

ECI Partners

PEGrowth

ECI Partners is a London-headquartered growth-focused private equity firm established in 1976, with offices also in Manchester and New York. The firm invests in mid-market UK and Irish businesses, typically backing deals valued up to £300 million across sectors including cloud and digital, financial services, healthtech, and HR and edtech. Over nearly five decades ECI has partnered with more than 250 management teams and manages approximately £3 billion in assets under management.

EQT

PESeries A+GrowthSeedVCForeign

EQT is a global private markets investment organisation founded in 1994 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. The firm manages approximately €206 billion in assets across private equity, infrastructure, real assets, and venture capital strategies and employs a thematic, sector-focused approach across healthcare, technology, and services. EQT has offices across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific, including a significant London presence.

Earlybird

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Earlybird Venture Capital is a pan-European venture capital firm founded in 1997 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, with offices in London, Milan, and Munich. The firm backs exceptional early-stage technology companies across Europe, providing financial resources, strategic support, and access to an international network, with over €2.5 billion in assets under management.

Elliott

PEGrowthForeign

Elliott Investment Management L.P. is one of the world's largest activist investment management firms, founded in 1977 and managing approximately $79.8 billion in assets. The firm deploys a multi-strategy approach spanning activist equity, distressed debt, private equity, private credit, and event-driven investing, and is particularly well known for activist campaigns targeting large public companies. It has a significant European presence through its wholly-owned London-based subsidiary, Elliott Investment Management UK Ltd.

Equistone

PEGrowth

Equistone Partners Europe is a mid-market private equity firm that partners alongside management teams to invest in change-of-ownership transactions across Western Europe. The firm deploys €25m–€200m of equity per deal, targeting businesses with enterprise values of €50m–€500m across sectors including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, industrials, and technology. Formerly known as Barclays Private Equity, it became independent in 2011 following a management buyout.

F-Prime Capital

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

F-Prime Capital is an independent venture capital firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments, with $5.3 billion under management and offices in Cambridge MA, London, and San Francisco. The firm invests in healthcare (therapeutics, medtech, and healthtech) and technology (enterprise software, fintech, frontier tech, and crypto), backing early-stage companies while remaining stage-agnostic for exceptional opportunities.

FTV Capital

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm founded in 1998, specialising in financial technology, financial services, enterprise technology, vertical software, and healthcare technology. The firm has raised over $10 billion in capital and maintains offices in New York, San Francisco, Connecticut, and London, investing in companies globally through its Global Partner Network.

Felix Capital

VCSeedSeries A+Growth

Felix Capital is a London-based venture capital firm investing at the intersection of technology and creativity, with a focus on digital lifestyle, consumer brands, and enabling technologies including B2B SaaS and AI. The firm backs early- to growth-stage companies across Europe and the US, with over $1.2 billion under management and a portfolio of more than 50 companies. It is Europe's first B Corporation-certified VC firm operating with over $1 billion in assets, and a UN PRI signatory.

Fifth Third Bank

CorporateSeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Fifth Third Bank is a major US regional bank headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, tracing its origins to 1858. Through its corporate venture arm, Fifth Third Ventures, the bank makes non-controlling minority investments in fintech companies and venture capital funds that align with its strategic priorities. Typical initial investment sizes range from $1 million to $15 million across stages.

Fifth Wall

VCSeries A+GrowthForeign

Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm focused on technology for the built environment and global real estate industry, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Angeles. The firm manages approximately $3 billion in commitments and capital under management across PropTech and climate tech for real estate, backed by over 115 strategic limited partners including CBRE, Hilton, and Marriott. It expanded into Europe in 2022 with a London office and a €140 million European fund.

Francisco Partners

PEGrowthForeign

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity and credit firm founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in London and New York. The firm focuses exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses and has approximately $45 billion in capital raised to date, having invested in more than 450 technology companies since inception.

GIC

GovernmentGrowthPEForeign

GIC Private Limited (formerly Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) is Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, established in 1981 to manage the country's foreign reserves. GIC invests globally across developed and emerging market equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, with a mandate to preserve and enhance Singapore's reserves over a 20-year investment horizon. GIC maintains a London office serving as its primary EMEA hub, alongside offices in nine other global financial centres.