Directory

PAI Partners

PEGrowthForeign

PAI Partners is a French private equity firm with origins tracing back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles. The firm manages approximately €25 billion in dedicated buyout funds and invests in market-leading companies across Business Services, Food & Consumer, Industrial Goods & Services, and Healthcare. PAI operates across seven offices worldwide including Paris, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Luxembourg, Stockholm, and New York, having completed over 65 LBO transactions representing more than €48 billion in transaction value.

Permira

PESeries A+Growth

Permira is a global private equity and credit investment firm founded in 1985 (as Schroder Ventures) with over €89 billion in total committed capital across funds. The firm invests in technology, consumer, healthcare, and services sectors, operating from 16 offices across Europe, North America, and Asia with a team of over 500 professionals.

Phoenix Court

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Growth

Phoenix Court is a London-based multi-stage investment group founded by Saul and Robin Klein, and is the home of the LocalGlobe, Latitude, Solar and Basecamp funds.

Plug and Play

Incubator / AcceleratorPre-SeedSeedVCForeign

Plug and Play Tech Center is a global innovation platform and startup accelerator founded in 2006 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The organisation runs vertical-specific accelerator programmes across fintech, insurtech, health, retail, mobility, and many other sectors, connecting startups with corporate partners and investors across more than 60 locations worldwide. It has been ranked the most active startup accelerator in the world and has backed companies including Onfido, Honey, and Albert.

Point72

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm founded in 2014 that deploys fundamental equities, systematic, macro, private credit, and venture capital strategies across more than 200 investing teams. The firm manages approximately $50 billion in assets and employs over 3,300 people globally, with offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia including a UK office in St James's, London.

QED Investors

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

QED Investors is a leading global fintech-focused venture capital firm founded in 2007, with over $4 billion in assets under management and a portfolio of 250+ companies across the US, UK, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The firm invests exclusively in financial services technology, spanning credit, lending, insurance, wealth management, and embedded finance, and has backed major fintech disruptors including Nubank, Credit Karma, Remitly, Klarna, and SoFi. QED was co-founded by former Capital One executives who bring deep operational expertise to their portfolio companies.

Republic Europe

ScaleupPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Funding Platform

Republic Europe (formerly Seedrs) is a leading European equity crowdfunding and private investment platform that enables retail and institutional investors to buy stakes in early-stage and growth-stage private companies. Founded in 2012 as Seedrs and rebranded in July 2024 following acquisition by US-based Republic, the platform is authorised and regulated by the UK FCA and has facilitated over £2.9 billion invested across more than 2,290 deals.

Rigby Group

CorporatePE

Rigby Group PLC is a technology-focused, multi-generational family business founded in 1975, described as Europe's largest private technology company and investor. The Group operates through three divisions: SCC (IT services), Rigby Technology Investments, and Real Estate, with over 8,500 employees across eight countries and annual turnover of approximately £3.9 billion.

Rokos Capital Management

PEGrowth

London-based global macro multi-asset hedge fund founded by Chris Rokos in 2015, managing over $22bn in assets across offices in London, New York, and Singapore.

SBI Group

CorporateSeedSeries A+GrowthVCForeign

SBI Group is a Tokyo-based financial services conglomerate founded in 1999, operating across banking, securities, insurance, asset management, and venture capital. Its venture capital arm, SBI Investment, has invested in over 1,300 companies across Japan, Asia, the United States, and Europe, with a strong emphasis on fintech and technology. The group maintains a significant presence in global fintech, with offices and subsidiaries across 14 countries.

SV Health Investors

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

SV Health Investors is a global healthcare-focused venture capital and growth equity firm, formerly known as SV Life Sciences, founded in 1993. The firm manages approximately $4 billion in assets across three specialist strategies spanning biotechnology, healthcare growth equity, and medtech, with investment teams based in London and Boston. It is one of the longest-tenured healthcare investment managers in the world, having backed more than 200 companies since inception.

SVF

VCSeries A+

SVF

Salesforce Ventures

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Salesforce Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Salesforce, founded in 2009. It has invested more than $6 billion across 630 enterprise software companies in 32 countries, with over 34 IPOs and 175 acquisitions among its portfolio. The firm invests from seed through growth stages in cloud infrastructure, security, AI, data platforms, and industry-specific applications.

Sands Capital

VCSeries A+Foreign

Independent, staff-owned growth investment firm founded in 1992, managing ~$46B across public equity, venture capital, and growth equity in 30+ countries.

Schroders Capital

PEGrowth

Private markets investment division of Schroders plc, managing $112bn AUM across private equity, real estate, private debt, and infrastructure.

Scottish Government

GovernmentGrantmaker

The Scottish Government is the devolved government of Scotland, responsible for policy and public services across a wide range of areas including economic development and investment. It provides funding to businesses and organisations through grants, loans, and investment programmes, including initiatives that support entrepreneurial growth and innovation across Scotland. The Scottish Government also oversees the Scottish National Investment Bank, a state-owned development bank focused on funding commercial projects to stimulate private investment.

Silver Lake

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Silver Lake is a global technology-focused private equity and growth equity firm founded in 1999, managing approximately $114 billion in assets as of 2026. The firm invests in mature and growth-stage technology and technology-enabled companies across software, semiconductors, fintech, e-commerce, and digital media, with a European office in London.

Sofina

PEGrowthForeign

Belgian listed investment holding company founded in 1898, backing entrepreneurs and families with patient capital across Europe, Asia, and the US.

Sony Innovation Fund

VCSeedSeries A+GrowthForeign

Sony Innovation Fund is the corporate venture capital arm of Sony Group Corporation, established in 2016, investing in transformational technology-driven startups across DeepTech, EntertainmentTech, EnterpriseTech, Fintech/DLT, ClimateTech, and Location-Based Entertainment. The fund manages over $430 million in assets and operates across the US, EU, Japan, India, and Africa, backing companies from early through to late stage.

Spectrum Equity

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

Spectrum Equity is a growth equity firm founded in 1994 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in San Francisco and London. The firm invests in information, software, internet, and data services companies, with a particular focus on SaaS, fintech, healthcare data, and compliance infrastructure. It currently manages its tenth fund with approximately $2.3 billion in committed capital.

Speedinvest

VCPre-SeedSeedSeries A+Foreign

Speedinvest is a Vienna-headquartered European venture capital firm founded in 2011, with offices in Berlin, London, Munich, and Paris. The firm focuses on pre-seed, seed, and early growth-stage technology startups, investing in sectors including fintech, deep tech, B2B AI, health tech, climate tech, and consumer. It manages over €1 billion in assets under management across a portfolio of more than 250 startups.

StepStone Group

PEGrowthForeign

Global private markets firm managing $233B AUM across private equity, infrastructure, private debt, and real estate; listed on Nasdaq (STEP).

Summit Partners

PESeries A+GrowthVCForeign

Summit Partners is a global growth-focused alternative investment firm founded in 1984, with over $44 billion in assets under management. The firm invests in technology, healthcare and life sciences, and growth products and services companies, typically at growth equity and late-stage venture stages. Summit maintains offices in Boston, Menlo Park, New York, London (Mayfair), and Luxembourg.

TA Associates

PESeries A+GrowthForeign

TA Associates is a leading global growth private equity firm founded in 1968, with over $65 billion in capital raised across more than 560 investments. The firm focuses on profitable, growing companies in technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and business services sectors, investing as either minority or majority shareholder.