Private Equity GPs in United Kingdom

Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors is the global asset-management business of Aviva plc, headquartered in London and operating through Aviva Investors Global Services Li…

ICG

ICG plc (Intermediate Capital Group) is a London-listed (FTSE 100) global alternative asset manager founded in 1989, managing about USD 112bn of asset…

Bridgepoint

Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm founded in 1984 and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BPT, FTSE 250) sinc…

Permira

Permira is a global private equity firm founded in 1985 that invests through flagship buyout funds and dedicated growth equity funds, focusing on tech…

Apax Partners

Apax Partners LLP is a global private equity firm headquartered in London, investing in buyout and growth deals across the Tech, Services, Healthcare…

Hg

Hg is a London-headquartered private equity firm founded in 2000, focused on software and business-services buyouts across Europe and North America. I…

3i

3i Group plc is a London-listed (LSE: III, FTSE 100) international investment manager focused on mid-market private equity and infrastructure. Founded…

Arcmont Asset Management

Arcmont Asset Management Limited is a pan-European private credit asset manager headquartered in London with offices in Paris, Madrid, Milan, Munich a…

BC Partners

BC Partners is a London-headquartered global alternative investment firm founded in 1986, best known for its large-cap European and North American buy…

Cinven

Vitruvian Partners

Vitruvian Partners LLP is a London-headquartered growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2006 by former partners of Apax, BC Partners and Bridgep…

Foresight Group

Foresight Group is a London Stock Exchange listed investment manager (LSE: FSG), whose management entity Foresight Group LLP is authorised and regulat…

Arrow Global

Arrow Global is a pan-European private credit and real estate asset manager headquartered in Manchester and owned by TDR Capital since 2021. Its FCA-a…

TDR Capital

TDR Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002 by Manjit Dale and Stephen Robertson, managing assets of over 15 billio…

Montagu Private Equity

Montagu Private Equity is a London-based pan-European mid-market buyout firm founded in 1968, focused on management buyouts of resilient businesses wi…

IK Partners

IK Partners is a pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 as Industri Kapital and headquartered in London, with its UK advisory ent…

Oakley Capital

Oakley Capital is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2002, investing across technology, education, consumer and business servi…

Index Ventures

Index Ventures is a global venture and growth capital firm founded in Geneva in 1996 by Neil Rimer, David Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco, with its managemen…

Inflexion

Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999 by John Hartz and Simon Turner and headquartered in London. It is authorised an…

Investindustrial

Investindustrial is a European mid-market buyout firm founded by the Bonomi family that invests in mid-sized companies across Southern Europe, princip…

GHO Capital

GHO Capital (Global Healthcare Opportunities) is a London-based specialist healthcare investment firm founded in 2014, regulated by the FCA under firm…

Arjun Infrastructure Partners

Arjun Infrastructure Partners is an independent European mid-market infrastructure manager founded in 2015 by Surinder Toor. Based in London with a Pa…

Charterhouse Capital Partners

Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP is one of Europe's oldest private equity firms, tracing its roots to 1934 and operating independently since a 2001 m…

EMK Capital

EMK Capital is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2015 by Edmund Lazarus and Mark Joseph, investing in upper-mid-market buyouts across West…

Balderton Capital

Balderton Capital is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2000, originally as the European arm of Benchmark Capital, becoming fully independ…

LGT Private Debt

LGT Private Debt is the direct-lending arm of LGT Capital Partners, operating through its UK-domiciled AIFM entity LGT Private Debt (UK) Ltd (FCA FRN…

Capital Dynamics

Capital Dynamics is a global private-asset manager founded in 1999, whose UK entity Capital Dynamics Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK Fin…

Apera Asset Management

Apera Asset Management LLP is a pan-European private debt manager founded in 2016 and headquartered in London, with offices in Germany, France and Lux…

Equistone Partners Europe

Equistone Partners Europe is a London-headquartered pan-European mid-market buyout firm, independent since its 2011 management buyout from Barclays Pr…

Exponent Private Equity

Exponent Private Equity is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 2004 that invests in UK-headquartered businesses with enterprise v…

Livingbridge

Livingbridge is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1995 (formerly ISIS Equity Partners, rebranded in November 2014) that backs f…

Atomico

Atomico (UK) Partners LLP is a London-based pan-European venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Niklas Zennström, the co-founder of Skype, and Mattia…

BGF

BGF (Business Growth Fund) is the UK and Ireland's most active growth-capital investor, established in 2011 by Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Sta…

Caledonia Investments

Caledonia Investments plc is a London-based, self-managed FTSE 250 investment trust (LSE: CLDN) incorporated in 1928 and controlled by the Cayzer fami…

G Square Healthcare PE

G Square Healthcare Private Equity LLP is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2008 by Laurent Ganem, specialising exclusively i…

Epiris

Epiris is a London-based mid-market buyout firm formerly known as Electra Partners, which became independent from Electra Private Equity PLC in 2016 a…

Duke Street

Duke Street is a London mid-market private equity firm investing in Western European consumer, healthcare, industrials and services businesses with en…

Stirling Square Capital Partners

Stirling Square Capital Partners is a London-headquartered pan-European mid-market private equity firm founded in 2002. It makes control buyout invest…

Alchemy Partners

Alchemy Partners is a London-based private-equity and special-situations investment firm founded in 1997 by Martin Bolland, Robert Barnes and Jon Moul…

ECI Partners

ECI Partners is a UK growth-focused mid-market private equity firm founded in 1976 as Equity Capital for Industry under a Bank of England initiative,…

Bowmark Capital

Bowmark Capital LLP is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 1997 (originally Sagitta Private Equity, renamed Bowmark after a 2004…

Development Bank of Wales

The Development Bank of Wales (Banc Datblygu Cymru) is the Welsh Government's wholly-owned development bank, launched in October 2017 as the successor…

Mercia Asset Management

Mercia Asset Management PLC (AIM: MERC) is a UK AIM-listed regionally focused private capital asset manager incorporated in September 2014 and headqua…

Apis Partners Group

Apis Partners is a London-headquartered private-equity firm founded in 2014 that invests in tech-enabled financial infrastructure and services across…

Bridges Fund Management

Bridges Fund Management, formerly Bridges Ventures, is a London-based sustainable and impact investment manager founded in 2002 by Sir Ronald Cohen, M…

Synova

Synova is a London-based private equity firm founded in 2007 by David Menton and Philip Shapiro, investing in lower and mid-market growth companies ac…

AnaCap Financial Partners

AnaCap Financial Partners is a London-based mid-market private equity and private credit firm founded in 2005, investing in financial services, softwa…

Mayfair Equity Partners

Mayfair Equity Partners LLP is a London-based growth-buyout private equity firm founded in 2014 by Daniel Sasaki, investing in technology, consumer an…

Abingworth

Abingworth is a transatlantic life-sciences investment firm founded in 1973 and one of the longest-established dedicated biotechnology and medical-tec…

SV Health Managers

SV Health Investors is a transatlantic specialist healthcare and biotech venture capital firm with offices in London and Boston. The UK manager, SV He…

Endless

Endless LLP is a Leeds-headquartered UK private equity investor specialising in turnaround, special situations and transformational buyouts. Founded i…

Tenzing

Tenzing Private Equity is a London-based lower-mid-market growth-equity and buyout firm founded in 2015 that backs high-growth UK and Northern Europea…

Just Climate

Just Climate LLP is a climate-led investment business established in 2021 by Generation Investment Management, focused on scaling transformational sol…

CBPE Capital

CBPE Capital LLP is a London-based lower and mid-market private equity firm founded in 1984 as Close Brothers Private Equity, becoming independent thr…

Molten Ventures

Molten Ventures plc (formerly Draper Esprit until November 2021) is a listed permanent-capital venture capital firm founded in 2006 as Esprit Capital,…

Oxford Science Enterprises

Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) is an independent, permanent-capital Plc incorporated in 2015 with a partnership agreement granting preferred equity…

Palatine Private Equity

Palatine Private Equity is a UK lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Manchester, with offices in London and Birmi…

Graphite Capital

Graphite Capital Management LLP is a London-based mid-market private equity firm, independent since its 2001 management buy-out from F&C, formerly For…

Palamon Capital Partners

Palamon Capital Partners is an independent pan-European growth private equity partnership founded in 1999 and based in London. It provides equity of E…

Scottish National Investment Bank

Scottish National Investment Bank is Scotland's state-owned development bank, incorporated in 2020 under the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 202…

Bregal Milestone

Bregal Milestone is a London-based pan-European software and technology growth private-equity firm, part of the Bregal Investments platform backed by…

Anthemis Group

Albion Capital

Albion Capital Group LLP is a London-based independent venture and growth investment manager founded in 1996 as Close Ventures, the venture-capital ar…

NorthEdge Capital

NorthEdge Capital is a UK lower mid-market private equity firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Manchester, with offices in Leeds and Birmingham.…

SEP

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is a UK technology growth investor founded in 2000, headquartered in Glasgow with offices in Edinburgh and London. SEP…

IP Group

IP Group plc is a London-listed (LSE: IPO, FTSE 250) intellectual-property commercialisation company founded in 2001 that backs university spin-outs i…

CGE Partners

CGE Partners LLP is a London mid-market private equity firm founded in 2018 by ex-Bridgepoint and Inflexion executives, investing in information, data…

Felix Capital

Felix Capital Partners LLP (FCA FRN 954410) is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Frederic Court (ex-Advent Ventures) and Antoine…

Claret Capital Partners

Claret Capital Partners is a London-based independent growth-debt and venture-debt fund manager backing European technology, life sciences and climate…

Phoenix Equity Partners

Phoenix Equity Partners Limited is a London-based mid-market private equity firm founded in 2001 by Hugh Lenon, Sandy Muirhead, James Thomas, David Bu…

Notion Capital

Notion Capital (FCA FRN 784032, Notion Capital Managers LLP) is a London-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 by operators who previ…

Cibus Capital

Cibus Capital LLP is a London-based private-equity and venture-capital firm investing in the sustainable food and agriculture transition, advising a m…

IQ Capital Partners

IQ Capital Partners (FCA FRN 472896) is a Cambridge and London-based deep-tech VC firm founded in 2005 and incorporated as an LLP. The firm has backed…

True

True (True Capital Ltd) is a London-based consumer and retail specialist investment firm founded in 2013 by Matt Truman and Paul Cocker, running both…

Unilever Ventures

Unilever Ventures is the venture and growth capital arm of Unilever, founded in 2002 and based in London, investing off the group balance sheet into e…

LDC

LDC is the mid-market private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group, founded in 1981 as Lloyds Development Capital, investing off the parent group balanc…

Maven Capital Partners

Maven Capital Partners (Maven Capital Partners UK LLP) is a UK private equity and alternative investment manager founded in 2009 and headquartered in…

Rockpool Investments

Rockpool Investments LLP is an FCA-authorised (FRN 572300) direct private equity and private debt investor in UK private companies, founded in 2011 by…

Souter Investments

Souter Investments is the Edinburgh-based family investment office of Sir Brian Souter, co-founder of Stagecoach, founded in 2008 and making direct pr…

YFM Equity Partners

YFM Equity Partners LLP is a UK lower-mid-market private equity and growth-capital manager investing in UK SMEs since 1982, headquartered in Leeds wit…

Amadeus Capital Partners

Amadeus Capital Partners Limited is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Hermann Hauser and Anne Glover to back deep-technology comp…

Sovereign Capital

Sovereign Capital Partners is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 2001, specialising in a buy-and-build strategy across bus…

Cambridge Innovation Capital

Cambridge Innovation Capital is a Cambridge deep-tech and life-sciences venture firm founded in 2013 to back University of Cambridge ecosystem spin-ou…

Parkwalk Advisors

Parkwalk Advisors Ltd is the UK's most active investor in university spinouts, managing around £500 million in assets as the leading Enterprise Invest…

Seraphim Space

Seraphim Space is the leading global venture capital investor dedicated exclusively to SpaceTech, founded in 2016 and based in London. The manager (Se…

Future Planet Capital

Future Planet Capital is a London-based, impact-led global venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Douglas Hansen-Luke, investing in high-growth compa…

Apiary Capital

Apiary Capital is a UK lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 2017 and based in London, backing resilient owner-managed businesses across bus…

NVM Private Equity

NVM Private Equity is an employee-owned UK lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 1984 and headquartered in Newcastle, with offices across th…

Northern Gritstone

Northern Gritstone is a permanent-capital investment company founded in October 2020 by the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield to back de…

Hanover Investors

Hanover Investors is a London-based special-situations and active-equity investment firm founded in 2002 by Matthew Peacock. Through its Hanover Activ…

B.P. Marsh & Partners

B.P. Marsh & Partners Plc is a London-based specialist private-equity investor in early-stage financial-services businesses, principally insurance int…

WestBridge Fund Managers

WestBridge is an independent UK private equity house making control buyout investments of around GBP10m to GBP40m in profitable lower mid-market compa…

Cap10 Partners

Cap10 Partners is a London-based pan-European private equity firm founded in 2021 by Fabrice Nottin, formerly of Apollo, alongside partner Luca Bonano…

Beringea

Beringea LLP is a transatlantic growth-stage venture capital firm headquartered in London and managing the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts in the UK alo…

Rubicon Partners

Rubicon Partners is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 1993 that specialises in control buyouts, corporate carve-outs and…

Vespa Capital

Vespa Capital is a London-based lower-mid-market private equity firm founded in 2007, focused on management buyouts and recapitalisations of UK busine…

Whiterock

WhiteRock Capital Partners LLP, trading as Whiterock Finance, is a Belfast-based UK fund manager incorporated in 2012 (FCA FRN 613021, Small Authorise…

Pembroke VCT

Pembroke VCT plc is a London-listed Venture Capital Trust launched in 2013 and managed by Pembroke Investment Managers LLP, part of Oakley Capital and…

Soho Square Capital

Soho Square Capital LLP is a London lower-mid-market investor providing structured capital, senior and preferred capital with minority equity stakes,…

BACKED VC

BACKED VC is a London-based seed venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Andre de Haes and Alex Brunicki, investing in European frontier technology fo…