What do we look for
The Fund invests in UK businesses with:
Strong management teams
A credible strategy to grow turnover and profits
A UK market-leading or market-influencing position
The potential to scale through buy and build
Operates in one of the following sectors:
- Technology and technology-enabled business services
- Financial services
- Niche IP-led manufacturing
Our Investors
The Maven UK Regional Buyout Fund is backed by an international and blue-chip institutional Limited Partner investor base, including Pension Funds, Regional Funds, Asset Managers and Family Offices as well as HNW individuals.
The Fund also runs an active coinvestment programme, with a significant amount of coinvestment funded by our existing LP base.
Our Buyout Team
Our Buyout Team has strength in depth, with complementary skillsets, extensive investment and value creation experience, and a proven long-term track record. Supported by Maven’s strong ecosystem and regional office model, the team is phenomenally well connected with a strong local presence and deep network of relationships.
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Our Buyout Portfolio
£17 million
Transaction size
This deal is a significant milestone for Envitia and a real opportunity to accelerate the growth of the business through further product development in AI & ML as well as expansion into new sectors.
Nabil Lodey, CEO at Envitia
£20 million
Transaction size
From the very first meeting, I have been impressed by the sheer professionalism of Maven and I know that we now have an equity partner who will help us shape our future and support our growth story going forwards.
David Jennings, CEO at UAP
£15 million
Transaction size
The investment in ProofID represents an attractive opportunity for our buyout fund to add a high-quality cyber security business to its portfolio. ProofID has experienced significant growth since it was established and benefits from high levels of recurring revenue.
Jeremy Thompson, Investment Director at Maven
Not disclosed
Transaction size
We have the opportunity to drive reform in the discretionary fund management sector, through leveraging new technologies and broadening distribution channels. With the market ripe for consolidation, we have ambitions to grow rapidly and see exciting opportunities in the coming months as we target £20 - £30 billion in assets under management over the next five years.
James Kaberry, joint-CEO of Titan Wealth Holdings
£9.65 million
Transaction size
We are really pleased to have an experienced private equity team with sector experience supporting the business; one which supports our vision of creating a much larger leading healthcare services business with an expanded geographical footprint.
Dharsa Mander, CEO at Acton Banks
Not disclosed
Transaction size
It is important to highlight the success has been underpinned throughout our journey over the past 10 years by the collaborative relationship we have built with the Maven team. They have proven not only to be an important source of growth capital, but as genuine partners who have helped us navigate this journey and showcase the value collaborative private equity can achieve.
Steve Mathers, Commercial Director of McGavigan
Not disclosed
Transaction size
The investment from Maven will really help our businesses thrive and build on our ambitions in the coming years, allowing us to support our own clients with the highest-quality services and products needed for their projects, and to help the Build Back Better, Greener and Faster agenda.
Gerard Toplass, Group Chief Executive of The 55 Group
Maven’s commitment to Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Maven became a signatory to the internationally recognised United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment in June 2021 and are committed to including Environmental, Social and Governance factors in key investment decision making.
Maven is also a signatory to the Investing in Women Code which aims to improve female entrepreneurs’ access to tools, resources and finance, supporting diversity and inclusion in access to finance.
In addition to the important humanitarian and environmental imperatives, a strong focus on ESG is a real driver of value creation, ensuring that things are done not only the best way but also the right way, with a genuine alignment of interests for the long-term growth and sustainability of the businesses in which we invest.
We see ESG, done properly and not as a tick-box exercise, as key to our value enhancement as well as to our alignment with both our LP investors and portfolio businesses.
Maven has recently invested meaningfully in its ESG framework and reporting capabilities to ensure ESG issues and opportunities are carefully identified and managed throughout the period of investment and for the longer term, with close engagement with management teams in relation to robust corporate governance and support in developing policies on the environment, community, HR, employee relations and responsible product marketing.
For many of our investee companies, our knowledgeable and guiding hand across all pillars of ESG will allow them to develop and grow their business in additional, improved and more sustainable ways for the long term.
Contact us
Andrew Ferguson
Partner
Tom Purkis
Partner
Lorna Kelly
Strategic Development Director
