SME finance that delivers
We can provide the essential capital investment to help you scale your business. Our range of funding solutions have helped hundreds of management teams across the UK make their vision a reality and achieve transformational levels of growth.
Flexible funding options to accelerate business growth
We recognise that entering into a new relationship with an investor can represent a significant milestone for any business. At Maven we aim to work collaboratively with each investee company, understanding their needs and helping them to achieve their potential, without taking control.
We want to work with entrepreneurial and hard working management teams who are looking for a flexible and supportive investor who brings capital and strategic expertise to help drive growth and value creation.
What are you looking to achieve?
Grow
Your business
We have a diverse range of funding options that can provide the capital injection required to support growth and value creation in entrepreneurial UK companies.
Buy
The business you manage
Looking to buy a share in the business you manage? We help management teams to acquire the business they have worked tirelessly to grow, supporting them at every turn.
Sell
Your business
Considering options to sell your business? We work collaboratively with business owners to create a tailored transaction structure, enabling them to retain a stake in the business or to realise their investment in full.
Build
Property development
We partner with experienced developers and asset managers to fund real estate projects that have the potential to deliver income or capital growth.
Looking for our regional funds?
Maven manages a number of funds which specialise in providing growth finance to ambitious regionally based businesses across Scotland, the Midlands, South West, North East and North West of England.
Our funding options
We have a range of solutions to suit most businesses, whether you are looking for Growth Capital to expand an early stage business, or Private Equity to support a buy and build strategy, management buyout, or to finance equity release. Use the toggle below to see what best suits the needs of your business.
I'm interested in:
Funding requirement
We can invest from £2 million to £20 million.
Enterprise value
We seek to support businesses valued from £4 million up to £40 million.
Management
We support ambitious, experienced and entrepreneurial management teams.
Sectors
We are sector agnostic, with a clear focus on investing in established and profitable businesses operating in sectors that offer large addressable market potential and strong growth prospects.
Location
We prefer to invest in UK domiciled businesses.
Stage of growth
We back established, profitable, and growing businesses with annual earnings of at least £1 million.
Funding requirement
We can invest from £1 million to £6 million in a single company transaction.
Revenues
We support emerging smaller companies with annual revenues of at least £1 million.
Management
We support ambitious, experienced and entrepreneurial management teams.
Sectors
We are sector agnostic, with a clear focus on backing younger, dynamic businesses which can take early market share and grow quickly.
Location
We prefer UK domiciled businesses.
Stage of growth
We support entrepreneurial and innovative earlier stage companies, usually under 10 years of age, which have the potential to deliver maintainable growth in revenues.
Location
We invest in UK based property projects and have a strong regional focus.
Sector
We undertake projects across a wide range of sectors including: Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA), Residential Joint Ventures, Office refurbishment, Strategic Land projects, and Hotel development.
Size of investment
We support transactions with a Gross Development Value (GDV) of up to £30 million.
Experience
We aim to partner with experienced developers or asset managers, only undertaking a small number of high quality opportunities each year.
Returns
We look for opportunities that have the potential to deliver regular income or project based development gains, typically targeting investor returns of up to 2x cost over the life of each project.
Hold period
Our typical investment timeframe for each project is between two and four years.
Why Maven?
We've got the lower-mid market covered
We support a comprehensive range of transaction types, including management buyouts, growth capital, buy and build projects, equity value release and pre-IPO financing.
Backing ambition
We have significant experience and reach across business models, sectors and all stages of a company life cycle. No matter the complexity of the transaction, we will have undoubtedly encountered it before.
Trusted investment partner
We are one of the UK’s most active investors of high growth companies, investing over £650 million in over 400 businesses since we were established in 2009.
We are where you are
Our regional model and extensive UK office network ensures that we are embedded across the entire country, providing a local presence with national scale.