Scottish Equity Partners
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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Number of employees | 35 |
| 🌐 Website | www.sep.co.uk |
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Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) invests in high growth technology and tech-enabled businesses across the UK and Europe. It is an award-winning growth equity firm with a successful track record spanning over 20 years, with over 160 investments made and 140 exits completed.
SEP builds value by playing an active and supportive role in the growth and development of its portfolio companies and has been behind some of Europe’s most successful technology companies including Skyscanner, Biovex and matchesfashion.com.
SEP operates from offices in London and Glasgow. Typical investment size is £10-30m across a range of sectors, including enterprise software, consumer internet and tech-enabled service businesses but larger deals are also considered.
SEP was named UK Venture Capital and Growth Equity Firm of the Year[1] at the 2017 British Private Equity Awards, sponsored by Unquote. This is the sixth time that SEP has picked up the award for venture capital in recent years.
SEP was also presented with an award for Exit of the Year in respect of the £1.5 billion sale of travel search company Skyscanner to NASDAQ-listed Ctrip and was awarded Dealmaker of the Year[2] at the Scottish Business Insider Deals and Dealmakers Awards 2017.
SEP contributes to supporting women in tech and diversity: SEP is a signatory to the Women in Finance Charter and to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment.
SEP is an independent, owner-managed firm with a team of 35 people.
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- Official site
- Husband and wife bank £400m from sale of Matchesfashion.com
- Scottish Equity Partners raises £260m for tech focused fund
- SEP invests in LoveCrafts
- Scottish Equity Partners backs SportPursuit
- SEP investment Skyscanner sold to Ctrip for £1.4bn
- Scottish Equity Partners investment Exco InTouch sold to ERT
- Scottish Equity Partners invests in Babbel
- Scottish Equity Partners doubles investment
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- Scottish Equity Partners invests in Abcodia
- Scottish Equity Partners sets up £135m investment fund
- Scottish Equity Partners investment ControlCircle sold to AIM-listed Alternative Networks
- Flying robots company Cyberhawk Innovations backed by venture capital firm
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