Investor Profile: Maven
Name: Rebecca MacDermid
Investment company name: Maven Capital Partners
No. of Portfolio companies: 300+
No. of Portfolio companies in the North of England: 45+
Team size: 100+
Website: https://www.mavencp.com/
Locations: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lancashire, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Middlesborough, Newcastle, Nottingham and Reading.
Name three notable portfolio companies:🔗
- Kani Payments
- Power Roll
- Tiba Tempeh
Fund name: Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II - Maven Equity Finance
Investment ticket range: up to £5 million
Stage: SMEs
Sectors: All
Location: North of England
Fund name: Finance Durham Fund
Investment ticket range: From £150,000 - £2 million
Stage: SMEs
Sectors: All
Location: County Durham
Fund name: South West Investment Fund - Maven Equity Finance
Investment ticket range: up to £5 million
Stage: SMEs
Sectors: All
Location: South West of England
Fund name: Investment Fund for Scotland Maven Equity Finance
Investment ticket range: up to £5 million
Stage: SMEs
Sectors: All
Location: Scotland
Fund name: MEIF II - Maven Debt Finance East and South East Midlands
Investment ticket range: £100,000 - £2 million
Stage: SMEs
Sectors: All
Location: East and South East Midlands
What do you look for in an investee business? 🔗
Maven works with entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders who have the ambition and drive to grow their businesses further and faster. If you are an ambitious business owner or management team who wants to scale your business rapidly but needs access to the capital to make that a reality and further expertise to help execute a growth strategy. Maven can assist in accelerating growth by providing the financial and strategic support required. What look for:
- Talented and committed management teams who share the same ambition to grow shareholder value as we do.
- We are sector agnostic, supporting ambitious businesses across a range of the UK's most vibrant industries.
- Entrepreneurial and innovative smaller companies which are growing quickly.
We can support transactions requiring capital from £100,000 via our specialist regional funds, up to £20 million from our MBO Fund. We don't always expect businesses to be the finished article. We add value in companies with a clear, credible business strategy, capable of delivering growth in profit and earnings.
Why founders choose you as an investor? 🔗
Maven is one of the UK's most active private equity firms with a long-term track record of supporting a range of transaction types. With 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 encountered it before. We support business growth by:
- Working collaboratively with our investees, understanding their needs and helping them achieve their potential, without taking control.
- Offering businesses a strong platform for growth by providing flexible and tailored funding solutions which suit your business now and in the future.
- Providing follow-on funding if required to support acquisitions or strategic growth initiatives, offering speed and certainty of delivery.
- Focusing heavily on the major UK economic regions, we have a nationwide office network with local people on the ground who are well connected and understand the nuances of the market in which you operate.
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. We can support transactions requiring capital from £100,000 via our specialist regional funds, up to £20 million from our MBO Fund.
We back people, not just businesses, adding value but not interfering in day-to-day operations. We equip our investee companies for success. Our highly experienced investment and portfolio executives can help each management team to continue to further develop their business and provide direct input and guidance on strategic initiatives such as international expansion, bolt-on acquisitions, talent recruitment, and driving operational efficiencies.
How to get in touch with you?
- Rebecca MacDermid
Investment Manager
@ Maven
