Climate Investment

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses, offering flexible capital for buyouts and minority stakes across sectors.

Terra Firma is one of the leading private equity investors in Europe. We invest in asset-rich businesses in essential industries (energy and utilities, infrastructure, affordable housing, leisure/hospitality, agriculture, healthcare and asset leasing) that require fundamental change. We have a long-term investment approach and specialize in five areas - Transformational Private Equity, Support Capital, Operational Secondaries, Operational Real Estate and Infrastructure Plus.

UK lower-mid-market private equity firm focusing on primary buyouts in essential services and B2B software.

Smedvig Capital is a family office investment vehicle that primarily invests the capital of the fourth generation of the Smedvig Family. We invest both directly into businesses, as well as into a select number of leading private equity fund managers. Our direct investing strategy is focused on early-stage (Series A and Series B) technology investments in the UK and Nordic regions. We look for ambitious management teams, tech-enabled businesses in attractive markets, and strong revenue growth (with minimum revenue > 1mm GBP). Smedvig Capital was founded in 1996 by Johnny Hewett and Peter Smedvig. Today, Smedvig has approximately $1.6bn of capital invested. $500m of this is direct investments, with the remainder via investments into private equity and venture capital managers.

Graphite Capital is a UK mid-market private equity firm focused on three core sectors: health & pharma, education, and data & tech-enabled services, investing in companies valued between £30 million and £150 million.

Notion Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in enterprise technology and SaaS start-ups headquartered in Europe. Typically these companies have $1m+ revenue, high growth rates, and ambitious founders who are building global, category-leading companies. The Notion partners have previously founded and exited two successful SaaS companies (Star and MessageLabs) and offer substantial industry expertise.

Eight Roads is a Fidelity-backed global investment platform with venture teams investing in technology and healthcare companies across Asia, Europe, Israel and the US.

Regional private equity and growth fund managed by Foresight Group, investing in SMEs across South West England.

Arowana is an investment holding group that invests in, builds and operates businesses across AI infrastructure, renewable energy, electric vehicles, education, circular economy and enterprise software. Its venture exposure includes the Vivarium venture studio.

Corten Capital is a uniquely focused private equity firm that partners with talented management teams to build market leading B2B Software & Services businesses across Europe and North America.

Pan-European lower mid-market private equity firm based in London investing in essential products and services across business & tech services, healthcare, consumer and industrial sectors; focuses on mid-market buyouts and buy-and-build strategies.

Permira is a global investment firm operating private equity and credit strategies, including buyout and growth equity, with sector expertise in technology, consumer, healthcare, and services.

Preservation Capital Partners is a London-based private equity firm, founded in 2017 and authorised by the FCA, that makes control investments in market-leading financial and business services companies across Western Europe. It is a sector specialist in the middle market, with subsector focus on insurance distribution, wealth management, financial services software and business services. It backs incumbent management teams and aims to create value through revenue and earnings growth rather than financial engineering.

Puma Growth Partners is the private equity division of Puma Capital Group, providing growth capital and strategic support to scaling businesses across sectors.

QPE provides capital and expertise to entrepreneur-led businesses within Education, Health & Pharma and Tech Services with ambitions to accelerate their growth.