| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.03.2022 | Discussing Diversity in Private Equity – in conversation with Emily Henderson and Heidi Farley | Two members of the investment team, Emily Henderson and Heidi Farley, sat down to discuss their views on diversity with a specific focus on gender, why it is important and how embracing cultural change can improve it.
Businesses across a r... |
| 28.02.2022 | The importance of ESG – creating value by doing the right thing. | Investment Director, Ravi Monteiro discusses how a well-defined ESG strategy can support businesses to create value.
Over recent years sustainable, responsible investment has had an ever-brighter light shone on it as ESG has transitioned i... |
| 31.01.2022 | What digital transformation means for SMEs. | Partner Alex Thomson discusses some of the key digital transformation themes that SMEs are now embracing and benefitting from.
The last decade has been dominated by businesses who have adapted to technology, both as a disruptive threat to ... |
| 27.01.2022 | ‘’Not buying businesses but partnering for success’’ – Richard Shaw and Emily Henderson in conversation with the ICAEW | This month Partner Richard Shaw and Investment Director Emily Henderson sat down with the ICAEW to discuss what “Partnership” means to GCP. The full article can be found below.
“Partnership” is a word ever more talked about in the private ... |
| 14.01.2022 | 2021 – review of the year | Despite the uncertainties and adversity of 2021, we were extremely proud of the hard work, resilience and drive of our team and the fantastic businesses we partner with.
What we achieved in 2021
Starting with an excellent strategic exit
... |
| 11.12.2021 | Partner Alex Thomson discusses the growth opportunities in our partnership with Hippo Digital | - |
| 27.11.2021 | Infinity Works exit wins at this year’s Yorkshire Insider Deal Makers awards. | - |
| 04.11.2021 | Supporting the Impetus fund and the next wave of professional talent. | - |
| 01.11.2021 | What’s our approach to partnering with exceptional growth businesses? Listen to GCP Partner, Alex Thomson define what a successful investment means to us on the ReachX podcast. | - |
| 13.10.2021 | A winning week for Bridewell Consulting as they collect three awards in three days | - |
| 13.10.2021 | GCP win at the British Private Equity Awards | - |
| 20.04.2021 | Growth Capital Partners makes three promotions | Growth Capital Partners (‘GCP’) has promoted Alex Thomson to Partner, Jay Salter to Investment Director and James Handley to Investment Manager.
The internal promotions reinforce GCP’s commitment to investing in its people and follows the ... |
| 08.04.2021 | GCP completes investment in Hippo Digital, its second investment in Fund V | Growth Capital Partners is pleased to announce a minority investment in Hippo Digital, the second investment of GCP’s Fund V.
Hippo Digital is a cutting edge design and delivery digital transformation consultancy. Founded in April 2016, it... |
| 02.04.2021 | GCP are pleased to announce that Emily Henderson has joined the team | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), a leading partnership-focused investor, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Henderson as Investment Director.
Emily joins GCP from RJD Partners, a UK lower mid-market private equity fund. Emily ... |
| 26.03.2021 | GCP invests in Bridewell Consulting as 1st investment in its new Fund V | GCP is pleased to announce a minority investment in Bridewell Consulting, the first investment in GCP Fund V.
Bridewell Consulting is a leading cyber security services company providing global, 24×7 managed detection and response (MDR) ser... |
| 05.03.2021 | First Mile acquires Giraffe Recycling | - |
| 05.03.2021 | First Mile goes even greener | - |
| 05.03.2021 | First Mile wins Excellence in Responsible Business | - |
| 27.02.2021 | First Mile supercharges sustainability with launch of First Mile Energy | - |
| 18.02.2021 | Growth Capital Partners realises its investment in Infinity Works | Growth Capital Partners has realised its investment in Infinity Works, one of the UK’s leading digital transformation consultancies. Infinity Works is being acquired by global professional services company Accenture.
GCP invested in Infini... |
| 05.02.2021 | Advanced Insulation wins awards at the Accounts Payable Association annual conference | - |
| 05.02.2021 | 4site has been awarded the Field Mobility Award at the Esri Ireland Customer Success Awards. | - |
| 05.02.2021 | Chaucer acquire Medley Business Solutions | - |
| 05.02.2021 | GCP supports Advanced Insulation with merger with Bardot | - |
| 05.02.2021 | How first mile are cleaning up air pollution | - |
| 14.08.2020 | Growth Capital Partners is proud to support Impetus | Growth Capital Partners is proud to support Impetus, a charity making a difference for disadvantaged young people across the UK.
Impetus was the first charity in the UK to use a venture philanthropy approach. Impetus transforms the lives o... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in Iglu | GCP realises its investment in Iglu, the UK’s largest independent agent for ski holidays and cruises
Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the mid-market private equity firm, has realised its investment in Iglu, the UK’s leading online travel age... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in The DMW Group | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), the UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner-managers, has realised its investment in The DMW Group (“DMW”), a leading independent technology consultancy. DMW is being acquired by... |
| - | GCP boost deal team with significant hire | Before joining GCP, Kirsty spent 5 years at 3i. Previously, she worked at Trinity Mirror plc, focusing on corporate acquisitions, and she was also one of the founders of a London-based strategy consultancy, providing support across a range ... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in etc. venues | Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the UK SME specialist private equity firm, has realised its investment in contemporary city centre event space host, etc.venues, which is to expand into the United States and beyond in a new partnership with U... |
| - | GCP invests in GTS as 10th investment in Fund IV | GTS is a specialist manufacturer of technically differentiated adhesives, flexible laminates and insulation materials which are found in a range of end applications and global markets including automotive, renewable energy and transportatio... |
| - | First Mile is the 4th investment in Fund IV and the 5th in the last 12 months | First Mile is a fast-growth, differentiated waste and recycling collections provider. Through technology and customer focus the business has revolutionised service provision in the sector.
GCP backed the incumbent management team to accele... |
| - | The future’s bright for Tangerine as it acquires B | Burton’s manufactures a wide range of gums, jellies, liquorice, and paste products under the Burton’s and Henry Goode brand names as well as for private label. Also based in Blackpool it has annual sales of £14 million. The deal will consol... |
| - | GCP backs first MBO from Fund II | Close Brothers Growth Capital (“CBGC”), a provider of combined debt and equity funding, announces that it is backing the management buy out of Entec UK Limited (“Entec”) from Northumbrian Water Group plc (“Northumbrian Water”). Entec operat... |
| - | GCP completes investment in Flint Global, its third investment in Fund V | Growth Capital Partners is pleased to announce a minority investment in Flint Global (“Flint”), the third investment from GCP’s Fund V.
Flint is a political, policy, regulatory and competition advisory firm that specialises in advising cli... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in Arrow Business Communications | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), the UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner managers, has realised its investment in Arrow Business Communications (“Arrow”), a leading provider of business communications, IT an... |
| - | GCP adds to its Investment team | Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the provider of flexible debt and equity to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses today announces the appointment of Alex Thomson as an Investment Manager. Alex joins from Investec Investment Banking.
At ... |
| - | Arrow acquires Reeves Lund | Arrow is delighted to announce both the acquisition of Reeves Lund Ltd and the opening of a brand new office for our London based staff.
Reeves Lund Ltd is a boutique telecoms reseller based in Farringdon, London and has been providing tel... |
| - | GCP completes investment in Indigo Telecom Group as Sixth Deal in Fund IV | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), is pleased to announce a new investment in Indigo Telecom Group, supporting the management team in a secondary MBO.
Indigo is a leading provider of multi-vendor managed and project infrastructure services t... |
| - | GCP has backed FLYdocs | GCP has backed FLYdocs, a provider of paperless aviation records software to commercial airlines and aircraft lessors.
Headquartered in Tamworth in the UK and founded in 2007, FLYdocs also has operations in India, the Philippines and the U... |
| - | Close Capital Partners spins out of Close Brothers | The three executive directors of Close Growth Capital have bought the business out of Close Brothers and changed its name to Growth Capital Partners LLP. Growth Capital Partners provides structured equity, a combined equity and debt product... |
| - | DMW wins a best Workplace in Tech 2019 award | - |
| - | DMW wins a best Workplace in Tech 2020 award | - |
| - | GCP supports Fishawack with acquisition | GCP makes its third investment in 2014
London – 27 March 2014 – Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the provider of blended equity and debt to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses, today announces that it has funded the acquisition of JK A... |
| - | Chaucer & Virtrium listed in FT’s 2019 Leading UK | - |
| - | Fishawack successful realisation | Fishawack is a leading medical communications group with operations in the UK, USA, Switzerland & India. During the life of our investment we supported management with three bolt-on acquisitions as the earnings of the group more than do... |
| - | UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2020 | - |
| - | GCP support Arrow Business Communications in the acquisition of ABICA and EUM | Growth Capital Partners announces a further two bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio company Arrow Business Communications
GCP is delighted to have supported Arrow in its acquisitions of Abica Ltd and its subsidiary PCR IT Ltd and European U... |
| - | GCP supports Chaucer in merger with Virtrium Consulting | Virtrium was established in 2006 and specialises in IT strategy, architecture and transformation services across financial services, consumer and public sectors. The founding partners of Virtrium will move across as part of the deal, joinin... |
| - | Chaucer makes strategic investment in SharpCloud Software Limited | Chaucer has made a strategic investment in SharpCloud Software Limited as part of a wider first round fundraise. SharpCloud is a data visualisation and collaboration tool that enables real time data presentation, sharing and analytics.
The... |
| - | Growth Capital Partners raises over £20,000 for Impetus | On Saturday the 6th of July, James, Jay, Richard, John, Ravi, Liam and Katarina all represented Growth Capital Partners and took part in our very first Impetus triathlon.
We managed to get second place in the individual sprint event and 7t... |
| - | GCP is pleased to announce that Michael Gray has joined the team | Michael joins GCP from A&M Capital where he was Head of Origination. With 12 years of private equity experience, Michael previously spent 4 years as Head of Sponsor Coverage at Grant Thornton, responsible for providing deal flow, ideas,... |
| - | Advanced Insulation win EIC Innovation Award | Advanced Insulation, a UK-based manufacturer, has been awarded the EIC (Energy Industries Council) Innovation award for its underdeck and bulkhead fire protection and insulation system – ContraFlame® MS400.
In the first week of October, th... |
| - | Advanced Insulation reaches milestone of fifth Queen’s Award, obtaining the ‘Innovation’ award for the third time in five years | The Gloucester-based company has been awarded a Queen’s Award for Innovation to celebrate the creation and success of ContraFlame MS400, its lightweight insulation and fire protection product for the underdeck of an oil platform.
Despite t... |
| - | Infinity Works opens in Edinburgh | Fast growing IT consultancy Infinity Works has continued its geographic expansion by opening a new office in Edinburgh. This adds to the head office in Leeds and offices in London and Manchester and is in line with its exciting growth plans... |
| - | GCP Acquires Wrap Film System | Growth Capital Partners have combined equity and debt finance provider, has backed the £21m management buy-out of Wrap Film Systems Limited (Wrap), one of the largest cling film and aluminium foil converters in Europe, from Benedetti Intern... |
| - | Indigo Telecom Group named Insider Media Deal of the Month | South Wales based Indigo Telecom designs, installs and maintains telecom networks across the globe, enabling its clients to deliver fixed line, broadband, mobile and other data services to a wide variety of corporate, enterprise and consume... |
| - | Two GCP companies have been named in LSE’s 1000 | Two GCP companies have been named in the 2017 London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain: etc.venues & First Mile.
The report is a celebration of some of the fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium sized ... |
| - | AMG win Best Marketing Campaign EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2018 | - |
| - | GCP completes investment in IT Consultancy The DMW Group | GCP today announces its investment in London based specialist IT consultancy DMW. This is the fifth investment in GCP Fund IV.
DMW supports its high-profile clients through exceptional consulting talent with a deep understanding of the tec... |
| - | GCP back buyout of Chaucer Group Limited | London – Feb 2014 – Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the provider of blended equity and debt to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses, has financed the management buy-out of Chaucer, an international change management consultancy business... |
| - | GCP supports portfolio company Arrow with its 2nd acquisition in 2017 | Surrey – 26th July 2017 – Growth Capital Partners (‘GCP’) is delighted to announce that Arrow Business Communications (‘Arrow’) has completed the acquisition of Worksmart Technology Ltd (‘Worksmart’). This acquisition is part of Arrow’s buy... |
| - | GCP completes investment in Shorterm | A leading specialist technical engineering recruitment and training company supporting a wide range of household names in the aviation, automotive, power & rail sectors in particular. |
| - | GCP is pleased to announce that Liam Bennett has joined the team | Liam joins GCP from KPMG, where he spent several years based in both their UK and Australian offices. While at KPMG Liam provided transaction services to a range of private equity and corporate clients, including both sell-side and buy-side... |
| - | GCP announces third senior appointment in sixth months | GCP, the provider of blended equity and debt to the UK’s small to medium sized businesses, has announced the appointment of Richard Shaw as investment manager. Richard, who joins from Clearwater Corporate Finance, provides additional transa... |
| - | GCP support Arrow Business Communications in the acquisition of 360 Solutions Ltd | GCP is delighted to announce that it has supported Arrow with the acquisition of 360 Solutions Ltd, its fifth acquisition since the GCP investment in August 2016.
360 Solutions is a leading provider of Telecoms and IT services to the legal... |
| - | Final close of Fund IV at £205m | London – 10th July 2017 – Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a leading lower mid-market investor in UK SMEs, and British Business Bank Investments Ltd (BBBIL), the commercial arm of the British Business Bank, are pleased to announce a £40 milli... |
| - | Tangerine agrees Monkhill acquistion with Cadbury | Tangerine, the Blackpool-based confectionery firm, has agreed to acquire Monkhill Confectionery from Cadbury Schweppes for £58 million in cash. The deal is subject to completion in February.
Monkhill manufactures and sells the popular Butt... |
| - | DMW win a Great Place To Work Award | - |
| - | GCP takes minority stake in AMG | GCP is investing alongside the management team, including chief executive Stephen Newlands, commercial and finance director Stephen Craig, and product and development director Glenn Andrews.
AMG’s portfolio includes hiking brands such as V... |
| - | GCP supports £32m MBO of A-Gas | Close Growth Capital (“CGC”), a provider of combined equity and debt funding, announces that it is backing the £32 million secondary management buyout (MBO) of A-Gas International (“A-Gas”), the leading independent global distributor of spe... |
| - | GCP invests in telecoms infrastructure services | Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has invested €23.3m in John Henry Group, a telecoms infrastructure services company.
Founded in 1985 in Cambridgeshire, the John Henry Group supports telecoms providers mainly by maintaining and extending thei... |
| - | Growth Capital Partners promotes Ravi Monteiro to Investment Director | GCP is pleased to announce the promotion of Ravi Monteiro to Investment Director. Ravi joined GCP in 2014 and most recently worked on the investments in First Mile, Arrow Business Communications & Shorterm Group. In 2016 Ravi was a key ... |
| - | Growth Capital Partners hires three new recruits | Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has hired three new recruits, with two investment executives and a finance director joining the team.
James Salter and James Handley join GCP as investment executives. Both Salter and Handley join the firm fro... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in Wrap Film Systems | GCP realises its investment in Wrap Film Systems limited, The UK’S cling film and aluminium foil converter.
London – Sept 2015 – Growth Capital Partners (GCP), the mid-market private equity firm, has realised its investment in Wrap Film Sy... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in Chaucer | GCP the UK SME private equity firm that specialises in partnering with owner-managers, has realised its investment in Chaucer Consulting (“Chaucer”), one of the UK’s leading challenger consultancies specialising in people-led digital transf... |
| - | Siebert Industries third acquisition for Arrow Business Communications in 2017 | GCP is delighted to announce the acquisition by Arrow of Siebert Industries Ltd (trading as Siebert Telecom Solutions).
Siebert, founded in 1990, has a strong track record of providing Hosted, Fixed and Mobile Telephony solutions alongside... |
| - | GCP invests in CubeLogic as 9th investment in GCP Fund IV | GCP is pleased to announce a minority investment in CubeLogic, the ninth investment in Fund IV.
CubeLogic is the leading supplier of risk management software solutions for the energy, commodity and financial markets. CubeLogic’s software u... |
| - | GCP promotes Jay Salter to Investment Manager | Jay previously worked in the corporate finance team at Ernst & Young where he spent four years in the London office working in corporate restructuring and transactions support before three years in Sydney as part of the private equity t... |
| - | Growth Capital Partners completes minority investment in Jones Knowles Ritchie | Growth Capital Partners (GCP) is delighted to announce that it has completed an investment in Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR), an award-winning design-led creative company. This is GCP’s eighth investment from its Fund IV.
GCP’s investment wil... |
| - | In Conversation with Kirsty McDonald | Kirsty recently spoke with Level 20 regarding her start in private equity and the career path to her current role.
Level 20 is a not for profit organisation, set up in 2015, to inspire more women to join and to succeed in the private equit... |
| - | GCP exits Goodridge UK | Close Growth Capital (“CGC”), a provider of combined equity and debt funding, announced today that it had sold its stake in Goodridge UK to the incumbent management team.
The deal represents an excellent return for CGC, who made its initia... |
| - | GCP is delighted to announce that Heidi Farley has joined the team | GCP is delighted to announce that Heidi Farley has joined the team
Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), a leading partnership-focused investor, is pleased to announce the appointment of Heidi Farley as Investment Executive.
Heidi joins GCP fr... |
| - | Richard Shaw helps raises money for Bloodwise | Richard Shaw spent Sunday taking part in RideLondon, cycling the 100 miles London/Surrey circuit used for the 2012 Olympics, to raise money for Bloodwise. Richard’s fundraising contributed to a total of £90,000 raised by cyclists riding for... |
| - | Is private equity misunderstood? | Many businesses across the UK have been planning their future and considering what will set them up for success. For some, that decision could be a private equity investment.
Kirsty recently joined a panel hosted by Jon Cronin to talk abou... |
| - | Advanced Insulation Joins Forces with GCP | Advanced Insulation plc (AI) is pleased to announce that it has completed a transaction which sees Growth Capital Partners (GCP) taking a substantial minority shareholding in the company.
At the same time this move has allowed a number of ... |
| - | GCP sells Scopus Engineering to Amec Foster Wheeler | Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW), the multinational consultancy, engineering and project management company, has acquired Scopus Engineering from Growth Capital Partners and management. Scopus Engineering is a market leading laser scanning and dim... |
| - | Growth Capital Partners banks 3x return from Entec | Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has sold Entec, the environmental and engineering consultancy to Amec.
This is the second realisation from GCP’s fund II. The sale generated a 33 per cent IRR and a 3x money multiple. GCP first invested in Ent... |
| - | AMG Group launches new website | - |
| - | GCP supports £32m MBO of A-Gas International | GCP is backing the £32 million secondary management buyout (MBO) of A-Gas International (“A-Gas”) a provider of combined equity and debt funding, announces that it is backing the £32 million secondary management buyout (MBO) of A-Gas Intern... |
| - | Alastair Stewart wins Transformational Leader at the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2019 | - |
| - | Advanced Insulation apprentice wins award | Ben Townsend, aged 20, who works as an apprentice patternmaker for Advanced Insulation, was up against talent from companies such as Dyson, BAE Systems and Airbus to win the Intermediate & Advanced First Year Apprentice Award at this ye... |
| - | 4site acquired by GCP backed Indigo Telecom Group | 4site was established in 2002 with its headquarters in Limerick Ireland, and is a specialist provider of mobile wireless, and fibre services. These services include the survey, planning, design and build of wireless and fibre network infras... |
| - | GCP backs £9m MBO of Allen & Heath | Growth Capital Partners (GCP), a provider of combined equity and debt funding, announces that it is backing the £9m secondary management buy out (MBO) of Allen & Heath (“A&H”), a designer of professional sound mixing equipment. The ... |
| - | GCP backs MBI of Toms Confectionery Ltd | Close Brothers Growth Capital Ltd (“CBGC”), a provider of combined equity and debt funding, announces that it is backing the management buy-in (MBI) of Toms Confectionery Ltd (“TCL”), from Toms Gruppen of Denmark. TCL is headquartered in Bl... |
| - | GCP realises its investment in Cooke Optics and delivers 4.4x money multiple | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), the UK SME specialist private equity firm, has realised its investment in Cooke Optics (“Cooke”), a manufacturer of high end cine lenses to the global film, television and advertising industries.
Caledonia ... |
| - | GCP back buy-out of PRAGMA and Realtime | In a difficult funding environment, Close Growth Capital’s (CGC), ability to provide both equity and debt has enabled them to complete the £30 million MBO of Pragma and Real Time, the UK IT services businesses of Sword Group Plc, the listed... |
| - | GCP completes investment in Infinity Works as Seventh Deal in Fund IV | Growth Capital Partners (“GCP”), is pleased to announce a new investment in Infinity Works Consulting Limited, partnering with the founder management team to support significant additional scale and reach and help increase its share of the ... |
| - | Infinity Works wins fastest growing tech companies 2020 | - |
| - | GCP promotes Richard Shaw to Partner | Richard leads GCP’s investment activity in the TMT sector and plays a central role in new deals and portfolio management across the firm. He led the recent Fund IV investment in Arrow, a business communications service provider and also the... |
