Scottish Equity Partners

Scottish Equity Partners
Private Ownership
Headquarters London, Glasgow and Edinburgh
Number of employees
 45
Website www.sep.co.uk

Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is a UK venture capital firm. Operating from offices in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, it makes equity investments of up to £20 million in high growth technology, and technology enabled, companies. In November 2016 SEP announced that it had raised £260m for a new technology focused fund.

It was the largest investor in global travel search company Skyscanner, until its acquisition by Ctrip in December 2016 for £1.4billion. Other investments include, Mister Spex, the online eyewear business, and MATCHESFASHION.COM, a luxury omni-channel fashion retailer. SEP was named 'Venture Capital Firm of the Year' at the Unquote British Private Equity Awards 2015 for the fifth time in recent years. The firm has also invested in companies including Pulsant, LoveCrafts,Babbel,Biovex,[1] Craneware,[2] CSR and Anesco

In addition to venture capital for high growth companies, SEP also provides infrastructure finance for small scale clean energy projects and have partnered with FTSE 100-company SSE plc and established a secondary investment fund focused exclusively on cleantech companies.[3] Investors include Lexington Partners, UK based funds Hermes GPE and F&C Private Equity , as well as Swiss-based Partners Group.


References

  1. ↑ "SEP agrees $1bn venture exit".
  2. ↑ "Surge in profits sees Craneware shares jump more than 5%".
  3. ↑ "Scottish Equity Partners launch £95m green fund".

Scottish Equity Partners raises £260m for new fund

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