Maven Capital Partners UK

Maven Capital Partners UK is an independent alternative asset manager headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, with a significant presence across the UK through its regional offices. Established in 2009 following a buyout of the Aberdeen Asset Management private equity business, Maven manages over £415 million in assets. The firm specializes in providing flexible equity and loan financing solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the property sector. Its financing activities include management buy-outs, acquisitions, development capital, buy-and-build projects, and business expansion. Maven supports entrepreneurial ventures at various stages of growth, offering funding packages that range from £100,000 to £15 million. Additionally, the firm presents attractive investment opportunities, including tax-efficient investments and direct co-investment in private equity and property transactions, making it one of the most active private equity managers in the UK’s lower mid-market segment.

Richard Altoft

Investment Director

Gavin Bell

Investment Director

Ryan Bevington

Investment Director

Richard Blount

Partner - Regional Debt Funds

Richard Brighty

Investment Manager

Richard Brighty

Investment Manager

Joe Cassidy

Investment Manager

Dean Cox

Investment Director

James Darlington

Investment Manager

Michael Dickens

Investment Manager

Paul Dixon-Box

Investment Director

Ramsay Duff

Investment Director

Andrew Ferguson

Partner

Carolyn Ferguson

Investment Manager

Dave Furlong

Investment Director

Jock Gardiner

Partner

Julie Glenny

Investment Director

Melanie Goward

Investment Director

Craig Hopwood

Investment Director

Paul Johnston

Investment Director

Bill Kennedy

Partner

Rafi Khan

Investment Manager

Alexandra Lindsay

Investment Director

Jonathan Lowe

Investment Director

Rebecca MacDermid

Investment Manager

Ewan MacKinnon

Partner

Victoria McLaren

Investment Manager

Martin McLaren

Investment Manager

David Milroy

Partner

Andrew Muirhead

Senior Investment Manager

Bill Nixon

Managing Partner

David Nixon

Senior Investment Manager

David Nixon

Senior Investment Manager

Jonathan Oliver

Investment Director

Thomas Parton

Investment Manager

Tom Purkis

Investment Director

Simon Robb

Portfolio Director

Chris Rogers

Investment Manager

Chris Rogers

Investment Manager

Alex Rothwell

Investment Director

Sajid Sabir

Investment Manager

Alexander Sleigh

Investment Director

Alexander Sleigh

Investment Director

Harry Staples

Investment Manager

Rob Stevenson

Investment Associate

Jeremy Thompson

Partner

Michael Vassallo

Investment Director

Simon Young

Investment Manager

Rob Stevenson

Investment Manager

Rebecca MacDermid

Investment Manager

Craig McGill

Investment Manager

Past deals in London

CWCS Managed Hosting

Debt Financing in 2025
CWCS Managed Hosting is the UK's leading hosting specialist. We offer a fully comprehensive range of hosting products, services and support. We're an established company with over 15 years of experience in the hosting industry. Our highly trained staff are not only hosting experts, they're also committed to delivering a great customer experience and are genuinely passionate about what they do. CWCS Managed Hosting offers cloud, dedicated servers and colocation hosting. If you're not ready for managed hosting, you will find our shared hosting services highly cost-effective and straightforward. CWCS Managed Hosting has two privately owned data centres in Nottingham UK with additional data centre facilities in London. Our US-based sister company, Supreme Servers has data centre facilities in Miami, Dallas and Toronto.

RwHealth

Series A in 2024
RwHealth is a London-based healthcare analytics company that specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance predictive data and analytics within the healthcare sector. The company utilizes data from both public sector organizations and private firms on a global scale, providing solutions that improve operational efficiencies, health outcomes, and revenue growth for its clients. RwHealth's platform is integral to hospital and healthcare provider operations, facilitating patient flow management and strategic decision-making. With a proven track record, the company has successfully implemented its platform in various public and private healthcare systems, generating over £31 million in efficiency opportunities. RwHealth operates in the UK, US, and Australia, with a continuous emphasis on growth and innovation in healthcare analytics.

VoxSmart

Private Equity Round in 2024
VoxSmart Limited is a telecommunications software provider focused on the financial services sector, offering solutions to manage business risk and comply with regulatory requirements. Founded in 2006 and based in London, the company specializes in its VSMART platform, which captures, records, stores, transcribes, and analyzes mobile communications, including calls, messages, and voicemails, across various devices and networks. By turning communications data into actionable insights, VoxSmart enables firms to enhance their understanding of employee conduct, operational efficiency, and potential business opportunities. The company has formed a strategic alliance with Eventus Systems, Inc., further extending its capabilities in the market.

Zing Dev

Venture Round in 2024
Zing Dev Limited is a technology services company based in High Wycombe, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Founded in 2018, it specializes in consultancy and managed services for programmable cloud-based contact center software. As a specialist implementation partner for Twilio, Zing Dev develops and implements contact center solutions designed to enhance customer communication and engagement. By leveraging advanced technology, the company aims to provide cost-effective solutions that address various customer challenges, thereby improving overall client interactions. Zing Dev Limited was formerly known as Zing Developers Limited until its name change in December 2019.

Newable

Acquisition in 2023
Newable is an investment holding company based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in early-stage and growth investments. Founded in 2009, the company connects early-stage investors with high-growth scale-up businesses, particularly in the UK. Newable facilitates opportunities for private investors, family offices, and corporate investors to engage with innovative, knowledge-intensive companies, often working alongside them as Lead Investors to maximize their potential. With over 30 years of experience in the industry, Newable has established a robust ecosystem of investors and partners, ensuring a continuous pipeline of promising early-stage companies. Additionally, Newable provides finance, consulting, and property services tailored to start-ups and small to medium-sized enterprises, emphasizing empowerment and leadership to foster confidence in their clients.

Bright

Seed Round in 2022
Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market. Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimum academic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice. Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees.

RwHealth

Series A in 2021
RwHealth is a London-based healthcare analytics company that specializes in leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance predictive data and analytics within the healthcare sector. The company utilizes data from both public sector organizations and private firms on a global scale, providing solutions that improve operational efficiencies, health outcomes, and revenue growth for its clients. RwHealth's platform is integral to hospital and healthcare provider operations, facilitating patient flow management and strategic decision-making. With a proven track record, the company has successfully implemented its platform in various public and private healthcare systems, generating over £31 million in efficiency opportunities. RwHealth operates in the UK, US, and Australia, with a continuous emphasis on growth and innovation in healthcare analytics.

RevLifter

Series A in 2020
RevLifter Limited specializes in online promotion services for e-commerce businesses, focusing on deal personalization through an AI-driven platform. Established in 2017 and based in London, the company offers a range of tools designed to enhance customer engagement and boost sales. Its offerings include RevPage, an AI-powered customer engagement tool, RevConvert, which provides on-site messages to connect with customers at critical moments, and RevRewards, a system that incentivizes customer purchases. The platform analyzes real-time user behavior to deliver tailored offers both on and off retailers' websites, helping to retain customers and improve conversion rates. By aligning deals with individual customer profiles, RevLifter aims to meet specific retail goals, such as attracting new customers and increasing average order values, while being quick to integrate and performance-based in its pricing.

Bright

Series B in 2020
Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market. Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimum academic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice. Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees.

Intilery.com

Venture Round in 2020
Intilery.com Ltd is a UK-based company that offers a software as a service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance customer engagement and improve marketing strategies. Founded in 2012, the company specializes in automating personalized multi-step email campaigns, allowing businesses to connect with their customers more effectively without the need for IT integration. Intilery.com provides tools for marketing automation, analytics, and a comprehensive single customer view, enabling organizations to gather and analyze data from various customer touchpoints. The platform optimizes both email and onsite content by delivering tailored experiences for individual users, ultimately facilitating better customer relations and insights. Intilery.com operates from offices in Chester and London.

Precursive

Venture Round in 2020
Precursive is a rapidly growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that specializes in workforce planning and resource management. By offering a comprehensive platform designed for customer onboarding, professional services automation, and improved service delivery, Precursive enables organizations to align their sales, services, and success teams effectively. This alignment helps clients streamline administrative tasks, thereby maximizing revenue and enhancing overall efficiency. With a diverse client base that includes both mid-sized companies and Fortune 500 organizations, Precursive operates globally from its headquarters in London, serving customers primarily in the UK, US, and Europe through an international team of consultants and development staff.

Nano Interactive

Venture Round in 2020
Nano Interactive GmbH is a German company that specializes in online advertising through its live intent targeting platform. Founded in 2014 by former executives of ValueClick, the company focuses on search-based targeting services by analyzing user search queries to align with advertiser campaign requirements. It operates a data management platform called Audience Manager, which creates anonymous user profiles for optimized and timely online ad displays. Additionally, Nano Interactive provides reporting dashboards that enable real-time cross-channel performance tracking at the keyword level. With a strong emphasis on leveraging advanced technology in the search and intent-based targeting sector, the company is currently experiencing significant growth and has expanded its presence across several European cities, including Starnberg, Hamburg, London, Paris, Warsaw, and Belgrade.

Zing Dev

Seed Round in 2020
Zing Dev Limited is a technology services company based in High Wycombe, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Founded in 2018, it specializes in consultancy and managed services for programmable cloud-based contact center software. As a specialist implementation partner for Twilio, Zing Dev develops and implements contact center solutions designed to enhance customer communication and engagement. By leveraging advanced technology, the company aims to provide cost-effective solutions that address various customer challenges, thereby improving overall client interactions. Zing Dev Limited was formerly known as Zing Developers Limited until its name change in December 2019.

Hedgehog Lab

Venture Round in 2020
Hedgehog Lab is a global digital product agency that specializes in developing mobile applications and multi-platform software. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, the company also has offices in London, Boston, Kyiv, and Hyderabad. Hedgehog Lab partners with brands and enterprises to leverage emerging technologies across web, mobile, and connected platforms, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes system architecture, design, development, and marketing. With over a decade of experience, the firm focuses on delivering digital solutions that yield tangible business results for its clients. Additionally, the company offers consulting services and advisory support after the launch of applications, ensuring that its partners effectively achieve their business objectives.

Relative Insight

Series A in 2019
Relative Insight Ltd is a text analysis platform based in Lancaster, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Founded in 2007 and rebranded from Isis Forensics Ltd in 2014, the company specializes in comparative language analysis to help brands understand and engage with their audiences. By processing qualitative data from various sources such as social media, market research, and customer reviews, Relative Insight identifies key differences and similarities in language use. This approach enables marketers to uncover actionable insights, facilitating more effective communication and interaction with target audiences. The platform is designed to transform language into actionable business intelligence, making it a valuable tool for understanding consumer perspectives.

Bright

Series A in 2018
Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market. Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimum academic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice. Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees.

Lending Works

Funding Round in 2018
Fluro Platform Limited operates a peer-to-peer lending platform, Lending Works, which connects borrowers with investors. The company provides various lending solutions, including personal loans, debt consolidation, home improvement, wedding, and holiday loans, as well as car finance options. By facilitating secure and efficient transactions, Fluro aims to offer consumers affordable credit and provide investors with higher returns compared to traditional banks. The platform allows users to register online, transfer funds, select rates, and manage monthly repayments, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Established in 2012 and based in London, Fluro is dedicated to creating innovative and accessible financial solutions for both borrowers and investors.

CURO

Venture Round in 2017
Curo Compensation Limited specializes in compensation management through its innovative SaaS solution, CuroComp. This platform streamlines and automates the annual salary and bonus review process for mid to large corporations, ensuring effective management of compensation allocations. CuroComp facilitates a comprehensive approach to compensation planning, offering features for salary, bonus, and share option awards, alongside tools for gender pay gap reporting and compensation analytics. The company's services enhance transparency and equity in compensation practices, allowing organizations to optimize their compensation budgets and make informed decisions. With a client base that includes blue-chip companies in the United Kingdom and beyond, Curo aims to improve productivity and performance by providing the necessary data and insights for effective compensation management. Established in 2009 and headquartered in London, Curo is recognized as a leader in the field of compensation management and pay equity.

Hedgehog Lab

Venture Round in 2017
Hedgehog Lab is a global digital product agency that specializes in developing mobile applications and multi-platform software. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, the company also has offices in London, Boston, Kyiv, and Hyderabad. Hedgehog Lab partners with brands and enterprises to leverage emerging technologies across web, mobile, and connected platforms, providing a comprehensive suite of services that includes system architecture, design, development, and marketing. With over a decade of experience, the firm focuses on delivering digital solutions that yield tangible business results for its clients. Additionally, the company offers consulting services and advisory support after the launch of applications, ensuring that its partners effectively achieve their business objectives.
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