Company type | private |
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Industry | private equity |
Founded | 1999 |
Headquarters | London , UK |
Number of locations | London and Manchester, UK; Melbourne, Australia; and Boston, United States |
Key people | Wol Kolade (Managing Partner) |
Number of employees | +70 |
Website | www.livingbridge.com/ |
Livingbridge is a mid-market private equity firm launched in 1995. [1] Headquartered in London, the firm also has offices in, Melbourne, Australia [2] and Boston, US. [3]
Livingbridge was known until November 2014 as Isis Equity Partners, but rebranded as it was "no longer prepared to share [its name] with a terrorist organisation". [4] [5] [6]
Since 1995 it has invested in over 100 UK businesses. [7]
Livingbridge invests across four sectors: technology, services, healthcare and consumer. [8] [9]
In January 2000, Livingbridge acquired a 40% stake of UK based clothing company FatFace for £5 million. [10] [11] In May 2005, Livingbridge sold its stake in FatFace to Advent International [12] for £110 million. [13]
In 2016 it raised £660m in its eighth fundraise, its largest to date. In April 2016 Livingbridge announced the sale of Frank Recruitment Group to TPG Capital. [14]
In 2017 Livingbridge won UK House of the Year at the 2017 Real Deals Private Equity Awards [15]
In March 2022, Livingbridge invested an undisclosed amount in Nourish Care, the Bournemouth-based digital care planning software provider to the UK social care sector. [16] [17]
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