Investment focus

Vitruvian Partners invests in companies across Northern Europe. That is, the United Kingdom, Eire, Germany, the Nordic Region, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria.

We target investments of €15million to €150 million in companies with an enterprise value of typically €50 million to €500 million.

We back exceptional management teams in businesses where there is a major opportunity to create strategic value for shareholders. Our focus is not limited to specific industry sectors, but instead we thrive on seeking out, and investing in, companies where the opportunity to create value exists through change or “Dynamic Situations”. This collective term relates to three types of opportunity:

Growth: Where a business develops a new source of competitive advantage through the rapid growth of a product, service or market
Transition: Where a business changes its business model or organisation to address shifts in its customers, markets or supply chain
Event Driven: Where a major external change (e.g. regulation or privatisation) provides an opportunity to seize strategic advantage within the industry’s new paradigm

Although we are not bound by industry sectors, we believe Dynamic Situations are more prevalent in faster moving, less capital intensive industries such as Media, IT, Telecoms, Financial Services, Business Services and Leisure. We have extensive experience of profitably investing in each of these sectors.