Private Equity Spotlight – BGF

BGF

Established in 2011, BGF is an investment company that provides venture capital for small and mid-sized businesses in the UK and Ireland. BGF typically takes minority, non-controlling shareholdings in investee companies.

 

Buy It Direct

422 employees

Founded in 1999, Buy It Direct has grown to one of the largest, privatelyowned online retailers in the UK, selling a range of home appliances, IT
products and furniture to both consumers and businesses.

 

Purple

181 employees

Purple are best known for their indoor location services platform. They sell software to entertainment venues that enables them to offer their guests Guest WiFi as well as associated services such as location wayfinding.

 

Global App Testing

165 employees

As their name suggests, Global App Testing specializes in providing app testing services to customers around the world. Global App Testing enables customers to check app performance using their network of 60,000 professionals in 160 different countries around the world.

 

Gousto

1,008 employees

Recipe-box delivery service Gousto was founded in London in 2012 by Timo Boldt and James Carter. Customers can choose between almost 100 recipes every week. Subscriptions can be set so you receive boxes on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly basis. Customers also have the option to receive either 2, 3, 4 or 5 recipes per box.

 

InvenioLSI

1,086 employees

InvenioLSI is a global SAP (systems, applications and products) consultancy and implementation partner. It is the largest independent SAP solutions provider serving the public sector in the UK.

 

Kocho

322 employees

Kocho (formerly TiG) is a managed service provider which supports midmarket companies transitioning to the cloud. Kocho operates centres of excellence in identity, endpoint, security, and cloud modernisation to help clients optimise technology performance and streamline business costs.

 

Kooth

291 employees

Kooth is an online community that helps consumers with their mental health. Kooth provides free, safe and anonymous mental health and wellbeing service, providing online counselling and support for children and young people aged 10 to 25 years old.

 

Netcall

408 employees

Netcall offers customers a broad range of software products including software development tools, contact centre software and robotic process automation applications. Customers include NHS
Acute Health Trusts, BT, Lloyds Banking Group, Axa and Interflora.

 

Oxa

416 employees

Originally spun-out of the University of Oxford, Oxa (formerly Oxbotica) is an autonomous driving software company. The company has raised a total of $225m in funding, making it one of the highest funded UK headquartered software businesses.