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British private equity investment firm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to software, Internet and technology-enabled business services companies in Europe and the US.
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Company type | Limited company |
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Industry | Private Equity |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom Foster City, California, United States |
Key people | Michael Elias, Javier Rojas, Eric Filipek, Hillel Zidel |
Products | Private equity funds |
Number of employees | 12 |
Website | www |
Kennet Partners is headquartered in London, England, and has an office in San Francisco, California. The firm raised its fourth fund in 2014, bringing total capital under management to $700 million.
Kennet was founded in 1997 as Kennet Capital, a joint venture between technology investment bank Broadview International and asset management firm Electra Partners. In 2000, Kennet became a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadview. In 2003 the partners of Kennet completed a management buy-out and became independent.[1]
Kennet's first fund was primarily targeted at early-stage technology investments in Europe. With its second fund, Kennet began making growth equity investments in both Europe and the U.S., and this has remained the firm's exclusive strategy to this day.
Kennet has raised five funds:
Institutional investors in the Kennet funds include Access Capital Partners, Adveq, Alpha Associates, BNP Private Equity, Credit Suisse, European Investment Fund, LGT Capital Partners and Siemens.
Since inception, Kennet has invested in 60 companies,[3] of which Kennet's most notable exits include Altitun,[4] Paragon Software,[5][6] No Wires Needed,[7] Cramer Systems,[8] Chipidea,[9][10] Adviva Media,[11][12] NetPro, MedeAnalytics, GoViral, FRS Global, Prolexic Technologies, and Schoolwires.
Other investments include:
Kennet's investment strategy is similar to that of other growth capital investment firms such as Summit Partners, TA Associates and Insight Venture Partners. In Europe, Kennet competes with firms such as Eight Roads Ventures, Highland Europe, Scottish Equity Partners and the growth equity arm of Index Ventures. Competitors in the U.S. include JMI Equity and Summit Partners' Accelerator Fund.
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