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Websitesep.co.uk
Phone+44 (0) 141 273 4000
Emailenquiries@sep.co.uk
Employees25
Founded1991
DescriptionVenture Capital and Growth Equity

Funds

Total$763M
SEP III, 9/06 £160M
SEP IV, 1/11 £200M
The Environmental Energies Fund, 1/12 £95M

Offices

HQ
17 Blythswood Square
Glasgow, G2 4AD, GBR
London Office
29 St George Street
London, W1S 2FA, GBR

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Scottish Equity Partners

SEP is a leading independent, owner-managed venture capital and growth equity firm with a 20 year track record of successful investing.

SEP invests in innovative, high growth companies in the IT, healthcare and energy sectors across the UK and typically invests between £5m and £20m in growth companies and £2m and £10m in earlier stage venture opportunities, either as sole investor or lead investor in syndication with others. SEP has an integrated investment team and efficient investment process which means it has been selected as the partner of choice by many of the UK’s leading technology companies.

Funds invested are raised from global financial institutions, asset management companies, pension funds, family offices and corporates. SEP is a responsible investor and adheres to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles.

The SEP team combines investment expertise with significant commercial and operational experience. Recent portfolio exits include the sale of web traffic management company Zeus Technology to Riverbed Technology Inc (NASDAQ: RVBD) for a total price of up to $140m, and the sale of multimedia home networking company Gigle Networks to Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ: BRCM). SEP also exited from cancer therapy company BioVex which was acquired by Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN, SEHK: 4332) in a deal worth $1bn.

SEP’s current portfolio comprises award-winning high growth companies including Cmed (www.cmedgroup.com) which combines full clinical research services with advanced clinical data capture and management technology and healthcare informatics company Aridhia (www.aridhia.com). It also includes Media Ingenuity (www.mediaingenuity.com) a specialist in online marketing services and technology for the financial services sector; managed IT services provider Control Circle (www.controlcircle.com); flight search engine Skyscanner (www.skyscanner.net); wireless communications leaders picoChip (www.picochip.com) and ipaccess (www.ipaccess.com); energy-related technology specialist ARKeX (www.arkex.com); semiconductor company Elonics (www.elonics.com); oil technology business Deep Casing Tools (www.deepcasingtools.com); and IT analytics company Sumerian (www.sumerian.com/).

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Mister Spex 5/13Private Equity€16M3
hetras 4/13Series D2
Matches Fashion 9/12Venture Round£12M1
SkyDox 9/12Venture Round£20M2
hetras 3/12Series C2
ip.access 12/11Venture Round$15M7
Exco inTouch 9/11Venture Round£3M1
Metaforic 4/11Series B$8M3
Elonics 9/10Series B$9.5M2
picoChip Designs 6/10Venture Round$20M7
picoChip 11/09Series E$20M8
Powervation 11/09Series B5
CamSemi 9/09Series D$8.19M3
VirtenSys 8/09Series C$16M3
Powervation 7/09Series B$10M4
Stentys 7/09Series B$22.2M3
Clavis Technology 4/09Series A€2.1M4
BioVex 3/09Series F$40M7
Cmed 11/08Seed$5M1
Fotech 6/08Series A£6.5M3
ARKeX 6/08Series C$30.7M3
Tideway 4/08Series C$27M2
Futuretec 3/08Seed£4M1
Stentys 3/08Series A$18M1
Zinwave 3/08Series A£4.97M1
VirtenSys 2/08Series B$12M1
Powervation 12/07Series A£4.96M1
Gigle Networks 11/07Series B$20M3
Kiala 11/07Venture Round€26M1
Skyscanner 11/07Series A£2.5M1
Cambridge Semiconductor 10/07Series C$26M5
MicroEmissive Displays Group 9/07Venture Round$15.8M2
Xanic 6/07Series A$808k2
picoChip Designs 6/07Series D$27M8
Heartscape 4/07Series B£8.49M1
Atraverda 3/07Series A£6.22M1
Nallatech 1/07Series C$3.93M2
VirtenSys 10/06Series A£6.41M1
Chronicle Solutions 6/06Series A$5.52M3
ip.access 3/06Venture Round£8.5M1
ARKeX 12/05Series B£5M4
Zinwave 8/05Series A$7.64M2
picoChip 6/05Series C£11.2M1
picoChip Designs 6/05Series C$20.5M5
Gendel 5/05Venture Round$366k3
Zeus 3/05Series C£3M1
Surfkitchen 7/04Series A£9.6M1
Verisim 6/04Seed£1.2M1
Tideway 4/04Series A2
ARKeX 3/04Seed£4M1
CamSemi 1/03Seed£3.75M1
Tideway 12/02Seed3
RadioScape 12/01Series A£15.6M1
Essential Viewing 11/01Seed£1.5M1

Videos

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  1. Citation Needed [add]
  2. Scottish Equity Corrals GBP200M For Fourth Fund (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  3. Scottish Equity Partners Launches £95M Environmental Energies Fund (finsmes.com) [edit]
  4. Online eyewear store Mister Spex raises $20.8m to support its expansion plans (thenextweb.com) [edit]
  5. Citation Needed [add]
  6. Matches Fashion Receives £12M Equity Investment from Scottish Equity Partners (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. SkyDox Merges with Workshare; Raises £20M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  8. hetras closes Round C [edit]
  9. ‘Small Cell’ Maker ip.access Raises $15M From Intel, Qualcomm And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Exco InTouch Raises £3M from SEP (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. Metaforic Raises $8 Million To Combat Software Pirates, Hackers (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
  12. Octopus ventures (octopusventures.com) [edit]
  13. picoChip passes million chip milestone and secures $20M equity funding (picochip.com) [edit]
  14. cellular-news (cellular-news.com) [edit]
  15. Powervation Secures Funding From New Investor Braemar Energy Ventures (powervation.com) [edit]
  16. EDGAR [edit]
  17. VirtenSys Raises $16 Million in New Round of Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
  18. Powervation Raises $10 Million in Additional Financing (powervation.com) [edit]
  19. Stentys, SAS: Series B $4.2M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  20. Clavis Technology secures €2.1 million venture funding (clavistechnology.com) [edit]
  21. BioVex Raises $40 Million (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
  22. Cmed nabs £5m growth cap investment (realbusiness.co.uk) [edit]
  23. Scottish Equity Partners invests in Fotech (cleantechinvestor.co.uk) [edit]
  24. EDGAR [edit]
  25. Press Release (businesswire.com) [edit]
  26. Futuretec Raises VC Funding for Breakthrough Oil Technology (reuters.com) [edit]
  27. Stentys completes $18 million financing for bifurcated stent production (mtbeurope.info) [edit]
  28. Zinwave Raising Capital To Make Wireless Go Further (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  29. VirtenSys Secures $12 Million in Series B Venture Capital Funding (venturecapitalreporter.com) [edit]
  30. Limerick spin-out firm raises $10m to develop digital energy. (archives.tcm.ie) [edit]
  31. Gigle Semiconductor gets $20M more for yet another broadband network chip (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  32. SEP Leads €26M Kiala Deal (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  33. growingbusiness.co.uk [edit]
  34. Carbon Trust joins as new investor as CamSemi secures $26 million funding (camsemi.com) [edit]
  35. EDGAR [edit]
  36. EDGAR [edit]
  37. picoChip closes growth round funding of $27 million (picochip.com) [edit]
  38. Heartscape Technologies Announces Close of Series B Funding (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  39. Atraverda to lead revolutionary battery charge (walesonline.co.uk) [edit]
  40. EDGAR [edit]
  41. VirtenSys Secures $12 Million in Series B Venture Capital Funding (venturecapitalreporter.com) [edit]
  42. EDGAR [edit]
  43. Citation Needed [add]
  44. ARKeX raises 5.5 million pounds sterling to accelerate production of revolutionary survey technology (arkex.com) [edit]
  45. EDGAR [edit]
  46. picoChip targets $25 million in Series E round (eetimes.eu) [edit]
  47. picoChip Secures $20.5 Million in Third Round Funding (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
  48. EDGAR [edit]
  49. Zeus raises £3m for sales drive (businessweekly.co.uk) [edit]
  50. SurfKitchen demonstrates global leadership by securing $17.5m in third round of funding (mobileeurope.co.uk) [edit]
  51. VeriSIM Secures $1.4 mm in Financing from Albany Ventures and Scottish Equity Partners (ftpartners.com) [edit]
  52. Tideway Investor Information (tideway.com) [edit]
  53. ARKeX Raises USD30 Million Venture Funding (cfo-news.com) [edit]
  54. U.K. Pumps Funding Into CamSemi (redherring.com) [edit]
  55. Tideway Investor Information (tideway.com) [edit]
  56. RadioScape Announces $22 Million in Funding (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  57. Citation Needed [add]
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