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Kate Cook: Investment Director
Philip Rattle: Managing Partner
August Equity invests in small and medium-sized service-oriented businesses based in the UK.
The firm specializes in spotting opportunities for long-term growth in changing markets. It invests in sectors that are adjacent and draws on that experience to build fast-growing, resilient companies. August Equity develops long-lasting relationships
with businesses based on trust, communication, and a straightforward approach.
August Equity invests in service-oriented companies in high-growth sectors of the UK mid-market including healthcare, education, business services, and technology. Fast-changing sectors offer clear drivers for growth such as changing demographics, market changes, new regulations and legislation, social trends, and technological developments. These dynamics give businesses vital opportunities to grow and to sustain that growth in the long term.
August Equity typically works with family-owned, founder-managed businesses. It backs people with great vision, a powerful drive to build their business, and a genuinely innovative idea that offers the market something new. The process of deciding whether to invest in a potential industry or business involves deep analysis and assessment mapping industries, markets, and sub-sectors, and investigating peers and competitors from all angles. As a result, by the time August Equity talks to a vendor about a potential investment, it can deliver a well-informed, creative, considered proposal.
