Meridian Growth Capital LLP

Meridian Growth Capital LLP and the team are thrilled to be nominated as finalists for the following categories at the Solent Deals Awards 2024. Private Equity Firm of the Year – Meridian Growth Capital Corporate Finance Team of the Year – Meridian Corporate Finance Corporate Finance Adviser of the Year – Philip Mettam Young Deal Maker of the Year – Prabin Sunar Marking its 15th anniversary this year, Meridian Growth Capital manages a diverse portfolio of 10 companies, many of which are locally based. The firm has effectively invested in, actively participated at Board level, and successfully exited to both larger Private Equity firms and international buyers. Recognised for its excellence, Meridian Growth Capital has previously been honoured with the PE Firm of the Year award and has consistently been shortlisted for this accolade. The firm typically allocates investments ranging from £50,000 to £500,000, either through the fund or personally by the Partners, with a keen focus on supporting dynamic and proven management teams. Meridian Growth Capital LLP is the most active Solent based Private Equity Firm. Current investments include TMA Data Management, 23.5 Degrees, DR Communications, Diametric, Not Just Travel, Biofidelity, Lightcast Discovery, NewsWhip, Stewart Signs, Stormagic and Elecon. Previous exits have included, loveholidays to Livingbridge PE; Blis to LDC/Maven PE; Zenergi to August PE and subsequently ECI PE; Dream Doors to Neighborly (Harvest Capital Partners (USA)), Cega to Charles Taylor PLC; RMA to NTT (Japan); and Processflows to Konica Minolta (Japan). #SDA24 #Merdian #GrowthCaptial #Solentdealsawards #PrivateEquityFirmoftheYear #PrivateEquity Darren Thompson, Michael Barcia, Philip Mettam, Prabin Sunar, George Forgan, Olly Brice, Antonia Roberts, The Business Magazine - South East

Many congratulations to Harald Philipp, our friend, colleague and one of the original founders of Meridian Growth Capital LLP who recently celebrated his 70th birthday at a lavish party in Switzerland. Hal is an incredible force, with an inventive and professional background spanning several decades and industries and has been instrumental to MGC’s journey.    Having had an extremely successful career 20 years prior, Hal is most famous for inventing and patenting the first charge-transfer (‘QT’) capacitive sensor and went on to establish Quantum Research Group in 1996. Quantum quickly became a dominant force in the capacitive touch sensing industry manufacturing the sensors for industrial and commercial applications. In the ensuing years, Hal was granted c.80 patents, including capacitive touch sense and is wholly responsible for creating a zombie generation of smart phone users! Customers and licensees included Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony, GE, Electrolux, Whirlpool, Bose, and hundreds of others. Hal engaged with Meridian Corporate Finance in 2007 to sell QRG, and we successfully completed the sale in March 2008 to Nasdaq listed Atmel Corporate Inc. (“Atmel”) for a total consideration well in excess of £100m at a forward EBITDA multiple of 50x. Having created such a successful relationship during this high profile sale, Hal, Darren Thompson and Michael Barcia joined forces to establish Meridian Growth Capital with a goal of helping start-ups and early stage companies make their mark in the world (like LoveHolidays, Blis, Biofidelity, StorMagic & NewsWhip) and as they say the rest is history! Happy 70 years young Hal!

One month in and Christmas feels a long time ago already! 2023 was a great year for the Meridian team as we saw significant growth in the Growth Capital side of the business with a new investment in the travel sector, and a follow on investment in TMA Data Management. Alongside this we closed the year off with two landmark deals on the CF side in December – CNC’s sale to LivingBridge backed FluidOne, and the sale of RiskSTOP to Ardonagh Advisory. 2024 has gotten off to a flying start having received Heads of Terms on three clients in January, and two acquisitions in progress within the MGC portfolio! On top of this we are speaking to multiple businesses looking to engage for sales processes in the current year. #meridian #corporatefinance #companysales #growthcapital #privateequity #investment #acquisitions #pipeline Philip Mettam, Prabin Sunar, Kelly Cheales, Darren Thompson, Michael Barcia, George Forgan, Antonia Roberts, Olly Brice https://lnkd.in/eEAqeJJ7