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Livingbridge

100 Wood Street, London, England, EC2V 7AN, United Kingdom

Overview

Livingbridge is an independent private equity firm, based in the UK, the US and Australia. They have £1 billion ready to invest over the next 5 years and they invest anywhere from £2 million to £70 million in fast-growing companies. The Livingbridge team have been backing businesses together for twenty years. They have done it over a hundred times, turning many into household names both at home and abroad. They understand that for business owners it’s more than just business. They get growth. With UK offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester and an Australian office in Melbourne, Livingbridge have teams on the ground locally who can provide support to their portfolio companies on a daily basis.

Total investments
12
Lead investments
9
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
8

Sector focus

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Investment portfolio

  • Loglass

    Participated · Series B · Jul 2024

    Loglass develops and provides a management-management cloud (Loglass) that helps companies streamline budgeting, planning, and performance-tracking workflows. The company has rapidly grown its customer base since Series A, increasing cumulative deployments more than sixfold and winning large customers such as KDDI, Kansai Electric Power, Ajinomoto, and Toppan Printing. Loglass recently launched a generative-AI-powered “AI performance analysis report” feature to enable instant, multidimensional management analysis. Its near-term strategy (2–3 years) is an XP&A rollout across departments and industries, while its long-term (about 10 years) plan is to build an AI ERP. Leadership has set targets through April 2027 that include exceeding 1,000 customers, offering 20+ products/services, and growing headcount past 500. The company plans to invest the new proceeds in product development (AI engineers, new businesses, development centers in Vietnam and India) and delivery (Kansai office, marketing/PR, and M&A).

  • Exclaimer

    Participated · Equity · Dec 2020

    Exclaimer provides a centralized email signature management platform that inserts consistent, customizable signatures across devices and supports Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. Admins use a browser-based dashboard with drag-and-drop editing, templates, and controls for team- and user-level customization, including banners, social icons, and legal text. The product is delivered primarily as a SaaS subscription for the majority of customers, while remaining on-premise customers hold perpetual licenses with annual maintenance. Exclaimer claims about 40,000 customers across 150 countries, with some customers holding licenses for more than 300,000 users. Financially the company has been largely profitable and bootstrapped through its first 15 years and raised £100 million ($133 million) in the most recent round to fund product development and international growth. The company was founded in the U.K. in 2001 and previously raised £23 million ($30 million) in 2016.

  • Equipsme

    Led · Series A · Sep 2018

    Equipsme offers health support plans that allow businesses with two to 249 employees to provide health benefits to their entire workforce. Every plan holder receives a home health check and has 24/7 access to a private GP service, with diagnosis and treatment provided by AXA PPP. The company partners with AXA PPP for clinical services and delivers employer-sponsored health support rather than traditional private medical insurance. Equipsme intends to use recent funding to scale up distribution channels and target the roughly 95% of companies that do not offer private medical insurance. The business is led by managing director Matthew Reed. In 2018 it raised external funding to support this growth.

  • Moteefe

    Participated · Seed · Sep 2017

    Moteefe is a London-based on-demand ecommerce platform that lets merchants sell branded and customisable items produced on demand with no upfront costs, infrastructure or inventory. The platform provides global fulfilment services, shipping products to 166 countries and supporting even very small online shops. It currently serves about 5,000 merchants and works with 20 production and fulfilment partners across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and Brazil. The company reported 150% growth in the first half of the year. Moteefe is expanding geographically and has used recent funding to push into Australia and South America. It is also launching an enterprise solution to let larger retailers test new product styles, categories and geographies without changing their supply chains. Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that provides an end-to-end technology solution for on-demand production of customised merchandise and white-labelled stores for entrepreneurs, influencers and micro-retailers. The platform handles design upload, printing, payments, customer service and global fulfillment, and takes a small commission on sales. Moteefe has proprietary production software that centralises orders and routes them to production partners based on location, inventory, capacity, quality and cost, enabling delivery of tens of thousands of products daily with a 1–2 day turnaround time. Unlike marketplace models, users can launch stores on their own domain and retain customer relationships and data. The company plans to expand into Australia and LATAM, launch new products for large retailers, and invest in scaling its operations. Moteefe has raised $12.5M to date; the latest funding will be used to support the stated expansion and product plans. Moteefe (Custom Materials Ltd) is a B2B2C social commerce platform based in London that helps entrepreneurs, brands, clubs and influencers sell customized products through social media. The company provides an end-to-end solution for monetizing social presence, including white-label store technology and custom design tools. It operates a global on-demand production and fulfilment network and offers customer support capabilities. Founded in January 2015 by CEO Mathijs Eefting, Moteefe has existing backing from investors such as Ascension Ventures, Livingbridge and Force Over Mass Capital (FOMCAP). The company recently raised an undisclosed funding round with participation from the Unicorn Ascension Fund. Moteefe intends to use the funds to expand globally. Moteefe is a social commerce platform that lets users instantly create and sell custom clothing and merchandise online and via social media without buying stock in advance. Launched in late 2015 and led by CEO Mathijs Eefting, the platform is used extensively in European and Asian territories. In 2016 the site recorded millions of sales, and a large portion of sellers hit the £50K mark in under six months. Moteefe offers 30+ products and a full suite of analytics to evaluate marketing ROI. The company plans to use new funding to grow in Europe and other new markets, release technical features and a wider product offering, and expand marketing resources.

  • Symphony Ventures

    Led · Series A · Aug 2017

    Symphony Ventures provides consulting, implementation and managed services to enterprises seeking to automate manual, repetitive and complex processes using RPA and intelligent automation solutions. The company works with leading RPA vendors including Blue Prism, UiPath, NICE Systems, Kryon Systems and Celaton to deliver enterprise-grade automation. Founded in 2014, Symphony has grown to a roughly 120-person team with headquarters in London and offices in San Francisco, Boston and Krakow. The firm plans to at least double its team over the next 12 months and to expand hiring across the U.S., U.K. and Poland. Symphony will invest in product development, broaden its service catalog, create an innovation lab for feasibility assessments, and develop training programs to scale RPA skills. It is also launching a lower-risk, RPA-centric outsourcing service category to offer higher-value alternatives to traditional BPO.

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