Torch Partners
33 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0PW, United Kingdom
Overview
The deep knowledge of these fast-growing industry sectors among their senior-led specialist teams has evolved over 20 years of successfully advising and supporting mid-market public companies and private equity investors on their M&A and growth equity transactions. The Torch Partners team focuses on creating valuable long-term relationships with ambitious, high-growth companies, their management teams and top tier private equity investors. We bring domain-led insights and strategic value to our projects across M&A, private capital markets, SPAC & IPO advisory. Torch’s success over the last two decades has been driven by a distinct combination of uncompromising, independent advice and a focus on strong long-term relationships with key decision makers across corporates, the private equity landscape and founder-led companies, resulting in a track record of repeat client engagements. We bring insight driven analytical rigour, sector domain knowledge and a 'think like an investor' mindset to distinctly position each technology business we represent. Operating from our offices in London and Paris, we provide advice to clients on a global basis across four technology focus areas: • Digital Infrastructure • Software, Data & Analytics and Tech-Enabled • FinTech • Digital Consumer
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 4
Investment portfolio
- Oxford Ionics
Participated · Series A · Jan 2023
Oxford Ionics develops trapped‑ion quantum processors and control architectures, using its patented Electronic Qubit Control (EQC) system to merge atomic qubits with silicon‑chip electronics. The company has published papers on its WISE architecture and an experimental prototype that address wiring and scalability challenges for quantum chips. Founded in 2019 and based in the UK, it is constructing a 30,000 sq ft office and laboratory to host a Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS) platform and an on‑premises option for customers. After a Series A earlier this year, Oxford Ionics plans to grow its team to 61 employees by the end of 2023, focusing hiring on quantum science, chip design, and software engineering. Financially, it announced a £2M (approx. €2.32M) investment from the UK government's National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF). The company also appointed former Arm CTO Dipesh Patel as a non‑executive director to support scaling and commercialization. Oxford Ionics develops trapped‑ion quantum processors that integrate qubit technology with patented Electronic Qubit Control (EQC) electronics on silicon chips, replacing lasers with an electronic control system. The company aims to deliver reliable, high‑performance quantum computers to tackle important problems. It plans to use the new funding to accelerate expansion and hire across multiple roles and functions. Oxford Ionics was founded in 2019 by Dr Chris Ballance and Dr Tom Harty and is based in Oxford, UK. The EQC approach combines the quantum performance of individual atoms with electronics integrated into semiconductor chips. No operating metrics (revenue/users) were disclosed in the article.
- Token.io
Participated · Series C · Jul 2022
Token.io is a London, UK-based account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure company. It provides Pay by Bank solutions to empower banks, fintechs, platforms and payment companies. Its solutions are used across the payments community, including Mastercard, ACI Worldwide and Global Payments. The company is led by CEO Todd Clyde. Token.io received an investment from HSBC and additional funding from a majority of its existing investors; the amount was not disclosed. It intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. Token provides Open Payment and data connectivity across Europe, offering an enterprise-first toolkit that enables account-to-account payments, aggregated bank account and transaction data access, smarter onboarding, deeper insights, and instant authentication. The company is trusted by over 80 payment service providers, gateways, banks and large merchants and represents over 210 million potential end-users of Open Payment services and over €13tn in customer deposits. Token’s platform delivers deep functionality that lets players in the existing payment value chain create new revenue streams and bring direct bank payments to customers. The business focuses on enterprise and payment service provider customers and emphasizes a complete Open Payment toolkit. The company plans to use new capital to continue building out Open Payments connectivity, increase expansion into Europe, and further develop its differentiated platform. Financially, Token completed a $40m Series C growth investment led by Cota Capital and TempoCap.