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The UK firm invests in technology and specialist services businesses from its £411m ($544m; €478m) sixth fund.

Paris-based Manucurist, founded in 2016, sells its plant-based, vegan nail care products in more than 40 countries.

Thoma Bravo, NewSpring and Phoenix Equity are among the PE firms investing in occupational healthcare businesses.

Logiq, which is based in the UK, provides cybersecurity to defense, government and critical national infrastructure organizations and runs a proprietary secure collaboration platform called DISX.

CDN77 runs its own global edge network, with more than 230 locations and 330Tbps of capacity.

Biorbyt, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK, supplies bio-reagents, antibodies, proteins and other biomaterials for life science research through a catalog of more than 1 million SKUs.

Kent Pharma, headquartered in Ashford, UK, distributes specialty and generic pharmaceuticals across the UK and Ireland and is one of the top suppliers of injectables to NHS hospitals.

CIS Security, founded more than 57 years ago by the Palmer family, provides premium security services to more than 300 public and private sector sites across the UK.

‘Payments infrastructure often sits outside the traditional operating-partner toolkit. It's neither a classic commercial lever nor a pure cost lever, so it can fall between the cracks,’ partner Ronny Wittig tells PE Hub.

Dalcour Maclaren is a Bicester, UK-based consultancy that secures land, planning and environmental consents for major utilities and infrastructure projects, including HS2, Sizewell C and the Gatwick Northern Runway expansion.