Western Europe

London-headquartered Agilia, founded in 2016, has more than 100 infrastructure specialists and offices in Teesside and Peterborough.

The targets include global refrigeration components manufacturer Henry Group Industries, Belgian rubber mounting manufacturer RubberGreen and Brazilian refrigeration components maker Forming Tubing.

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Rotherham-based Lemonaid provides white-label first notification of loss and claims management services to motor insurance brokers.

Aspiration Training is a UK provider of apprenticeships and vocational training in the dental, early years, adult care and education sectors.

Now operating as Westbridge Print, the business serves legal and tax professionals across 13 countries and provides commercial printing to book publishers.

Founded in 2018, Modulai has about 35 engineers who build machine learning and agentic AI systems for start-ups, scale-ups, private equity portfolio companies and Fortune 1000 organizations.

Arco was founded in 1884 and supplies safety equipment and site safety services to infrastructure, defense, utilities and healthcare customers.

Rubixx runs a cloud-native housing management platform, while Voicescape helps landlords engage residents and improve rent collection.

Bedfordshire-based Stonbury maintains and repairs water assets, and its revenue has risen 74 percent to £78 million since 2022.