Western Europe

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

Joinup's platform manages taxis, parking, EV charging and carpooling for more than 1,000 business customers across Spain, France, Belgium and Portugal.

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.

Costs and concerns related to cybersecurity risk have increased in the wake of AI.

A more pressing need for control and operational value creation is blurring the lines between the two strategies.

The San Francisco-based firm made its first platform investment in the UK in September, with the launch of Eight Group Service Partners, a hard facilities management platform.