| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.12.2022 | Vespa Capital hosts portfolio CEO and CMO sessions | Vespa Capital recently hosted collaborative networking and workshop sessions for portfolio CEOs and Chief Marketing Officers at the St James's Square office.
In the CEO seminar, the Vespa Capital team were joined by expert speakers coverin... |
| 25.11.2022 | SelectScience partners with BioPhorum to launch Virtual Biopharmaceutical Summit 2022 | Vespa Capital portfolio company SelectScience will next week launch the Virtual Biopharmaceutical Summit 2022 in partnership with BioPhorum.
The summit offers an interactive forum for scientists and manufacturers to connect, showcase the l... |
| 24.10.2022 | Origo launches new Dashboard Connector product | Vespa Capital portfolio company, Origo, has announced the launch of Origo Dashboard Connector, a new product to enable pension providers and administrators to connect to the forthcoming pensions dashboard.
Origo is delivering all of the ke... |
| 24.10.2022 | DTAG Invests in Sustainability Advisor Citizen Good | Digital Technology Advisory Group (DTAG), the technology-focused consulting, insight and transformation provider, consisting of three brands – 2CV, The Value Engineers and Signal has announced an investment in brand sustainability insights ... |
| 30.09.2022 | CHASE acquires Medacy Clinical Services | CHASE, the outsourced commercialisation partner to the UK life sciences sector has acquired Medacy, a provider of quality pharmacist-led clinical services to the NHS.
Medacy works with over 100 GP practices, federations, primary care netwo... |
| 09.08.2022 | Testronic Acquires CDL and Giant Interactive | Vespa Capital portfolio company, Testronic, a division of Catalis Group providing award-winning entertainment services has acquired the businesses of US-based Check Disc Labs, Inc (CDL) and Giant Interactive.
Testronic Inc., a provider of ... |
| 26.05.2022 | Vespa Capital partners with Origo | Vespa Capital is delighted to announce it has partnered with the leadership team at Origo to take the fintech fully independent as a company.
Origo is the critical infrastructure fintech provider to the pensions and lifetime savings indust... |
| 03.05.2022 | Vespa Capital Completes New Office Move | Vespa Capital is excited to announce that we have moved London offices to 3 St James's Square.
The newly secured office space comes as Vespa Capital eyes further growth and follows a very active period for the business with four investment... |
| 05.04.2022 | Flag Communication boosts sustainability expertise with bolt-on acquisition of ESG Communications. | Flag Communication, the sustainability strategy, reporting and communications agency, has completed its first acquisition since the investment from Vespa Capital in January 2022.
The acquisition brings ESG Communications, an award-winning ... |
| 17.03.2022 | Vespa Capital announces recapitalisation of Lumi | Vespa Capital is delighted to announce the successful recapitalisation of Lumi, underlining its ongoing commitment to the meeting technology platform.
Following the original investment by Vespa Capital in 2017, Lumi has experienced extraor... |
| 17.03.2022 | Vespa Capital supports the recapitalisation of Cognite | Vespa Capital is delighted to announce its investment in Cognite, a quality-leading independent healthcare strategy and communications agency focused on highly specialist, innovative medicines and technologies.
Headquartered in London, UK ... |
| 03.02.2022 | SelectScience: One Year On | Vespa Capital invested in SelectScience in January 2021 and Kerry Parker, CEO together with Matt Lyons, Partner at Vespa Capital have been reflecting on the successful past year and the solution-focused partnership.
Kerry Parker stated, “I... |
| 26.01.2022 | Vespa Capital invests in DTAG | Vespa Capital is delighted to announce its investment into Digital Technology Advisory Group Ltd (DTAG), a group providing marketing strategy consulting, data-driven market research insights and tech-enabled communications solutions.
DTAG ... |
| 24.11.2021 | Lumi Acquires Feedback Italia's Tablet Solution | Vespa Capital portfolio company, Lumi has acquired the market leading tablet solution from Feedback Italia to build on its in-person experience for meetings
Lumi, the global provider of compliant AGM events and member meetings, has acquire... |
| 15.11.2021 | Vespa Capital Golf Day Raises nearly £400,000 for the Haller Foundation | Earlier this month, Vespa Capital hosted the 10th annual Haller Foundation Golf Day at the glorious Sunningdale Golf Club.
Good spirited, friendly competition was seen between the teams, including many returning groups from previous years,... |
| 26.10.2021 | SelectScience announces new Board Chair | Vespa Capital portfolio company and leading science publisher SelectScience® has announced Mark Allin as the new chair of its board of directors.
Mark Allin’s publishing experience spans more than three decades working in the US, Asia and ... |
| 26.10.2021 | Curve Games Grows Team and Inks New Partnership Deal | Curve Games, part of the Catalis Group, has announced exciting developments as the video game publisher plans a significant expansion.
Following the recent appointment of John Clark as CEO, Curve has now appointed industry stalwarts, Bradl... |
| 26.10.2021 | Curve Digital rebrands as Curve Games | Today, Curve Digital, a division of Catalis, becomes Curve Games with the launch of a revitalised brand strategy and visual identity.
Established to better support developers in an increasingly competitive market, Curve’s new strategic fra... |
| 23.09.2021 | SelectScience Celebrates Queen's Award Recognition | SelectScience has thanked the global science community for placing their trust in the company as it received the UK’s most prestigious business award.
CEO Kerry Parker paid tribute to SelectScience's many partners across the globe at their... |
| 01.09.2021 | Feefo agrees merger with Reevoo | Vespa Capital portfolio company and leading customer experience (CX) & insights business Feefo is to be merged with Reevoo, the consumer reviews & feedback platform.
Vespa Capital will remain the majority owner of the enlarged grou... |
| 12.08.2021 | SelectScience Makes Finance Director Appointment | Vespa Capital-backed SelectScience, the leading digital publisher serving the scientific community has appointed Daniel Jotcham as Finance Director as the business enters its next phase of growth.
Daniel brings over 16 years’ experience in... |
| 12.08.2021 | Curve Digital launches The Ascent | Curve Digital, a division of Catalis and Vespa Capital portfolio company has enjoyed its largest ever opening with new game, The Ascent.
The Ascent, developed by Sweden-based independent, Neon Giant, is a solo and co-op RPG-shooter based i... |
| 13.07.2021 | Vespa Capital completes the sale of BioPhorum | Vespa Capital has announced the completion of the sale of BioPhorum Operations Group Limited (“BioPhorum”) to Five Arrows Growth Capital, part of the European private equity arm of Rothschild & Co.
BioPhorum facilitates the pre-competi... |
| 06.07.2021 | Bluecrest Shortlisted in UK Business Awards 2021 | Vespa Capital portfolio company Bluecrest Wellness has been shortlisted four times in the UK Business Awards 2021 following their work with a large insurer to deliver virtual health checks.
This years’ UK Business Awards focusses on “accel... |
| 21.06.2021 | Curve Digital Grows Team and Inks New Partnership Deal | Curve Digital, part of the Catalis Group, has announced exciting developments as the video game publisher plans a significant expansion.
Following the recent appointment of John Clark as CEO, Curve has now appointed industry stalwarts, Bra... |
| 29.04.2021 | SelectScience wins 2021 Queen’s Award for Enterprise | Vespa Capital portfolio company, SelectScience, the pioneering digital science publisher has been honoured with the UK’s most prestigious business award — the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade.
SelectScience has been spearh... |
| 28.04.2021 | Com Laude announce new re-shaped brand | Vespa Capital portfolio company, Com Laude, are delighted to announce their new, re-shaped brand identity.
Com Laude adopt a unique approach to domain name services and are now setting the highest “client-shaped” standards in the market.
... |
| 21.04.2021 | Vespa Capital’s View on Sustainability on Earth Day 2021. | As we reach the fifth anniversary of The Paris Agreement signing and annual Earth Day, the team at Vespa Capital reflects on how the past year has developed the discourse around sustainability; as well as how our portfolio is taking action ... |
| 03.03.2021 | Lumi Global Announces Product Innovation for Q&A Sessions | Vespa Capital portfolio company, Lumi Global, the world-leading provider of AGM technology has made innovations to its virtual voting platform to help streamline the Q&A process further.
As we enter another, largely virtual, AGM season... |
| 02.02.2021 | Vespa Capital invests in SelectScience | SelectScience Limited is a leading digital marketing, information and peer-to-peer review platform, which publishes trusted digital content to the scientific community to help drive well informed buying decisions around their laboratory req... |
| 28.01.2021 | BioPhorum is delighted to have been awarded the TSG Customer Innovation Award | BioPhorum is delighted to have been awarded the TSG Customer Innovation Award for its innovative and creative use of technology to deliver noteworthy results.
BioPhorum was nominated for its migration and consolidation of the Microsoft pla... |
| 19.01.2021 | CHASE Search and Selection, launches its new Commercial Services Division | Vespa Capital’s portfolio company, CHASE Search and Selection, has launched its new Commercial Services division alongside the hire of Richard Baderin who joins as Head of Commercial Services.
CHASE Commercial Services will provide an incr... |
| 15.01.2021 | BioPhorum continues positive momentum into 2021 | BioPhorum takes a look at its achievements over the last few months, celebrating the growth and continued collaboration that helps the global biopharmaceutical industry navigate the challenges it faces.
Some of these exciting achievements ... |
| 14.01.2021 | Multi award-winning UK publisher Curve Digital welcomes John Clark as its new CEO | The news comes hot on the heels of Curve being named Publisher of the Year for the second year running at the 2020 TIGA Awards, and follows two key acquisitions of Brighton-based Runner Duck, developer of Bomber Crew; and, just last month, ... |
| 03.11.2020 | Second international acquisition for Catalis Group | Vespa Capital-backed Catalis Group is expanding its North American footprint with a second bolt-on acquisition completed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Curve Digital, part of the Catalis Group, has bought Vancouver-based IronOak Games, an i... |
| 10.09.2020 | Covid-19 and the Impact on Responsible Investment – an insight into recent ESG initiatives across the Vespa Capital portfolio | As is often the case, periods of relative economic instability magnify the lens of scrutiny on corporate practices regarding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) responsibilities. The Covid-19 pandemic has been no exception.
We have ... |
| - | Vespa Capital invests in Flag Communication | Vespa Capital is pleased to announce an investment in Flag Communication (Flag), a best-practice sustainability and ESG strategy, reporting and communications agency.
Flag partners with an impressive blue-chip customer base, helping them t... |
| - | Lumi collaborates with Proxymity - the digital investor communications platform | Lumi, the global market leading provider of AGM voting technology, have agreed to collaborate with Proxymity, the digital investor communications platform, to provide an efficient digital voting solution with transparency across the whole c... |
| - | Vespa Capital invests in Bluecrest Health Screening | Bluecrest Health Screening, a leading provider of affordable health checks, has secured a £17 million investment arranged by private equity firm Vespa Capital.
The private healthcare provider offers comprehensive health screening tests and... |
| - | Haller Farmers App Relaunch | Our charity partner The Haller Foundation is relaunching the ground-breaking Haller Farmers App today. The first app, which launched in 2014, gained up to 30,000 users from over 125 countries but needed further development in order to keep ... |
| - | Catalis secures acquisition for its award-winning video games service provider, Testronic | Testronic, a division of Catalis, is a world-leading QA & localisation company providing award-winning services to publishers and developers around the world. Together with leading UK digital publisher Curve Digital, they make up the Ca... |
| - | COVID-19 funding to support East African communities that will be devastated by this Virus | COVID - 19 will impact us all – but it will have a devastating impact on communities who lack running water and who congregate at a single tap or well for water. Vespa Capital has been a longstanding supporter of the Haller Foundation that ... |
| - | BioPhorum respond to COVID-19 | As a business that prides itself on creating a collaborative environment for the benefit of all, BioPhorum was quick to respond to the industry needs triggered by COVID-19. BioPhorum connects the world’s largest biopharmaceutical manufactur... |
| - | Vespa Capital announces the sale of Catalis | Following a £90m public offer by NorthEdge Capital via its acquisition vehicle Project Sword Bidco, Vespa Capital has realised its 45% shareholding in Catalis plc resulting in a 5.3x gross multiple for investors. Funds managed by Vespa Capi... |
| - | Feefo appoints former James Villa Holidays chief as new non-exec chairman | Vespa Capital’s portfolio company, Feefo, appoints former Chief Executive of James Villa Holidays, Tony Wheble, as its new Non-Executive Chairman. Feefo has established strong positions in verticals including retail, travel, leisure, proper... |
| - | Vespa Capital raises £150 million for third fund | Vespa Capital LLP (“Vespa Capital”) is delighted to announce the successful first and final close of Vespa Capital III LP (the “Fund”), raising £150 million in total commitments.
The Fund successfully exceeded its original target and hardc... |
| - | Supporting Kenyan communities to live resourcefully from their land. | For almost a decade, Vespa Capital has been supporting The Haller Foundation, and its efforts to revive fragile, degraded landscapes in and around Mombasa, whilst transforming the livelihoods of the communities that live off the land.
Hall... |
| - | Lumi Launches New Website | On 1st June 2020, Lumi, the market leading technology provider for live voting in Annual General Meetings, launched their new website. The refreshed website showcases Lumi’s virtual voting technology which is increasingly being used by publ... |
| - | BioPhorum included in FT 1000 | Congratulations to our portfolio company BioPhorum for being identified as one of Europe’s fastest- growing companies by the Financial Times for 2020, following on from their inclusion in the annual Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 1... |
| - | Vespa Capital signs United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment. | Vespa Capital is delighted to announce that it has become a signatory of the United Nations - supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). The PRI is recognised as the leading global network for investors committed to integrating ... |
| - | Curve Games launches The Ascent | Curve Games, a division of Catalis and Vespa Capital portfolio company has enjoyed its largest ever opening with new game, The Ascent.
The Ascent, developed by Sweden-based independent, Neon Giant, is a solo and co-op RPG-shooter based in ... |
