Scottish Equity Partners (SEP)
Company description
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is a UK venture capital firm. Operating from offices in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, it makes equity investments of up to £20 million in high growth technology, and technology enabled, companies.
Investments include Skyscanner, the independent travel search company, Mister Spex, the online eyewear business, and MATCHESFASHION.COM, a luxury omni-channel fashion retailer. SEP was named 'Venture Capital Firm of the Year' at the Unquote British Private Equity Awards 2015 for the fifth time in recent years. In addition to venture capital for high growth companies, SEP also provides infrastructure finance for small scale clean energy projects and have partnered with FTSE 100-company SSE plc and established a secondary investment fund focused exclusively on cleantech companies. Investors include Lexington Partners, UK based funds Hermes GPE and F&C Private Equity , as well as Swiss-based Partners Group.
The firm has also invested in companies including Biovex, Craneware, CSR, Searchspace and Anesco.
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November 20, 2020
Statkraft signs agreement to Solarcentury buyout
Statkraft has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 100 percent of the shares in Solarcentury Holdings and its subsidiaries. The main shareholders were previously Scottish Equity Partners, Vantag...
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May 06, 2019
Scottish Equity Partners divests wind farm portfolio to Pensions Infrastructure Platform
Scottish Equity Partners has sold its portfolio of onshore wind farms to Pensions Infrastructure Platform for an enterprise value of GBP 50 million (US$65 million). Comprising 64 turbines in location...
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July 07, 2017
Scottish Equity Partners acquires UK wind farm from SSE
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed a further clean energy infrastructure investment, funding the acquisition of the 9.2MW onshore wind farm at the Port of Tilbury, from SSE plc.
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January 22, 2016
SEP's Environmental Capital Fund invests in Ardor Energy
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) is investing up to £9 million from its Environmental Capital Fund (ECF) to establish a new heat project focused platform, Ardor Energy (Ardor).
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September 10, 2015
SEP completes £9 M investment in Hamsin Wind
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has completed its first clean energy infrastructure investment from the Environmental Capital Fund.
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April 27, 2015
Ancala Renewables acquires Green Highland Renewables
Ancala Renewables, an infrastructure investment vehicle managed by Ancala Partners, has acquired Green Highland Renewables.
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November 12, 2014
Scottish Equity Partners expands investment team
Following the recent launch of its new £135 million infrastructure fund, Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has announced that Peter Bachmann and Andy Low have joined the firm as Director and Principal re...
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September 04, 2014
Scottish Equity Partners launches £135 million clean energy infrastructure fund
Scottish Equity Partners (SEP) has raised £135 million for a new infrastructure fund to invest in UK-based clean energy projects.
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