38. Kreos Capital

  • Kreos Capital is a venture capital firm from London that invests in high-growth companies across Europe and Israel.
  • This European growth debt firm was founded in 1998 by Maurizio PetitBon and Ross Ahlgren and invests in private equity, debt, early stage and late stage ventures.
  • Its portfolio companies include BlueVine, VOI Technology, Riskified, Signal AI and Typelane.

 

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About Kreos Capital

 

Kreos Capital is Europe’s largest and leading provider of growth debt to high-growth companies with revenues up to €150 million. As of 2019, Kreos has committed more than €2.6 billion in over 570 portfolio company transactions, in a variety of industry sectors and located in 16 countries.

Kreos has a proven track record of adding value to portfolio companies and helping them to grow with additional capital and flexibility throughout their business cycle whilst working closely with both the portfolio company management team and their equity sponsors.

The Kreos global team has extensive debt financing, management and equity investing experience, covering the pan-European market from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.

Kreos is a value added partner, able to offer additional capital and more flexibility with lower equity dilution. Kreos’s international team has extensive entrepreneurial, debt financing and equity investing experience, covering all local European markets from its locations in London, Tel Aviv and Stockholm.

Kreos Capital Portfolio

 

Kreos Capital has made a total of 101 investments since its foundation in 1998. Their most recent investment was on April 13, 2021, when Grover, a company that enables people to subscribe to tech products monthly instead of buying them, raised €15M in debt financing.

Kreos Capital made a diversity investment into Abiquo Group on April 13, 2021. Abiquo Group are a company who develop hybrid cloud management software for customers to build and monetise cloud-based services. This debt financing investment was valued at €15M.

Kreos Capital has had 33 exits. Kreos Capital’s most notable exits include Marley Spoon, Delivery Hero, and Planday, and has raised a total of €1.3B across 3 funds, their latest being Kreos Capital VI. This fund was announced on February 6, 2019 and raised a total of €700M.

 

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