Investment Summary

ScaleUp Capital Invests In Real Deals Media

On January 25, 2022, private equity firm ScaleUp Capital invested in publishing company Real Deals Media

Investment Highlights
  • This is ScaleUp Capital’s 1st transaction in the Publishing sector.
  • This is ScaleUp Capital’s 11th transaction in the United Kingdom.

Investment Summary

Date 2022-01-25
Target Real Deals Media
Sector Publishing
Investor(s) ScaleUp Capital
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Real Deals Media

London, United Kingdom
Real Deals Media provides insightful and relevant publications, content and events targeted at investment professionals and their service providers, such as law firms, banks and consultancies. Real Deals Media is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

ScaleUp Capital

London, United Kingdom

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2003
PE ASSETS 200M GBP
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

ScaleUp Capital (formerly Root Capital) is a private equity firm that invests in technology, support services, and media businesses throughout the UK. Root Capital will consider in a variety of companies, including growth businesses, listed companies, non-core divestitures, and turnarounds. The Firm looks to invests £0.5 - £6 million in companies generating revenues of £1 - £20 million. Areas of interest include software/hardware vendors, IT outsourcing/managed services, telecommunications, hosting, IT consulting/systems integration, finance/administration, human resource, call centers, marketing services, logistics services, information services, on-line services, publishing and conferences services. ScaleUp Capital was formed in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 12 of 16
Sector: Publishing M&A 1 of 1
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 3 of 6
Country: United Kingdom M&A 11 of 14
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-11-22 Sifted

London, United Kingdom

Sifted is a high quality new-media platform focused on in-depth reporting, news and analysis on European startups. Sifted is based in London, United Kingdom.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-04-11 Rungway

London, United Kingdom

Rungway is an employee listening, mentoring, and culture development platform. It provides employees a direct, online and moderated channel to communicate and allows business leaders to mentor and develop culture across their organisation. Rungway was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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