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Rigby Technology Investments
Rigby Technology Investments (RTI) is Rigby Group’s specialist investment division. It is a leading capital investor for transformative technology businesses, combining our core strengths as seasoned technology operators and ambitious, flexible, investors.
Impact
RTI understands what it takes to secure market share and is driven to deliver long-term growth for dynamic technology businesses. Although it is Rigby Group’s newest division, RTI is already one of Europe’s leading investors in technology, with a growing portfolio of equity investments.
Capabilities
Through private equity and venture capital investments, RTI co-creates enduring value for both new and established technology businesses. RTI’s highly experienced leadership team works collaboratively with ambitious business leaders and management teams, offering sector expertise and experience in growth strategies to optimise talent and transform business potential.
Vision
RTI’s vision is to be the technology investor of choice in Europe for dynamic businesses with the appetite and potential for long-term growth. This is made possible by being business advisors as well as investors.
Its mission is to help technology businesses amplify growth by investing capital, time and expertise.
"Rigby Technology Investments is a specialist technology fund investing in high growth technology businesses from start-ups to investments akin to private equity. What sets us apart is our experience operating and growing technology businesses, backed by Rigby Group’s standing as Europe's largest independent technology investor."
STEVE RIGBY, CO-CEO
Private Equity:
£ 5-50 m
Equity tickets
3
Current platform investments
£ 750 m
Realised in value
3
Realised platform investments
Venture Capital:
£ 5-50 m
Equity tickets
Series A
and later Investment stage
18
Current investments
2
Realised investments
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Year: 2025 | Venture Capital
Maeving
UK-based designer and producer of high-end electric motorcycles redefining the future of urban travel.
Year: 2025 | Venture Capital
Open AI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company that develops advanced AI technologies, including the ChatGPT language model.
Year: 2025 | Venture Capital
Inicio AI
AI powered software which streamlines the complex process of budget management, provides better support for those facing financial difficulties and improves the customer experience.
Year: 2025 | Venture Capital
Atom Bank
Atom Bank is a leading and profitable UK digital bank offering prime lending products including mortgages and SME lending.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Hebbia
Hebbia is a SaaS company that sells AI-powered document analysis software primarily to financial institutions, law firms, and government agencies.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Imagineear
Imagineear is a leading international creator and operator of multimedia visitor experiences for museums, galleries, sports venues, heritage sites and entertainment attractions.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Anthropic
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence safety and research company intended to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable large-scale artificial intelligence systems. Its AI assistant is called Claude.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Lambda Labs
Lambda Labs is a deep learning infrastructure company building the premier cloud service designed for training LLMs & Generative AI.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Clue Software
Clue Software is a developer of investigation and intelligence management software designed to detect and manage investigations.
Year: 2024 | Venture Capital
Compare Yacht Insurance
Quality comparison service for yacht and boat insurance, to make finding the right insurance as simple as possible.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Rubrik
Rubrik is a cybersecurity company that helps to simplify data management, recover from ransomware attacks, and accelerate cloud mobility.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Impress
A Barcelona based digitally led orthodontics and oral health chain with 110+ clinics across 9 countries with 1,000 staff.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Ava Estell
Ava Estell products treat hyperpigmentation, stretch marks, blemishes, dark spots or dark areas and its products sold globally are focused on the BAME community.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Hyperglance
Hyperglance is a UK company offering a scalable multi-cloud management solution to Government and Enterprise customers, improving cloud security and compliance management at reduced cost.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Kore
Fast-growing RegTech platform digitising financial product management and reducing regulatory risks, costs and time to market for financial products.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Seat Unique
Seat Unique is a SaaS based platform allowing clubs and venues to sell hospitality tickets to fans safely and securely, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Year: 2022 | Private Equity
CloudClevr
A converged cloud based managed services provider focused on the communications and IT SMB sector in the UK.
Year: 2022
CloudClevr
- Led by CEO Steve Harris, a buy & build strategy coupled with the software development of a unique customer experience platform
- Focused on the convergence of IT and communications and the migration of communications to the Cloud, future 5 year CAGR > 15%
- In 2022 partnered with Devtech a near shore development company to agree a multi million platform development over 3 years to provide unique customer and user experience, to disrupt competitive propositions
- Focused on developing a 90% rerurring revenue business with 30% growth rates
Acquisitions
April 2024: Acquisition of Twisted Fish, a leading IT services management business based in London. Provides CloudClevr with deeper and broader IT services skills through its strong Microsoft partnership
January 2024: Acquisition of Bamboo Technology Group, a leading communications and IT specialist based in the west of England. Provides CloudClevr complementary communications and IT capabilities as well as significant additional scale
September 2023: Acquisition of 4Sight Communications a communications solutions and managed services provider based in the south of England. Provides CloudClevr with deeper geographical coverage and complementary capabilities
June 2023: Acquisition of NGC Networks a business communications specialist based in the north of England. Provides CloudClevr with strong communication and connectivity skills
Year: 2022 | Private Equity
Nuvias
Leading cyber security and networking distributor, delivering best-in-class technologies.
Year: 2022
Nuvias
- Organic growth complemented by UK and international M&A
- Transformed and merged into Nuvias including new leadership teams and pan European structure, which included a new ERP system, unique European centralised supply chain model and global shared services centre to support divisions and country structure
- Developed unique organic growth through strategic vendor relationships with Fortinet and Juniper Networks as their main partner for European distribution
- Developed new high growth vendor incubation model based in the US vendure capital sector
- At exit, 2022, the business had revenues in excess of £550m and EBITDA of £13.5m
- Sold to Infinigate Group, a portfolio company of Bridgepoint, with the Unified Communications business remaining with RTI
Acquisitions
- July 2015: Wick Hill (UK)
- May 2016: Zycko (UK)
- July 2017: DCB (Belgium)
- May 2021: Cloud Distribution (UK)
- November 2021: Delta Link (Belgium)
- March 2022: Netsafe (Romania)
Year: 2022 | Private Equity
Infinigate
Global distributor specialising in cybersecurity, secure networks and secure cloud solutions.
Year: 2022
Infinigate
- After selling Nuvias to Infinigate Group, RTI co-invested and sits on the Board of Infinigate Group, headquartered in Switzerland with majority investor Bridgepoint
- Infinigate has revenues in excess of €2.5bn, EBITDA in excess of €100m, operating in 30 countries
- Led by CEO Klaus Schlichtherle, the business continues to grow ahead of market rates, 5-year CAGR of 11%, through organic development, complementary M&A and geographic expansion
- Infinigate Group pursues an active M&A strategy. Recent acquisitions include Australia-based Wavelink (2024) and UAE-based Starlink (2022)
Year: 2019 | Private Equity
FluidOne
Data connectivity aggregator, creating multi-cloud, multi-connected environments that are secure and simple.
Year: 2019
FluidOne
- Organic growth complemented by UK M&A
- Acquired a 51% stake in Fluidata, and a residual stake in 2018
- Acquired One Point in 2017, rebranding the company to FluidOne
- 2018 transformational change resulted in introduction of new leadership and merged entity and new GTM and RTM developments
- Organic growth saw underlying 100% growth over 4 years with 90% recurring revenue
- FluidOne was awarded Best 100 Companies to Work For, Sunday Times (small and medium business sector)
- Sold to Livingbridge in 2019
- Leadership remain with Livingbridge further accelerating M&A, and the business is now four times the scale at exit
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Watch my Competitor
Fully automated competitor tracking, market data, brand analysis and social media monitoring. Powered by AI and refined by analysts.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Thrive
Thrive Therapeutic Software has created a clinically approved smartphone application designed to improve mental health in the workplace.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Filament
Proven, profitable, high-growth SaaS company Filament has created a data platform that uses machine learning to help investment teams originate deals and track market signals in a fraction of the time.
Year: 2023 | Venture Capital
Gutology
Gutology uses a functional medicine approach, looking for the root cause of health issues, not the symptoms. They work closely to resolve those issues, transform diet & make sustained changes, using their innovative packaged and subscription-based products.
Year: 2016 | Private Equity
Nuvias UC
Unified Communications specialist distribution business operating in UK, Germany, France and Benelux.
Year: 2016
Nuvias UC
- Nuvias UC was established as a standalone investment in 2022 with the sale of Nuvias Group Cyber Security and Networking divisions to Infinigate
- Nuvias UC specialises in the distribution of hardware, software and services to the IT reseller, UC & Telecoms sector as well as service providers such as Zoom, Ringcentral and Gamma
- Nuvias UC is a European leader with strategic vendors such as Poly/HP, Yealink and Audiocodes
- Led by CEO, Joel Chimoindes, the business is on an organic transformation to deepen its added services to channel partners and vendors to capture the high growth markets and convergence of UCAAS (unified comms as a service) and CCAAS (Contact centre as a service), which are markets growing at 5 year future CAGR of 11% and 18% respectively
Acquisitions
- January 2022: Alliance Technology
- September 2016: Siphon Networks
Year: 2012 | Private Equity
SDG
Specialist IT distributor in UK, France and the Netherlands, with British distribution companies including IQ Sys and ISI Distribution.
Geography - UK
Theme - IT Services
Year: 2012
SDG
- Organic growth complemented by international expansion through M&A
- Grew to $1.9bn revenues, $40m EBITDA
- International expansion over nine years included two M&A deals within Netherlands, three M&A deals in UK, two M&A deals in France
- Sold to Tech Data in 2012, a US listed technology distributor
- At exit, the business was a No.1 distributor for HP, IBM, VM Ware and Citrix
Selected acquisitions include
- IQ Sys (UK)
- ISI Distribution (UK)
- ETC Metrologie (France)
- Best’Ware (France)
- ETC (NL)