Key Takeaways
- • Maven Capital Partners has opened a Leeds office at Platform in central Leeds to expand its deal activity in Yorkshire.
- • Greg Allsopp has joined Maven as investment director for Yorkshire, leading deal origination and execution across the region.
- • Allsopp previously spent over 10 years at Venturian Funding & Investment Group, leading early-stage and growth equity investments and SME lending.
- • Publisher context indicates Maven's Yorkshire fund provides equity and debt investments of up to £2 million in companies that are headquartered, employ people, or have significant operations in the region.
Summary
Private equity firm Maven Capital Partners has opened an office in Leeds and appointed Greg Allsopp as investment director for Yorkshire, according to TheBusinessDesk.com. The new office is located at Platform in central Leeds, and Allsopp will lead deal origination and execution across the region from that base.
Allsopp joins from Venturian Funding & Investment Group, where he spent more than a decade leading early-stage and growth equity investments as well as SME lending across multiple sectors. In a quote reported by the publication, Allsopp said that Yorkshire has a thriving business community with a strong pipeline of innovative companies. The original article is partly paywalled, so further quoted detail is not available in the source.
Publisher context describes Maven's Yorkshire-focused offering as providing equity and debt investments of up to £2 million in companies that are headquartered in the region, employ people there, or have significant operations there. The move reflects a regional push by a mid-market private equity manager into a northern English market, with a dedicated local investment lead to source and execute transactions.
Allsopp joins from Venturian Funding & Investment Group, where he spent more than a decade leading early-stage and growth equity investments as well as SME lending across multiple sectors. In a quote reported by the publication, Allsopp said that Yorkshire has a thriving business community with a strong pipeline of innovative companies. The original article is partly paywalled, so further quoted detail is not available in the source.
Publisher context describes Maven's Yorkshire-focused offering as providing equity and debt investments of up to £2 million in companies that are headquartered in the region, employ people there, or have significant operations there. The move reflects a regional push by a mid-market private equity manager into a northern English market, with a dedicated local investment lead to source and execute transactions.
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