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Dear Hg Portfolio colleagues,   The FT have launched a call for entries to their FT Tech Champions awards, and is looking for European business that has cleverly harnessed technology during the pandemic. In their words, they are looking to &ldqu...

insightsoftware attracts c.$1bn strategic investment from Hg to continue to scale as a platform and leader in financial reporting and EPM software insightsoftware will continue to be supported by existing shareholders TA Associates, Genstar and ...

A big thank you to everyone who joined the Hg broadcast with Matthew and I. We hope you found the session insightful. Whilst you’re here, I invite you to sign up for Hive, connect with other people from across our Portfolio of businesses by joi...

We now have a new Hive onboarding animation! Please click on the link below to access the film (saved in our Help section), which will give you an overview of how to register and navigate the platform, plus ways in which to make the most of your Hive...

We would like to share some work that we have done for our own colleagues on who is Hg, who do we work for, who do we affect if we do our job well and what do they care about?   We know that the world of private equity can be hard to access from...

Hello everyone, Next week Hg Managing Partner Matthew Brockman, and Head of Portfolio, Dawn Marriott will be hosting a live 15 minute broadcast, open to every single person across our Portfolio of Hg-invested businesses. The purpose of the broadcast ...

UK SMEs are adapting to a ‘new normal’ showing resilience to lockdowns Hg’s Data Analytics platform gathers operational data sets from across the portfolio, including invoice payment adherence data for the Hg portfolio across the va...

Join us on June 15th for ‘Post-COVID Hotspots in Enterprise Software’, next in an excellent series of discussions at the Megabuyte CEO Summit. Register to attend https://www.megabuyte.com/ceo-summit/agenda Open to all UK Tech s...

Diversity at the heart of investment: ESGD Financing at Hg https://hgcapital.com/insight/diversity-at-the-heart-of-investment/ At Hg we believe that better diversity and inclusion (D&I) translates into a more positive impact for all stakeholder...

upReach and The Hg Foundation announce major new partnership to boost opportunities for disadvantaged students to access careers in the technology sector. See the full announcement here: https://www.thehgfoundation.com/news-1/a-hrefhttpsuprea...

Modern HR requirements create huge opportunities for vendors of HR technology, but only so long as they are able to innovate. This need for innovation, however, comes along with complex challenges of a technological, financial and organisational natu...

Landau, Germany and London, United Kingdom: 16 April 2021 Hg, a leading global software investor, today announces an investment in AUVESY GmbH (“AUVESY”), a leading global provider of version control and change management software so...

Hg’s Data team were given beta access to OpenAI’s ‘GPT-3’ AI text generation model that headlined in the media in 2020. Hg’s Tim Harrison interviews the AI, reviews the model and assesses its implications for s...

24.03.2021, Aalborg, Denmark, Trackunit has announced that Hg, a leading global software investor, has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in the company from Goldman Sachs and GRO Capital. The addition of Hg as the new owner provides specialize...

New investment enables Mitratech to continue to drive portfolio expansion with corporate legal, risk and compliance, workflow automation and human resources solutions enabling digital transformation https://hgcapital.com/mitratech-announces-strategic...

Hg, Europe’s leading software investor, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell its investment in Trace One to Symphony Technology Group (“STG”), a Palo Alto-based private equity firm focused on investing in th...

Azets, the top ten UK accounting, tax and business advisory firm and the largest SME regional practice across Europe, has today announced its acquisition of Roffe Swayne, an accountancy and tax advisory firm based in Godalming, Surrey and one of the ...

In 2020 Hg’s investment in and partnership with Visma was taught in an MBA class for Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The session was taught by John Gilligan, Director of the Oxford Saïd Finance Lab, wit...

Bloomberg TV interviews Hg’s Nic Humphries and Matthew Brockman to discuss the move into cloud, tech valuations, and cyber security risks. Full interview here: https://hgcapital.com/bloomberg-tv-interviews-nic-humphrie...

SEO Announces New Partnership with The Hg Foundation Together Launching New SEO Tech Developer Initiative SEO Tech Developer is a unique and specific program designed to provide support for minority students across the USA, as a way of reduci...

https://hgcapital.com/insight/how-2020-reshaped-the-insurance-industry/ The COVID crisis shows once again that necessity can be the mother of invention Martin Wygas, Director and member of Hg’s Mercury Team, Hg Insurers and brokers have respond...

Mississauga, Canada; New York, USA and London, UK: 6th January 2021 – Prophix, a global leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software, today announces an investment from Hg, a leading global software investor. Hg&rsqu...

2020 has been a year to remember for everyone at Hg. As well as being a year of a global pandemic and other events, it also marked Hg’s 20th Anniversary as an independent firm Take a look at a little something we put together looking back at tw...

Hg invests in Geomatikk Group. Partnering with the business to continue its growth as a Northern European champion in Underground Mission-Critical GIS Data and Detection. Full announcement: https://hgcapital.com/hg-invests-in-geomatikk...

https://hgcapital.com/insight/the-state-of-european-tech-atomico/ One of the most highly anticipated reports in the tech calendar, Atomico’s 2020 edition features Hg’s very own Head of Research, David Toms discussing the role o...