Each of our investment streams has a clear strategy that involves working with great management teams, great businesses and great ideas to build value:

Our private equity businesses invest in established, growing enterprises:

Buyouts acquires majority holdings in European businesses with a enterprise value up to around €1bn.

Growth Capital invests up to €250m per deal, in businesses with enterprise values ranging from €100m to €1bn, to acquire minority holdings in companies across Europe, Asia and North America.

Our Infrastructure team invests between €70m and €400m per deal, focusing on European, North American and Asian infrastructure assets.

Our QPE team acquires influential or controlling shareholdings in small and mid cap companies across UK and Continental Europe typically with an enterprise value in the range of €100m to €2bn.

Our SMI team manages older, minority investments, predominantly in the UK and Germany.

Venture Capital manages our established portfolio of earlier-stage venture capital investments across Europe and the US. The total value of 3i’s venture capital portfolio is almost €1bn