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Bowmark Capital

Bowmark Capital takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from London, United Kingdom. It states a focus on software & internet, business & professional services and media & communications.

Capital raised$292macross 2 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2023filing since 2018
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Stated fund size£2 billion

Stated investment criteria

What Bowmark Capital says it buys

Read from Bowmark Capital’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Enterprise value it states£25m to £300m1
Transaction typesBuy-and-build1
Founded19971
People listed on its team page472

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SEC filings

What Bowmark Capital has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed2
Total capital raised$292m
Largest single vehicle$292m
Filing history2018 to 2023
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromUNITED KINGDOM

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Bowmark Capital is registered

Registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, and incorporated in the United Kingdom.

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised14 · $3.3bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 160741
Companies House numberOC331233
Incorporated2007-09-10
Register statusActive
Officers on the register16

An exempt reporting adviser is not required to report regulatory assets under management, so the blank above means the question was not asked rather than that the answer is unknown. Where a figure exists it is the gross asset value of the private funds the firm advises, which is a different and usually larger measure.

Portfolio

Disclosed holdings

Companies Bowmark Capital lists on its own website. 1 carry a stated investment year. 1 has a recorded transaction against it in the deal archive.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
InfraXmedia20260
ASK4
Adobe Stock 1172333781 1
Adobe Stock 729416340
Advanced Childcare
Altia
Altia Adobe Stock 886194014
Aston Lark
Autodata
BCIS
CARE
CSL
Casella
Cornwall
Cornwall Insight
Cube Logic v2
CubeLogic
Data Explorers
Datix
Drakeand Morgan
Eque2$72m 2020
Focus
Glenside
Healthcare Homes
Helio 2
Helio Intelligence
Instant
Iprism
JAC
Kingswood
Kisimul
Kubrick Corporate Imagefor
LBR
LOD
LRG
Las Iguanas
Lendscape
Littlefish
Littlefish Group
Medscreen
Nexus
Node4
Oxford International
Pirum 2
RDF
Regard
SFDR Disclosure
STG
Tax Systems
Totalmobile
Transparity
Transparity Artboard 1
Turnkey
WSD
Xperience
Xperienceedited

Compiled from Bowmark Capital’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Bowmark Capital is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 3 recorded exits, most recently in 2018. 1 recorded acquisition.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
Nexus Vehicle RentalSoldPhoenix Equity Partners2018$219m
Nexus Vehicle RentalBoughtLivingbridge2015$79m
Las Iguanas Ltd.SoldCasual Dining Group Ltd.2015$131m
Healthcare Homes Group Ltd.SoldOmega2015$177m

Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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