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Helios Investment Partners

Helios Investment Partners backs early-stage and high-growth companies, typically pre-profit, from United Kingdom. It states a focus on media & communications and software & internet.

Disclosed holdings75
Earliest stated investment
HeadquartersUnited Kingdom
Stated fund size3B

Stated investment criteria

What Helios Investment Partners says it buys

Read from Helios Investment Partners’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.

Transaction typesGrowth1
Founded20043
OfficesLondon, Lagos, Nairobi, Paris4
People listed on its team page202

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Regulatory record

How Helios Investment Partners is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusExempt reporting adviser
Regulatory assets under managementNot reported by an ERA
Private funds advised8 · $1.4bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 162865

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 Helios Investment Partners lists on its own website. No investment years are published.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
ARM Pension Managers
Acorn Group
Africa Oil
Africa Specialty Risks
Africatel
Axxela
BIM Morocco
Bayport Management
Betaglass
BİM
Cab Payments
Conduit
Continental Outdoor Media
Crown Agents Bank
Eland Oil Gas
Equity Bank
Fawry
First City Monument Bank
GBfoods Africa
HTN Towers
Helios Towers
IXAfrica
Ihstowers
Impact Oil and Gas
Interswitch
M2p Fintech
MKH
MallforAfrica
Mdc
Misr Hytech
Moment
NBA
NBA Africa
Nomba
OVH Energy
PFL Africa
Pave Bank
Paymob
Prime
Sardine
Sardine AI
SeamlessHR
Solevo
Starsight
Sun Mobility
T2S
T2S Group
TPAY
Telkom Kenya
Tema LNG Terminal Company
The Gbfoods
The Malachite Group
Thunes
Vivo Energy
Wananchi
Wananchi Group
ZOLA Electric
Zaria Group
acornholdingsafrica.com
africaoilcorp.com
armpension.com
asr-re.com
bayportfinance.com
co.ke
conduitpay.com
continentaloutdoor.com
elandoilandgas.com
fcmb.com
galatea.bio
heliostowersafrica.com
interswitchgroup.com
mdc.ma
momentco.net
offgrid-electric.com
primeoilandgas.com

Compiled from Helios Investment Partners’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.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Media & Communications

What companies have actually sold for in media & communications, across 583 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$77m
Middle 50%$18m-$262m
Revenue multiple1.6×
EBITDA multiple8.2×

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