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Highland Europe

Highland Europe takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from London, United Kingdom. It states a focus on software & internet and consumer & retail.

Capital raised$265macross 11 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2025filing since 2012
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
Stated cheque size€20-80M

Stated investment criteria

What Highland Europe says it buys

Read from Highland Europe’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
People listed on its team page332

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SEC filings

What Highland Europe 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 filed11
Total capital raised$265m
Largest single vehicle$200m
Filing history2012 to 2025
Smallest accepted commitment$401k
Filed fromJERSEY

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 Highland Europe 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 advised12 · $3.8bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 165378
Companies House numberOC375755
Incorporated2012-06-01
Register statusActive
Officers on the register9

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 Highland Europe lists on its own website. No investment years are published.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
9fin.com
ABASK
Adjust
Alice
Bitmovin
Brandwatch
Camunda
Cellular Origins
Cobalt
Contentsquare
Deepki
Descartes Underwriting
Domino Data Lab
EGYM
FINBOURNE
Farewill
FashionUnited
Featurespace
Ffern
Flipp
GetYourGuide
Goodlord
Huel
Intersec
JUNIQE
Jampp
Jellysmack
Jobteaser
Le Collectionist
LemFi
Malwarebytes
Me and EM
Meditopia
My Optique
N8n
Nabla
Nexthink
Nothing
Oritain
Outfittery
PRIVALIA
PVcase
Plentific
Podimo
Salsify
Signal Ai
Smartly
SocialPoint
Spartoo
Supermetrics
Tech
Threads Styling
Titan OS
Unframe AI
Unibuddy
WeTransfer
Wirepas
Wooga
Wordsmith
Yoobic
Zero Networks
amcsgroup.com
combohr.com
condecosoftware.com
finanzcheck.com
hyperexponential.com
incoproip.com
lovecrafts.comen-gb
matchesfashion.comintl
modulrfinance.com
oroinc.comorocrm
shopfully.com
smaXtec
spot.io
vonage.comcontact-centers
wolt.comen

Compiled from Highland Europe’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 Highland Europe is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2024.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
FarewillSoldDignity PLC2024$20m

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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