Unlocking Potential
Our Story
At Mentium, we have over 100 years’ experience partnering with new and established business management teams to help build and grow great companies.
As an independent, private equity investment firm which specialises in the acquisition of high-growth opportunity businesses within the lower mid-market space, we’re passionate about helping companies achieve their full potential.
Our success is built on a robust approach which combines deep industry/company insights, professional support and growth capital access, to drive strategic and operational transformation.
We assist start-ups, SME’s and founder led businesses improve their competitive position by enhancing productivity, while simultaneously expanding into new products and markets, which subsequently accelerate superior returns.
What We Do
Our dedicated team offer diverse expertise across a wide spectrum of sectors and business specialisms.
As well as serving on the Boards’ as non-executives of those whom we invest, we also provide carefully designed mentoring and coaching programmes to help with team building, strategic planning and financing.
Mentium help businesses achieve their growth goals by identifying and solving their challenges, optimising their processes, and creating and executing data-driven growth strategies.
Business Growth Specialists
Equity funding is the process where companies raise money to grow their business by offering a share of the business to an investor in exchange for funding.
Investments & Funding
Our mission is to help SMEs thrive by providing consistent, flexible funding solutions – this may take the form of a traditional loan but may explore options such as grants, crowdfunding or other suitable financial methods.
Business Loans & Credit Alternatives
We help companies strengthen their marketing capabilities by advising on digital processes, analytics, pricing, channel and sales management, and branding
Sales & Marketing Support
Ultimately, our consultancy service can help you streamline processes and boost profits without the need for adding permanent resource costs to your bottom line.
Business Advisory & Consultation
A form of investment that tends to target already profitable companies, with the explicit purpose of helping them to grow — to expand, access new markets and reach the next stage of their development.
Growth Capital
Our Core Values
Our core values underpin all aspects of our businesses and remain at the very heart of what we do. These values direct our choices, help us to shape our goals and form a key part of our wider strategical decisions.
Partnership
We see ourselves as partners and not investors. We add value by contributing business expertise, knowledge and contacts
Value
We aim to develop successful businesses that generate shareholder value and returns
Collaboration
We seek to create opportunities of collaboration across our portfolio of companies
Innovation
We promote innovation, creativity and evolution across our portfolio of businesses
Strategy
We develop individual strategies, which focus on growth, performance and maximising profits through value creation.
All of the companies we acquire are carefully selected, managed and monitored, with members of our senior team actively leading them forward.
Market Evaluation
We conduct extensive market research to determine which markets we would like to enter, or make further investments in.
Identification of Target Companies
We identify M&A opportunities within these markets that we believe show great future potential and profits.
In making this assessment we consider the knowledge and abilities of our team, taking into consideration their synergetic value with regards to our current portfolio.
Full Due Diligence
Target companies are screened against our investment criteria and general suitability. Often the requirement will be a proven track record, strong future economic prospects, and a fair valuation, may drive the decision.
Purchase
Immediately post-acquisition the management team commence the value creation process. This can take many forms, such as the appointment of key staff, marketing/sales strategy or the revision of long-term business goals.
Income Return
Income generated from the target company is deployed as determined by the strategic planning process. This could be redeployment into the target company to fuel capital growth, servicing of debt or distributed to investors to provide income returns.
Exit Plan
Investments are made on the basis of the steps set out above. The exit is pre-determined and management decisions made during the life of the investment will be focused on this goal.
Working Across Multiple sectors
While many fundamental business philosophies can be applied universally, this will often inhibit success. Mentium take a unique approach, implementing more bespoke, refined strategies devised through a thorough knowledge of each and every sector that we invest.
Consumer
Targeting consumer, retail, and hospitality sectors, Mentium have delivered a proven track record of building industry leaders through market penetration, cross-channel marketing strategies, strategic repositioning, and synergistic M&A to create long-term value.
Financial & Business
Mentium are active investors in the financial and business services sectors, specifically seeking partners in the payment, software, banking (and non), insurance and credit sectors.
Healthcare
Industry trends are creating investment opportunities for well-managed, low-cost, high-quality healthcare companies. Our experience across the healthcare network allows us to add best-in-class value to hospitals, life sciences and pharmaceutical companies, medical product manufacturers, distributors and service providers.
Industrial
Mentium have significant experience investing in leading industrial, construction, manufacturing, automotive, packaging, and chemicals industries.
Software
Whether it’s software, infrastructure software, cybersecurity and, or internet/media companies, Mentium posess a thorough understanding of fundamental technology trends which enables the emergence of successful business modelling.
Technology
Offering strong expertise in all areas of the evolving technology and media landscape, including software, hardware, internet, digital media, and information services businesses, Mentium know exactly how to scale businesses quickly in this space.
