Our Approach

Hg is a leading investor in European and transatlantic software and services businesses.

Hg focuses on building transatlantic champions that provide critical services for many thousands of businesses globally.

We’re a tech investor that has both a strong European heritage and scaled presence across North America.

We are investing in the future - helping to progress workplace automation and digitisation trends still in early stages of adoption, set to transform the workplace for professionals over decades to come.

That’s what we do at Hg. We come to work every day to build great software and services companies. To find companies with great potential where we can work alongside entrepreneurial leaders to build enduring champions

Our job is to help accelerate progress, support transformation. To scale and create enterprises that last and will leave a legacy. And to focus on the horizons of growth, patiently building products or services that are truly valued by customers and improve the way they work

A European and transatlantic portfolio worth $160 billion+

Hg has over 400 employees across London, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, and Singapore a current portfolio of over 55 businesses, worth $160 billion+ aggregate enterprise value, with c.126,000 employees globally, consistently growing revenues at more than 19% annually.

All facts and figures as at 31 March 2025, adjusted for post period events, including realised and partially realised software & services investments made post-independence from 2001 to 2025. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. The value of investments and the income from them can go down as well as up as a result of market and currency fluctuations and investors may not get back the amount they originally invested.

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$27bn+

of proceeds returned from all software and services businesses since 2001 at 3.0x gross MOIC / 32% gross IRR

20+

Years of investing (30+ including pre-independence)

130+

Total Software & Services Platform Investments (200+ total across all sectors)

c.$85bn

Assets under management

The foundations of Hg support

To build an enterprise that endures, you need deep expertise in your industry, operational specialists who can transform your business, a network to expand your reach and a long-term partner who believes in building your legacy. We offer all four.

Decades long experience in software and services

Over our history spanning over 30 years, we have approximately $35 billion of equity invested in targeted verticals.

Tax & accounting professionals and regulators increasingly use software applications to manage mission-critical tasks, enabling them to be compliant and accurate whilst also enabling real-time reporting capabilities. This use of software, across several areas within the ‘office of the CFO’, is still in the early stages of what could be one of the biggest adoption waves for next generation cloud business software.

Legal and regulatory compliance processes are an increasingly essential part of business and wider society – ensuring transparency, safety, employee well-being, corporate responsibility, whilst also mitigating risk. Cloud technologies are rapidly overhauling manual processes that have long been the status quo, transforming the fundamental way these professions work and improving how we all manage risk.

The global healthcare sector faces rapidly increasing demand, constrained budgets and shortages in clinical staff. The software and data businesses we back bring about positive change, improving outcomes for the whole ecosystem - across patients, providers and payors - through our focus on healthcare operations, specialist core systems, life sciences, interoperability and population health sectors.

A team of value creators within Hg

We provide a large team of specialist value creators within Hg to support management teams across our portfolio.

Scaled team of around 50 operational specialists
Rich and vibrant community in person and online across 200+ C-level execs
Expertise and support-as-a-service across portfolio-wide assessments and accelerator programmes
Library of ‘best practice’ templates, tools, and playbooks shared across the portfolio

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A world class hub of talent and knowledge

Collectively the Hg portfolio represents one of the largest and fastest growing transatlantic software businesses.

We back the best businesses: sharing similar characteristics, but differ in size and maturity. All benefit from being part of a larger community, whilst retaining their own identity

This creates a natural environment for knowledge sharing and unlocks a network effect to our businesses with satellite minds that sit around us.

Hive platform

Orbit Podcast

Long term investment partnerships

We are investing in the future, backing businesses that are redefining how industries work.

Driving decades-long trends means maintaining partnerships that span professional lifetimes.

We have grown businesses from rising stars to international champions worth over $10 billion.

This doesn’t happen overnight but together we can build a legacy.

Our case studies

European base, transatlantic reach

Hg specialises in software and services companies in Europe and North America, and is currently investing in countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the USA.

Responsible Investing

Growing sustainable businesses which are great employers and good corporate citizens.

Our Commitment