Cinven

Cinven is an international private equity firm with headquarters in London, UK. The company focuses on building world-class companies with sector expertise and has deep, embedded local networks across Europe and a growing presence in North America. Cinven's international team works closely together in a Sector-Regional approach to execute its proven investment strategy. The company seeks to build long-term, sustainable businesses in an environmentally and socially responsible manner, and has completed investments in more than 150 portfolio companies across Europe and in North America.

Originally founded in 1977 as the private investment arm of the British Coal pension scheme, Cinven became independent in 1995 and has raised more than €50 billion in aggregate to date (as of 2024). Cinven's long and proven track record of investing successfully through economic cycles has resulted in the return of proceeds of c. €47 billion to the Cinven Funds.