Salica Investments

Emerging managers offer something others can’t. As LPs navigate changing market conditions and seek access to higher-returning alternative asset classes, emerging managers can reach corners of the market that their established peers cannot. That differentiation —and the potential for outperformance— keeps emerging managers firmly on the radar.  This month, Andrew Noyons, Partner at Salica Investments, explores the established merits of emerging managers and their critical role in private markets. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eErQXHuT

European venture debt funding grew from €1.28bn in 2014 to a record €24.2bn in 2022. And the figure for 2024 is on track to break this record. Why?   Head of Growth Debt at Salica Investments David Hayers and Geoff Whiteland, Senior Investment Director at British Business Investments explain why venture debt has grown rapidly as startups stay private for longer and as LPs looking for differentiated returns.   Discover below how venture debt has gone from a relative unknown for European startups to an established part of the growth playbook for many. https://lnkd.in/d39MqABp

The Salica Investments Growth Debt Fund team David Hayers Stephen Fahy Usman Ali Ross Goodwin Ylan Lamour, CFA Sophie Watson Sophie Hounsell Simon Thorpe Alan Sim are thrilled to welcome Zeotap to our growing portfolio of exciting IP rich companies. Zeotap are Europe’s leading CDP provider, with super impressive technology and customer base, and Salica Investments are absolutely delighted to be partnering with them and look forward to supporting their exciting growth plans over the coming years. Many thanks to all those involved including Amir Rosentuler Daniel Heer Projjol Banerjea Sathish K S Elad Simon Alexander Gebert of Zeotap, and SignalFire Zobito AB Liam Mills Wolfram Distler Nicholas Oliveri https://lnkd.in/exd_f3x7

The UK is on its way to transitioning to a green energy ecosystem, and homeowners are increasingly a crucial part of this mission. To narrow the gap between willingness and actual adoption of decarbonisation technologies, startups and the private capital backing them can help drive the innovation, scale, and adoption necessary to close it.   Find out more about how startups and homeowners can accelerate the renewable revolution here: https://lnkd.in/d7EKtWd7

We are delighted to announce our latest investment, through the Salica Investments Growth Debt Fund, into award winning in-person payment orchestration provider, Aevi. Welcome Matthias Finke and Mike Camerling to the Salica Investments portfolio. We look forward to supporting your future growth plans. https://lnkd.in/dRjKVNxp

We are delighted to announce our investment in Theremia’s €3m Seed round alongside Eurazeo.    Theremia uses advanced AI and Machine Learning technology to enhance drug efficacy across diverse demographics, delivering critical tools that can improve patient outcomes worldwide.    Iris Maréchal, Chloé Geoffroy, Nicholas Sharp, Issy Gordon, Maxime Huerre, Louis Bô, Tom Bradley, Laura Noorani, Ted Mallett

Salica Investments' Oryx Fund is excited to announce our investment in Neuphonic’s $3M pre-seed round, joining Moonfire, Tiny VC, and Cur8 Capital. Neuphonic is setting a new benchmark in voice AI with the world’s fastest text-to-speech solution. We will look to support Neuphonic's expansion into the GCC, where its advanced voice solutions are poised to address the region's diverse linguistic landscape. We are thrilled to work with the Neuphonic team as they drive AI innovation. Congratulations to the team - Sohaib A. and Jiameng Gao Ali Qaiser Ivo Detelinov, CFA Sara Enan Natasha Abu Khader Anas Adel Alsalamah Emon Shakoor إيمان عبد الشكور #VoiceAI #AI #GCC #MENA #Investment

  On a 20-year outlook, private equity in North America has delivered annual returns of 15.2%, compared to 9.7% for the S&P500.  Investors have rarely had cause to regret putting their faith in private markets over the long term. But the past can never guarantee the future, so the question remains: will private markets continue to act as a bulwark of innovation and investor returns?   Andrew Noyons, Partner at Salica Investments unpacks why private market funds, now more affordable and accessible than ever, will continue to show evergreen importance – no matter what our economic future brings.   Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dUx7Eh_d   #privateequity #venturecapital #investing

This is a big one today…I’m absolutely delighted to announce that we’ve just raised £850k! 🎊 Massive thanks to Tom Bradley and Ted Mallett at Salica Investments for leading the round, and to Maria Barsuk from Tanzanite Capital and many amazing angels who also participated and believe in our mission. 🔙 The background I met my co-founder Mitchell Nick just over a year ago now, and we immediately clicked despite being almost 8,000 miles apart! (I’m in the UK, he’s in Bali). Given our backgrounds, we both wanted to use AI to support go-to-market teams in overcoming their most urgent problems, which really boiled down to: how do you stand out and engage prospects in this new world? 💯 The result? A platform to power AI-driven ABM for every marketing team. RevvedUp makes it 10x faster and cheaper to increase qualified pipeline with AI-driven ABM that scales to reach every prospect in your total addressable market. 📈 Early traction We quickly launched an early beta product back in Sept, and iterated like crazy to release our first commercial product in March. Since then we’ve built up an amazing customer base, with the kind of positive feedback that just fuels you to go further and faster. 🥇 3 key benefits have come back from those early adopters: > We can stop chasing only the 3% of buyers in-market and connect with our whole Total Addressable Market (TAM) > Overcoming the decline in outbound conversion rates and growing our brand at the same time > Saving 8-10 hours per FTE a week on manual research and copywriting 💰 Why raise now? With clear pull from the market, a very clear and hugely ambitious roadmap and nowhere near enough hours in the day to achieve everything we’re trying to for our clients, we decided external funding was the route for us. After bootstrapping for 12 months we feel it's time to pour some fuel on the fire and take everything to the next level. The pipeline crisis is real and urgent for everyone we speak to, so slow and steady just isn’t the right choice for these kinds of problems! 🌅 What’s next? We’ve really investing in 3 areas: the product, the team and content. This means you’ll see more impactful features shipped faster; world-class customer experiences; and a focus on creating valuable content and insights for marketing leaders who need to unlock new ways of generating qualified pipeline. 🙏 It takes a community... Thank you so much to the countless folks who've helped and supported us along the way (too many to mention by name)! And with your ongoing support + the injection of capital to help accelerate things further and faster...LFG! 🚀

We are excited to announce our latest investment, through the Salica Investments Growth Debt fund, into UK-based RegTech FullCircl. Welcome Andrew Yates Mike Blackadder Steve Blundell Stuart Newton to the Salica portfolio and we look forward to supporting your future growth plans. https://lnkd.in/dUNFzDwZ