London, 24th July 2013: Bridges Ventures and Evenacre have announced they will be investing around £1m to refurbish 158 Edmund Street, a Grade II-listed office building in Birmingham. Bridges Ventures – through its Bridges Sustainable Property Fund – and Evenacre acquired the property last year and the refurbishment will result in 21,331 sq ft of […]
Read moreLondon 7th October 2013 – Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) has today announced the successful final close of its third Sustainable Growth Fund (‘Fund III’ or “The Fund”) on equity commitments of £125m, above its original £100m target with the backing of a number of leading institutional investors. Fund III builds upon the success of Bridges’ first […]
Read moreBridges Ventures (Bridges) and Big Society Capital today announced they are lead investors in a new Social Impact Bond (SIB) commissioned by Essex County Council and developed by Social Finance, to fund an intensive intervention programme to help vulnerable young people at risk of going into care. The Essex SIB, the first local authority SIB […]
Read moreWe are delighted to announce that, for a second year running, Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) has been included in the ImpactAssets 50 2012 list (IA 50 2012), the first open-source, publicly published database of experienced impact investment fund managers. The IA 50 2012 is a resource for the increasing number of investors interested in gaining exposure to […]
Read moreBridges Ventures (‘Bridges’), the sustainable growth investor, today announced the appointment of two Associates to join the firm’s Sustainable Growth Funds team. Pam Wei Liu and David Cockcroft join from Citigroup and JP Morgan respectively. Pam was previously an associate in Citigroup’s investment bank, where she worked in the firm’s European Power and Utilities M&A […]
Read moreLondon, 29 May 2012: Bridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, today announced that it has sold one of its landmark investments, The Hoxton Hotel (‘The Hoxton’), to Ennismore Capital. Bridges Ventures backed The Hoxton in 2004 as a start-up concept and played a lead role in financing its construction and ongoing success. The exit will […]
Read moreBridges Ventures has today sold their stake in PHF Services to the company’s management team in a MBO arrangement. PHF is based in Nottingham and offers virtual secretarial and billing services for doctors. Bridges Ventures originally invested in 2006 and has continued to support the company over the past 5 years. Bridges Ventures would like […]
Read moreBridges Ventures would like to express our profound sadness at the death of Nigel Doughty at the weekend. Nigel was one of the original backers of Bridges Ventures. His firm, Doughty Hanson and his family charitable trust have been enormously supportive of our work throughout Bridges Ventures’ development and we had the privilege of having […]
Read moreLondon, 15 May 2012: Bridges Ventures, the sustainable growth investor, today announced that it will provide £2 million in funding to cloud.IQ, an integrated marketing technology specialist. Over the last ten years cloud.IQ has developed market leading technology which allows organisations to manage their marketing communications simultaneously across multiple channels including text, phone, email, web, […]
Read moreLondon, 13 March 2012: Bridges Ventures (“Bridges”), the sustainable growth investor, today announced that it is celebrating 10 years of investing for both attractive financial returns and positive social impact for its ever widening investor base. Last Thursday, Bridges marked this anniversary at an event for over 200 guests which featured a discussion on “How […]
Read moreLondon, 7 March 2013: Specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) today announced that it has sold its stake in Whelan Refining Ltd (‘Whelan’) to the company’s management team. Bridges led the investment in Whelan in 2006, alongside Catapult Venture Managers Ltd, to fund the refurbishment and re-commissioning of a redundant oil refinery in Stoke-on-Trent. The […]
Read moreLondon, 29 January 2013: Hands-on investment and entrepreneurial talent are fast becoming powerful tools for addressing pressing societal challenges as well as driving sustainable growth, according to the latest report by specialist fund manager Bridges Ventures (‘Bridges’) which looks at the development of the impact and sustainable investment sector over the last decade. The report, […]
Read more