Livingbridge Reinvests in Sykes Holiday Cottages alongside Vitruvian Partners

Sykes Holiday Cottages to Acquire Forest Holidays from Phoenix-led Investor Group

April 8, 2022

Restaurants & Hospitality

Sykes Holiday Cottages, a portfolio company of Vitruvian Partners, is set to acquire Forest Holidays from an institutional investor group led by Phoenix Equity Partners and including LDC. The transaction brings Forest Holidays’ 12-location, nature-based cabin business into the Forge/Sykes platform to create a larger UK domestic holiday group focused on sustainable tourism.

Livingbridge Invests in Venatus

September 28, 2021

Marketing & Advertising

Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has invested in Venatus, a London-headquartered ad-tech platform specializing in gaming and entertainment audiences. The funding (via Livingbridge 7) will support Venatus’s international expansion—particularly in the US—and investment in its proprietary technology to scale publisher and advertiser relationships.

Livingbridge Invests in RealVNC

August 26, 2021

Software

Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has made an investment in RealVNC, the Cambridge-founded provider of remote access and remote support software. The capital will support RealVNC’s next phase of growth — accelerating international expansion, product development, and scaling its VNC Connect offering — and Livingbridge will support leadership with the appointment of David Parry-Jones as chairman.

Livingbridge Invests in Visualsoft

November 10, 2020

Cloud & SaaS

Livingbridge, a UK mid-market private equity firm, has made an investment in Visualsoft, an eCommerce platform provider headquartered in Teesside. The capital will be used to accelerate growth, scale the platform and expand Visualsoft’s service offering to retailers and SME brands.

Sykes Holiday Cottages Acquires Pure Cottages Group from LDC

January 6, 2020

Restaurants & Hospitality

Chester-based Sykes Holiday Cottages has acquired Pure Cottages Group from private equity investor LDC for an undisclosed sum. The deal brings the Pure Cottages portfolio — a collection of five luxury regional holiday rental brands managing more than 1,500 holiday homes across Cumbria, Cornwall and the Cotswolds — into Sykes' wider network to bolster its premium offering and support further UK and international expansion.

Vitruvian Partners Acquires Sykes Cottages with Unitranche Financing from EQT Credit

November 1, 2019

Real Estate

Vitruvian Partners has acquired Sykes Cottages Holdings Limited, a UK-based vacation rental management business, with unitranche senior debt facilities provided by EQT Credit to finance the acquisition, refinance existing debt, and support future growth. Sykes operates a tech-enabled vacation rental platform managing tens of thousands of properties across the United Kingdom and New Zealand and will be supported by the new capital for continued expansion.