Ben Kirby

Partner at Ethos Partners

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2014
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Dec 2013
Acquired by WPP’s GroupM in 2015, The Exchange Lab was a programmatic specialist providing fully managed services to clients and agencies. The company’s proprietary technology, Proteus, which enables multi-platform programmatic solutions and integrates data from the world’s leading DSPs, adservers, viewability and verification partners as well as first and third-party customer data, is now fully integrated to GroupM’s technology stack and The Exchange Lab no longer operates independently.
Investor
Apr 2013
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
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2024
Partner
Sep 2024
Ethos Partners is a private investment office set up by private equity professionals to invest their own capital alongside sophisticated, high net worth investors into quality, smaller private equity transactions. Ethos delivers £3m- £8m of supportive capital to established, ambitious companies in the UK and Europe, adding value from our entrepreneurial backgrounds and board experience and contacts.
2022
Partner
Sep 2022
Coniston Capital is a private equity investor focused on the small MBO market. We seek to partner with ambitious incumbent teams that require capital to facilitate a change of ownership and deliver their growth plans, investing £2m - £7m into UK businesses with profits greater than £500k.
2014
Board Observer
Jul 2014
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2013
Board Observer
Dec 2013
Acquired by WPP’s GroupM in 2015, The Exchange Lab was a programmatic specialist providing fully managed services to clients and agencies. The company’s proprietary technology, Proteus, which enables multi-platform programmatic solutions and integrates data from the world’s leading DSPs, adservers, viewability and verification partners as well as first and third-party customer data, is now fully integrated to GroupM’s technology stack and The Exchange Lab no longer operates independently.
Investor
Apr 2013
BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/
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