Mel Ragnauth

Find out why thousands of other business buyers and founders use Foundy for a streamlined, transparent acquisition process. Sell your business via Foundys end-to-end platform

Find out why thousands of other business buyers and founders use Foundy for a streamlined, transparent acquisition process. Sell your business via Foundys end-to-end platform

We are serial investors, founders and operators with a deep understanding of the early stage and high growth sector in the UK. We understand the challenges that founders face in raising capital at Seed to Series A and the complexity of managing insufficient resources to deliver stretch goals. We understand the personal impact that this has on founders and their teams. We have been there before. Equally we know that with the right support around exceptional founders, the evolution required to build teams and processes suitable for scale-up is achievable. This knowledge and experience enables us to truly partner with our investee companies, to help them take the difficult decisions required to move forward with clarity to scale-up and beyond. As we are highly operational, our intention is to work with a limited number of founders, providing fresh capital and impetus to drive outperformance. Businesses that are attractive to us are those that have commercialised their product(s) but are not yet at scale, and/or those that fall within the gaps of typical institutional funding rounds.

3i is a leading international investment company with two complementary businesses, Private Equity and Infrastructure, specialising in core investment markets in northern Europe and North America. We provide our shareholders with access to the higher growth potential of mid-market unquoted companies. We use our strong balance sheet and our expertise in specific sectors and geographies to realise this potential and aim to generate mid to high teens returns for our shareholders. We back entrepreneurs and management teams of mid-market businesses in Europe and North America. Once invested, we work closely with our portfolio companies to achieve their full potential.