Bridgepoint Group, one of the world’s leading mid-market investors, today announces the launch of its Private Wealth platform. With €200 million already raised, this marks a significant step in the Group’s ambition to provide access to private markets for eligible individual investors.
Overview
Both Bridgepoint Generations and Bridgepoint Generaciones provide eligible investors with the opportunity to invest directly alongside Bridgepoint in a diversified portfolio of privately owned mid-market businesses across Europe and North America.
The middle market has long been Bridgepoint’s home, a segment made up of companies substantial enough to shape economies yet agile enough to innovate and grow rapidly. Often founder- or family-led, these businesses are at pivotal points in their growth journey, offering compelling opportunities that have historically been difficult for individual investors to access.
The platform provides investors with access to the same opportunities as Bridgepoint’s institutional clients - including stakes in businesses such as Kyriba, a global leader in cloud-based liquidity management software; RoC Skincare, one of the largest independent skincare brands; PEI Group, a business intelligence company; and Meristem, one of the fastest-growing crop input companies in North America. Together, the products build on Bridgepoint’s 40-year track record of investing in high-quality, resilient companies that are shaping the global economy, offering exposure to long-term growth themes including energy transition, healthcare, advanced industrials, technology and services.
Bridgepoint Generations
Bridgepoint Generations is an open-ended strategy that combines investments from across Bridgepoint and Energy Capital Partners’ flagship funds in a single, diversified portfolio. It provides eligible investors with access to Bridgepoint’s private equity and energy transition strategies, including energy-transition projects developed through ECP. Once fully invested, the fund is expected to comprise approximately 80–100 companies and is fully funded from launch - unlike traditional closed-ended structures.
Bridgepoint Generations has been established in partnership with S64, with support from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Arendt & Medernach SA as legal counsel, Carne Group as Alternative Investment Fund Manager, and Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) as administrator and custodian.
Bridgepoint Generaciones
Launched in Spain, Bridgepoint Generaciones is a closed-ended fund focused exclusively on Bridgepoint’s European private equity strategies. Building on the Generations product, it combines the firm’s global scale, deep sector expertise and strong local presence to offer a tailored investment opportunity for eligible Spanish investors.
Once fully invested, the fund is expected to comprise approximately 30–40 European companies and has a three-year investment period.
As Bridgepoint’s first locally tailored investment product in Spain - a market where the firm has been investing for over 33 years, supporting and transforming leading companies such as Dorna Sports, Rovensa and Samy Alliance - the initiative underscores its long-term commitment to the region and ambition to extend its institutional capabilities to private wealth investors and intermediaries.
Bridgepoint Generaciones has been established in partnership with Amchor Investment Strategies, acting as Alternative Investment Fund Manager, with support from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as legal counsel.
Together, Bridgepoint Generations and Bridgepoint Generaciones represent a major step in the Group’s ambition to broaden access to private markets globally.
Speaking about the launch, Raoul Hughes, Chief Executive of Bridgepoint Group, said:
“For forty years we’ve been connecting great companies with the capital and expertise they need to grow. Through our private wealth offering, we’re opening that opportunity to more investors, bringing together our investment capabilities in a single platform that reflects the very best of what we do. This is about helping individuals invest alongside us in the companies shaping the world of tomorrow.”
Bridgepoint Group plans to expand its private wealth offering over time to include additional strategies such as credit, enabling eligible investors to access different parts of the risk-return spectrum.