Clear Capital

ClearRoute is a global platform engineering consultancy that helps enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer. The company unlocks multi-million-pound value from enterprises' engineering functions through a holistic approach spanning Cloud Platforms, Quality Engineering, and Developer Experience. ClearRoute's proprietary QCE (Quality Cloud Engineering) framework, developed in 2022, revolutionizes the 'Route to Live' by identifying and solving every roadblock on the path to production. Their multi-skilled QCE engineers work as a unified layer connecting silos, dismantling obstacles, and creating shared language across development, operations, and quality teams. This systematic approach has delivered measurable results for enterprise clients including Commonwealth Bank, Collinson, Barclays, and National Grid ESO - achieving 12x reduction in lead times, 75% reduction in change rate failures, and millions in engineering effectiveness savings.

In 2011, ClearCaptions was founded with a driving force to serve the hard-of-hearing community, recognizing a critical gap in telephone communication for millions of seniors. The founders realized that traditional telephony was failing those with hearing loss, leading to isolation and a loss of independence. What started as web and mobile-based captioning service products has evolved into a comprehensive FCC-certified telephone captioning provider that serves thousands of customers across the United States. Over the past decade, ClearCaptions has continuously innovated - from launching Ensemble, a breakthrough home phone captioning service in 2013, to creating amplified captioning phones with larger screens, to developing mobile apps for iPhone and iPad users. The company's journey reflects a deep commitment to their core values: integrity, service, quality, accountability, and collaboration. By combining groundbreaking automatic speech recognition technology with human captioning and white-glove service, ClearCaptions has helped countless seniors regain their independence and stay connected with loved ones, proving that technology can truly change lives.

Clear Labs is at the forefront of genomic innovation, delivering fully automated next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms that transform how laboratories detect and analyze pathogens. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Carlos, California, the company has raised over $120 million in funding to democratize genomic testing across clinical diagnostics, food safety, and infectious disease research. Their turnkey Clear Dx platform accelerates detection of infectious disease outbreaks, while their food safety solutions have revolutionized how companies test and analyze food before it reaches consumers. The company's impact became especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Clear Labs rapidly expanded its technology from food safety testing to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and wastewater monitoring. Their automated platform achieved over 50% public health laboratory penetration across the United States, supporting laboratories in states including California, New York, Nebraska, Nevada, and Kansas. With recent collaborations with Labcorp and the launch of oncology-focused NGS workflows, Clear Labs continues to push the boundaries of genomic automation, making sophisticated sequencing technology accessible to laboratories worldwide.

We're a global venture builder specialized in creating, building, and growing disruptive start-ups with deep technologies that significantly impact lives. Our approach is hands-on: we bring on board the best entrepreneurs and talent to imagine and create new ventures from scratch, then work side-by-side to transform those novel ideas into fast-growing, market-leading companies. We take an active role in recruiting capable teams and providing financial, business development, and legal support throughout the entire journey. Our in-house portfolio companies tackle complex fundamental problems across health, biotechnology, agriculture, aquaculture, security, and culture. We focus on building companies based on deep technology and hard science, with over 200 academic papers, 500+ research collaborations, and 140+ granted patents backing our work. By concentrating on core R&D, our companies build strong competitive advantages that enable continuing growth over time. We stay actively involved, providing ongoing support to scale our ventures globally. Two of our companies have been successfully acquired - CyberMDX by Forescout in 2022 and Glassbox by Alicorn Venture Partners in 2024 - demonstrating our ability to create real value through breakthrough innovation.

FLEX Capital ist ein Berliner Private-Equity-Fonds, der 2018 von sechs erfolgreichen Serienunternehmern gegründet wurde. Die Firma konzentriert sich auf Investitionen in profitable und wachsende Software- und Technologieunternehmen im deutschen Mittelstand. Mit einem neuen Ansatz im Private-Equity-Bereich kombiniert FLEX Capital unternehmerische Expertise mit einem operativen Expertenteam, um Portfoliounternehmen auf die nächste Wachstumsstufe zu bringen. Der Investmentansatz von FLEX Capital zielt auf Mehrheitsbeteiligungen an Unternehmen mit Umsätzen zwischen 5 und 50 Millionen Euro ab. Die Firma investiert Eigenkapitaltickets von 10 bis 60 Millionen Euro in bootstrapped Tech- und Softwareunternehmen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Durch ihren Wertsteigerungsansatz konzentriert sich FLEX Capital auf fünf Kernbereiche: People & Organisation, Data & AI, Growth, Finances sowie Product & Technology Transformation. Die Portfoliounternehmen beschäftigen insgesamt über 1.000 Mitarbeiter.

PartnerOne is a private investment firm that acquires and grows enterprise software companies, providing mission-critical solutions to large corporations and governments worldwide. The company offers a permanent home for software businesses, investing to make them better, stronger and faster. With unwavering commitment to long-term growth, PartnerOne makes decisions that prioritize customers and employees - never selling, always building. The firm has established itself as one of the fastest-growing software groups globally, with 8 of the 10 largest companies in the world relying on its software solutions. PartnerOne specializes in data virtualization, cloud tiering, autonomous data management, monitoring automation, and digital transformation technologies. The firm serves the world's most data-intensive organizations across banking, defense, media, retail, and government sectors. PartnerOne operates as a diversified self-funded private investment firm, backed by strong financial resources and an agile decision-making structure. Their portfolio includes enterprise software companies that deliver solutions for complex challenges presented by exponential data growth in large organizations.