Welcome to our Summer newsletter, designed to keep you up to date with all the news and views from Oakley and from across our portfolio of tech-enabled businesses.
In this edition: Oakley partners with premium schools group Thomas’s; IU Group partnership extended with continuation vehicle; plus read all about the importance of ESG at Oakley.
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To provide growth capital to the group of premium schools in order to fund capex and development projects across the group.
The business has performed significantly ahead of its original investment case with Fund III realising a gross return of 85% IRR on its exit.
We are pleased to share Oakley's second ESG report, reflecting our responsible investment progress in 2022. Hear from Aga Siemiginowska, Head of Sustainability, on why ESG is important to Oakley.
We caught up with Schuelerhilfe CEO, Dieter Werkhausen, on the company's tremendous growth, the challenges of pivoting the entire business model to remote learning during COVID, and his ambitious plans to expand Schuelerhilfe.
As an industry, we are challenged to make private equity more accessible and inclusive for all, and Oakley Capital is committed to helping make this happen. Chief People Officer Zoe Lockwood explains how Oakley is focusing on embedding EDI across the firm, beginning with recruitment.
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We're delighted to have won DACH Deal of the Year at the Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2023. All credit to our co investors and web hosting entrepreneurs Thomas Strohe, Jochen Berger and Thomas Vollrath, along with CEO Thomas Noglik and CFO Thomas Schimmel, who together have driven Contabo's success.
The Origin Fund applies Oakley’s proven investment strategy to the lower mid-market, backing profitable, high-growth, but smaller-sized European businesses that are cut out for success. In this three part video series, the fund's dedicated team explains:
Our Portfolio Company Programme provides entrepreneurs and management teams with the ideal platform to network, and share insights and best practise. Following on from our recent ESG Forum and CFO Forum in London, we headed to Munich to host our Sales & Marketing Forum, bringing together marketing experts from across our management teams to network and share key learnings. From social media influencers to TikTok reels, loyalty clubs and simple mailshots , we look at the best marketing hacks to drive growth.
Oakley's Rebecca Gibson Speaks to Bloomberg at SuperReturn
Investing in a downturn, tech valuations, value creation and artificial intelligence: watch the full the interview with Rebecca and Bloomberg reporter, Dani Berger.
The Places in between by Roy Stewart
A Flaw in Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein
How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
