Growth
The Hg growth team sees the often disjointed disciplines of marketing, sales, pricing, customer success, and beyond, as parts of a single impulse. The team supports the aspirations of the Hg portfolio by applying this approach with long-term vision at all levels, from strategy to projects, with experts and practitioners providing practical, collaborative support to share knowledge and bring value-creating initiatives to fruition.
135 million: Increase in EBITDA due to pricing in fiscal 2023
Data and AI
Harnessing the potential of data and analytics is a crucial competitive advantage for any business.
The ability to measure and track performance helps meet customer needs, optimize operational performance and generate new revenue streams. Hg 's Data team supports companies throughout the data value creation cycle, from business intelligence to business optimization and data monetization. Combined with its range of proprietary data tools, portfolio-wide benchmarking and in-depth expertise, data becomes a powerful and compelling growth lever.
Over £10 million: Ebitda from AI-driven process optimizations
Product & Technology
Product management and engineering together form the nerve center of modern technology companies.
Hg 's product team supports its portfolio counterparts by conducting solid customer and market-driven analysis to determine what their products need to achieve and why. Hg understands these needs and helps its portfolio colleagues design and deploy the most appropriate technology solutions. Collectively, the Hg teams are responsible for maximizing business opportunities, winning over customers and creating outstanding software.
Over $100 million: Increase in ARR (annual recurring revenue) thanks to R&D projects over the past 3 years
Cybersecurity
Protecting Hg 's investments is crucial in the face of increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals and other malicious actors.
Its cybersecurity team continuously assesses the capabilities of all portfolio companies to ensure they are adequately protected against today's cyber threats. As defenders are engaged in an arms race against attackers, the team encourages and enables its portfolio companies to continuously improve through knowledge sharing, program management, in-depth expertise and its network of specialist partners.
Enterprise systems
It's no surprise that an organization's foundation lies in its system architecture.
Hg helps a growing business realize the benefits of establishing and maintaining a modern, integrated and scalable enterprise systems stack. Through business process automation, data-driven decision-making and operational scalability, its team of experts brings extensive experience to bear on generating impact and creating value.
Over $50 million in annual software cost savings via recommended systems/partners over the past 3 years
ESG
Stability, sustainability, resilience - the ability to endure. That's the goal every organizational leader should have.
The teams at Hg firmly believe that good ESG performance leads to better managed, more resourceful companies. Through its ESG diagnostics, the team supports its companies by helping them identify how they can become the best, most sustainable version of themselves, and helps them take steps to get there. Whether it's environmental issues - carbon footprints and reduction targets - or social impacts - improving diversity and community engagement - its experienced ESG professionals provide both general advice and strategic thinking to drive sustainable improvements across the portfolio.
Finance and PF&A (Financial Planning and Analysis)
Financial health is the cornerstone of any business aiming for long-term success. Looking beyond the numbers, Hg 's Finance and Operations team takes a holistic view of its portfolio companies' businesses, connecting the dots across departments, functions and time scales to support its investments' aspirations for growth, productivity and efficiency. With skills in planning, modeling, forecasting, accounting, go-to-market, analysis and operations, its team is ready to help in a multitude of ways.
Legal
Helping legal teams reach their full potential, enabling them to align with business ambitions and deliver results that support key initiatives. Hg provides practical support, from world-class compliance policies and showing how to professionalize, through adopting legal technologies and operational efficiencies, to accessing expertise in data protection, M&A and antitrust. With a network of around 50 legal directors sharing best practices, and the full-time support of Hg's dedicated legal team, companies receive comprehensive support.
Talent, Organization and HR
The HR & Talent team focuses on helping its family of companies create value through people.
Its expert HR & Talent team provides support ranging from senior management programs to complete organizational design. She works with CEOs and HR directors to ensure that teams, structures and individuals within growing organizations are positioned for success. She works with her portfolio companies to ensure they have the right leaders, organizations and HR executives to thrive.
66 Investments at management/board level over the past 3 years.
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