Maven Capital Partners
A national fund manager running venture capital trusts, a regional buyout fund and government-backed regional debt funds from twelve offices, with around £800m under management.
What they do
Maven Capital Partners is a mixed equity and debt house. Its lower-mid-market cheques are mostly equity: venture capital trust investments of roughly £1m to £5m and a UK regional buyout fund writing £5m to £15m for transactions with enterprise values of £10m to £40m, where Maven is itself the sponsor. Its debt is smaller and geographically gated, running from £100k to around £2m through Midlands, Durham and other regional funds. Offices run from Aberdeen and Glasgow to Bristol, Preston, Nottingham and London.
Where they fit in a lower-mid-market raise
In a lower-mid-market buyout Maven is usually on the equity side of the table rather than the lending side, which makes it a useful partner for a management team that needs both a sponsor and arranged leverage. Its regional debt funds fill sub-£2m needs in eligible areas where a bank will not go.
Where they are not the fit
Do not approach this house expecting senior debt at lower-mid-market scale: the debt products sit well below a £3–15m requirement and are region-gated. Where Maven does write a larger cheque it is equity, with the ownership consequences that carries. Pre-revenue and speculative early-stage businesses are outside the buyout and debt mandates.
Published terms
- Pricing
- Not published
- Speed to terms
- Not published
- EBITDA floor
- From about £1m
- Sponsored or sponsorless
- Both - Maven is itself the private equity sponsor for MBOs/buyouts; regional debt to owner-managed SMEs (sponsorless)
- Where they lend
- UK-wide via regions: Scotland, Midlands (East/SE), North East, South West (+ London/national for private equity/buyout); regional debt funds geography-gated
- How they decide
- 12 regional offices (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Newcastle, Durham, Bristol, Reading, Preston); regional teams then an investment committee. Authority is delegated below committee on at least part of the book
- Covenants
- Maintenance covenants, tested every period
As published by the lender and last reviewed June 2026. Terms quoted on a deal are set by the credit, not by a published band.
The desks that lend
Maven Capital Partners lends through 2 separate books. Which one reads a deal decides the security, the covenant package and the band, so the question is rarely whether Maven Capital Partners lends, but which of these would own it.
Private equity — VCT growth / MBO / buyout (EQUITY, not debt)
- Facility
- £1m to £20m
- Security
- Equity (sometimes with structured shareholder-loan/loan-note layer); no PG on equity
- Funds
- Acquisition · Growth · MBO
- Rules out
- EQUITY (VCT/buyout), not senior debt - Maven is the private equity sponsor; VCTs ~£1-5m/deal; Regional Buyout Fund £5-15m for EV £10-40m
Regional debt funds — commercial term loans (MEIF II, finance durham, IFS debt tier)
- Facility
- £100k to £2m
- Security
- Debenture or fixed charge; PG likely on SME loans
- Covenants
- Maintenance covenants, tested every period
- Funds
- Acquisition · Growth · MBO · Refinance
- Rules out
- Region-gated (public-money funds); 1-5yr term
Limits that apply across the firm
Stated limits, taken from Maven Capital Partners’s own published criteria, beyond the ones each desk carries above. A limit is where a lender starts from, not where it always ends: several of these move on a strong enough credit.
- No appetite in adult, crypto, gambling or weapons
How they sit against the category
- Its published ceiling of £20m is among the 3 highest of the 7 regional and government-anchored funds here.
- Like 6 of the 7, it publishes no indicative price — a margin comes from a conversation, not a page.
Counted across the 7 regional & government-anchored funds in this directory, on what each one publishes. What a lender discloses and what it will do are different things.
Questions this page answers
How large a facility does Maven Capital Partners write?
Published facilities reach £20m, and the bottom of the published range is small-ticket business rather than a corporate facility. It looks for EBITDA from about £1m. A band is what a lender states it will do, not what it will do on a given credit.
Does Maven Capital Partners lend to companies without a private-equity sponsor?
Yes. Maven Capital Partners lends to owner-managed and sponsor-backed borrowers alike, so a company with no private-equity backer is not out of scope on that ground.
Where does Maven Capital Partners lend?
UK-wide via regions: Scotland, Midlands (East/SE), North East, South West (+ London/national for private equity/buyout); regional debt funds geography-gated.
What covenants does Maven Capital Partners set?
Maintenance covenants, tested every period. A covenant package is negotiated on the facility; the published style is where the negotiation starts.
What does Maven Capital Partners lend?
The published product set is private equity — vct growth / mbo / buyout, regional debt funds — commercial term loans.
On the record
March 2025: Led MBO of Elite KL (HVAC/thermal), rebranded Calatherm.
January 2025: Led £2.2m investment in Scotmas Group (Scotland.
Sources: mavencp.com
This profile is a curated reference note drawn from public sources, not financial advice or a recommendation. Appetite and terms change; a lender's fit for a given credit is established by approaching it, not inferred from a page.