Our Experience and Expertise

MonacoSol was founded in 2021 by a team of successful entrepreneurs with over 60 years of combined experience in software and technology: investing, building and successfully exiting from over 25 businesses combined.

Every member of our team has first-hand experience to bring to the founders and management teams we support, having worked in senior roles across sales, marketing and finance to grow high-value businesses.

As a dynamic private equity firm, we have the agility to make rapid decisions on investments and the experience across our team to recognise the potential for growth across a breadth of businesses in the software and technology market.

Where We Add Value

MonacoSol investment adds the most value to technology and software businesses based in the UK, typically ranging from £500,000 to £5 million turnover.

Our team have worked to support business founders across a range of industries to rapidly increase their growth with financial investment to develop their solutions and products, mature their sales and marketing strategy and successfully achieve an exit.

The MonacoSol directors understand the challenges technology founders face because they have faced them themselves. They bring this first-hand experience and expertise to bear to support our founders on their own journey.

Financial Investment

MonacoSol can provide financial investment to underpin the business change and development required to establish the foundations for accelerated growth.

We have experience investing in businesses that may have faced challenges securing investment for a variety of reasons, but a pragmatic, value-led approach has helped deliver investment for founder teams.

Marketing Support and Strategy

Marketing is a vital component of sustained growth. MonacoSol can offer founders strategic advice and guidance, as well as practical help to build a robust marketing strategy, process, and team if it is needed.

MonacoSol can also deliver a range of marketing support services directly to enhance group businesses, expanding their capability to deliver digital and direct marketing and telemarketing.

Commercial Support and Strategy

The MonacoSol team have many years of combined experience working in senior commercial leadership roles at software and technology organisations ranging from international blue chips to SMEs.

Working with founders and their sales team to build a new sales strategy or to ratify an existing one, MonacoSol can help founders build and sustain robust sales processes and behaviours that deliver success and growth targets.

Strategic Advice

Every business and strategy are different, but MonacoSol helps founders deliver the essential strategic building blocks that have proven to deliver growth and commercial success across multiple investments and exits.

Working these proven approaches into a fully tailored strategy developed by the founders with sufficient financing, resources and support from the MonacoSol group can help deliver sustained business growth and commercial success.

A Track Record of Success

The Directors at MonacoSol have an enviable track record in building software and technology businesses, with Chairman Richard having acquired, grown and exited many different businesses over an investment career that started in the 1990s after leaving his board director role with Philips UK.

Richard and the other members of the MonacoSol team have all been involved in a wide variety of investment businesses, working to build these enterprises independently and alongside management teams and with the support of private equity partners, which have all resulted in significant returns for investors. Below, you can see some of the more recent exits from Richard and the MonacoSol team.

Tekton

Construction Software

Sold to Sage in 2010
With YFM Equity Partners and Inflexion

Sleek Networks

Enterprise Cloud Hosting

Sold to Adapt in 2013

Selima

HR Software

Sold to Access Group in 2017
With YFM Equity Partners

Secura Hosting

Cloud Hosting and Management

Sold to Node4 in 2019

GroupBC

Common Data Environment Software

Sold to Bentley Systems in 2019
With YFM Equity Partners

Eque2

Construction ERP Software

Sold to WestBridge in 2020
With Livingbridge and LDC

Deep Secure

Threat Removal and Prevention Platform

Sold to Forcepoint in 2021
With YFM Equity Partners

WebContractor

Application for Payment Platform

Sold to PayApps in 2023

Investment with More

Financial investment for expansion and acquisition is a vital part of what MonacoSol offer, but we also facilitate growth by supporting our partners with the hard-won experience and practical skills gained from over 25 exits over the last 20 years.

We can augment businesses with the additional skills, expertise and people they require to grow. Proven sales and marketing strategies accelerate lead generation and improve opportunity conversion, assistance with billing and contracts helps create financial models that appeal to future investors, and our network of contacts can add value to the supply chain – we do whatever is required to support your growth.

Frequently asked questions

MonacoSol focuses primarily on majority investments in established companies and not pre-seed, seed or SIES scheme investments.

As a family office, MonacoSol has a great deal of flexibility in our approach to investment opportunities, successfully supporting businesses in challenging circumstances that may have been unable to secure investment elsewhere.

MonacoSol typically invests in UK-based technology and software businesses. These investments span a wide range of different industries.

If you're in software and tech and looking for investment, get in touch and tell us about your business.

The businesses we support typically range from £500,000 turnover up to £2 million.

We do, however, have the flexibility to consider investments outside of this range, so please get in touch to discuss your opportunity.

MonacoSol not only offer financial investment to founders but also provides practical guidance and expertise in building and successfully exiting software and technology businesses.

The MonacoSol team can provide hands-on support in sales and marketing, finance, technology, and business strategy to help establish a strong foundation for accelerated growth.

Please get in touch via our website to have an informal, confidential conversation about your business and investment requirements.

Our Experience and Expertise