Stephen Greenwood's Contact Details

Stephen Greenwood's Company Details

Valloop

N/A, N/A, gb • 20 - 49 Employees
Investment Bank/Securities Brokerage

Valloop unlocks value with employee-involved buy-out and growth investments for SMEs. Our fund supports sustainable SME performance that delivers fair, socially-inclusive value for all.We built Valloop to make it easier for SME owners to sell or raise growth funding, and for investors to support private enterprise. We see hard-won wealth in the SME space being lost to hardball tactics, transaction expenses and deal failures. We know investors want to help, given the right relationships. Valloop enables buy-outs, growth finance and conversion to employee ownership models. We co-own with the people involved to release value in partnership with them. Our expertise unlocks new opportunity for business owners, employees and their communities.We've proven and refined our SME platform across the last five years. Now we're scaling fast to extend the new model to selected SME owners from all sectors, across Europe. Our next objective — to support 250 SME partners valued at €1bn, by 2025.The investment opportunity The Valloop fund presents investors with an exceptional strategy for investing in the European private markets Small to Medium Enterprises (SME) asset class. Valloop assists high quality management teams in acquiring their business from exiting owners. The shortage of financial support for Europe's SMEs to manage this transition provides investors with an attractive investment opportunity. The experienced investment team behind the Valloop Fund apply a suite of innovative financial products and inclusive, employee-involved ownership models, supported by a digital platform. Together, they equip investors with access to a large volume of diverse, high performing SMEs. This offering generates high investment returns with positive and sustainable societal outcomes.The fund's long-hold, co-ownership model has delivered outstanding returns and has been the top-performing Private Markets Fund across many benchmarks and indices.