With a client base that focuses on wealthy families and individuals, Get Investment Solutions from Exponent provides financial services to help them navigate the complexities of the markets and meet their long-term goals. The firm offers comprehensive wealth management, retirement planning and portfolio analysis and management. Its portfolio managers have a strong focus on diversification to minimize risk.

Founded in 2004 by four former senior directors of 3i, Exponent specialises in backing family or founder-owned businesses and “corporate carve-outs”. Its first deal was a buy-in of Irish media business Times Education Supplement from News Corp, the publisher of The Sunday Times, followed a year later by online rail ticket seller Trainline, then owned by Virgin Group. In both cases, Exponent doubled its money.

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It also invested four times its money in Fintrax, the payment solutions business carved out by Niall Wall from quoted distribution company DCC. And it has more than 3.5 times its money in the environmental services company Enva which it bought out with the help of Ireland’s Business Development Bank, which provided a EUR200 million bridge loan to fund the deal.

The firm’s latest investment in the Republic of Ireland is Kingsbridge Healthcare Group, a private hospital group operating four hospitals and eleven medical centers across Northern Ireland and the Republic. It is Exponent’s eighth “platform” acquisition on the island and it has funded a further eight bolt-on deals in this period.

The firm has invested in more than 30 companies in the past 12 years, including Belfast-based data center designer Ethos Engineering and Galway-based veterinary and medical drug maker Chanelle Pharma. It is working with Novata to enable it to benchmark its portfolio of investments and use the data to drive strategic decisions.