BVCA Publications

The BVCA’s annual ESG survey, now in its third year, sets out a series of metrics which private equity and venture capital firms use to track progress within their investee companies.  

This is the 17th annual report on the performance of portfolio companies, a group of large, private equity (PE) owned UK businesses that met defined criteria at the time of acquisition. Its publication is one of the steps adopted by the PE industry following the publication of guidelines by Sir David Walker to improve transparency and disclosure, under the oversight of the Private Equity Reporting Group (PERG).

The BVCA’s Vision initiative, in partnership with Grant Thornton and Santander, continues to highlight the best management teams backed by private capital across the whole of the United Kingdom. This year to recognise the incredible ways that our members support and work with their portfolios to create value, we are also celebrating the GPs who backed the winning businesses.

The BVCA report, Venture Capital in the UK, sets out the scale of investment in VC sector in nations and regions across the UK. It also addresses what is needed from pension investment reform and the scale-up funding ecosystem in order to unlock the capital that can help drive businesses and growth in the UK.