Hg agrees the sale of its majority shareholding in Quantios
"Quantios is a high-quality business serving a mission-critical sector, deeply embedded in its customers' workflows and with a genuine technical edge in AI. We're proud of what's been built over the last few years ... We believe Vista is an outstanding partner, with their own sophisticated AI capabilities to take Quantios into its next phase of product innovation and growth."
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Welcome to Hg’s monthly update, designed to keep you updated with news from Hg and our
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"The depth and ambition of its AI capabilities and its culture of innovation were clear to see as we got to know the business, and we were deeply impressed by the strength of Street's technology and product leadership." Read more
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Hg hosted 73 engineers in London for a week of agentic coding, building products from scratch and completing months-long migrations in days. Hg has now trained over 450 engineers across its academy programme in 2026 alone. Read more
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Congratulations to Joe Jefferies, Partner & Co-Head of Saturn, for being named one of the Rising Stars of Private Equity in PEN's 2026 list! Read more
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LISTENING RECOMMENDATIONS
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Dive into some of the podcasts that we are listening to.
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Orbit 55:
The corporate immune system
In a week when Google's AI leadership is reshuffling, take a listen back to Orbit 55, where Google Cloud's Daniel Rood argued that in AI, three-to-five-year strategy horizons are already obsolete.
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A common AI question we are hearing: "Should we switch to a cheaper model?" According to Dr Amr Ellabban, Hg's Head of AI, it's the wrong one. Amr breaks down what the last six weeks of launches actually mean for your AI cost decisions, and the one question that belongs in the boardroom instead.
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In this conversation with Jon Wulkan, Rob explains why the frontier has narrowed to a handful of Western labs, why even well-resourced challengers have struggled to keep pace, and why the much-feared "SaaSpocalypse" is probably overdone.
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Hg Co-CEOs Jean-Baptiste Brian and Steven Batchelor tell Private Equity News that winning deals now hinges on joined-up team capability, not standout individual dealmakers. Firms with real AI investment built up over a decade are best placed to win over counterparties.
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"Every one of our portfolio companies needs to be an AI business." For years, engineering capacity has been the bottleneck on product innovation. As Nic explains, that has now shifted to product management, which means understanding what customers actually want, and how fast they can absorb it.
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In a new Mergermarket feature, Benedikt Joeris explains why repeatable AI transformation is a strategic advantage. At Hg, that means doing it systematically across our portfolio of around 60 companies. Not as isolated experiments, but as a compounding playbook where each project informs the next.
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Nathaniel Barnes recently posted about the 2.5x productivity gains we're seeing from agentic engineering tools across the portfolio. Litera is a great example. Greg Ingino just published a new report showing how this has helped them ship new AI products faster than ever.
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Speaking to Mark Rhodes at Finatal, Chris explains how Hg's deep specialisation underpins a scalable system for AI transformation across the portfolio. Not every project succeeds, but the ones that do get measured, shared, and scaled into a compounding advantage.
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"By combining our 30 years of relationship data with AI that surfaces the right client, at the right moment, with the right context, we've turned relationship intelligence into a growth engine."
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Sovos Intelligence gives tax and finance teams a unified, authority-aligned view of their entire indirect tax compliance footprint.
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Lucanet has launched a family of AI agents to automate the most complex, compliance-critical workflows end-to-end. All orchestrated through Lume, a conversational layer that routes tasks to the right agent in natural language. Read more
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