Axcel acquires Geomatikk from Hg

Axcel agrees to acquire Geomatikk from Hg

"It has been a privilege to partner with Geir and the Geomatikk team.
Together, we have transformed the business from a regional services provider into a
leading Pan-European platform tackling some of the most pressing infrastructure
challenges. This was supported by some excellent hires into the management team, nine strategic acquisitions to build out the software offering, alongside
significantoperational improvements."

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INSIGHTS

Anthropic's Private Equity Day

Chris Kindt and Lloyd Hilton joined PE leaders at Anthropic's first Private Equity Day to share how Hg has built AI capability over a decade, and why the conversation has shifted decisively from experimentation to transformation at scale.

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Orbit 59: Flipping the adoption curve

Marjorie Janiewicz, CRO at Mistral AI, has sold enterprise software through every major platform shift for 30 years. In this conversation, she gives her unfiltered take on why 95% of AI projects never reach production, and what the 5% that actually work have in common.

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Orbit 58: The race for alpha

Varun Anand went from co-running Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign to co-founding Clay. In this conversation, he breaks down why go-to-market AI is fundamentally different from support or coding AI, and how Clay's approach lets revenue teams build competitive advantages that actually can't be copied.

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Decoding value creation:
Beyond multiple expansion

At Invest Europe Investors Forum, Alexandre Flavier, partner at Hg, joined the 'decoding value creation' panel where he shared what we're seeing across our portfolio: 1,400+ live AI projects, measurable impact on product development and customer value, and AI playing a role in how businesses scale and exit.

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LISTENING RECOMMENDATIONS

Dive into some of the podcasts that we are listening to! 

No Priors:
Andrej Karpathy on code agents, autoresearch, and the loopy era of AI

Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah Guo on the state of models, the future of engineering and education, thinking about impact on jobs, and his project AutoResearch: where agents close the loop on a piece of AI research.

Latent Space:
Why Anthropic thinks AI should have its own computer

Felix Rieseberg, the engineer behind Claude Cowork, explains why Anthropic's big bet is giving AI its own dedicated computer, a sandboxed VM that lets Claude install tools, run scripts, and execute long tasks autonomously without constant human approval.

Hg NEWS

Best Use of Tech in Value Creation: Actum Awards 

This award reflects our years of investment into this team, with now over 100 AI specialists, Hg has deep, practical AI expertise ready to support our family of companies. Read more

Product leaders have never been more important

Hg brought together Product Managers from across the portfolio for our inaugural Product Manager AI Academy, working through what it takes to build AI-first products and organisations. Read more

Hg's first agentic engineering academy

Hg brought senior engineering leaders together in New York for five days of hands-on agentic coding. The results spoke for themselves: builds and migrations that would have taken months completed in days, now running 10+ coding agents in parallel. Read more

New in: quarterly update

Our latest quarterly update has been released highlighting 9 new platform investments worth over $30 billion in 2025, including Scopevisio, P&I, IFS, Citation Group, Payworks, Diamant and A-LIGN. Read more

PORTFOLIO NEWS

Quantios launches new agentic AI capabilities

Its first agent, Quantios Core, automates bank statement processing end-to-end. Early modelling suggests that at 50% automation, a firm managing 4,000 accounts could eliminate around 48,000 hours of manual processing a year. Read more

Septeo releases Witbooking AI

Witbooking AI is an intelligent booking engine that adapts in real time to each visitor's profile, channel, and segment. Everyone gets a personalised booking journey, optimised automatically. The result: up to 8% increase in direct revenue. Read more

IFS’ AI powered logistics intelligence platform

IFS.ai Logistics unites transport planning, automated execution, freight audit, and network optimisation in one place - connecting every logistics decision to its financial consequence. Read more

CINC Systems unveils Payables+

Payables+ automates invoice ingestion, coding, and vendor payments end-to-end. Real-time visibility, no manual back-office work, all on one platform. It couples CINC's proprietary Cephai AI with AvidXchange, Inc.'s payments infrastructure. Read more

Benevity named on World’s Most Innovative Companies List

"This recognition of our Enterprise Impact Platform and approach to responsible AI reflects something we deeply believe: that the purpose ecosystem needs trusted, connected infrastructure to turn corporate intent into real-world impact at scale.” Read more

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