JRJ Group
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
JRJ Group is a private equity investment firm with a core focus on the financial services sectorThe company is a growth-oriented investor and provides capital, deep operational expertise and expert strategic guidance to its portfolio companies. JRJ Group invests across the spectrum of the financial services sector and opportunistically inselect other industries, particularly focused on mid-sized European-headquartered businesses, providing strong growth potential.The financial services industry is hugely diverse, with a range of business models operating across myriad sub-sectors, serving a variety of customer types, and together comprising one of the largest areas of global economic activity. Within this context, JRJ Group employs an intensive research-oriented approach to the identification and analysis of compelling investable trends, and of those companies best positioned to exploit these trends.Growth and value creation are achieved through application of an active management approach. This is facilitated by JRJ Group’s unparalleled access to top calibre human capital across the global financial services industry, as well as its ability to leverage an extensive network of top-level contacts within financial institutions, governments, regulators, and other financial industry decision-makers.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 82%
Last updated:
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Industries JRJ Group invests in
Stages JRJ Group invests in
Countries JRJ Group invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Private Equity
- $24M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 5 (45%)
- Gaming 2 (18%)
- Information Technology 2 (18%)
- Sports 1 (9%)
- Banking 1 (9%)
Stage
- Private Equity 7 (64%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (9%)
Country
- United Kingdom 8 (73%)
- United States 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jeremy Isaacs
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kevin Woolford
Executive Director
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Executive Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Peter Sugarman
Partner - Chief Operating Officer
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Partner - Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Roger Nagioff
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| exceL eSports is a gaming organisation serving to enable its players to compete at the highest level in global eSports. | $23.7M / Private Equity / Jul 02, 2021 | ||
| EXCEL ESPORTS is a competitive gaming culture brand that uses its platform to have a positive impact on the gaming and esports community. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Joel and Kieran Holmes-Darby and is headquartered in London. | $23.7M / Private Equity / Jul 02, 2021 | ||
| Demica is a rapidly growing Fintech providing working capital solutions to large corporates and banks with a broad range of receivables, inventory and payables finance products. The company focuses on multinational clients all over the world, across industries and sectors, requiring facilities of US$50mn to US$750mn+. | $25M / Series B / Mar 14, 2018 | ||
| Rosenthal Collins Group (or "RCG" as we are commonly known) is a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA). Originally established in 1923 as Greene and Collins, Rosenthal Collins Group is one of the largest independently owned FCMs. Throughtheir branches, Introducing Brokers and correspondents, they offer a wide range of services, such as execution, brokerage, clearing, electronic trading, foreign exchange and managed futures to clients around the globe. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| CSC Commodities is a trading firm that provides commodity derivatives, proprietary trading and hedging solutions for the oil & gas industry. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| exceL eSports is a gaming organisation serving to enable its players to compete at the highest level in global eSports. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Optimum SME Finance Ltd., specialise in providing bespoke invoice finance solutions for SMEs. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Food Freshness Technology (FFT) is a high tech innovations company focused on delivering comprehensive solutions for food freshness. These unique patented technologies are delivered by leading edge materials science developed in partnership with some of world’s renowned research & technology organisations. To-date FFT has raised in excess of$15m to bring to market a range of simple products that reduce waste, protect and increase food quality.The benefits delivered by FFT products are focused on extended freshness, improved consumption quality, increased sales and reduction in waste in the food sector, which are at the forefront of the industry’s needs, to keep it both competitive and profitable.These innovations directly help to address the problem at the heart of food security facing the world in the medium term future | $10.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 01, 2015 | ||
| Maddox Capital Partners provides asset-backed Asset Liability Management solutions to the Life Insurance industry. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2015 | ||
| iProov is a cyber-security business based in London, providing strong biometric identity authentication of online users. It focuses on enabling users to log into online services simply, yet, securely. iProov specializes in facial recognition software.iProov is led by a team combining senior experience in growing global, high performance mobileand cloud services, with world class academic research expertise. The business has won many innovation grants from InnovateUK and the UK Government's innovation agency.iProov was established in 2011. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does JRJ Group invest in?
JRJ Group invests primarily in Financial Services, Gaming and Information Technology startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does JRJ Group invest in?
JRJ Group typically joins rounds of $24M–$24M at Private Equity. These are whole funding-round sizes, not JRJ Group's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds JRJ Group took part in.
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Who are the partners at JRJ Group?
The team at JRJ Group includes Jeremy Isaacs (Founding Partner), Kevin Woolford (Executive Director) and Peter Sugarman (Partner - Chief Operating Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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