Case studies

i-level

ILG Digital (i-level) is the UK's largest privately owned specialist digital media agency. The company provides media strategy and implementation across all digital platforms. Beringea exited the investment in a £45.5 m transaction in 2008.

Beringea has been an active and supportive investor. As a non executive director, Trevor Hope brought with him strong understanding of the digital media space as well as an appreciation that the key to ilG's success is our people.

— David Pattison, then CEO of iLG Digital

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Fjord

Fjord is an established digital design agency with long standing experience in the telecommunications and media sectors. Fjord has worked on a number of flagship projects for clients including the BBC, Nokia, Orange, Swisscom and Yahoo!. The agency was instrumental in bringing the hugely successful BBC iPlayer to mobile.

Our mission is to provide our customers with outstanding innovation. This is best achieved by being close to both customers and great talent. In order to increase our global presence we turned to Beringea for assistance.

— Olof Schybergson, Fjord CEO

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Merger Market

Mergermarket provides online business development tools for advisors and corporate executives active in the corporate finance industry. Beringea assisted the company in developing additional services and expanding overseas before a £100m+ exit in 2006 to The FT (Pearson plc).

Beringea invested in Mergermarket at a critical time for the business. The strategy was daunting and market conditions were poor. Despite this, Beringea believed in our commitment and had the courage to invest when others didn't.

— Caspar Hobbs, CEO of Mergermarket