Ansor closes Fund II at Hard Cap of £250m in oversubscribed fundraise

Ansor, a UK-based ground-up buy-and-build specialist, announced the final close of its second fund, Ansor Fund II, at its investor hard cap of £250 million.

This represents an approximate doubling in size compared to Ansor’s prior Fund I (2019, £130m). Ansor Fund II was a significantly oversubscribed fundraise with a carefully curated group of high-quality LPs investing. The investor base includes a diversified mix of returning LPs and new commitments, with numerous leading US-based endowments and blue-chip European investors added to the platform.

Ansor Fund II will execute the same strategy as its predecessor fund; it will build high-quality assets through rapid “ground-up” buy-and-build consolidation within fast-growing yet fragmented subsectors. Ansor will continue to target resilient, EBITDA-positive businesses that can be driven through multiple value inflections by executing its precision-engineered value creation approach.

Ansor is led by three Founding Partners, Edward Ainsworth, Peter Marson and Peter Strafford, who are proven operator-entrepreneurs. The founders have over 20 years’ experience of creating businesses “from scratch” within the UK SME ecosystem through deal-by-deal investing prior to transitioning Ansor to a private equity model in 2019. Ansor continues to hone its non-traditional PE approach through continuous development of its systematic approach to investing, through broadening the capabilities of its team and investing in its technological capabilities.

Rede Partners is proud to have partnered as global fundraising advisors to Ansor for the fundraise.