Permira is a global private equity and credit investment firm founded in 1985 as Schroder Ventures, becoming Permira in 2001. Headquartered in London, it invests in technology, consumer, healthcare, and services sectors through buyout and growth equity strategies.
They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $250.4M (across 23 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
29
Fund Size
$16.7B
Top Stage
Growth
Last 12 Mo
1
Team
Alexa Zahl
Managing Director
Ajaya Nair
Fund Operations - Director
Alex Miller
Director
Alexander Bell
Executive Director
Aibek Yergaliyev
Vice President
Aish Sandeep
Senior Associate, Aegean India Advisors LLP
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
35 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Property Finder | Strategic | $525M | Sep 2025 |
 RightShip | Unknown | — | Sep 2025 |
 eDreams ODIGEO | Series B | $90M | Mar 2024 |
 GoCardless | Series G | $312M | Feb 2023 |
 FullStory | Growth | $25M | Aug 2022 |
 SonarSource | Growth | — | Apr 2022 |
| GoCardless | Series G | — | Feb 2022 |
 GWI | Series B | $180M | Feb 2022 |
| CCowbell Cyber | Series B | $100M | Jan 2022 |
 Sysdig | Series G | $350M | Dec 2021 |
 Engine | Series C | $140M | Dec 2021 |
 AllTrails | Growth | $150M | Nov 2021 |
| Engine | Series B | — | Nov 2021 |
 Mirakl | Series E | $555M | Sep 2021 |
| FullStory | Series D | $103M | Aug 2021 |
 G2 | Series D | $157M | Jun 2021 |
 Flixbus | Series G | $650M | Jun 2021 |
 Klarna | Growth | $1B | Mar 2021 |
 Nexthink | Series D | $180M | Feb 2021 |
 Seismic | Series F | $92M | Sep 2020 |
 Zwift | Series C | — | Sep 2020 |
 Golden Goose | Unknown | — | Jan 2020 |
| ZZwift, Inc. | Series C | $450M | Jan 2020 |
| Engine | Series A | $16M | Jan 2019 |
 Minted | Growth | — | Dec 2018 |
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Top Co-Investors
General Catalyst3 shared
Highland Europe3 shared
General Atlantic3 shared
T. Rowe Price2 shared
Insight Partners2 shared
Stripes2 shared
Salesforce Ventures2 shared
GV2 shared
Glynn Capital2 shared
KKR2 shared
Causeway Media Partners2 shared
Novator Partners2 shared
True Ventures2 shared
Accel2 shared
TCV2 shared
Silver Lake2 shared
Felix Capital2 shared
EDBI1 shared
Lightspeed Venture Partners1 shared
Last updated: 8 September 2026