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Next generation value creation

WovenLight is a private equity co-sponsorship firm.

We combine private equity investment with distinctive value creation capabilities to drive superior returns for our partners, investors, and colleagues.

Partnering with top-tier private equity firms, we take minority positions alongside and then augment the investment thesis with the practical deployment of responsible AI systems to create and capture significant incremental value.

How we partner

Buy-Side Diagnostic

We augment the value creation plan, are part of the pitch to management and sellers, invest alongside and deploy our capability to execute on the strategy post-close

  • Thesis development

  • Iterative co-creation of the VCP through the deal process

  • Aligned pari passu with lead GP

Portfolio Value Creation

Our deployment projects have delivered an average EBITDA uplift of 8% per use case, generating north of $1bn in shareholder value for one of our partners alone.

  • Targeted value creation projects

  • Data platform strategy and rapid AI prototyping

  • Capability transfer in terms of talent, process, and technology

Sell-Side Diagnostic

We help leadership and shareholders build a credible equity story regarding the growth potential in the next phase from deploying machine learning and AI.

  • Develop future facing AI-resilient VCP for the next cycle of sponsorship

  • Rapid AI prototyping or use case deployment to demonstrate feasibility

  • Opportunity to invest alongside incoming sponsor

How we operate

Our design principles

1. Principal alignment

We operate with an investor mindset. As a co-sponsorship firm we are 100% aligned with our partners in driving material equity value uplift.

2. Not all data is created equally

We embrace the real-world and triangulate across multiple disparate, messy and imperfect data sets to enhance performance.

3. Build a resilient firm

Our ‘build, operate, transfer’ model means we transfer IP and embed sustainable capabilities tailored to each individual firm

4. Powered by compounding IP

We systematically consolidate and codify our best practice, methods and code into configurable templates that accelerates the speed to value capture.

Corporate Overview

WovenLight is a technology and private equity investing company with a differentiated “co-sponsorship” business model, delivering sophisticated data analytics and artificial intelligence to improve performance in private equity portfolio companies, while deploying capital alongside private equity firms into these businesses.

WovenLight was founded by Simon Williams, who previously co-founded QuantumBlack, a machine learning and data sciences consulting firm launched in 2009 and acquired by McKinsey & Company in 2015.

Beginning in 2023, WovenLight has partnered with Tetragon, a global investment firm focused on alternative assets, which has made a strategic investment in WovenLight and provides a key source of capital for WovenLight to deploy through its private equity relationships.