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Next generation value creation

WovenLight is an active 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 co-underwriting or co-investing to 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, co-underwrite the deal and deploy our capability to execute on the strategy post-close

  • Thesis development

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

  • Co-underwrite

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 detailing 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

  • Co-investment alongside incoming sponsor if relevant

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 embeds sustainable capabilities tailored to how individual firms works

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.