Vitruvian Partners is a European

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firm focusing on

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and

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investments in

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. Vitruvian invests throughout the UK and Europe and recently in China and India. The firm has offices in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, Munich, Madrid, Stockholm, Shanghai, San Francisco and

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

. The firm was founded in 2006 by former partners of

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and

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. In 2008, Vitruvian completed the fundraising for its inaugural €925 million fund, the Vitruvian Investment Partnership I ("VIP I"). In December 2013, Vitruvian announced that it had closed the fundraising of its second fund, Vitruvian Investment Partnership II (“VIP II”), at its self-imposed cap of £1 billion ($1.6 billion; €1.2billion). In June 2017 Vitruvian announced that it had closed the fundraising of its third fund, Vitruvian Investment Partnership III (“VIP III”), at the hard cap of €2.4 billion. On 30 July 2020 Vitruvian announced the closing of Vitruvian Investment Partnership IV (“VIP IV”) at the hard cap of €4.0 billion.

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{{Private equity and venture capital Private equity firms of the United Kingdom Financial services companies based in London Financial services companies established in 2006