Overview

I.C.E is a global provider of technology-based B2B2C travel-based loyalty and reward solutions for organisations such as Carnival, American Express, USAA and Diamond Resorts.

The Company has developed a network business model that enables leading brands to offer loyalty programmes that provide customers with unmatched value on all travel products (e.g. cruise, hotel, resort, etc.)  ICE also partners with leading travel suppliers to generate incremental travel bookings from members of its loyalty programmes.

ICE employs over 2,600 staff and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona with additional offices in Australia, UK, Portugal, India, Mexico, New Zealand and the Philippines.

Highlights

• Strong underlying market growth in cruise and rewards-based travel and tailwinds from increased use of loyalty programmes
• Partnered with the Founders to accelerate international growth and support strategic initiatives
• Transformative acquisition of SOR Technology, a leading provider in digital travel subscriptions
• Strategic partnership with Lateral, a travel-focused software development firm, to accelerate platform development
• Added to the senior management team with new CMO and VP of Finance roles
• Introduced Marty Cole, former Chief Executive of Accenture Technology, as Chairman, and Jorge Boone, former SVP of Partner Brands at RCI (largest brand partner) and World Travel Holdings (largest competitor) as a Board Director

Overview

JMJ Associates is a US-headquartered, leading, global safety training and consulting firm with a focus on supporting multinational companies with complex capital programmes and operations. The business works with clients to significantly enhance their workplace safety and their project and organisational team performance through behavioural and cultural transformation.

JMJ has a substantial international presence and future growth will come from its strong underlying end-markets, the increasing complexity and size of major capital projects, rising global spending on workplace safety and continued growth in the utilisation of external expertise in safety and project execution services.

Highlights

• Via our Business Leaders Network we introduced Pete Regan, who has unique experience in consulting and safety businesses, as Chairman
• Moved to a full partnership structure in 2015
• Using our international network to identify and support further growth opportunities

Overview

Magnitude is a leading provider of data management solutions to enable organisations and business users to more effectively access, extract and analyse data from various ERP, cloud-applications, and other IT systems.  The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global operations in the US, Canada, the Netherlands, UK and India. It has over 1,400 customers, including 50% of the Fortune 100.

The company has a portfolio of best-in-class products to unify fragmented data and deliver actionable insights for critical business decisions.  A few example applications include:

• an analytics tools to enable a business analyst to extract and harmonize data from SAP ERP to provide real-time, actionable insights on bottlenecks in the supply chain,
• a data integration tool to pull data from dispersed data systems sources into SAP Central Finance to enable a large enterprise to see all of their financial data in one place,
• a connectivity driver to enable different applications that companies use (such as Marketto, Salesforce, or Cloudera) to connect to one-another. 

3i invested in Magnitude in May 2019 and will look to accelerate the company’s global growth ambitions through new product development, investments in sales & marketing, and additional M&A. 

Highlights

• Growth tailwinds driven by the proliferation of data and increasing complexity of the enterprise software suit
• Focus on innovation and new product development, with a number of recent new product launches
• Buy-and-build platform with three acquisitions completed in the last 18 months
• Global sales presence with more than a third of sales into Europe