Salica Investments

Salica Investments is the renamed Hambro Perks: Companies House records SALICA INVESTMENTS LIMITED, company 08760647, as having been HAMBRO PERKS LTD from its incorporation on 4 November 2013 until 20 June 2024. The firm's 1 October 2025 announcement of its Growth Debt Fund II first close, carried by the British Business Bank, describes Salica as "a UK-focused investment firm" that manages "a unique set of private market funds investing in equity and debt across multiple sectors and stages, predominantly across the UK". It runs several distinct and separately named vehicles rather than one strategy: Salica Growth Debt Fund I and Fund II, the second of which held a GBP 150m first close on 1 October 2025 and provides senior secured loans to high-growth UK companies in software, IP-rich hardware and advanced manufacturing, with Barclays as cornerstone investor announced on 12 November 2025; a venture debt practice led by a Venture Debt Partner; Salica Oryx Fund LP, a Qualified Investor Fund registered in Abu Dhabi Global Market on 24 September 2020 under fund manager Salica Ventures Limited; the Access Fund II and Access Fund III venture secondaries vehicles, into which Connection Capital clients invested in August 2021 and September 2022; and Special Opportunities Fund I, a June 2021 secondaries vehicle acquiring a sixteen-company life science and technology portfolio divested by Invesco. The sectors field lists only the three sectors the firm names for its growth debt mandate, because that is the only stage-and-sector statement in the firm's own words that could be retrieved; the firm describes itself overall as multi-sector and multi-stage. The named vehicles are listed rather than blended, and their sizes are fund sizes, not assets under management.

AUM 65/100 Power Score™ 2013 Founded London, United Kingdom
Software Hardware Advanced Manufacturing Deep Tech
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Key Partners & Leadership

LLP Designated Member, Salica Investments Advisory LLP; described by Private Equity Wire in June 2024 as leading the firm
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
Head of Growth Debt
Venture Debt Partner
John Foley
Director, SALICA INVESTMENTS LIMITED, appointed 19 September 2024 (Companies House)

Firm Timeline

2013
HAMBRO PERKS LTD is incorporated in England on 4 November 2013 (company 08760647), the entity that is now SALICA INVESTMENTS LIMITED.
2020
Salica Oryx Fund LP is registered as a Qualified Investor Fund at Abu Dhabi Global Market on 24 September 2020, fund manager Salica Ventures Limited (ADGM public register, F-0029).
2021
Special Opportunities Fund I, a secondaries vehicle acquiring a sixteen-company life science and technology portfolio divested by Invesco, takes Connection Capital client money in June 2021.
2021
Access Fund II, a venture secondaries vehicle, takes Connection Capital client money in August 2021.
2022
Access Fund III, a venture secondaries vehicle, takes Connection Capital client money in September 2022.
2023
Co-founder Dominic Perks resigns as a director of the firm on 14 April 2023 (Companies House) and as a designated member of the advisory LLP on the same date.
2024
The firm is renamed: HAMBRO PERKS LTD becomes SALICA INVESTMENTS LIMITED on 20 June 2024 per Companies House; Private Equity Wire reported the coming rebrand on 17 June 2024.
2025
Salica Growth Debt Fund II holds a GBP 150m first close on 1 October 2025.
2025
Barclays is announced as cornerstone investor in the GBP 150m Growth Debt Fund II (12 November 2025).