Verdane, the European specialist growth buyout investment firm, today announces the successful closing of a €635 million multi-asset continuation vehicle (CV).
The fund enables the extension of Verdane’s investment horizon and capital availability for Arrive Group, the largest asset in the CV, alongside Talentech and Pet Media Group.
Coller Capital is the sole lead investor in the CV. StepStone acted as co-underwriter.
Bjarne Kveim Lie, Founder and Managing Partner at Verdane, said: “Arrive Group, Talentech and Pet Media Group are companies that we know well, and that have already generated strong returns for our investors. Our partnership with Arrive alone already spans more than a decade, and we are as excited about the road ahead as we have ever been. This new fund gives us the time and capital to help these businesses reach their full potential.”
Carl Nauckhoff, Partner and Chief Commercial Officer at Verdane, said: “This transaction is a strong endorsement of the quality of the three assets and of Verdane’s approach to active ownership. Coller’s deep expertise in the secondary market and their long-term perspective made them the ideal partner for a transaction of this nature. We are grateful for the strong interest received from high-quality institutional investors, which resulted in significant oversubscription. The CV allows us to continue investing behind businesses we know deeply, while providing existing investors with a meaningful liquidity option.”
Martin Fleischer, Partner at Coller Capital, said: “This is exactly the opportunity Coller looks to back. We are proud to lead a portfolio anchored by Arrive Group, an asset that has been a clear winner for Verdane over more than a decade and continues to compound, alongside two further high-quality assets in Talentech and Pet Media Group. The flexibility of our mandate allowed us to underwrite the full multi-asset portfolio as sole lead, reinforcing Coller’s track record of partnering with blue-chip Nordic managers on their best assets.”
Lazard acted as financial adviser, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Andulf Advokat acted as legal advisers to Verdane. Akin Gump acted as legal adviser to Coller Capital.
About Arrive Group
Verdane first invested in EasyPark in 2012 when it was a Nordic champion in mobile parking payments. Over the following decade, the company grew into a leading European consolidator in digital parking before completing a transformational merger with Flowbird in 2025 to create Arrive Group, a global digital parking and smart mobility provider with direct access to consumers and municipalities at scale. The business now operates in more than 20,000 cities in more than 90 countries.
For more information, visit www.arrive.com
About Talentech
Talentech is a Nordic HR software platform serving public sector and upper SME clients across the full recruitment lifecycle. Talentech recently agreed to merge with Grade, a complementary Nordic HR platform, significantly broadening the combined group’s product offering and creating a Nordic end-to-end HR solution.
For more information, visit www.talentech.com
About Pet Media Group
Verdane invested in Pet Media Group in 2019. The company has since grown into the leading operator of vertical pet classified sites globally. Every year, the company helps over 1.7 million pets to find new homes through its partnerships with trusted and vetted breeders and shelters. The new fund will support PMG’s next phase of growth, including US expansion, payments penetration and further bolt-on acquisitions.
For more information, visit www.petmediagroup.com
About Verdane
Verdane is a specialist growth buyout investment firm that partners with tech-enabled and sustainable businesses that help to digitalise and decarbonise the European economy. The flexible mandates of Verdane funds allow it to invest as a majority or minority control investor, replacement or growth capital, in single companies or in portfolios of companies.
Verdane has raised €10 billion in capital and its funds have made more than 200 investments in fast-growing businesses since 2003. Verdane’s team of more than 180 professionals and operating experts is based out of Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Helsinki, Munich, Oslo and Stockholm and combines deep sector expertise with long-standing local networks and presence in core European markets.
Verdane is also a certified B Corporation, the most ambitious sustainability accreditation globally. The firm only backs businesses that pass its 2040 test, which indicates whether the company can thrive in a more sustainable future economy.
Verdane is partly owned by the Verdane Foundation, which is focused on two areas: climate change and more equitable and inclusive local communities.
For more information, visit www.verdane.com
About Coller Capital
Coller Capital is a global leader in the secondary market for private assets, renowned for being a pioneer and innovator in the asset class. Founded in 1990, Coller provides investment and liquidity solutions to private market investors worldwide, and currently manages $54 billion* in private equity, private credit, and other private market vehicles. With headquarters in London and offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, our multinational team offers a global reach.
Coller has exclusively focused on secondary investing since inception and today boasts one of the largest dedicated investment teams in the asset class.
Coller’s Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions (PWSS) business offers perpetual funds to eligible private wealth investors globally.
For more information, visit www.collercapital.com
*As at 31/12/2025.
