Built to compound
We acquire and hold exceptional businesses for the long term, and back the technology companies shaping the decades ahead.
What we doOur approach
Global Digital Group is a proprietary investment firm with deep technology and digital capabilities that uniquely combine with investment banking, risk management and corporate finance expertise and reach. We invest our own capital and succeed only when the businesses we back do, so our interests are aligned with yours.
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Trading
We trade our own capital in liquid, global markets, and back new managers with it.
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Building
We originate and launch our own businesses, with operating models built for global scale.
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Investing
We fund, acquire and co-invest in businesses, including through Global Digital Group Holdings, GDG Capital and GDG Real Estate.
Our platforms
We invest through three platforms. Global Digital Group Holdings acquires and holds established, cash-generative B2B companies, GDG Capital provides growth capital to technology and digital businesses, and GDG Real Estate provides mezzanine capital to property developments. Permanent capital frees us from the timetables that shape most investment decisions, so we can focus on what creates lasting value: quality businesses, aligned partners and the disciplined allocation of capital.
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Permanent capital
Global Digital Group Holdings
Long-term ownership of established B2B companies with durable demand, strong cash generation and capable management.
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Technology growth
GDG Capital
Growth capital for technology and digital businesses ready to scale internationally.
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Real estate
GDG Real Estate
Mezzanine capital for property developments, and listed real estate shares.
How we invest
Principles that compound
Permanence
Permanent capital sits at the heart of the Group. Time is the most underrated advantage in investing, and we intend to use it.
Quality
We favour durable businesses with real competitive advantages and economics that strengthen with scale, over growth at any price.
Alignment
We invest our own capital and succeed only when the businesses we back do, so our interests and those of management, founders and partners point the same way.
Discipline
We look for situations where we can add the most value, across technology, digital, strategy and funding. We pay for value we can clearly see and create, never for narrative or a higher exit multiple. We would rather miss an opportunity than compromise our standards.
Contact
Start a conversation
We welcome conversations with investors and institutions, with owners of exceptional businesses and their advisers, with founders and with property developers.