# 3i Group Portfolio Map 2026: 46 Startups by Sector

> 3i Group's portfolio mapped: 46 startups it has backed, in 8 sectors from IT Services, Telecoms and Healthtech on.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/portfolio-maps/3i-group-portfolio-map (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

## IT Services

10

- [Vonage](https://millionrounds.com/company/vonage)
- [Magnitude Software](https://millionrounds.com/company/magnitude-software)
- [Kickfire](https://millionrounds.com/company/kickfire)
- [Hyperwave](https://millionrounds.com/company/hyperwave)
- [*ST* SHYM Technology](https://millionrounds.com/company/shym-technology)
- [OmPrompt](https://millionrounds.com/company/omprompt)
- [ComponentSource](https://millionrounds.com/company/componentsource)
- [Aventeon](https://millionrounds.com/company/aventeon)
- [*MF* Meridea Financial Software](https://millionrounds.com/company/meridea-financial-software)
- [Fotolog](https://millionrounds.com/company/fotolog)

## Telecoms

10

- [Kineto Wireless](https://millionrounds.com/company/kineto-wireless)
- [AOptix Technologies](https://millionrounds.com/company/aoptix-technologies)
- [Blue Interactive Group](https://millionrounds.com/company/blue-interactive-group)
- [Velocix](https://millionrounds.com/company/velocix)
- [EnOcean](https://millionrounds.com/company/enocean)
- [Polatis](https://millionrounds.com/company/polatis)
- [*WC* Wicom Communications](https://millionrounds.com/company/wicom-communications)
- [*MC* Microcosm Communications](https://millionrounds.com/company/microcosm-communications)
- [Quantiva](https://millionrounds.com/company/quantiva)
- [Telisma](https://millionrounds.com/company/telisma)

## Healthtech

6

- [Small Bone Innovations](https://millionrounds.com/company/small-bone-innovations)
- [Sotera Wireless](https://millionrounds.com/company/sotera-wireless)
- [Wellpartner](https://millionrounds.com/company/wellpartner)
- [*NS* NeoGuide Systems](https://millionrounds.com/company/neoguide-systems)
- [*G* Glucon](https://millionrounds.com/company/glucon)
- [Action](https://millionrounds.com/company/action)

## Manufacturing

5

- [*KT* Konarka Technologies](https://millionrounds.com/company/konarka-technologies)
- [Metalysis](https://millionrounds.com/company/metalysis)
- [Intense](https://millionrounds.com/company/intense)
- [*MB* Mimix Broadband](https://millionrounds.com/company/mimix-broadband)
- [Fractus SA](https://millionrounds.com/company/fractus-sa)

## Hardware & Electronics

5

- [Light Blue Optics](https://millionrounds.com/company/light-blue-optics)
- [*E* Elixent](https://millionrounds.com/company/elixent)
- [Taptu](https://millionrounds.com/company/taptu)
- [*DC* DevelopOnline Corporation](https://millionrounds.com/company/developonline-corporation)
- [Emulation and Verification Engineering](https://millionrounds.com/company/emulation-and-verification-engineering)

## Biotech

4

- [*J* Jerini](https://millionrounds.com/company/jerini)
- [Arrow Therapeutics](https://millionrounds.com/company/arrow-therapeutics)
- [Onyvax](https://millionrounds.com/company/onyvax)
- [*CB* Combinature Biopharm](https://millionrounds.com/company/combinature-biopharm)

## Cleantech

3

- [SLR Consulting](https://millionrounds.com/company/slr-consulting)
- [*A* AmberWave](https://millionrounds.com/company/amberwave)
- [Electrawinds](https://millionrounds.com/company/electrawinds)

## Retail

3

- [Loxam Holding](https://millionrounds.com/company/loxam-holding)
- [GO Outdoors](https://millionrounds.com/company/go-outdoors)
- [*U* Udex](https://millionrounds.com/company/udex)

## Segment by segment

### IT Services

10 startups · $840M raised

- [**Vonage**](https://millionrounds.com/company/vonage) Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers. United States $460M
- [**Magnitude Software**](https://millionrounds.com/company/magnitude-software) Datalytics Technologies has been acquired by Magnitude Software. United States $279M
- [**Kickfire**](https://millionrounds.com/company/kickfire) KickFire is a marketing technology solutions and services company. United States $20M
- [**Hyperwave**](https://millionrounds.com/company/hyperwave) Hyperwave is a software company founded in 1997 that specializes in integrated private cloud and intranet solutions. Austria $18M
- [*ST* **SHYM Technology**](https://millionrounds.com/company/shym-technology) SHYM Technology is provider of plug-in security and trust management solutions for critical business applications. United States $18M
- [**OmPrompt**](https://millionrounds.com/company/omprompt) EDI connectivity, non-EDI document automation, visibility and control solutions in order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes. United Kingdom $15M
- [**ComponentSource**](https://millionrounds.com/company/componentsource) ComponentSource is the largest global marketplace for reusable software components and development tools, catering to software dev United States $12M
- [**Aventeon**](https://millionrounds.com/company/aventeon) Aventeon is a software company based in the Netherlands, located in Raalte, Overijssel. Germany $9.5M

### Telecoms

10 startups · $401M raised

- [**Kineto Wireless**](https://millionrounds.com/company/kineto-wireless) Kineto offers internet protocol-based services and solutions for mobile operators. United States $111M
- [**AOptix Technologies**](https://millionrounds.com/company/aoptix-technologies) AOptix Technologies is a private company based in Campbell, California, founded in 2000. United States $90M
- [**Blue Interactive Group**](https://millionrounds.com/company/blue-interactive-group) Blue Interactive Group provides cable TV and broadband internet services to the residential and business customers in Brazil. Brazil $55M
- [**Velocix**](https://millionrounds.com/company/velocix) Velocix offers Digital Media Delivery Platforms, a CDN infrastructure solution for network service providers. United Kingdom $45M
- [**EnOcean**](https://millionrounds.com/company/enocean) EnOcean is a German technology company founded in 2001, specializing in energy-harvesting wireless technology. Germany $41M
- [**Polatis**](https://millionrounds.com/company/polatis) Polatis is a tech company delivering optical switching solutions for remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection and monitoring. United States $26M
- [*WC* **Wicom Communications**](https://millionrounds.com/company/wicom-communications) Wilcom Communications is a research group attached to Department of Information and Communication Technologies. - $12M
- [*MC* **Microcosm Communications**](https://millionrounds.com/company/microcosm-communications) Microcosm Communications is a manufacturer of chips for comms equipment. United Kingdom $8.5M

### Healthtech

6 startups · $430M raised

- [**Small Bone Innovations**](https://millionrounds.com/company/small-bone-innovations) Small Bones Innovations makes devices for small bones and joints, particularly focusing on trauma and arthroplasty. United States $244M
- [**Sotera Wireless**](https://millionrounds.com/company/sotera-wireless) Sotera Wireless is a medical device company developing wireless vital signs monitoring devices. United States $92M
- [**Wellpartner**](https://millionrounds.com/company/wellpartner) Wellpartner is a provider of pharmacy distribution solutions for health plans, Medicaid programs, and safety net organizations. United States $41M
- [*NS* **NeoGuide Systems**](https://millionrounds.com/company/neoguide-systems) NeoGuide Systems develops robotic endoscopic technology for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. United States $39M
- [*G* **Glucon**](https://millionrounds.com/company/glucon) Glucon is a development stage company developing glucose monitoring devices for the diabetes market. United States $13M
- [**Action**](https://millionrounds.com/company/action) action unite providers and families, share data and outcomes transparently, improve education and standardize best practices. United States $2.0M

### Manufacturing

5 startups · $244M raised

- [*KT* **Konarka Technologies**](https://millionrounds.com/company/konarka-technologies) Konarka Technologies develops nano-enabled polymer photovoltaic materials for commercial, industrial and consumer applications. United States $152M
- [**Metalysis**](https://millionrounds.com/company/metalysis) Metalysis, a manufacturer of metals and alloys, offers both economic and environmental benefits over traditional metal production methods. United Kingdom $44M
- [**Intense**](https://millionrounds.com/company/intense) Intense develops and commercializes single and multi-mode monolithic laser array products, and high power laser diodes. United Kingdom $21M
- [*MB* **Mimix Broadband**](https://millionrounds.com/company/mimix-broadband) Mimix Broadband manufactures gallium arsenide semi-conductors for microwave and millimeter-wave applications. United States $20M
- [**Fractus SA**](https://millionrounds.com/company/fractus-sa) Fractus designs, manufactures, and licenses optimized antennas. Spain $8.0M

### Hardware & Electronics

5 startups · $122M raised

- [**Light Blue Optics**](https://millionrounds.com/company/light-blue-optics) Light Blue Optics (LBO) was a technology company based in Cambridge, UK, with additional offices in San Mateo, CA. United Kingdom $59M
- [*E* **Elixent**](https://millionrounds.com/company/elixent) Elixent supplies reconfigurable arithmetic processors which offer reconfigurable semiconductor intellectual property in the U.K. United Kingdom $25M
- [**Taptu**](https://millionrounds.com/company/taptu) Taptu, a social and media technology company, offers My Taptu, a social news aggregator available for the iPhone and Android mobile devices. United Kingdom $18M
- [*DC* **DevelopOnline Corporation**](https://millionrounds.com/company/developonline-corporation) DevelopOnline helps embedded platform developers cut traditional development times in their target markets by as much as 70 percent. United States $11M
- [**Emulation and Verification Engineering**](https://millionrounds.com/company/emulation-and-verification-engineering) Emulation and Verification Engineering develops hardware and software co-verification solutions for microelectronics companies. United States $9.7M

### Biotech

4 startups · $113M raised

- [*J* **Jerini**](https://millionrounds.com/company/jerini) Jerini was founded in 1994 as a spin-off from the Medical Faculty Humboldt University Berlin to commercialize the SPOT technology. Germany $58M
- [**Arrow Therapeutics**](https://millionrounds.com/company/arrow-therapeutics) Arrow is a small pharmaceutical company strictly focussed on novel anti-infective discovery. United Kingdom $35M
- [**Onyvax**](https://millionrounds.com/company/onyvax) Onyvax is developing new cancer therapies that harness the selective power of the immune system to seek out and destroy tumor cells. United Kingdom $15M
- [*CB* **Combinature Biopharm**](https://millionrounds.com/company/combinature-biopharm) Combinature Biopharm is a drug discovery and development company. Germany $5.1M

### Cleantech

3 startups · $157M raised

- [**SLR Consulting**](https://millionrounds.com/company/slr-consulting) SLR is an environmental consultancy that provides advice and support on a wide range of strategic and site-specific environmental issues. United Kingdom $64M
- [*A* **AmberWave**](https://millionrounds.com/company/amberwave) AmberWave offers photovoltaic technology solutions for the semiconductor industry. United States $53M
- [**Electrawinds**](https://millionrounds.com/company/electrawinds) Electrawinds produces, sells and distributes green power generated from inexhaustible clean energy resources. Belgium $40M

### Retail

3 startups · $138M raised

- [**Loxam Holding**](https://millionrounds.com/company/loxam-holding) Loxam Holding is a France-based rental equipment services company providing solutions for construction and industry professionals. France $87M
- [**GO Outdoors**](https://millionrounds.com/company/go-outdoors) GO Outdoors is an outdoor store offering waterproof clothing, outdoor clothing, tents and camping equipment in the UK. United Kingdom $46M
- [*U* **Udex**](https://millionrounds.com/company/udex) Udex offers data products and services for retailers and suppliers. United Kingdom $5.0M

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in a round we track that names 3i Group as an investor, the first in 1999. Each sits under its main sector, read from its rounds, and each sector shows its best-funded first; sectors with fewer than three companies are left off. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

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