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Anneal
Equity Partners

We combine institutional private equity investment discipline with entrepreneurial, operational and technology transformation expertise to help ambitious companies build long-term value.

Founders

Anneal Equity Partners is a research-led private equity firm founded by Simon Cottle and David Poole.

We invest in healthcare, technology and technology-enabled services businesses across Europe and North America.

Anneal was founded around a deliberately complementary model.
Simon

brings more than 18 years of institutional private equity investment experience across healthcare, software, data and technology-enabled services.

David

brings more than 30 years of experience as a founder, operator and investor building, scaling and transforming technology-enabled businesses.

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Simon Cottle

Managing Partner
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David Poole

Partner

Together, they combine investment judgement with entrepreneurial, operational and technology transformation expertise.

Founders

We look for businesses shaped by long-term structural change

Particularly in markets where healthcare innovation, software, data infrastructure and AI are changing how services are delivered.

Our investment edge comes from combining disciplined institutional private equity analysis with first-hand experience of building, scaling and transforming technology-enabled businesses.

This combination informs both what we invest in and how we support value creation after investment.

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Technology is central to how we work.

We use 

 AI-enabled tools to support research, deal origination, execution, portfolio management and value creation.

This helps us make better-informed decisions, identify opportunities earlier and work more effectively with the teams and businesses we support.

philosophy

Our investment philosophy is supported by SCALER

Anneal Equity Partners' structured value creation methodology.

Our investment edge comes from combining disciplined institutional private equity analysis with first-hand experience of building, scaling and transforming technology-enabled businesses.

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