Search fund lenders UK: UK Search Fund Investors
The UK Search Fund Investors carries 1 published figure read from 1 source's own page, from 350 to 350 search, read 28 October 2026.
2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 28 October 2026.
By investor
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| investorEndurance Search Partners: search fund partnerships to date (own site) | 350search | 350 to 350search | 1 |
| investorShawbrook (lender): search fund acquisition debt starts at (own insight page) | 3,000,000GBP | 3,000,000 to 3,000,000GBP | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shawbrook: what specialist funders look for in search fund deals | 3,000,000GBP | Shawbrook (lender): search fund acquisition debt starts at (own insight page) | 2026-10-28 |
| Endurance Search Partners | 350search | Endurance Search Partners: search fund partnerships to date (own site) | 2026-10-28 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- Shawbrook: what specialist funders look for in search fund deals, read 2026-10-28:
Shawbrook’s debt products for financing search fund vehicles starts at around £3m but can go up to £50m for asset-based lending and £25m for cash flow lending.
- Endurance Search Partners, read 2026-10-28:
With a history of over 350 search fund partnerships, we provide searchers with encouragement, mentorship, an abundance of resources and access to our expansive network.
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- Relay Investments, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Vonzeo Capital, read 2026-10-28: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Gerald Edelman: acquisition entrepreneurs and search funds, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Searchfunder: introduction to UK lenders and investors, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Searchfunder: connecting with UK search investors, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Nordic9: Relay Investments Europe, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
- Moore Kingston Smith: the rise of search funds, read 2026-10-28: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 9 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in search (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 24 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per investor or lender that says on its own page it backs searchers (fund-of-search-funds, family offices, banks), with what it says it backs; the count by type
24 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (12)
- IESE: search funds' record expansion(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Relay Investments(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Vonzeo Capital(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Endurance Search Partners(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Shawbrook: what specialist funders look for in search fund deals(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Gerald Edelman: acquisition entrepreneurs and search funds(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Istria Capital(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Searchfunder: introduction to UK lenders and investors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Searchfunder: connecting with UK search investors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Nordic9: Relay Investments Europe(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Moore Kingston Smith: the rise of search funds(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Searcher Insights: individual investors(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
Cite or embed this figure
The UK Search Fund Investors carries 1 published figure read from 1 source's own page, from 350 to 350 search, read 28 October 2026.
2 of the 9 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 28 October 2026.
UK Search Fund Investors, investor Endurance Search Partners: search fund partnerships to date (own site): median 350 search across 1 source, read 28 October 2026.
UK Search Fund Investors, investor Shawbrook (lender): search fund acquisition debt starts at (own insight page): median 3,000,000 GBP across 1 source, read 28 October 2026.
Cite as: "uksearchfunds.co.uk UK Search Fund Investors", updated 2026-10-29, https://uksearchfunds.co.uk/datasets/uk-search-fund-investors/.
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