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FPE Capital, a specialist software & services focused lower mid-market growth investor, has promoted two people to investment director.

Harriet Hunt joined FPE in 2019 after four years with PwC’s corporate finance team, focusing primarily on transactions in the financial services and FinTech sectors. 

As part of FPE’s investment team she has contributed to the exits of Questionmark, Masstech and Sohonet, as well as investments in Kallik from FPE Fund II and Dynamic Planner, Egress and NoBlue2 from FPE Fund III.

Claire Sweet joined FPE in 2021 from KPMG, where she was part of the firm’s TMT M&A advisory team and also previously worked in its assurance practice. 

She has contributed notably to FPE portfolio companies Codestone, Togetherall and 60 Decibels from FPE Fund II, as well as GAT and Vanda from FPE Fund III.

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“Harriet and Claire’s promotions are a testament to the significant contributions they have made to FPE’s success over recent years,” said Henry Sallitt, managing partner at FPE.

“Their advancement reflects our commitment to nurturing and developing talent within the firm and we congratulate them.”

FPE closed its third fund at £185 million and has already completed the first six investments dedicated to the software sector within it.

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