Zero100 Secures Investment from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners to Power Next Phase of Growth
The investment, made in partnership with Zero100’s founders and existing management team, will enable the company to build on its substantial momentum in the market.
LONDON, UK, 9 January 2025 – Zero100, the leading cross-industry data, intelligence, and peer networking company revolutionizing global supply chain strategies, has secured growth investment from Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (“LLCP”), a global private equity firm with a history of backing data, information services, and ed-tech businesses. The investment, made in partnership with Zero100’s founders and existing management team, will enable the company to build on its substantial momentum in the market.
The growth investment will accelerate Zero100’s tech, data, research and talent capabilities, further strengthen its team, and enable further product and service innovation on behalf of the company’s blue-chip customers.
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in London, Zero100 connects global operations and supply chain leaders from organizations such as Nike, Walmart, CVS, Unilever, Pfizer, Google, Volvo Cars, Honeywell, Ecolab, McDonald’s, and many others. The company provides executives with cutting-edge research and peer networking opportunities that combine to help them shape a future-fit supply chain strategy. With over 60 employees across offices in London and New York, Zero100 has quickly established itself as a trailblazer in the supply chain intelligence space.
Olly Sloboda, Co-Founder and CEO of Zero100, said:
Our mission at Zero100 is simple: to help supply chain leaders reinvent the way the world produces, distributes, and consumes goods. Supply chains are under more pressure than ever, and with AI and digitization transforming the landscape, the stakes – and the opportunities – have never been higher. This funding will supercharge our ability to provide the insights, tools, and community leaders need to drive sustainable, game-changing transformation.”
Zero100’s innovative approach has proven critical as global supply chain leaders face increasing complexity, trade uncertainties, and rapid technological advancements. By addressing these challenges with data-driven insights, Zero100 empowers its clients to deliver against board-level priorities for supply chain and business transformation.
Josh Kaufman, Partner and Head of Europe at LLCP, said:
We are thrilled to partner with Olly and the exceptional Zero100 team. We’ve been extremely impressed with what they’ve achieved in a very short space of time and the reputation they’ve established for both innovation and execution. This was a theme we heard consistently from customers, and in the market more broadly, during our diligence. Zero100 is uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and supply chain innovation. Their work is transforming the way businesses approach their most critical supply chain strategies, and we are excited to help them scale their vision even further.”
About Zero100
The world’s most influential and forward-thinking chief operations and supply chain officers partner with Zero100, a membership-based research and intelligence organization, to accelerate progress on digital supply chain transformation.
Zero100’s approach combines unique IP-led research and data, intimate executive-level events, personalized guidance, and access to an extensive community of influential thinkers and voices from within, and beyond, supply chain.
The company is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in New York, USA.
Zero100 members include many of the world’s largest manufacturers and retailers across industry.
About Levine Leichtman Capital Partners
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC is a middle-market private equity firm with a 40-year track record of investing across various targeted sectors, including Business Services, Franchising & Multi-unit, Education & Training and Engineered Products & Manufacturing. LLCP utilizes a differentiated Structured Private Equity investment strategy, combining debt and equity capital investments in portfolio companies. LLCP believes that by investing in a combination of debt and equity securities, it offers management teams growth capital in a highly tailored, flexible investment structure that can be a more attractive alternative than traditional private equity.
LLCP’s global team of dedicated investment professionals is led by 10 partners who have worked at LLCP for an average of 20 years. Since inception, LLCP has managed approximately $15.6 billion of institutional capital across 15 investment funds and has invested in over 100 portfolio companies. LLCP currently manages $10.0 billion of assets and has offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Frankfurt.