Hippo Digital

The deal

The teams

The story

Hippo Digital (“Hippo”) is a leading IT consultancy providing Digital Transformation services to UK public and private sector customers. Its focus is on digital solutions involving complex IT systems and the requirement to provide access to a broad range of users in a safe and intuitive way, often touching sensitive or regulated data such as personal health data. This proposition is encapsulated in a design philosophy termed “user centric design” (UCD), which underpins all of Hippo’s work.

Hippo operates in a large and structurally growing market supported by broader trends towards digital transformation as well as the UK government’s ambition of digitising public services through UCD. Within this context, we were attracted by Hippo’s unrivalled expertise in UCD, its track-record of successfully winning and delivering on government contracts, and its strong customer relationships and NPS across both public and private customers.

Hippo was founded in 2016 by two former NHS employees, Adam Lewis (CEO) and Rob Coop, and to date the business has been majority owned by management. Under our ownership we are backing Adam, who has been instrumental in driving Hippo’s success to date, to lead the business through its next phase of growth.