John Van Deventer

John Meade Van Deventer is a Partner at Cabot Square Capital LLP. Cabot Square’s public team page says he founded the firm in 1996 and co-chairs Cabot’s Investment Committee. Companies House records identify him as John Meade VAN DEVENTER, with an active appointment at Cabot Square Capital LLP.

Before founding Cabot Square, Van Deventer worked at Goldman Sachs for nine years in New York and London. Cabot’s biography states that, while at Goldman, he established the firm’s European Principal and Structured Finance Groups. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1979 and from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D. in 1982.

Cabot Square describes itself as an independently owned investment firm and a provider of capital for small and mid-sized companies in the UK and Western Europe. The firm says it manages CS Capital Partners III LP, CS Capital Partners IV LP, CS Capital Partners V LP, and CS Capital Partners Real Estate Fund (DNGB).

• Cabot Square focuses on small and mid-sized companies in the UK and Western Europe, with a particular emphasis on financial services, property, and infrastructure.
• The firm describes itself as a “hands-on partner” that can provide growth and acquisition capital, help management raise debt financing, build operations, develop intellectual property, and support long-term strategic planning.
• Cabot says it provides “long-term, patient capital” to companies in start-up, buy-and-build, expansion, and turnaround/distressed situations.
• The firm’s operating style is management-partnership oriented: it works with management teams on strategic, operational, and financial priorities, including corporate infrastructure, business processes, and add-on acquisitions.
• Because Van Deventer co-chairs Cabot’s Investment Committee, founder outreach should assume he is relevant to firm-level investment decisions rather than a small individual angel check.