Paul Neeson

Paul Neeson is a Director at SEP, the Scottish growth equity firm focused on enterprise technology companies. SEP’s team page says he focuses on portfolio management and deal support, specifically portfolio management, value creation, and investment realisations.

Before joining SEP, Neeson worked at Caird Capital and Lloyds Banking Group. A third-party executive biography states that he joined SEP in 2013, having previously been an Associate Director at Caird Capital and a Senior Analyst at Bank of Scotland.

Neeson holds a BA (Hons) degree in Accountancy & Law from the University of Glasgow. Public profiles place him in Glasgow, where SEP has an office at 17 Blythswood Square.

His SEP-related investment work is linked publicly to companies including Dohop, Pelion, Peppermint Technology, Aridhia, and Intelligent Reach. His role appears more portfolio/value-creation and realisation focused than new-lead origination across SEP’s whole platform.

• SEP’s stated thesis is enterprise technology: the firm says it backs companies “solving complex challenges for the world’s largest organisations.”
• SEP focuses on “systems of operation for high-stakes environments,” especially software embedded in critical enterprise workflows where trust, resilience, compliance, and operational value matter.
• The firm looks for deep domain knowledge, differentiated products, proven deployments in demanding enterprise environments, strong organic growth, profitable economics, meaningful leadership ownership, and “European heritage with global ambition.”
• SEP is a scale-up investor rather than a seed investor; public scale-up profiles describe typical investment sizes of £5 million to £25 million.
• Neeson’s individual focus is portfolio management, value creation, deal support, and investment realisations, with publicly linked work around legal technology, travel infrastructure software, IoT connectivity, biomedical data platforms, and ecommerce data-feed software.