Brenton Purslowe

Managing Director

Brenton is a Managing Director within the Software team, where he supports origination, evaluation and transaction execution associated with high growth and entrepreneurial technology companies.

Brenton has an interest and passion for working with entrepreneurial tech and tech-enabled businesses and has been involved in several marquee growth and M&A transactions in Europe and the US. While his remit and experience extends across multiple verticals / horizontals, he more recently has spent a considerable amount of time within Impact and ESG software and their adjacencies.

Brenton joined Torch in 2020, having worked within the Software, Data and Analytics and Fintech teams at Houlihan Lokey and Quayle Munro.

Select transactions include:

SustainCERT completed $37m Series B capital raise to scale the world’s first climate impact verification platform Sale of Greenstone+ to Cority Long-term strategic partnership between Concirrus and Applied Underwriters Curriculum Associates on the minority investment by Hellman & Friedman Envizi sale to IBM Corp.Five Arrows £120m growth investment into Causeway Technologies

BIMM sale to ICG

SEP and Elliot Advisors growth investment in TotallyMoney

Equistone investment in Small World

Rule 3 advisor to Lombard Risk on the VERMEG takeover

PowerAdvocate sale to Verisk Analytics

Dynamo Software sale to Francisco Partners

Karnov sale to Five Arrows (FAPI)

RISQ sale to Sterling Infosystems

4Sight Financial Software sale to Broadridge

Includes transactions advised on prior to joining Torch