Certek Announces Additional £170m Funding to Continue International Growth

Certek Announces Additional £170m Funding to Continue International Growth in the TICC Sector Following Successful First Full Year of Trading

Since its founding in 2024, Certek has quickly grown into an international business providing a range of testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) services, supporting customers in several sectors.

Certek Group Holdings Limited (“Certek”), the TICC services provider, today announced a new funding package worth £170m, enhancing its strategic alliance with Macquarie Capital Principal Finance.

The additional capital will be used by Certek to fund further growth and acquisitions in the space, which will target sectors such as built environment, life sciences, materials testing, asset integrity and GRC services. It will also help the group invest into strategic initiatives and capex to acquire new technologies to support recent customers wins and expand service offerings.

The fragmented and diverse TICC sector has grown in importance and scale over the last decade and is now a global market worth in excess of $250 billion according to recent estimates. Certek was set up in 2024 with the goal of building, through acquisition and organic growth, a high-quality, global compliance services business of scale. Some 18 months later, the business has made significant progress, with 14 acquisitions completed, employing over 1,000 people across its operations in the UK, US, EU and Australia and generating over £150 million in revenue.

Certek’s proposition is unique compared to others in the space: the company is employee owned and therefore can take a longer-term approach to planning and investment; and its founding team boast combined experienced in the sector of over 30 years. Typically, Certek will transact directly with founder owned companies to whom its ownership model has proven attractive due to its careful and considered approach to integration and operations.

Certek Founder and CEO, David Harrison commented: “I am delighted to secure this latest financing package, which will help us realise our ambitions for 2026 and welcome many new people and capabilities to the group. Our growth so far has been very pleasing to see; in a relatively short period of time, we have created a business that has strength and depth in several attractive TICC markets.  Certek has the goal of doubling revenues this year and believe with its current strong M&A pipeline and expected organic growth that this can be achieved.”

Adam Joseph, Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Capital Principal Finance said: “Having supported Certek since the early stages of its growth, we are delighted to further our relationship with the provision of additional and larger-scale strategic capital. David has assembled a world-class management team and Certek is ideally positioned to capitalise on the significant organic and inorganic growth opportunities we see in this market”

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About Certek

Certek, headquartered in London, UK, Certek is an independent specialist testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC) services company that delivers a range of mission critical compliance services to an international client base. Certek acquires and partners with best-in-class companies in the sector and deploys a low-interruption, technology-led approach to integration and operations. Certek is passionate about growth and realising potential, and group companies are supported according to their specific opportunity set and requirements post joining Certek, with the approach being tailored to the situation at hand.

Founded in 2024, Certek comprises over 1,000 people who have technical expertise across health and materials sciences, built environment, asset integrity and inspection and governance, risk and compliance. Certek offers the combined experience and international reach of a large services company, combined with the structural agility, entrepreneurial drive and creativity you would expect from employee-owned business.

For further information please visit www.certekgroup.com.

About Macquarie Capital Principal Finance

Macquarie Capital is the advisory, capital markets and principal investment arm of Macquarie Group. It encompasses corporate advisory, a full spectrum of capital solutions, including capital raising services from equity, debt and private capital markets and principal investments from Macquarie Group’s balance sheet.

Macquarie Capital Principal Finance, the financing and principal investing arm of Macquarie Capital, makes investments from Macquarie Group’s balance sheet and provides flexible primary financing and secondary market investing solutions for corporate and commercial real estate clients across North America, Europe and Australasia.

Visit Macquarie Capital’s website for more information.