Summa Equity acquires Peoplesafe, a leading workforce safety provider
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January 13th, 2026, Stockholm: Summa Equity has acquired Peoplesafe, a leading workforce safety provider from mid-market private equity firm, ECI Partners. The company protects more than 350,000 workers and had annual revenues of GBP 22.6m last financial year through its core markets in the UK, US, and Canada.
Founded in 2001, the company has more than 25 years of experience supporting employers and protecting lone and frontline workers in increasingly complex and hybrid work environments. It serves public and private sector customers across industry, healthcare, real estate, retail, utilities, and more.
Peoplesafe has built a strong safety offering that combines technology with real-time response. Under its current leadership, the company has seen impressive growth and financial performance. We see clear alignment between Peoplesafe’s mission and Summa’s focus on building resilient, technology-enabled solutions – contributing to a safer and more protected workplace, which is aligned with our thematic investment strategy.
Johan Pietilä Holmner, Director at Summa Equity
Peoplesafe equips workers with real-time access to emergency support. Employees access the support through several integrated safety solutions including mobile apps, dedicated devices, and a 24/7 in-house Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC). These are all connected through Peoplesafe’s own technology platforms, Nexus and Lighthouse. Over the past year, the company launched Travelsafe, a safety travel app for employees, and Apple Crash Detection to protect employees during work-related travel. They also introduced Roamsafe, so that employees can maintain connectivity even in low-signal areas. Increasingly, Peoplesafe also integrates directly into organisations HCM and workforce management platforms.
We are delighted to have been part of such an exciting growth stage for Peoplesafe, that saw them grow into the North American market, deliver key acquisitions, and launch its new market leading platform, cementing its position as a leading workforce safety provider. Congratulations to both management and Summa Equity on the deal. We look forward to continuing to be part of Peoplesafe’s journey going forwards as a minority investor alongside the Summa team.
Daniel Bailey, Partner at ECI
Investing from its EUR 2.3bn Summa Equity Fund III, the investment leverages Summa’s tech-enabled resilience theme and experience of enhancing portfolio companies’ strategies for value creation, aiming to drive sustainable growth and address critical global issues – in this case workplace safety and risk management.
Partnering with Summa Equity marks an important step for Peoplesafe. Summa shares our long-term view and our focus on protecting people at work, and their support will help us continue to develop our platform, expand into new markets, and serve customers at greater scale. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank ECI for their valuable support in scaling our solutions to more workers globally.
Naz Dossa, CEO of Peoplesafe
Peoplesafe aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goal #3, #8, #9, and #16, reflecting its commitment to create safe work environments for everyone, wherever they are.
Advisors to ECI and Management:
Baird (Corporate Finance)
Squire Patton Boggs (Legal)
PwC Strategy & (Commercial Due Diligence)
PwC (Financial Due Diligence)
Crosslake (Technology Due Diligence)
Capstone (Regulatory Due Diligence)
Liberty Corporate Finance (Management Advisory)
Advisors to Summa Equity Fund III:
Travers Smith (Legal)
BearingPoint Capital (Commercial, Product and Technology Due Diligence)
EY-Parthenon (Financial, Tax and Structuring Due Diligence)
Sustainable Advantage (Impact Due Diligence)
About Peoplesafe
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in the UK, Peoplesafe was set up to help the most vulnerable workers through innovation and reacting to emerging risks. Now operating across the US and Canada, it is one of the largest workforce safety technology providers in the world, protecting more than 350,000 people across every industry. Over the last 25 years, its market-leading platforms, technology, and service have been developed to protect everyone, wherever they are and whenever they need it. A purpose-built ARC facility in its UK headquarters ensures its ability to lead the market in delivering the fastest response times possible.
About ECI
ECI is a leading private equity investor, focused on offering collaborative support to management teams. We pride ourselves on being straightforward to deal with, we help where we believe we can add value, and we work in absolute alignment with management teams. This is how we’ve delivered such exceptional results for nearly 50 years.
We manage funds of c.£3bn and invest in growth businesses valued up to £300m, investing as either a majority or a minority investor. Our growth focus is integral to how we’ve built our team. We’ve created the capability to support management teams on anything from sourcing and executing acquisitions, developing market entry strategies, understanding and improving employee engagement, or ensuring your tech platform can scale as quickly as you are, and much more. Our whole team is committed to doing what we can for the teams we partner with.
About Summa
Founded in 2016, Summa Equity is an investment firm focusing on the thematic areas of Circularity, Energy Transition, Sustainable Food, and Tech-Enabled Resilience. The mission of Summa is to invest in solving global challenges.
Summa has raised c. EUR 4 billion and made over 30 platform investments across the three funds raised to date, with 12 exits across them. The investments address the challenges we need to solve as a society, enabling the potential for long-term sustainable outperformance.
The team is located globally, with offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Munich, and the U.S. Partnerships are part of Summa’s DNA, exemplified by being a member of the PRI System Stewardship Advisory Committee, the GIIN Investors Council, and collaborating with Harvard Business School and Capitals Coalition.
For interviews or more information, please contact:
Hannah Gunvor Jacobsen, COO and Head of IR at Summa Equity
+47 936 41 960 | hannah.jacobsen@summaequity.com
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