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3i Group Plc is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, growth capital, middle market, buyout, and mature investments. For debt management, it invests in senior and mezzanine corporate debt in typically large and private companies in United Kingdom, Europe and North America. The firm also seeks to invest in family owned business. The firm does not invest in generic office and enterprise applications. It seeks to invest in media businesses at all stages of development and on selective basis, it also makes early-stage venture investments in oilfield technologies. The firm typically makes growth capital investments in medium-sized businesses in the healthcare, financial services, food and drink, media, IT services, support services, and oil and gas sectors. The firm makes private equity investments in business services, consumer, healthcare, and industrial sector. It prefers to invest in buyouts across a broad range of sectors with a particular focus on healthcare, business services, telecommunication, media, consumer, and oil, gas and power. It prefers also to invest in media, oil, gas, power, some elements of manufacturing, technology, general industries, financial services, infrastructure, and regional sectors. The firm typically invests in business services with a focus on blue collar services including cleaning, security, repair and maintenance, and facilities management; white collar services including consultancy services including engineering, environmental, and recruitment and training and process outsourcing; distribution; testing, inspection and certification; human capital; industrial services; logistics; and infrastructure support services; and rental services including hire of equipment and other non consumables. In the healthcare sector, it focuses on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology including supply drug marketing and delivery services, as well as animal health specialists; medical devices and technology including dialysis and cardiovascular equipment, through to surgical instruments and imaging technology; and healthcare and specialist care services including care activities for the young, the disabled, and the elderly in their own homes, in hospitals, and in community facilities, and vitally-important diagnostic services. In the consumer sector the firm focuses on consumer goods; e-commerce; retail; food and drinks; and leisure including travel distribution, hotels and resorts, local leisure, betting and gaming, and hospitality. In the media sector it prefers to invest in broadcasting and entertainment including TV, radio, Internet, and mobile broadcasting, the creators and owners of content, and suppliers of allied services; publishing and information ranging from newspapers, through to directories and business information; marketing services including marketing and advertising including market research; and technology including software and hardware that enables major disruptions within large markets. In the oil, gas, and power sectors the firm focuses on exploration and production; oil services including services which provide products, people, and technology for all elements of drilling, evaluation, development, construction, and production; and midstream gas and power which includes companies that develop, generate, store, and transmit energy. Within the gas and power sector it seeks to invest in companies delivering oil and gas to the consumer, through activities such as gas storage, transportation in liquefied form, refining, and distribution; generating power and transmitting and distributing; developing alternatives to oil and gas, including biofuels; products/components like generators and services such as wind turbine maintenance for related activities. In the technology sector the firm focuses on software and Internet, digital marketing, e-commerce, social media, online media, telecoms, electronics and semiconductors, IT services, and cleantech including energy, air and water, waste management, and supporting technologies like sensing and remote monitoring technologies, process innovations, and new materials. In the general industria