How InfraVia is driving portfolio performance with data 

While private equity firms lean on financial engineering, operational efficiency, and commercial acceleration, there is still one critical dimension that remains under-utilised in many portfolios: data as a strategic enabler of business performance.

InfraVia Capital Partners recognised the opportunity that data can bring to their decision-making and operations. They adopted a portfolio-wide approach to drive data maturity across their infrastructure portfolio, focusing on achieving tangible value through data-driven operational excellence.

About InfraVia

Founded in 2008, InfraVia is an independent European private equity firm managing €16 billion in real assets – infrastructure, critical metals, real estate – and technology investments. The firm invests in resilient assets and focuses on long-term value creation through active hands-on asset management. 

Digital and data transformation is a key part of InfraVia’s value creation plan with a dedicated Digital, Technology & Data Director dedicated to raising awareness, defining, planning, and supporting delivery of data and AI-driven transformation in the portfolio

The challenge:  Turning data into a scalable performance lever

Driving successful M&A strategy is a key route for PE Firms to support portfolio companies on their growth journey, however effectively executing the integration of targets is key.  Rapid expansion can lead to data challenges hindering operational efficiency and decision-making. For example:

• Disparate financial, operational, and customer data systems can create fragmentation, slowing decision-making and limiting strategic oversight.
• Reliance on manual processes can reduce agility and hindered automation, constraining operational efficiency and scalability.
  

For InfraVia, it is therefore key to build a good vision on the data maturity and value creation opportunities at the portfolio level.

Rather than taking a fragmented, case-by-case approach, Infravia partnered with Singulier x Graphite to develop a structured Data Maturity Assessment, building a roadmap for unlocking tangible business impact across identified companies in their Infrastructure portfolio.

The solution: A structured, execution-focused approach

To ensure practical, results-driven transformation, Singulier x Graphite supported InfraVia implementing a three-phase methodology, ensuring the initiative delivered measurable performance improvements.

1. Pinpointing the opportunity

We applied a structured systematic approach, starting with a macro-level analysis, followed by in-depth assessments for selected portfolio companies. This allowed us to:

• Conduct tailored diagnostics—analysing data maturity, automation potential, and operational challenges on a case-by-case basis.
• Identify relevant automation and data-driven opportunities, focusing on operational performance and efficiency gains.
• Pinpoint key bottlenecks in finance, procurement, operations, and sales that were limiting scalability and business execution.

2.  Delivering actionable plan for selected companies

With these insights in hand, we worked alongside InfraVia’s asset management team and company leadership to develop tailored data execution plans for the selected companies. These plans focused on:

• Automating data workflows, reducing reliance on manual data processing and improving accessibility to reliable insights.

• Enhancing operational and financial data visibility, leveraging structured analytics to improve forecasting, reporting accuracy, and decision-making.

• Deploying data-driven decision frameworks, enabling more effective procurement, sales, and resource allocation based on data insights.

Each selected company focused on quick automation wins—cutting manual work and improving data flow—while building long-term capabilities for better decision-making and scalability. This ensured immediate efficiency gains without delaying deeper transformation.

3. Driving Implementation: From Strategy to Execution

Assessments alone do not generate value, execution makes the difference. InfraVia ensured this transition by moving from strategy to concrete execution plans, particularly in industries like healthcare and social infrastructure, where scaling through acquisitions often brings data and operational challenges.

Singulier x Graphite supported InfraVia and selected companies in this execution by structuring and deploying tailored data initiatives, ensuring impact and alignment with business priorities.

In sectors like healthcare services and hospitality, where companies grow through acquisitions, data plays a key role in integrating new entities and improving operational efficiency. By focusing on automation and real-time insights, portfolio companies can streamline core processes and strengthen decision-making:

• A multi-site healthcare provider implemented a structured data framework, enabling performance benchmarking across sites, identification of best practices, and better comparisons on key operational, financial, and procurement metrics.

• A hospitality group expanding through acquisitions developed a scalable reporting framework, allowing leadership to track and compare key performance indicators across locations, facilitating more informed decision-making.

By embedding structured data capabilities, these companies gained clearer cross-site visibility, improved coordination, and leveraged data-driven insights to support growth and operational excellence.

Turning Data into a Competitive Advantage with Singulier x Graphite

Singulier x Graphite partners with investors and management teams to transform data into a strategic asset and unlock new value. We help businesses improve financial visibility, automate processes, and embed data-driven decision-making. Our expertise in private equity, infrastructure, and high-growth businesses ensures that data-driven transformation delivers measurable impact. If you are looking to unlock new value through data, our experts are here to help.