Mainsail Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market, late venture, management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity, and growth capital investments. It does not invest in startups, early stage, and turnaround situations. The firm seeks to invest in bootstrapped companies in business services, enterprise software, software-as-a-service (SaaS), financial services and technology, healthcare services and information technology, payment processing, franchising, life sciences, Internet-based services, e-commerce, wireless technology, technology-enabled business services sectors. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. The firm invests between $2 million and $25 million of equity capital in companies with annual revenues between $4 million and $50 million, enterprise value between $4 million and $100 million, and an EBITDA between $1 million and $8 million. It may acquire minority and majority shareholder stakes in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to act as a lead investor and prefers to have a board seat in its portfolio companies. It makes investments in bootstrapped companies that have risen minimal outside capital to fund their operations. Mainsail Partners was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Affiliated Managers Group is a global asset management company with investments in leading boutique investment management firms. For 20 years, we have generated superior growth by partnering with the highest quality boutique investment management firms, using direct equity ownership in a framework that closely aligns our interests with those of our Affiliate partners. While providing our Affiliates with continued operational autonomy, we also help them to leverage the benefits of AMG’s scale in U.S. retail and global product distribution, operations and technology to enhance their growth and capabilities. AMG made its first Affiliate investment in 1994, and today manages approximately $594 billion in assets, pro forma for pending investments, across a wide array of investment styles, asset classes and geographies to institutional and retail clients around the world.
Launched in 2014, Medici Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc., created to manage and oversee the company`s investments in firms building solutions leveraging and servicing blockchain technologies. Medici Ventures has a growing portfolio of groundbreaking new companies and tech businesses. Named for the Medici Bank of Florence - a pioneer of the double entry bookkeeping that revolutionized money and banking in the Renaissance - Medici Ventures seeks to encourage the adoption of distributed ledgers, and in so doing, precipitate a rebirth of efficiency, security and transparency in financial technology.
AE Industrial Partners is a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense & government services, space, power & utility services, and specialty industrial markets. AE Industrial Partners invests in market-leading companies that can benefit from its deep industry knowledge, operating experience, and relationships throughout its target markets. AE Industrial Partners is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and the ILPA Diversity in Action initiative.