Sageview Capital Named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors
For the third year in a row, Sageview Capital has been recognized for its founder-friendly approach to backing industry-defining innovators who are disrupting the way businesses and individuals operate
Greenwich, CT & Palo Alto, CA | October 29, 2024 – Inc., the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future, today announced its sixth annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, honoring the private equity, venture capital, and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognized 269 firms that have successful track records of collaboration and remaining actively involved with the businesses they invest in. To compile the list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships.
This is the third year in a row that Sageview Capital has been named to Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors list.
“Our strategy at Sageview Capital is to back leading companies with ambitious entrepreneurs that are seeking a partner to help them scale and achieve their long-term growth objectives. We look for companies in which our decades of industry experience, Global 2000 network connections, and operational expertise can have a meaningful impact. We run a concentrated portfolio to ensure we have enough capacity to be actively involved in each investment, and over 20% of our capital comes from the Sageview team to ensure our interests are fully aligned.” – Sageview Partners
To see the complete list, go to: Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors of 2024
About Sageview
Sageview Capital is a private investment firm that partners with industry-defining innovators to build enduring software and tech-enabled businesses. With over $2 billion in assets under management, the firm collaborates with entrepreneurs on a custom approach, leveraging its decades of experience, operational expertise, and network in scaling many successful companies. Sageview invests for the long-term; it’s guided many of its portfolio companies to IPO or acquisition—and beyond. Sageview investments include 360insights, Aceable, Anitian, Atmosphere, CallRail, Carewell, Demandbase, DISQO, Drivewyze, Elastic Path, Elemental Machines, Ezoic, Grocery TV, Impact Analytics, LoanStar, Pantheon, Pax8, NAM, Specright, Stensul, Theatro, User Interviews and XSELL Technologies, among others.
The 2024 Founder-Friendly Investor recognition presented herein is awarded by Inc. Inc. assessed the nominees based on written responses to questions on Inc.’s nomination form and discussions with CEO references. Sageview Capital paid application fees to participate in this process. This Inc. industry award was awarded by a third party not affiliated with Sageview Capital. The number of nominees reviewed for the award and the number of award recipients were not available to Sageview Capital, and therefore, those numbers and the percentages of nominees that received each award, cannot be disclosed herein. This award is not indicative of Sageview Capital’s future performance and does not reflect the experience of, or any rating by, Sageview Capital’s investors, or clients, and generally does not relate to investment advisory services to clients.