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280 Capital Partners actively pursues investments in companies with the following profiles:
Company Characteristics:
- Industry Sectors: Information technology and technology-enabled sectors, including the following major segments:
- Application software (SaaS and licensed)
- Infoware (data/media and software)
- BPO and systems solutions for both enterprise and internet infrastructure environments
- Storage software and rich IP systems
- Technology-enabled services
- Size: $25 million to $250 million in revenue and enterprise value
- Profitability: Profitable or defined path to profitability in near term
- Solid Foundation: Target companies will offer a substantive value proposition and typically have one or more strengths in such areas as products, intellectual property, customer relationships, or strategic partnerships
- Underdeveloped Relative to Potential: Target companies may also have one or more challenges such as:
- Maturing product lines or aging business models
- Underdeveloped sales channels or strategic partnerships
- Unfocused growth initiatives or lower than market growth
- Suboptimal corporate scale or scope
- Unsupportive capital structure; challenges in achieving liquidity given business and/or industry situation
- Management: Solid core team, but potential opportunity for improvement
- Current ownership: Venture capital or private equity firms; founders; corporations; or the public
Transaction Profile:
- Investment Size: $15 million to $50 million; larger transactions pursued in partnership with other investors
- Transactions: Control-oriented buyout, late stage growth, recapitalization, and consolidation transactions
- Role: 280 Capital’s Managing Directors are active board directors, coaches and mentors for company management
- Goals of current owners:
- Realizing full liquidity to capture current value; or
- Achieving partial liquidity while simultaneously participating in substantial future value creation
280 Capital Value Proposition for Companies and Investors/Owners
- For selling equity owners:
- Extensive transaction experience, deep domain knowledge, and fully integrated in-house team allows 280 Capital to conclude transactions at a fair value with minimal distraction and maximum efficiency
- For participating equity owners and company management:
- The opportunity to leverage 280 Capital’s substantial, proven shareholder value creation capabilities
