Wondering if any of our European counterparts can speak about this European software investing firm. What's their reputation, performance, and general perception like in Europe? Asking because they seem to have very recently opened a Boston office and expanding. Is this a good opportunity?
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Not Europe-based but we are long-standing LPs in their funds. Stellar reputation, specialising in mid-market software buyouts with a growth bent in the Benelux + DACH to a smaller extent. Only do profitable, mission-critical B2B software businesses, and help businesses scale with aggressive buy-and-build. They're probably a top 3 performing mid-market/lower mid-market fund in Europe and have scaled very quickly from their Fund V onwards, roughly doubling fund size each time. Key guy is still Charly Zwemstra, very outstanding, and is probably the go-to guy for small software businesses in the Benelux and Germany.
Honestly not too sure about expansion to the US - quite a number of their portfolio companies are expanding into the US as a revenue base, but in terms of deals and competitive edge in the US, I'm not entirely sure. Main has grown very quickly and has gone from a hidden gem to a firm that every LP in Europe is banging on their door to get access to, but they're not too well-known outside of Benelux + DACH yet. If you're talking about expansion to Boston I would assume a larger part of your work would be focused on portfolio value creation as opposed to deal sourcing and execution? Can't imagine them doing deals in the US for now - though if they do start doing deals in the US my firm might have to re-evaluate our relationship with them lol
Seems like their Boston team did a deal recently (Cloud Coach).
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