Growth equity investment recommendation

I'm struggling through some (simple?) logic about a particular situation and could really use some help. I'm working on a pitch for a growth equity shop that typically invests Series B or C. They asked me to recommend a company that i think would be interesting to conduct more due diligence on....

I've developed a hypothesis based off sector dynamics that I believe will lead to substantial revenue growth for a company. This company is private and there's very little public info out on them. However, when looking at public comps, the nearest competitor has insanely high EV/EBIT & EV/Revenue ratios (even compared to other tech companies....).

I am going back and forth on whether or not this would make for a good target to approach and learn more about. On one hand, I think the ratio demonstrates the market agreeing it could be a high growth area, which would be attractive for the firm. On the other hand, I could see the high ratios being a deterrent from investigating further since the firm may assume they would be forced to overpay.

On a related note- do most growth investors view B2B markets as winner take all?

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B2B software, I've exclusively heard that the answer is yes in the long run, but someone should verify this.

If you really think the company is a valuable asset, you need to either be able to justify a high price for whatever reason, or you need to say something kitschy like "oh well this is a sourcing shop so I'm sure we'll pre-empt the process and get it cheap".

 

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