Private equity has an amazing track record of generating financial returns by investing in B2B vertical software, data and analytics companies.
How do they do it, and what value creation actions can CEOs take themselves without having to wait for PE money to come in?
In this joint webinar with Plural Strategy and Boardwave; we will share expert insights into the following topics:
- What are PE funds looking for when they evaluate vertical software, data and analytics businesses?
- What are some of the metrics they measure and why do they matter? For example, growth rate, net revenue retention, new logo growth and more.
- What does a typical PE value creation playbook look like? What are some of the key levers they pull?
- What can CEOs do to prepare, and how much can they do without investment?
Expert Speakers:
Catherine Daly, Partner at Plural Strategy will be joined by Chris Kay, Partner at FPE Capital, Oliver Bendig, CEO at stp.one and moderator Cat Trelawny, Digital Platform Manager from Boardwave. Read more about the speakers below.
The questions Catherine, Chris and Oliver will answer are:
- What are PE funds looking for when they evaluate vertical software, data and analytics businesses?
- What are some of the metrics they measure, why do they matter, and what does good look like for a B2B SaaS vendor?
- What does a typical PE value creation playbook look like? What are some of the key levers they pull?
More about the expert speakers:
Catherine Daly, Partner, Plural Strategy: Catherine joined Plural from Landmark Information Group, where she was Director of Strategic Innovation. Prior to Landmark, Catherine was a strategy and M&A consultant supporting clients in the B2B information and media industries. Catherine has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Chris Kay, Partner, FPE Capital: Chris is a Partner at FPE. After spending five years advising technology entrepreneurs and UK private equity funds at PwC, he jumped at the chance to join FPE’s growing investment team, excited by the opportunity to partner with management teams with ambitious long-term plans. Today, he works closely with the FPE portfolio, as well as having broad responsibility for identifying growth businesses where FPE can add real value, and executing on those investments.
Oliver Bendig, CEO, stp.one: Oliver is an experienced Tech CEO, Advisor and Board Member with technology background in Legal-Tech, IT Service Management, Compliance, Process automation, End User Computing and Cyber Security. His passion is development of excellent B2B SaaS teams. In his professional career, he has successfully led global Product Development, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams through all phases of Strategy, Design and Execution.
Visit https://www.boardwave.org/ to learn more.
