Guidepost Growth Equity

Guidepost Growth Equity is a private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2007. The firm specializes in investing in growth-stage technology companies across various sectors, including tech-enabled services, application and infrastructure software, and healthcare IT. It typically targets investments ranging from $15 million to $75 million in companies generating revenues between $15 million and $300 million. Guidepost Growth Equity focuses on providing capital for shareholder and owner liquidity and prefers to make equity investments without requiring voting control. The firm aims to lead or co-lead initial institutional rounds and often seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. It predominantly invests in sectors such as communications, digital media, and information services while avoiding capital-intensive businesses.

Steve Brown

Vice President

Taylor Doherty

Vice President

AJ Ferrara

Senior Associate

Joan Fleischman

Vice President

Colby Fortin

Associate

Kingsley, Douglas A.

Co-Founder and General Partner

Nathan Machado

Operating Partner

Nate Machado

Operating Partner

Travis McGee

Senior Associate

Ben Morrison

Associate

Gene Nogi

General Partner

Eugene Nogi

General Partner

Mac Perry

Associate

Kate Ramirez

CFO

15 past transactions

Atlas

Series B in 2022
Atlas provides business solutions for industries such as venture capitals, government industries, tech industries, and financial services. Atlas also allows its clients to monitor their progress under their personalized software platform to fast-track and simplify HR set-up. Atlas was established in 2015 by Rick Hammel in Chicago, Illinois.

Dscout

Series C in 2022
Dscout is a remote experience research technology platform that provides organizations with the technology tools and services to select participants, field a multitude of moderated and unmoderated methodologies, accelerate analysis, and create impactful, media-rich research deliverables. Its customers use its innovative web-based analysis platform to derive tremendous customer insight—and tell customers’ stories using videos, photos, and quantitative data. Headquartered in Chicago, Dscout serves global users in social media, technology, consulting, advertising, financial services, consumer products, and healthcare industries.

Atheneum

Venture Round in 2021
Atheneum is a B2B Research Technology connecting investment funds, consulting firms, and corporations with the world’s experts. Through its proprietary machine-learning software and cloud-based insights platform, "Athena One", Atheneum provides rapid responses and on-demand access to global intelligence for understanding cutting edge industry trends and the critical in-depth market information needed to drive business expansion, operational excellence, and product innovation. Founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, Atheneum's founding management team, Mathias Wengeler, Ammad Ahmad, and Marta Margolis, have spearheaded its global growth across 11 offices including London, Munich, and Shanghai, with U.S. headquarters in New York.

Tractive

Series A in 2021
Tractive is global market leader in GPS Tracking, Activity & Health Monitoring for cats and dogs. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Pasching, Austria.

OutSystems

Series E in 2021
OutSystems is a low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps. The modern application platform's high productivity, connected, and AI-assisted tools help developers to innovate through software. It enables organizations to build applications that transform the customer experiences, delivers workplace innovation, automates processes, or modernizes core systems faster. OutSystems makes this possible by combining the power of low-code tools with advanced development capabilities, enabling visual development of entire applications that easily integrate with existing systems. The company is backed by investors such as Abdiel Capital, Tiger Global Management, Goldman Sachs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, and Armilar Venture Partners. Paulo Rosado and Rui Pereira co-founded the Boston, Massachusett-based company in 2001.

Elements Global Services

Private Equity Round in 2020
As a direct Employer of Record, Elements Global Services makes global expansion simple. Elements is an award-winning HR Technology and services company providing employment solutions in 135+ countries. Elements covers everything from Global HR Compliance, Benefits Administration, Payroll to Visa & Mobility services. Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and with offices in London, Washington D.C., New Delhi, Dubai, Johannesburg, Manila and São Paulo.

Green Rabbit

Private Equity Round in 2019
Green Rabbit is the trusted cold chain logistics provider for fast, safe, sustainable fulfillment and delivery of perishable goods and grocery.

Traction on Demand

Private Equity Round in 2019
Traction on Demand is North America's largest dedicated Salesforce consulting and application development firm delivering cross-platform solutions and standalone SaaS products. As both a Salesforce Platinum Consulting Partner and Salesforce.org Premium Partner, Traction on Demand has completed over 6,000 projects on the platform. We develop innovative cloud technology solutions and applications for North America’s largest and most influential brands as well as hundreds of non-profit organizations looking to drive their mission through technology. Recognized as one of the fastest growing and best managed companies in North America, Traction on Demand is also one of the Canada’s first 100 certified B Corporations. The company has been named a top 10 best place to work in Canada every year since 2014, including #1 in 2019.

Mineral

Private Equity Round in 2018
Mineral offers human expertise and technology to provide companies with HR compliance and best practices advice.

Jive Communications

Venture Round in 2016
Jive provides cloud-based phone systems and Unified Communications services. Jive’s customers include high-growth businesses and public sector institutions needing a scalable platform that is more flexible and cost-effective than their existing legacy systems. Jive’s cloud architecture offers an integrated, seamless experience that provides richer context and creates more efficient connections between co-workers and clients. Jive’s cloud delivery model ensures that each organization always has the latest technology, features, and applications—making Jive the last phone system you’ll ever need.

Spoonflower

Venture Round in 2015
Spoonflower is a community built around fabric and textile design. It offers custom fabric printing with no minimum order as well as as a marketplace of thousands of unique fabric designs by independent designers from around the world. The company has expanded its products to include custom wallpaper and gift wrap, in addition to fabric. Spoonflower uses eco-friendly digital textile printing technology and prints each order on demand using water-based inks. Crafters and small businesses use custom fabric, wallpaper and gift wrap from Spoonflower to make quilts, clothes, pillows, dolls, blankets, framed textile art and many, many other products.

Erecruit

Venture Round in 2014
Erecruit offers staffing software solutions designed to empower people to achieve results. It uses modern, standards-based technologies to provide an integrated front and back-office solution with VMS and powerful, real-time analytics that allows today’s best staffing firms to put their clients and candidates at the heart of their businesses. Customers range in size from $20M - $250M and have found that Erecruit combines an unparalleled level of configuration, ease-of-use, and reporting with unlimited integration capability, providing the ultimate control over business success.

Clarity Software Solutions

Venture Round in 2014
Clarity Software Solutions provides technology driving healthcare communications. The company assists clients to optimize customer relationships by enhancing flexibility and control over their document management and communications delivery. Clarity is headquartered in Madison, Connecticut, serving various health plans throughout the country. Clarity’s custom solutions are built within secure web-based technology, are easy to use, and allow a single communication to be published to any media type - print, web, mobile, or email.

WP Engine

Series A in 2011
WP Engine empowers companies and agencies of all sizes to build, power, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites and applications with confidence. Serving 1.5 million customers across 150+ countries, the global technology company provides premium, enterprise-grade solutions, tools, and services, including specialized platforms for Managed WordPress and Headless WordPress, industry-tailored eCommerce and agency solution suites, and developer-centric tools like Local, Advanced Custom Fields, and more. WP Engine’s innovative technology and industry-leading expertise are why 8% of the web visits a WP Engine-powered site daily. Learn more at wpengine.com.
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