4 Trends Shaping the Future of Sports
In December, I was invited to join “The New Wave of Dealmakers in Sports” panel at the Sports Business Journal’s Dealmakers in Sports Conference in NYC.
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Serent’s Growth Team specializes in helping technology-enabled businesses achieve their goals.
Here at Serent Toolkit, our operations experts share their strategies, stories, insights, and best practices used while working to equip these high-growth and fast paced SaaS companies for success.
What Private Equity Investors Look for in Marketing Leaders
Serent's own Prital Kadakia, who leads the Growth team at Serent Capital, helps portfolio companies scale up, drive results, and find the right leadership talent. As a sales and marketing expert at a private equity firm, Prital’s work with portfolio companies spans sales force effectiveness, pricing, operational efficiencies, strategic partnerships, strategy development, procurement, and digital marketing.
Read MoreSerent Capital's 2019 CFO Summit
Serent Capital’s CFO Summit recently took place in Austin, Texas. Over 20 CFOs and finance heads attended to take part in panel discussions and presentations ranging from building a board pack to improving pricing and contracting. It was an engaged, collaborative, and lively group of attendees that helped make this Serent event a success.
Read MoreSerent Capital 2019 RevGen Summit
Serent Capital's Revenue Generation Summit took place recently to highlight and discuss trends in the industry. Presenters showed attendees best practices and the latest technology to improve a company’s growth. We were happy to see a lot of new faces in the crowd. For approximately 70% of the attendees, this was their first Serent summit. Events like these are great because it allows us time to meet and collaborate with new people, all of which were either in marketing or sales.
Read MoreSerent Capital 2019 P&T Summit
Each year, Serent Capital hosts the Product and Technology (P&T) Summit to bring industry leaders within Serent portfolio companies together to educate and empower organizations to prioritize customer needs, create better processes, and improve efficiency to produce successful outcomes.
Read MoreSerent Capital 2019 HR Summit
Serent Capital's HR Summit was recently held in September. It was filled with two days of bright minds sharing insights into the industry with topics ranging from how to improve office culture to the best ways of optimizing healthcare offerings. It was a chance to have round-table discussions and learn from industry veterans about how to bring your Human Resources department up to speed with the latest in industry practices and technology.
Read MoreSerent Capital 2019 Operations and Customer Service Summit
Serent Capital’s Operations & Customer Service Summit is an annual event that brings operations and customer service leaders within the Serent portfolio of companies together to share industry best practices, case studies, and lessons learned - fueling efficacy and productivity. Our Austin, Texas-based summit brought together a cross-industry assembly of both first-time and multi-year attendees, with more than 80% of those attending in VP or C-Level positions. This collaborative space allowed the group to address high-level concerns and discuss opportunities for alignment and implementable changes within their high-growth organizations.
Read MorePrivate Equity Panel with C2 Education and USATestprep
Serent partnered with the Technology Executive Roundtable (TER) and Morris, Manning, & Martin, to co-host a panel, focused on Private Equity investments in technology companies, at the Buckhead Club in Atlanta on July 16th.
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Recent News at Serent Capital
At Serent Capital, we are dedicated to creating effective and long-term growth for the companies we partner with. Read more about our latest news.
Founded in 2008, Serent Capital is a leading lower-middle market private equity firm focused on investing in high growth service and technology businesses. Our operating model is distinct in its focus on business building. We strive to be an involved, value-added investor, capable of providing significant operational and strategic support to our portfolio company CEOs on the most critical issues that they face as their companies scale.
Serent Capital's ability to assist its companies is based on its principals' experience as CEOs, strategic advisers, and Board Members, and a deep network of formal and informal advisors.
Our mission is to deliver extraordinary returns by partnering with outstanding executive teams to grow exceptional businesses. Our success in this mission comes from our persistent adherence to our values.
Focus
Vertical Specific B2B Software, Data, or Tech-Enabled Services Companies
Enterprise Value
$15m to $250m
(Smaller for add-ons)
Company Size
>$5M of recurring or reoccurring revenue
(Smaller for add-ons)
Geography
USA & Canada
Growth
10% - 1,000%
Profitability
EBITDA up to $15M
Ownership
Minority or Majority Transactions
30-100%