Our Strategies
Growth Capital
We partner with entrepreneurs of private growth stage enterprise software and technology-enabled companies across North America in the lower middle market. Kayne Anderson’s growth capital platform has an appreciation for nimble and innovative founders that blaze their own trail and understand the unique challenges entrepreneurs and management teams face in scaling their businesses. We understand that a strong management team is the foundation of a successful growth business.
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Value-Add Network
Investing With Kayne Anderson Growth Capital
Why Growth Capital?
We partner with high-growth software companies that have reached an inflection point where an infusion of capital and the right partner can have a profound impact on helping them achieve their growth plans.
We are flexible in how we structure our capital and mindful of what makes the most sense for the business and management team. Our deep industry knowledge and experience enables us to support our management teams with a best-in-class approach to facilitate rapid scaling through experienced board involvement, auxiliary corporate development support, and a network of operators and vendors.
Kayne Anderson's growth capital strategy offers key advantages
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Direct Sourcing Engine
- Systematic Prospecting
- Partnership Approach
- Geography, Industry, Kayne Network
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Industry & Stage Expertise
- People
- Sales & Marketing
- Product Development
- Finance & Accounting
- Corporate Development
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Kayne Network
- Partnerships
- Strategic Operators, Growth Stage Executives, Board Directors
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Value Creation
- Multiple Expansion
- Key Unit Economics
- Guided Exit Process
The Firm Behind the Fund
We are an active partner bringing Kayne Anderson’s large firm capabilities to the lower middle market of technology investing contributing to the accelerated growth of some of the most innovative, high-growth software companies.
We access these companies through our direct sourcing engine, underwrite through deep industry expertise and specific investment stage knowledge, and bring our Firm’s significant resources to help drive value creation.
Experienced Investors
We are investors and partners, offering an established platform to accelerate the growth path of portfolio companies and help businesses realize their aspirations.
Our entrepreneurs are accomplished leaders. They look to us for our unique industry knowledge and perspective, strategic guidance, unique set of resources, and successful track record of building lower middle market growth companies into must-have assets for strategic and financial buyers and maximizing value at exit.
Patient, Flexible Capital
We offer flexibility as to transaction type and investment structure and take a more patient view than other investors. We tailor our investments to the unique situation of each company, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all strategy. We have done minority and majority transactions in preferred equity and debt structures and have the ability to stage our investments, increasing our commitment as the company scales. We are also open to partnering with other investors who bring strategic value.
We believe value is maximized when we are aligned with an entrepreneur, including meaningful equity for management. We advise our companies to take the right amount of capital to achieve the greatest impact.
Value-Add Capital
Entrepreneurs face similar challenges regardless of the end-markets they target and these phases of growth tend to be consistent as the revenues of the company continue to grow.
Kayne Partners experience across 50+ portfolio companies has enabled the team to develop consistent processes to add value through key hires, resource and product enhancements, infrastructure and scalable operational processes, capital formation planning and corporate development support.
We believe value is maximized when we are aligned with an entrepreneur, including meaningful equity for management. We advise our companies to take the right amount of capital to achieve the greatest impact.
Portfolio
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3C Interactive – Enterprise Mobile Communications
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4C Insights – TV and Social Media Technology
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Agilix – K-12 Educational Content Management and Delivery Platform
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Andover – Medical Tapes Manufacturer
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Atlas RFID – Technology Enabled Materials Tracking for Oil and Gas Construction
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Azalea Health – RCM and EHR Solutions for Healthcare Providers
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Bark Technologies – Parental control and content monitoring tool for families
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CellTrust – Mobile Security Platform
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Circle Cardiovascular – Cardiac Imaging Software
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Cloudbreak – Telehealth Language Interpretation Service
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Coldlight – Big Data and Predictive Analytics
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Consero – Outsourced Financial and Accounting Solutions
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Our People
We are a leading partner to private, high-growth mission critical, enterprise software and technology enabled service business in the lower middle market.
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