Purpose Built to Transform Lower Middle
Market Software and Services Businesses
Market Software and Services Businesses
Our Firm & Our Approach
We are a specialist growth-focused private equity firm dedicated to transforming technology, business services and financial services.
Our experience
~$2.6
Billion
of equity deployed
+20
Years
of experience supporting middle market businesses
11
Investments
led or co-lead by our team
3
Sectors
of focus
Our values
Our core values and principles guide all that we do.
Tenacity
Grit, determination and a dogged focus on success. When we become your partner, we pour everything we have into seeing you realize your potential.
Creativity
We embrace the future, endeavor to be flexible and strive to innovate in all that we do. We help our partner companies do things.
Partnership
Aligning ourselves to you, our investors and your community stakeholders. Sharing success in all that we do.
Our strategy
We look for stable, secularly growing markets where we can partner with founder owned businesses to build next generation market leading enterprises.
- Headquartered in North America
- $2.0M or More of EBITDA
- Recurring Revenue Oriented Businesses
- Generally B2B or B2B2C Models
- Generally Founder Led and Owned
- Asset-Light Services or Software
- Limited Costumer Concentration
- Strong Customer Value Proposition with Reason to Win in Core Market
- Founder Recapitalizations
Providing liquidity to founders in the form of a meaningful minority interest sale
- Control Buyouts
Acquiring a controlling equity interests from founders and selling shareholders
- Corporate Carve-Outs
Acquiring noncore or orphaned assets from larger corporations
- Acquisition Line Financings
Providing committed capital to pursue an aggregation strategy in a fragmented industry
We generally make equity investments of $10 Million to $50 Million in enterprises valued below $150 Million.
Our APPROACH
We aim to transform the companies with whom we partner. We tailor our approach to the specific challenges as well as acceleration opportunities facing each of the companies we work with.
1.
Institutionalization
We help modernize core systems and implement institutional processes.
2.
Tech Re-Platforming
We identify areas for improvement – and work to update your UI/UX and back end.
3.
Team Development
We help you identify executive talent to fill gaps and expand the business.
4.
Mergers & Acquisitions
We drive M&A activity including originating, underwriting, financing and supporting integration.
5.
Business Optimization
We collaborate on pricing, packaging, distribution, cost efficiencies and process improvements.
Pete Henrikson
President of Brazos Safety Systems
Pete Henrikson
President of Brazos Safety Systems
“The Altaline team is energetic, hungry and so committed to my success. They are up 24/7 supporting me on everything from HR, pricing, M&A, customer introductions and product. Their team is embedded across my organization. It’s like I have a co-founder for my business.”
Orlando Remak
Co-Founder of The CAM Collective
Orlando Remak
Co-Founder of The CAM Collective
"These guys are just very thoughtful. They move with conviction, they help bring things together, they think strategically, they are creative, their energetic and they get out of the way"
Savneet Singh
CEO of PAR Technology
Savneet Singh
CEO of PAR Technology
"I’ve known these guys for a decade – and they are just excellent. They care, they get up every day and figure out how to add value. They also have humility, which is just so important. When you meet them, you’ll see how magnetic their energy is."