Mainsail Partners
Mainsail Partners is a private equity firm focused on management buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth equity investments in rapidly growing companies with the potential to be market leaders. Mainsail has extensive industry experience in technology-enabled services, software, for profit education, healthcare, franchising, and financial services. Mainsail invests exclusively in profitable, growing and “bootstrapped” companies in the United States and Canada.
The firm is based in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2003 by Gavin Turner and C. Jason Payne. Both Managing Partners previously worked at Summit Partners, where Turner was a Vice President, responsible for West Coast media and communications technology investments, and Payne also served as an executive at one of Summit’s investments, American Dental Partners.
Mainsail Partners has over $150 million in capital under management, and is currently invested in seven companies after exiting one of its companies in 2008.
Investments
Mainsail's investments include:
- Path Logic
- Novus Biologicals
- Togo’s
- IP Solutions
- Fusion
- Professional HealthCare
- eSecuritel Holdings
- Cash Management Solutions
Mainsail sold Cash Management Solutions in 2008.
External links
- Mainsail Partners (company website)