Experienced Growth Partners

You had the vision and commitment to start a successful business. We have the experience to help you build it into a great company. We are former CEO’s, company founders, and operating executives with experience launching start-ups and growing successful businesses into industry leaders. 

Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based private equity firm founded by Gavin Turner and C. Jason Payne in 2003. Our partners' investments in over thirty bootstrapped companies and more than $300M of invested capital has returned $1.2B in cash to-date. Mainsail currently has over $150M of assets under management from leading institutions, executives, and entrepreneurs.

Our passion is collaborating with exceptional entrepreneurs to build great companies. We invest in you and your team and are active partners, providing expertise and support to grow bootstrapped businesses like yours to the next level. 

Focused Partners

We work exclusively with bootstrapped companies. For over four decades our partners have been successfully building companies like yours into industry leaders. This focus provides Mainsail with valuable perspective and a foundation of knowledge to help company owners and management achieve their vision and goals. 

Active Partners

Our active involvement provides experience and strength in targeted areas to ensure that your company sees exceptional performance in the next phase of growth. We work directly with management in all critical aspects of company-building including: scaling infrastructure and teams; establishing state-of-the-art IT systems; and implementing sales and marketing strategies. We identify areas with the greatest opportunity for returns and invest our time and resources accordingly. 

Committed Partners

Our approach to growth requires hard work, but we know from experience that this approach returns the most consistent results. We understand that real growth takes time and we believe our shared commitment to the long term success of your company will result in the best possible outcome for you, management, investors, and Mainsail.

Trusted Partners

At Mainsail Partners, integrity and ethics are the foundation of all aspects of our business. Our pledge is to treat entrepreneurs, intermediaries, our investors and employees fairly and with respect. We operate with the understanding that our reputation is our greatest asset. 

Review our case studies to learn more about how our experience has helped our companies.

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