How Can Mainsail Help

Your business continues to grow, but you are finding it more difficult to continue your growth rate. Increased competition, longer lead times to market, and missed opportunities due to limited resources are indications that it may be time to find the right equity partner. This is our sweet spot and no one understands this phase of growth better than Mainsail Partners. Our senior team has helped more than thirty companies like yours overcome the challenges of sustained growth.    

More than Capital

To realize your potential will take more than just capital. We leverage our extensive experience directing strategies, scaling organizations, and developing infrastructure to help founders and management teams achieve their long term goals. Mainsail is an ideal partner for companies and management teams in a position to benefit from our experience and active involvement, as well as our capital. Mainsail brings our expertise and a commitment to operational excellence in all facets of business to help your company grow and succeed.

Strategy and Planning

Setting clear strategies and long term planning are critical for fast growing companies with more opportunities than resources. As former CEOs, executives and board members, we are experts in developing strategies to create long term value for businesses. Your management teams can count on our experience and leadership to solve problems and assess opportunities. Mainsail Partners takes a meaningful role on the boards of our portfolio companies, helping teams benefit from our unique and valuable perspective across numerous companies and industries.

Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing are crucial components of later-stage growth, but in many cases bootstrapped companies have underinvested in these functions. Mainsail will work with you to develop your sales strategy, scale sales teams, implement and manage CRM systems, and define commission structures. Our senior team includes a dedicated marketing executive to help your company develop and execute best-in-class marketing strategies.

Team Building

In addition to providing the capital needed to scale teams, we leverage our extensive network of industry professionals and functional experts to provide you with the talent and firepower to get through the next phase of growth. We understand the importance of balancing professional experience and skills with maintaining the entrepreneurial culture and spirit of innovation you have built. We also have a network of individuals with specialized skills who are able to address critical issues on a project basis. 

Finance and Accounting

Capital-efficient companies like yours have demonstrated financial discipline. Managing financial and accounting processes becomes more challenging and more critical as your company grows. Mainsail has the expertise and systems to streamline accounting and financial reporting in order to enhance decision-making. We help you manage your business more effectively, leveraging custom designed KPI reporting packages to reflect current data and future forecasts.

Information Technology

Keeping pace with the rapid changes in technology is enormously challenging with limited capital. Mainsail believes technology-based infrastructure is critical to improving scalability, efficiency, and ultimately the value of your company. In partnership with our management teams, Mainsail has led significant upgrades or complete overhauls of information systems at nearly every one of our portfolio companies. This includes CRMs, accounting systems, websites, e-commerce platforms, content management systems, and communications platforms.

Business and Corporate Development

In addition to enhancing organic growth through strategic partnerships, we are constantly searching for growth opportunities through accretive acquisitions. Mainsail leverages our extensive industry contacts and proprietary database of nearly 25,000 companies to identify strategic partnerships and potential acquisitions for our portfolio companies. 

To see specific examples of how we have helped our companies view our case studies.