How Technology Fuels Private Equity Growth Strategies

Posted by Emily Houghton, Industry Marketing Lead
Private equity firms and their portfolio companies are both focused on one primary outcome: improving business performance. While this goal may seem simple, the path to achieving it is constantly evolving and the relationship between the two parties is both unique and complex.
The days when PE firms were mere sources of capital investment are gone. In today’s climate, firms like ParkerGale Capital, a control buyer of founder-owned technology companies and corporate carve outs, are focused on four pillars of value creation: product, market, team and systems.
“We focus on the lower left of the Ansoff Matrix – selling more product into our current market – and our four pillars are in service to that goal,” Jim Milbery, a partner at ParkerGale, explained.