Spotlight Equity Partners

Spotlight Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in software and technology-enabled services companies headquartered in the United States and Canada. The firm partners with and complements portfolio company management teams by providing strategic leadership guided by pragmatic, tactical operating experience. Spotlight assumes an active role in its portfolio companies, drawing upon best practices developed through years of investing and operating experience to improve operations and accelerate value creation.

The firm's operationally-active investment philosophy is reflected in its team, which includes professional investors and seasoned operators experienced at executing acquisition transactions and possessing substantial operating experience both at an executive management and board level. Spotlight works closely with its portfolio company management teams to optimize key functional areas across the entire business. Consequently, the firm pursues new investment opportunities in which it can contribute both financial capital and operational expertise to help successful companies achieve their full potential.

Spotlight invests on behalf of limited partners that include family offices, high net worth individuals, and institutional investors located in the United States and abroad. This long-term capital base affords Spotlight the flexibility to focus on value creation over the long run. Through its limited partners, Spotlight has in excess of $250 million of investible capital to deploy into new investments. Since 2007, Spotlight and its Managing Partners have invested over $350 million of equity capital in transactions with ten companies having aggregate enterprise value of more than $1 billion.