Our Mission

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To be the partner of choice for growth-stage software entrepreneurs.

Our aspiration is to be the best companion to growth stage entrepreneurs looking to sensibly scale their business and capitalize on an awesome opportunity, full stop. 

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Our Focus

We have a simple business founded on a few key principles.

Business Software

Business Software

We invest in and partner with software businesses selling to a business buyer.

Business Software

We’re passionate about the opportunities entrepreneurs have to disrupt convention and drive innovation in business software. We’re big fans of the business software recurring revenue model, the opportunity to surface value to a discriminating end client, and the rewards that are available to business software companies that execute. We’re obsessed with best practices, emerging trends, KPIs, and lessons learned in business software and share these with our entrepreneurs.

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Growth Stage

Growth Stage

We are a great fit when you’ve evolved past the point of being a start-up and you’re looking to scale.

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When you’ve successfully navigated building your product, hiring your team, and winning your first few million of revenue, you’ve accomplished a lot. The journey’s just begun, however, and scaling your GTM organization, evaluating ongoing pricing and packaging strategies, and expanding into new geographies can be treacherous. You need a partner who’s expert at successfully charting this leg of the journey. PeakSpan focuses exclusively on software businesses that have reached the point in their evolution and maturity where they are ready to scale sensibly.

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Theme Driven

Theme Driven

Like you, we’re hyper-focused and committed to excellence.

Theme Driven

We don’t pretend to be expert at everything but it’s our aspiration to be a best in class partner in the market segments that we’re passionate about. Our team focuses on a tight portfolio of themes or market segments and we only invest in these categories so that we can be impactful as a partner and stakeholder. You won’t have to tune PeakSpan up on the opportunity you see in your market, the competitive landscape, or the challenges you need to navigate. We know your segment cold and are committed to building and maintaining excellence in your market category as one of a few areas that we focus on.

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Sensible Company Development

Sensible Company Development

In a world of “go big or go home”, we’re committing to building resilient software leaders the right way.

Sensible COmpany Development

PeakSpan is committed to growth and market leadership as a partner and stakeholder in the businesses we back. We share the ambition and impatience of our entrepreneurs but are also committed to scaling sensibly and investing in growth programs where we have conviction. We don’t push our businesses to be a “billion or bust” but instead work with our entrepreneurs to set aspirational but achievable goals. When we hit these objectives, we can set new ones. We’re energized by the opportunities our entrepreneurs pursue, conscious of avoiding unnecessary risk in the name of ebullience, and pragmatic about always assessing the realities of the markets we compete in and the outcomes that will drive success for all stakeholders.

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Our Approach
Expert, Engaged, and Impactful

Bringing PeakSpan on to your team is a force multiplier. Our objective is to leverage our domain expertise and experience working with growth stage software entrepreneurs to help our companies secure the best possible outcomes

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Domain
Expertise

Exclusive focus on business software and growth stage companies. We know your category, your competitive set, and your challenges and opportunities.

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“Old School” Commitment
to Active Engagement

In a world where every investor claims
to value-add, we’re committed to
real impact.

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“New School” Use of
Proprietary Tech and Systems

Like you, we’re passionate about
applying software and data
to our own business.

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Insight from Our Managing Partners

Scale Sensibly into Success

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PeakSpan deeply understands the challenges entrepreneurs face and they speak our language. They get scaling, they get software, and they're committed to responsible company building.

Taylor Cavanah

CEO AND FOUNDER

Phil-Dur

We started PeakSpan with the goal of creating a firm that would be the partner of choice for growth stage software companies looking to secure capital and expertise to build their business. Everything we do is tied to this vision.

Phil Dur

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER

ps-qa-_0005_James Isilay

If you are looking for an investor who’s been there and done that, this is the team for you. Their depth of knowledge and experience around the most relevant issues facing our business is amazing.

James Isilay

CEO

ps-qa-_0004_Ford Blakely

PeakSpan was instrumental in helping me scale our business and secure an awesome outcome for stakeholders. They helped us sharpen our focus and go to market strategy, bring on new talent, and improve awareness. It was like having another co-founder in the business.

Ford Blakely

FOUNDER AND CEO

Brian-Mulvey

We are passionate about partnering with the software entrepreneurs to build on the foundation they've worked so hard to establish. PeakSpan is about protecting the value our entrepreneurs have created and working with them to realize a best in class business.

Brian Mulvey

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER

ps-qa-_0003_Aaron Fulkerson

Building a growth company that creates durable value is a daily battle - it's just hard. Having PeakSpan in your corner as you build your business is like bringing a gun to a knife fight.

Aaron Fulkerson

FOUNDER

Matt-Melymuka

PeakSpan’s ethos is all about setting lofty ambitions and aspirational goals, but pursuing them with a deliberate, pragmatic, risk-adjusted mindset of sensible scaling and resilient value creation. This mantra permeates everything we do.

Matt Melymuka

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER

ps-qa-_0007_Anne Fulton

I had the opportunity to develop a relationship with PeakSpan for three years before partnering with them. Their knowledge of our category is remarkable and the impact they had even before they invested was amazing.

Anne Fulton

CEO

ps-qa-_0009_Dimitris-Tsingos

PeakSpan practices what they preach.  They are passionate about helping you grow your business the right way and they’re always there to help.  They’ve been an amazing partner to Epignosis.

Dimitris Tsingos

CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT