Our strategy and approach
We provide customized capital solutions to help finance the specific needs of our partner companies
Role
We seek to lead and be an engaged, value add capital partner with a focus on corporate strategy, operational excellence and capital allocation to deliver financial performance throughout the business cycle.
Flexible Capital Solutions
We provide customized capital solutions to help finance the specific needs of our investee companies, making investments across their capital structure. Our investments typically include common and preferred stock, convertible stock and other equity-like investment structures.
Funding uses
GPI Capital provides capital to its partner companies for a wide array of uses.
Transformational capital
Organic initiatives
Funding corporate projects, geographic or product/service expansion, penetrating new or existing markets, platform extensions and growing teams
Mergers & acquisitions
Funding acquisitions, bolt-on new capabilities or verticalize technology stacks and supply chains
Liquidity solutions
Funding governance changes, ownership transitions and recapitalizations
Investment criteria
We invest in late stage growth and mature companies, primarily in North America, that have achieved scale, typically with revenues over $100 million and equity values between $500 million and $5 billion across technology, consumer and industrial sectors.
Industry focus
Technology
- Internet
- Social/marketplaces
- E-communications
- Software and services
Consumer
- Retail/e-commerce
- Consumer finance
- Travel/leisure
- Services
Industrial
- Multi-industry/services
- Equipment/machinery
- Transport/logistics
Value creation approach
We work closely in partnership with our portfolio companies’ stakeholders and management to drive significant financial and operational improvements. We have a wealth of knowledge, best practices and a large supportive network to share with our portfolio companies. Each engagement is highly customized to the respective needs of the companies.
Strategy
Commercial
Go-to market strategies and market assessment to drive rapid topline growth
Corporate development
M&A, capital allocation and liquidity analyses
Operational
Technology
Best practices and infrastructure
Talent
Organization, people and vendor search
Cost savings
Best practices to maximize profitable growth
Business & market
Industry landscape
Competitive analysis and industry insights and product disruption risks
Corporate partnerships
Leverage extensive and deep network to drive incremental growth and operational efficiencies
Long term, sustainable growth - ESG
GPI Capital integrates Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations into its diligence and analysis. We believe that an ESG analysis is key in the exercise of our fiduciary duty to protect our investors’ long-term interest by providing additional tools and lenses through which we can identify risks and opportunities of our investments.