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Five Elms Capital

Five Elms Capital takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from United States. It states a focus on software & internet.

Disclosed holdings67
Earliest stated investment
HeadquartersUnited States
Stated fund size3 billion AUM

Regulatory record

How Five Elms Capital is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusSEC registered
Regulatory assets under management$3.1bn
Employees69
Private funds advised22 · $3.1bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 163548

Portfolio

Disclosed holdings

Companies Five Elms Capital lists on its own website. No investment years are published.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
360Player
Abode
Active Abode Toronto, Canada Recruiting Software
ActiveProspect
Apptegy
AskNicely
Auroraxmp
Barti
Bookly Co
BoreDM
Catapult
Claravine
Continu
Contractsafe
Crelate
Darkowl
Digitail
FMX
Fable
Flywheel
Fxcm
Goreact
Granum
Gymdesk
Hubb
Intelligencebank
Karbon
Laborchart
Lumar
Magma Math
Memberclicks
Motivity
Onboard
Openreel
Opiniion
Opus1
Orderup
Outfit
Panopta
Pathify
Powwr
Practice Better
Prismatic
Prospyr
Proxyclick
Reachdesk
Rfp360
Ritten
Roompricegenie
Saylent
Selectquote
Sendlane
Service Fusion
Sherpa
Shippypro
Sitehawk
Skedda
Skynamo
Smart Warehousing
Spacelift
Storesight
Tagger
Teamdynamix
Trackforce
Trybe
Userlane
Vajro

Compiled from Five Elms Capital’s published portfolio page. Where a recorded transaction is shown, that company was the target of a reported deal and has most likely already been realised. Nothing here is represented as being for sale.

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Five Elms Capital is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 1 recorded exit, most recently in 2015.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
OrderUp LLCSoldGroupon2015$69m

Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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