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Growth Catalyst Partners

Growth Catalyst Partners takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from Chicago, USA. It states a focus on software & internet, media & communications and business & professional services.

Capital raised$836macross 7 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2023filing since 2016
HeadquartersChicago, USA
Largest single fund$353m

Stated investment criteria

What Growth Catalyst Partners says it buys

Read from Growth Catalyst Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Transaction typesBuy-and-build, Add-on2
OfficesChicago, Rowayton1
People listed on its team page143

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Growth Catalyst Partners states that it takes majority or outright ownership. The team figure counts the people the firm shows on one team page, so it is a floor rather than a headcount: firms that split their team across tabs or load it in pages will read low. Nothing here is a commitment by Growth Catalyst Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Growth Catalyst Partners has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed7
Total capital raised$836m
Largest single vehicle$353m
Filing history2016 to 2023
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromMAURITIUS

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Growth Catalyst Partners 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$1.0bn
Employees14
Private funds advised15 · $1.0bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 311410

Portfolio

Disclosed holdings

Companies Growth Catalyst Partners lists on its own website. 11 carry a stated investment year.

CompanyInvestedYears heldRecorded transaction
Cyber Risk Alliance20188
Shift Paradigm20188
Trufire Studios20197
GovExec20206
Journey20224
Sigma720224
Silver Assist20224
Data Society Group20233
Dimension20233
HoneyQuote20251
third20260
Caring
Equine Network
Seedtag
The Opus Group
TrueFire Studios
s7risk.com

Compiled from Growth Catalyst Partners’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.

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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