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Guidepost Growth Equity

Guidepost Growth Equity takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from Boston, United States. It states a focus on software & internet and energy & utilities.

Capital raised$733macross 5 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2023filing since 2019
HeadquartersBoston, United States
Stated fund size~$2.1B AUM; Fund IV $521M

Stated investment criteria

What Guidepost Growth Equity says it buys

Read from Guidepost Growth Equity’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 typesGrowth1

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. Nothing here is a commitment by Guidepost Growth Equity to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Guidepost Growth Equity 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 filed5
Total capital raised$733m
Largest single vehicle$319m
Filing history2019 to 2023
Smallest accepted commitmentNone stated
Filed fromMASSACHUSETTS

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 Guidepost Growth Equity 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$1.7bn
Employees23
Private funds advised5 · $1.7bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 161579

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Guidepost Growth Equity is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 2 recorded exits, most recently in 2018.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
Jive CommunicationsSoldGoTo2018$357m
Valence HealthSoldEvolent Health2016$145m

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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