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Geography |
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North America and European Union |
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Stage |
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Primary Investments:
Venture: Endeavor prefers expansion stage
opportunities, but will selectively pursue early
stage situations. In many instances, Endeavor is
the first institutional financing received by a
company. Profitability is not required but
prospective early stage investments must have
paying customers and a near term plan for
attaining cash positive operations.
Buyouts: Prefer to originate or co-lead
buyout transactions, typically with a
transaction size of up to $50 million.
Direct Secondaries: Endeavor seeks to
acquire portfolios of expansion stage companies
from individual, corporate or other private
equity investors who are divesting their direct
private equity investments to rebalance their
portfolios. |
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Typical Investment Size |
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Average investments range from $500,000
to $5.0 million. However,
Endeavor has invested $10+ million over the life
of an investment, and, with support from limited
partners and co-investors, over $20 million. |
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Role |
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Active investors with board and key board
committee representation. |
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Industry Focus |
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Somewhat opportunistic, but we are currently
pursuing investments offering products or
services that are technology-oriented in the
following industries:
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Environmental Technologies
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Energy and Utilities
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Communications
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Software
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Business processes outsourcing, such as
metering and billing |
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Special situations where manufacturing
or service businesses take advantage of
technology to materially alter a company's
operating economics and competitive strength. |
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Things We Look For |
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Talented Management: A resourceful and
disciplined team with a demonstrable track
record of prior success.
High Growth Potential: Companies in
expanding or changing industries that can
support exceptional return on investment within
five years from Endeavor's initial involvement.
Barriers to Entry: Attributes that
contribute to sustainable success include
proprietary products and services, pre-emptive
locations, strong distribution channels,
restrictive sourcing agreements, demonstrated
brand loyalty, and innovative marketing and
sales strategies.
Attractive Operating Economics: A
definable business model that can be replicated
to achieve growing, recurring revenues,
substantial profit margins and growing free cash
flow.
Alternative Exit Strategies: The business
should have the potential to be a public growth
company or be a merger or acquisition candidate to
a strategic buyer. Alternatively, the business
should generate sufficient free cash flow to
provide investors an attractive rate of return
over a predetermined time horizon. |
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What We Like To See First |
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A crisp, 2-3 page executive summary describing
the company, its market opportunity, competitive
position, the unique value proposition of its
product and/or service offerings, management
team and strategy for growth emailed to:
contactus@endeavorcap.com. |
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