WestView Capital Partners Named to Inc.’s Top Founder-Friendly Investors List for Sixth Consecutive Year

Boston, MA – WestView Capital Partners (“WestView”), a Boston-based growth equity firm, has been named to Inc.’s 2025 Founder-Friendly Investors list for the sixth consecutive year. The annual list recognizes the most founder-friendly private equity and venture capital firms that have demonstrated a consistent commitment to supporting entrepreneurs and their growth journeys.

To compile the list, Inc. gathered feedback directly from founders who have partnered with private equity and venture capital firms. These entrepreneurs provided detailed input on their experiences and offered candid insight into how their businesses have performed through these partnerships.

“We’re honored to once again be recognized by Inc. as one of the most Founder-Friendly Investors,” said Matt Carroll, Managing Partner at WestView. “For more than two decades, our approach has centered on being a supportive, thoughtful partner to management teams, helping them scale while preserving their entrepreneurial culture.”

Jonathan Hunnicutt, Managing Partner, added, “To receive this recognition for six straight years is especially meaningful because it’s based on feedback from the founders we’ve had the privilege to partner with. Their success is at the heart of everything we do at WestView, and this honor reaffirms our long-standing mission to build enduring, collaborative relationships with growth-minded entrepreneurs.”

Since its founding in 2004, WestView has focused exclusively on partnering with founder-led, growth companies across a wide range of industries. The firm’s collaborative, control-agnostic investment approach and long-term orientation have made WestView a trusted partner for entrepreneurs seeking to accelerate growth while maintaining control of their vision.

About WestView Capital Partners

WestView Capital Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm focused exclusively on middle market growth companies, manages $2.7 billion in capital across five funds. WestView partners with existing management teams to sponsor minority and majority recapitalizations, growth, and consolidation transactions in several sectors, including software and IT services, business services, healthcare technology and outsourcing and growth industrial. WestView targets investments of $20 to $100 million in companies with revenue of at least $10 million and operating profits between $3 and $25 million. For more information, please visit www.wvcapital.com.

About Inc.

Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of our community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating our future. Inc.'s award-winning work achieves a monthly brand footprint of more than 40 million across a variety of channels, including events, digital, print, video, podcasts, newsletters, and social media. Its proprietary Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since its launch as the Inc. 100 in 1982, analyzes company data to rank the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The recognition that comes with inclusion on this and other prestigious Inc. lists, such as Female Founders and Power Partners, gives the founders of top businesses the opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. For more information, visit www.inc.com.

The Firm Recognitions presented herein are from third-parties that are not affiliated with WestView. These third-parties independently assess nominees based on multiple criteria. The awards and designations presented on this website are the opinion of the respective parties conferring the award or designation and not of WestView. Recognitions by third-parties are not indicative of future performance. WestView submitted a nomination to be considered for the Inc. Founder Friendly award and paid a fee to submit. The receipt of compensation influences, and is likely to present a potential material conflict of interest, relating to any granted award or designation. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusions as the foregoing. For additional details on the specific award selection criteria and methodology, please visit https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors-methodology-how-we-selected-these-firms