WestView Capital Partners Recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top Founder-Friendly Investor for Fifth Consecutive Year
October 29th, 2024
Boston, MA – WestView Capital Partners (“WestView”), a Boston-based growth equity firm, was named in Inc.’s 2024 Founder-Friendly Investor list for the fifth consecutive year. For the 2024 Founder-Friendly Investor list, which honors the most founder-friendly private equity and venture capital firms in the country, Inc. again gathered data directly from entrepreneurs who have partnered with investors to gauge their opinions on the most founder-friendly firms. Founders responded to questionnaires and interview questions about their experiences partnering with private equity firms and offered insight into how their businesses have performed through these partnerships.
“We are thrilled to be recognized on Inc.’s prestigious list of the most Founder-Friendly Investors for the fifth consecutive year,” stated Matt Carroll, a Managing Partner at WestView. He further emphasized, “Our commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit involves serving as a helpful yet unintrusive partner to our founding management teams.” Jonathan Hunnicutt, also a Managing Partner, remarked, “It has been a privilege to collaborate with so many passionate founding management teams over the 20 years since WestView’s founding, and we take pride in the fact that their valuable feedback has contributed to our inclusion on this list. WestView was established with the mission of cultivating enduring, supportive relationships with entrepreneurs, and our recognition for the fifth consecutive year reaffirms this foundational principle.”
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, healthcare technology and outsourcing, business services, 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