WestView Capital Partners Recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top Founder-Friendly Investor for Fourth Consecutive Year
October 31st, 2023
Boston, MA – WestView Capital Partners (“WestView”), a Boston-based growth equity firm, was named in Inc.’s 2023 Founder-Friendly Investor list for the fourth consecutive year. For the 2023 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 honored to be included on Inc.’s list of the country’s most Founder-Friendly Investors for a fourth consecutive year,” said Matt Carroll, Managing Partner at WestView. He added “we are committed to supporting entrepreneurs and their visions by being a helpful, yet unintrusive, partner in their journey.” Jonathan Hunnicutt, also a Managing Partner, added “we are privileged to have worked with so many founders over nearly 20 years and proud that their direct input led to us being included on this list. WestView was founded with the goal of building longstanding, supportive relationships with founders, and our inclusion for a fourth consecutive year is a testament to that founding 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.
The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. 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