Articles from FTV Capital

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the sixth consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list. The list honors the private equity firms, venture capital firms and lenders with established track records of backing founder-led companies. Brad Bernstein, managing partner at FTV Capital, was also named to Inc.’s inaugural Founder Champions list for his longstanding commitment to supporting founders and helping their businesses grow.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced that it ranked third in the 2025 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Growth Capital Performance Ranking. FTV has been named among the top 20 firms in every edition of the ranking since its inception with the 2022 edition. The annual report recognizes the world’s top-performing growth capital firms based on a data-driven methodology that assesses aggregate performance across funds and vintage years, considering both absolute and relative returns.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm with more than 28 years of experience partnering with high-growth technology and services companies, today announced the appointment of Scott Levine as managing director of strategic business development. In this newly created role, Levine will oversee FTV’s Global Partner Network (GPN) and broader business development platform, working across the firm’s investment, value creation and portfolio teams to deepen market intelligence, broaden enterprise relationships and accelerate strategic and commercial opportunities for portfolio companies.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced the promotion of Adam Hallquist to partner. He will lead investments in FTV Ascend with a continued focus on vertical software, payments and financial technology and services.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the fifth consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, which honors the private equity firms, venture capital firms and lenders with established track records of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognizes 248 firms that have demonstrated a deep commitment to partnering with founder-led businesses with sustained, hands-on engagement and collaboration to drive growth.

ProfitSolv, a leading provider of practice management software and payments for legal, accounting and professional services firms, today announced a significant strategic investment co-led by FTV Capital and Lightyear Capital. The investment will drive ProfitSolv’s continued leadership position in its core verticals, with a focus on continuing product innovation, strengthening its payments offering and expanding the business through accretive M&A.

FTV Capital, a prominent sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced the successful completion of its latest growth equity fundraise with $4.05 billion in capital commitments. Spanning two complementary funds – its eighth flagship fund, FTV VIII, and a new vehicle dedicated to smaller investments, FTV Ascend I (“Ascend I”) – the new capital allows FTV to deepen and expand its approach to supporting innovative, high-growth companies with equity checks ranging from $20 million to $300 million while maintaining a concentrated portfolio of investments in its funds. With this fundraise, FTV has raised over $10.2 billion, invested over $6.7 billion in 149 portfolio companies and realized over $7.4 billion since the firm was founded in 1998.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the fourth consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, which honors the private equity, venture capital firms and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognizes 269 firms that believe in backing founder-led businesses and helping them thrive, demonstrated by their successful track records of collaboration and remaining actively involved with their portfolio companies to drive growth.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity firm, and One Mind at Work, a global nonprofit dedicated to building the future of workforce mental health, today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to advance mental health and wellbeing within high-growth companies in the FTV portfolio. The expanded partnership coincides with World Mental Health Day, which is highlighting workplace mental health as its official 2024 theme.

VALD, a global health technology company and the system of choice for musculoskeletal (“MSK”) health professionals, today announced a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity firm. The investment will enable VALD to grow its global team into new markets, launch new product offerings and capabilities, and continue to utilize AI to create unique applications for the company’s industry-leading, proprietary dataset of tens of millions of MSK health records.

FTV Capital, a prominent sector-focused growth equity investment firm with a successful 25+-year track record of investing in financial and enterprise technology, today announced the opening of its London office to serve as the firm’s hub for UK and European investments. FTV also announced Richard Earnshaw has joined the firm as partner to lead and grow the London-based team while deepening the firm’s investing efforts throughout Europe. Located in Mayfair, FTV’s London office joins the firm’s existing offices in New York, San Francisco and Connecticut, representing its first office outside of the United States.

FTV Capital, a leading sector-focused growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the third consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list, which honors the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing entrepreneurs. The final list recognizes 218 firms that are actively engaged with their portfolio companies and have earned the trust of the entrepreneurs they support to help drive growth.

FTV Capital (“FTV”) and Blackstone announced today that funds managed by Blackstone GP Stakes have made a minority investment in FTV. FTV has a 25-year track record of investing in innovative, high-growth companies across the enterprise technology, financial services and payments landscapes and will benefit from this new partnership with one of the world’s leading investment firms. Blackstone GP Stakes specializes in value-added, long-term investments in the management companies of leading private equity firms, making available a wide range of proprietary Blackstone resources to help these firms realize their ambitions.

Masttro, a leading wealth tech company serving family offices, financial advisors and large institutions managing the wealth of ultra-high-net worth (UHNW) families, today announced a $43 million growth equity investment. The funding was led by FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor with 25 years of experience in financial services and enterprise technology. Citi Ventures also participated. The minority investment will accelerate Masttro’s growth through market expansion and will drive R&D for its innovative software platform including wealth data aggregation, synthesis and visualization, leveraging artificial intelligence.

FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor in innovative enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing companies, today announced the promotions of Allison Walker, Mike Vostrizansky and Andy Fleischman to partner. The news comes as FTV Capital celebrates 25 years of leadership in growth equity and marks a sustained period of growth and expansion, including generating over $3.6 billion in realizations and deploying $2.9 billion into new and follow-on investments over the last five years.

FTV Capital, a prominent growth equity investment firm, today announced the appointment of six leading financial services executives to its Strategic Advisory Board. The new advisors bring decades of banking, technology and insurance experience to FTV’s network, providing a distinct view into the needs and pain points of global enterprises today. The Board convenes biannually to discuss emerging market themes, while also facilitating connections between FTV portfolio companies and corporate decision-makers, building on FTV’s long history of partnering with executives from large financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies to promote knowledge exchange and technology innovation.

FTV Capital, a prominent growth equity investment firm, today announced its inclusion for the second consecutive year on Inc.’s annual Founder-Friendly Investors list honoring the private equity and venture capital firms with the best track records of success backing entrepreneurs. The recognition comes on the heels of several milestones for the firm, including the close of its largest fund at $2.3 billion in March 2022 and continued strong momentum over the last 12 months with $1.1 billion in liquidity events and over $900 million deployed.

FTV Capital, a prominent sector-focused growth equity investor, today announced that Kapil Venkatachalam will join the firm as partner. Kapil will focus on investments in innovative, high-growth businesses in B2B software and technology-enabled services, further strengthening the firm’s deep expertise and successful track record in this sector over the last 24 years. The news comes on the heels of FTV closing a record $2.3 billion fund in March 2022 and a sustained period of momentum and success for the firm.

FTV Capital, a prominent growth equity investment firm, today announced the close of FTV VII, its seventh and largest fund, oversubscribed at its hard cap of $2.3 billion in capital commitments. The firm will continue its successful 24-year track record of investing in innovative, high-growth companies across the enterprise technology, financial services and payments landscapes. This new fund provides FTV flexibility to make control and significant minority equity investments, often as the first institutional investor, generally ranging from $30 to $200 million that align with the objectives of company management teams to accelerate growth and expansion. With the close of FTV VII, FTV has raised $6.2 billion, invested over $4 billion in 130 portfolio companies and realized over $6 billion since the firm was founded in 1998.

FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor in innovative enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing companies, today announced the promotion of Richard Liu to partner. Since joining FTV in 2014, Liu has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s successful enterprise technology and tech-enabled services practice.