The permanent home to build & grow Main Street software
The permanent home to build & grow Main Street software
The permanent home to build & grow Main Street software
Beacon acquires essential software businesses with a lasting promise to protect their legacy, deepen customer love, and accelerate growth together with our world-class operators.
Why Beacon?
Why Beacon?
Why Beacon?
A Forever Home Where Legacy Meets Growth
Beacon is a long-term holding company that acquires essential software businesses with an unwavering commitment to protecting their legacy, customer satisfaction, and team culture.
Unlike traditional private equity, our plan is not to resell or chase short-term results over 3-5 years that jeopardize long-term stability. Instead, we focus on fostering efficient and durable growth over decades with the support of our hands-on operators and proven playbooks.
Our goal is that someday, you'll say partnering with Beacon was the best professional decision you ever made.
Transparent and Decisive
Selling your company is a big decision. With committed capital, no financing contingencies, and a bias toward action, we move quickly and transparently to keep the process straightforward and founder-friendly.
Forever Home
Building a great business takes years of care and commitment. Beacon was founded to protect your life’s work and provide a permanent home where it can thrive for decades to come.
Flexible Transition
Every situation is different. Whether you want to stay deeply involved, move into a new role, or step back entirely, we’ll work with you to create a personal transition plan that fits your goals.
Team, Culture, and Customer Retention
Your people, your culture, and your customers are the heart of your business. We’re committed to protecting what you’ve built while helping your business scale sustainably into the future.
Hands-On Operators
Our seasoned operators provide hands-on help and apply proven playbooks across sales, engineering, marketing, and design — so your business can move faster with less risk.
Day-to-Day Autonomy
We’re not here to step on toes or hinder day-to-day operations. We’re here to provide real support, all while respecting everything you’ve built and continue to build.
Back-Office Backbone
Running a business comes with plenty of back-office distractions. We can take on accounting, HR, invoicing, and reporting so your team can stay focused on what matters most: serving customers and building great products.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who has scaled software business before and knows what it takes. They roll up their sleeves to help your business navigate challenges and accelerate growth for the long term.
Transparent and Decisive
Selling your company is a big decision. With committed capital, no financing contingencies, and a bias toward action, we move quickly and transparently to keep the process straightforward and founder-friendly.
Forever Home
Building a great business takes years of care and commitment. Beacon was founded to protect your life’s work and provide a permanent home where it can thrive for decades to come.
Flexible Transition
Every situation is different. Whether you want to stay deeply involved, move into a new role, or step back entirely, we’ll work with you to create a personal transition plan that fits your goals.
Team, Culture, and Customer Retention
Your people, your culture, and your customers are the heart of your business. We’re committed to protecting what you’ve built while helping your business scale sustainably into the future.
Hands-On Operators
Our seasoned operators provide hands-on help and apply proven playbooks across sales, engineering, marketing, and design — so your business can move faster with less risk.
Day-to-Day Autonomy
We’re not here to step on toes or hinder day-to-day operations. We’re here to provide real support, all while respecting everything you’ve built and continue to build.
Back-Office Backbone
Running a business comes with plenty of back-office distractions. We can take on accounting, HR, invoicing, and reporting so your team can stay focused on what matters most: serving customers and building great products.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who has scaled software business before and knows what it takes. They roll up their sleeves to help your business navigate challenges and accelerate growth for the long term.
Transparent and Decisive
Selling your company is a big decision. With committed capital, no financing contingencies, and a bias toward action, we move quickly and transparently to keep the process straightforward and founder-friendly.
Forever Home
Building a great business takes years of care and commitment. Beacon was founded to protect your life’s work and provide a permanent home where it can thrive for decades to come.
Flexible Transition
Every situation is different. Whether you want to stay deeply involved, move into a new role, or step back entirely, we’ll work with you to create a personal transition plan that fits your goals.
Team, Culture, and Customer Retention
Your people, your culture, and your customers are the heart of your business. We’re committed to protecting what you’ve built while helping your business scale sustainably into the future.
Hands-On Operators
Our seasoned operators provide hands-on help and apply proven playbooks across sales, engineering, marketing, and design — so your business can move faster with less risk.
Day-to-Day Autonomy
We’re not here to step on toes or hinder day-to-day operations. We’re here to provide real support, all while respecting everything you’ve built and continue to build.
Back-Office Backbone
Running a business comes with plenty of back-office distractions. We can take on accounting, HR, invoicing, and reporting so your team can stay focused on what matters most: serving customers and building great products.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who has scaled software business before and knows what it takes. They roll up their sleeves to help your business navigate challenges and accelerate growth for the long term.
Criteria
Criteria
Criteria
What We Look For
Beacon aspires to be the partner of choice to businesses that generally meet these criteria:
[01]
Established position in a selected market niche
[01]
Established position in a selected market niche
[01]
Established position in a selected market niche
[02]
Earning over $1 million in annual revenue
[02]
Earning over $1 million in annual revenue
[02]
Earning over $1 million in annual revenue
[03]
Deep customer love and retention
[03]
Deep customer love and retention
[03]
Deep customer love and retention
[04]
Successful operations of 3 years or longer
[04]
Successful operations of 3 years or longer
[04]
Successful operations of 3 years or longer
[05]
Strong synergies with the Beacon platform
[05]
Strong synergies with the Beacon platform
[05]
Strong synergies with the Beacon platform
What we Offer
Seasoned Operators & Proven Playbooks
Our platform provides hands-on support and proven playbooks that go beyond the slide decks. Beacon’s in-house operators roll up their sleeves and embed with your team to improve operations and drive efficient growth.
Engineering
Our world-class software engineers will help accelerate product development, advise on technical direction, address tech debt, and prototype new features. We will help install best practices across cloud infra, DevOps, and productivity with AI.
Engineering
Our world-class software engineers will help accelerate product development, advise on technical direction, address tech debt, and prototype new features. We will help install best practices across cloud infra, DevOps, and productivity with AI.
Engineering
Our world-class software engineers will help accelerate product development, advise on technical direction, address tech debt, and prototype new features. We will help install best practices across cloud infra, DevOps, and productivity with AI.
Applied AI
Our AI experts and deep access to the frontier research labs will help shape your AI strategy and deliver novel AI-powered customer experiences.
Applied AI
Our AI experts and deep access to the frontier research labs will help shape your AI strategy and deliver novel AI-powered customer experiences.
Applied AI
Our AI experts and deep access to the frontier research labs will help shape your AI strategy and deliver novel AI-powered customer experiences.
Embedded Fintech
Plug into our embedded fintech platform to introduce payment processing, banking, payroll, and other new revenue streams.
Embedded Fintech
Plug into our embedded fintech platform to introduce payment processing, banking, payroll, and other new revenue streams.
Embedded Fintech
Plug into our embedded fintech platform to introduce payment processing, banking, payroll, and other new revenue streams.
Sales & Go-To-Market
Our proven sales playbooks and hands-on sales experts will help identify new prospects, optimize your funnel, modernize your GTM stack, optimize pricing, and lift retention.
Sales & Go-To-Market
Our proven sales playbooks and hands-on sales experts will help identify new prospects, optimize your funnel, modernize your GTM stack, optimize pricing, and lift retention.
Sales & Go-To-Market
Our proven sales playbooks and hands-on sales experts will help identify new prospects, optimize your funnel, modernize your GTM stack, optimize pricing, and lift retention.
Performance Marketing & SEO
Our in-house marketing team will guide you through the evolving SEO, GEO, and paid advertising landscape to help you reach core audiences at the lowest cost.
Performance Marketing & SEO
Our in-house marketing team will guide you through the evolving SEO, GEO, and paid advertising landscape to help you reach core audiences at the lowest cost.
Performance Marketing & SEO
Our in-house marketing team will guide you through the evolving SEO, GEO, and paid advertising landscape to help you reach core audiences at the lowest cost.
Expert Advisory Board
We assemble a custom advisory board of industry leaders who bring relevant experience, connections, and insights that will help your business scale to the next level.
Expert Advisory Board
We assemble a custom advisory board of industry leaders who bring relevant experience, connections, and insights that will help your business scale to the next level.
Expert Advisory Board
We assemble a custom advisory board of industry leaders who bring relevant experience, connections, and insights that will help your business scale to the next level.
Partnerships & M&A
Tap into our networks across Main Street, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley to unlock new partnerships. Leverage our capital base to acquire complementary businesses.
Partnerships & M&A
Tap into our networks across Main Street, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley to unlock new partnerships. Leverage our capital base to acquire complementary businesses.
Partnerships & M&A
Tap into our networks across Main Street, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley to unlock new partnerships. Leverage our capital base to acquire complementary businesses.
Beacon Network
Join a supportive community of CEOs and GMs in the Beacon family to share best practices, ideas, and lessons learned. Build relationships with your peers through annual summits, tactical webinars, and a shared Slack channel.
Beacon Network
Join a supportive community of CEOs and GMs in the Beacon family to share best practices, ideas, and lessons learned. Build relationships with your peers through annual summits, tactical webinars, and a shared Slack channel.
Beacon Network
Join a supportive community of CEOs and GMs in the Beacon family to share best practices, ideas, and lessons learned. Build relationships with your peers through annual summits, tactical webinars, and a shared Slack channel.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who’s scaled software businesses before and will help you see around corners. They’ll work alongside you to establish scalable processes and devise a long-term strategy to drive the core KPIs that will take your business to the next level.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who’s scaled software businesses before and will help you see around corners. They’ll work alongside you to establish scalable processes and devise a long-term strategy to drive the core KPIs that will take your business to the next level.
Dedicated Operating Partner
We pair your business with a seasoned operating partner who’s scaled software businesses before and will help you see around corners. They’ll work alongside you to establish scalable processes and devise a long-term strategy to drive the core KPIs that will take your business to the next level.
Finance & Back Office
Onboard onto our central accounting, invoicing, HR, and FP&A services so your business can focus on its core competencies. Our strategic finance dashboards will equip your team with real-time visibility and data-driven insights.
Finance & Back Office
Onboard onto our central accounting, invoicing, HR, and FP&A services so your business can focus on its core competencies. Our strategic finance dashboards will equip your team with real-time visibility and data-driven insights.
Finance & Back Office
Onboard onto our central accounting, invoicing, HR, and FP&A services so your business can focus on its core competencies. Our strategic finance dashboards will equip your team with real-time visibility and data-driven insights.
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
Don’t Take Our Word For It
Our reputation is everything to us. That’s why we are proud to be 100% referenceable with every owner who has entrusted us with their life’s work.
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As a founder, it’s easy to get pulled in every direction. Beacon has been a true partner, helping us prioritize, sharpen our processes, and spot new growth opportunities — all while keeping us focused on serving our customers.
Dave Lewis
Co-Founder & President of Snailworks
As a founder, it’s easy to get pulled in every direction. Beacon has been a true partner, helping us prioritize, sharpen our processes, and spot new growth opportunities — all while keeping us focused on serving our customers.
Dave Lewis
Co-Founder & President of Snailworks
As a founder, it’s easy to get pulled in every direction. Beacon has been a true partner, helping us prioritize, sharpen our processes, and spot new growth opportunities — all while keeping us focused on serving our customers.
Dave Lewis
Co-Founder & President of Snailworks
We’ve always been passionate about building a world-class software platform that helps people get outdoors. With Beacon’s guidance and encouragement, we have gained confidence to expand into new markets like marinas much faster than we could have alone.
Mike Yasieniuk
Founder & CEO of Let’s Camp
We’ve always been passionate about building a world-class software platform that helps people get outdoors. With Beacon’s guidance and encouragement, we have gained confidence to expand into new markets like marinas much faster than we could have alone.
Mike Yasieniuk
Founder & CEO of Let’s Camp
We’ve always been passionate about building a world-class software platform that helps people get outdoors. With Beacon’s guidance and encouragement, we have gained confidence to expand into new markets like marinas much faster than we could have alone.
Mike Yasieniuk
Founder & CEO of Let’s Camp
Beacon felt like the right home for Connixt from the very beginning. Their values and vision align closely with ours, and that made the decision an easy one. Being part of Beacon gives us the ability to grow faster, reach more customers in new verticals, and keep innovating — all while staying true to what Connixt stands for.
G. Satish
Co-Founder & CEO of Connixt
Beacon felt like the right home for Connixt from the very beginning. Their values and vision align closely with ours, and that made the decision an easy one. Being part of Beacon gives us the ability to grow faster, reach more customers in new verticals, and keep innovating — all while staying true to what Connixt stands for.
G. Satish
Co-Founder & CEO of Connixt
Beacon felt like the right home for Connixt from the very beginning. Their values and vision align closely with ours, and that made the decision an easy one. Being part of Beacon gives us the ability to grow faster, reach more customers in new verticals, and keep innovating — all while staying true to what Connixt stands for.
G. Satish
Co-Founder & CEO of Connixt
As a founder-led business, sometimes you reach a point where you need better systems and guidance to grow to the next level. Beacon’s partnership gave us collaborative strategic direction and many high value resources to assist us in ways that were previously unavailable to us — a huge step for our team.
Mark Lafreniere
Co-Founder & COO of VieFUND
As a founder-led business, sometimes you reach a point where you need better systems and guidance to grow to the next level. Beacon’s partnership gave us collaborative strategic direction and many high value resources to assist us in ways that were previously unavailable to us — a huge step for our team.
Mark Lafreniere
Co-Founder & COO of VieFUND
As a founder-led business, sometimes you reach a point where you need better systems and guidance to grow to the next level. Beacon’s partnership gave us collaborative strategic direction and many high value resources to assist us in ways that were previously unavailable to us — a huge step for our team.
Mark Lafreniere
Co-Founder & COO of VieFUND
CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
Our Impact, Quantified
A few stories highlighting the outcomes our companies have achieved through our partnership.
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