Mainsail Partners

Mainsail Partners is a growth equity firm with over $750M in committed capital raised from leading institutions, endowments, executives, and entrepreneurs. Mainsail is focused on growth equity, recapitalization, and management buyout investments in rapidly growing companies with the potential to be market leaders. Mainsail has extensive industry experience in technology-enabled services, software and software as service (SaaS), and healthcare IT. Mainsail invests exclusively in growing and bootstrapped companies in the United States and Canada.

Mainsail Partners

Type	Private Ownership
Industry	Private Equity
Founded	2003
Founder	Gavin Turner, C. Jason Payne
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States
Products	Growth equity investments, Recapitalizations, Management buyouts
AUM	$800 million[1]
Website	www.mainsailpartners.com

The firm is based in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2003 by Gavin Turner and C. Jason Payne. Both Managing Partners previously worked at Summit Partners, where Turner was a Vice President, responsible for West Coast media and communications technology investments, and Payne also served as an executive at one of Summit’s investments, American Dental Partners.

Investments
Mainsail's investments include:

• Nexus Systems[2]
• 3PL Central[3]
• SentryOne[4]
• Ncontracts[5]
• PlayMaker CRM[6]
• nCourt[7]
• Netchemia[8]
• The Bar Method[9]
• Steelwedge[10]
• PayLease[11]
• Path Logic[12]
• Novus Biologicals[13]
• Togo's[14]
• IPS Learning[15]
• Fusion[16]
• Professional HealthCare[17]
• eSecuritel Holdings[18]
• Cash Management Solutions[19]

Mainsail sold Bar Method, Netchemia and Togo's in 2015. Novus Biologicals, IPS Learning, and PathLogic were sold in 2014 and Fusion, Professional HealthCare, and eSecuritel Holdings in 2011. Cash Management Solutions was sold in 2008.