Dedicated To Growth

Who We Are

GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY

GROWTH STACK INC is a private equity firm that acquires and grows profitable B2B SaaS businesses worldwide.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Using our proprietary scoring matrix, M&A is thorough, fair, and quick.

SAAS OPERATIONS

Our company is comprised of rapid deployment teams across five countries that provide the expertise and infrastructure needed to accelerate the growth of the businesses we acquire.

Our Thesis

There are savvy entrepreneurs worldwide that are adept at identifying and building new fintech, adtech and productivity software. Once these SaaS products have passed proof-of-concept stage, it’s not uncommon for the product to grow beyond the founders’ core competencies.

By infusing capital and adding infrastructure, Growth Stack can work with the founders and leverage its expertise to quickly accelerate growth. This enables SaaS businesses to realize their full potential while delivering solid returns to our investors.

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Our Team

Led by our founder and CEO, Kevin Petersen, Growth Stack has developed the right mix of experienced operators, free-thinkers and skilled practitioners that can supercharge companies and take them to the next level.

Kevin Petersen

CEO

Marketing automation specialist with 21 years of experience working with companies like Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo, and had founder shares in On Assignment Inc (NYSE: ASGN). Petersen’s SaaS experience includes growing a file sharing platform to seven-figure revenue in its first year, an award-winning music industry start-up, and several portfolio brands that realized >50% YOY growth since acquisition.

Rosellini, a former minor-league pitcher, holds a law degree, MBA and 4 master’s degrees (MS of Accounting, MS of Regulatory Science, MS of Bio-informatics, MS of Neuroscience). He has started 5 companies, done 3 acquisitions, raised $60M in financing and had 4 exits. He previously founded and led Lexington Technology Group, LLC, a database company commercializing a database solution with an exit to (“DSS” NYSE) Sarif Biomedical LLC, a stereotactic microsurgery company exit to (“MARA” NSDQ) and Telemend Medical, a clinical engineering services company exit to (“SPRV”OTC). He became a board member of Marathon Patent Group (“MARA”) in 2013. Rosellini also founded Microtransponder in 2006. Will has been serving as the Chairman and CEO of Nexeon MedSystems since January 2016 which he took public in 2017.

William Rosellini, JD, MBA Principal

Active angel investor and deal sourcing specialist, 11 years of experience in sales and product management with companies like Vanguard and Thomson Reuters. B2B SaaS experience includes 97% YOY revenue growth for cyber security product with Fortune 50 customers. Supported leading scholarly research platform with $250 million in ARR.

Daniel GoldEVP, M&A

Technology Executive with 20 years of experience in Software development, architecture and people management. Vast experience working with product development companies such as i2 Technologies (now JDA Software – implementing world class supply chain software for companies such as Honda of America, Lockheed Martin ,Samsung, Shell and other Fortune 500 companies), Vitech Systems Group ( whose V3 software is designed to address the unique needs of insurance, retirement and investment organizations). His primary focus is on Agile development and delivery using cutting edge technologies and hosting SaaS businesses in AWS cloud. Achieved key several milestones in the world of software development, management ,delivery and proven experience in managing technical teams of size 50+.

Pradeep Padanthaya CTO

Rick Ow is an Advisor, EVP, and GM at Growth Stack, where Rick leads sales strategy as the EVP Sales, including being the GM for several assets, currently Storage Unit Auction List. Rick holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with publication in the Twelfth Annual International Conference of the IEEE for Engineering in Medicine. He is also a veteran of the U.S. Army exiting with the rank of Captain and has been in the technology industry for over 30 years working in roles in IT, system engineering, and major account management at Fortune 500 companies as well as several start-ups, one of which had a successful $360M acquisition.

Rick OwEVP & GM

Portfolio

Brands representing our holdings

What We Look For

Our approach has been fine-tuned over nearly 3 decades of experience working with and investing in technology companies. Needless to say, we are very deliberate in the companies we choose to acquire.

Investment Criteria

SaaS Strategies has developed a proprietary 200-point acquisition scoring model, where at the highest level the company should meet these requirements.