Catalyst Investors

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Blurb

Catalyst Investors makes growth equity investments in high-growth, lower middle market companies.

HQ Location

New York (United States)

Founded

2000

Employees

11 - 50

Total funding raised

Not available

Last Funding Event

Not available

Smart insights

  • Catherine Msc (Chief People Officer) worked at Lilium as Head of People Business Partnering for 1.5 years (2021 - 2022)
  • Val Miftakhov (Founder & CEO) worked at Google in various roles, including Head of R&D, Google for Work Incubation, for a total of 4 years (2012 - 2016)
  • 6m headcount growth: 25%
  • 1Y headcount growth: 94%
  • Headcount-to-last-round ratio: 5.3 employees/$M

Catalyst employs a research-driven deal flow origination process to identify high-growth sectors and businesses within technology-enabled services. Catalyst targets growth-stage businesses with proven business models and attractive unit economics and sectors that are being driven by fundamental, long-term growth trends and have substantial addressable markets. Catalyst makes both control and influential minority investments, typically has meaningful influence and board representation, and seeks to create value after investment through active involvement in creating, evaluating, and monitoring a portfolio company's business strategy, performance against budget, acquisition efforts, and capital structure evolution. Catalyst leverages its Advisory Group of seasoned industry professionals to provide portfolio companies with access to experienced industry executives and referrals to potential customers or strategic partners.