Growth Equity: Key Venture Partners (“KVP”) is a Waltham, MA based firm investing growth equity and expansion capital in revenue generating companies with capital-efficient business models.
Industry Segment Foci: In the software, communications, information services and IT enabled business services sectors, we are committed to helping established revenue stage companies meaningfully accelerate their growth.
Investing Style: The firm takes an active role in its investments as a lead, or co-lead, investor. KVP will invest alone or form syndicates with other investors to join us in a financing. The firm takes a seat on the board of directors and works with management teams in the areas of recruiting, strategy enhancement and development: particularly go-to-market strategies, corporate development/acquisitions, and capital raising both debt and equity.
Experienced & Seasoned Investors: With over four decades of combined investing and operating experience in the aforementioned industry segments, KVP understands the unique challenges inherent to accelerating growth and expansion for companies in these sectors.
Investment Selection Criteria: KVP’s investment selection criteria screen for companies that have products and services addressing proven markets and are already generating revenue, a stable business model, a rational competitor structure, a logical path to profitability or are already profitable, and a quantifiable value proposition to customers.
Investment Size: KVP currently has $200 million under management and makes $5-$15 million investments.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Xactly Corp | 7/10 | Series E | $7.5M | 5 |
| OpSource | 2/09 | Series E | $10M | 5 |
| Airband Communications Holdings | 6/08 | Venture Round | $2.5M | 5 |
| ServiceCEO | 7/07 | Series A | $6M | 1 |
| TriActive | 4/07 | Venture Round | $2.1M | 3 |
| OpSource | 9/06 | Series C | $20M | 5 |
| Optasite | 3/06 | Series C | $60M | 1 |
| Axentis Software | 1/06 | Venture Round | $9M | 4 |
| Airwide Solutions | 1/06 | Series D | $25M | 5 |
| Impress Software Solutions | 9/05 | Series C | $10M | 5 |
| SmartLink Radio Networks | 1/05 | Series B | $15M | 3 |
