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What does Mainsail Partners invest in?
Mainsail Partners invests most often at Venture and Growth (86% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as SaaS, Productivity Tools and Subscription.
Mainsail Partners highlights
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17 rounds on record
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Mostly Venture and Growth: 86% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 16 rounds, median $23M
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1 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Mainsail Partners is a growth equity firm investing in B2B software and AI-enabled companies.From their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- SaaSProductivity ToolsSubscription
- Based in
- Austin, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first17 appearances
- 2019
1 round
- May
- 2018
2 rounds
- Jun
- Jan
- 2017
4 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Jan
- 2016
1 round
- Oct
- 2015
4 rounds
- Dec
- Jun
- May
- Mar
- 2014
1 round
- Oct
- 2013
2 rounds
- Oct
- May
- 2012
1 round
- Aug
- 2011
1 round
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration4 named
CJC. Jason PayneManaging Director of General Partner.iFiling they signed
GMGavin Mitchell TurnerManaging Director of General Partner.iFiling they signed
LMLynn Marie AtkinsonChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
WRWilliam Richard SalisburyChief Compliance Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Operating PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 70 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$4.0Bassets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Mainsail Management Company, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 157775
Funds on its Form ADV
10 private funds, $2.3B in gross assets · filed Apr 2024
- Mainsail Partners VI, L.P.Private equity108 investors$963M
- Mainsail Partners V, L.P.Private equity94 investors$734M
- Mainsail Partners IV, L.P.Private equity78 investors$246M
- Mainsail Partners III, L.P.Private equity65 investors$135M
- Mainsail 3PL Holdings, L.P.Private equity55 investors$132M
- Mainsail GT SPV, L.P.Private equity27 investors$49M
- Mainsail Partners Executive Fund VI, L.P.Private equity94 investors$40M
- Mainsail Partners Executive Fund V, L.P.Private equity73 investors$27M
- Mainsail Co-Investors III, L.P.Private equity55 investors$3.0M
- Mainsail Incentive Program, LLCPrivate equity39 investors$2.4M
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed1 in all
NetchemiaBought by PeopleAdminUndisclosedFeb 2015
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.