Company-First Investors

Stone Street is built to help founder-owned businesses reach their highest potential. Our investment capital comes exclusively from our team, meaning we only succeed when your business does. Because we’re free of external influences, we share the same long-term ownership mentality as many founders. Our primary focus as shareholders is to be partners in strategy and operations.

Philosophy & Principles

Bespoke approach

We work to secure your company’s long-term success with individualized attention. We focus on a limited number of partnerships (not a sprawling portfolio) because you deserve an investor who will actively collaborate, plan, and execute alongside you for years.

Preserving culture

You’ve built and led this company for years, and we respect your knowledge of your market, culture, and operations. We won’t change the above; we will bring in fresh expertise and resources that strengthen what makes your company great and help you achieve your mission.

Sustainable growth

We want to build something meaningful over time. That means supporting investments in product, operations, and M&A that will strengthen your company’s position in the market. Our focus is long-term cashflow growth, but only if balanced with steady topline growth.

Open partnership

Bringing in a new partner is a meaningful transition. We are committed to operating with integrity and candor from the deal process to the boardroom, and will treat you and your business as partners and members of the family.

Investment profile

  • Industry-specific software

  • Founder-owned businesses

  • $3-20M software revenue

  • Low customer churn

  • EBITDA break-even or positive

  • Majority transactions up to 100% ownership

Where we help

  • Go-to-market support

  • Leadership coaching or succession planning

  • Add-on M&A

  • Customer prioritization

  • Strategic finance

  • Team buildout

  • Payments monetization

  • On-prem to SaaS conversion