Strategies

Our investment teams have distinct strategies and focus on investing in mid-market companies in a variety of sectors in the US and Europe.

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Our investment teams have distinct strategies and focus on investing in mid-market companies in a variety of sectors in the US and Europe.

Flexible capital and strategic assistance for market-leading companies in high-growth sectors in North America and Europe

Equity capital for mid-sized companies in the DACH region and Italy

Growth capital and strategic assistance to software companies throughout Europe

Impact platform investing in climate and nature-based solutions

Private equity primaries, co-investments, and secondaries across North America and Europe

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Critical Start

Industry: Business & Consumer Services
Year invested: 2019
Status: Current
Location: USA
Investment Strategy: Flagship
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Critical Start is a cybersecurity company offering managed detection and response services and technology to companies across the US.

Critical Start’s MDR platform simplifies breach prevention by helping organizations identify, assess, and respond to cyber threats in real time while analyzing threat data to inform future responses.

The Company’s technology and security operation center (SOC) analysts leverage a deep pool of behavioral data to automatically resolve over 99% of security alerts, reduce risk acceptance, and improve team productivity.

In addition to the Company’s MDR platform, Critical Start’s Incident Response Team provides hands-on readiness, response, and forensic services for enterprise security teams.

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"As more security partners and end customers recognize the unique value our ZTAP and MDR services add to their technologies, we’ve seen our MDR opportunities quadruple and our deal size triple compared to a year ago. The funding from Sagemount gives us the resources to accelerate our expansion and capitalize on the market demand for MDR services. As an employee-owned company, Critical Start  was looking for a capital partner that understood the market opportunity and valued our culture and focus. Sagemount proved to be the perfect fit"

Rob Davis

Founder - CriticalStart

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Our experienced global investment team seeks to create long-standing relationships and drive lasting impact within our portfolio companies, which are active across Europe and North America.

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