Businesses across the globe.
We invest across industries in both established
Disciplined Due Diligence
Our investment approach is based on a disciplined due diligence process that measures risk while identifying the catalysts for increased value. We engage only in friendly transactions and work with talented management teams to achieve positive results.
Transformative Impact
We strive to create value by investing in great businesses where our capital, strategic insight, global relationships and operational support can drive transformation.
Staying Power
When we partner with a business, we focus on building it to last. Our staying power, drawn from the scale and breadth of the platform we’ve grown over 35 years, helps our companies withstand market cycles and succeed for the long term.
Enterprise Building
Increasing Cash Flow, Improving Operational Effectiveness and Promoting Small and Medium-Sized Business Growth for over 30 years
For Smith Capital, the Tech Growth strategy is about identifying platforms – management teams, businesses, and sectors – where we can invest to build leading global enterprises. Our strategy, which invests primarily through our Next Generation Technology Fund, allows us to invest capital through majority or minority stakes in private companies as well as taking minority stakes in public companies. We focus on emerging, high-growth companies and invest across a variety of sub-segments including Software, Security, Semiconductors, Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things (IoT), Information Services, Business Services, Internet, Digital Media, Content and Communications.
Private Equity
Investing in enterprise software since inception, Vista pioneered a sector-focused approach to private equity. We partner with organizations at every phase of growth to rise to the next level and maximize future opportunities. Our singular focus on enterprise software companies across a broad range of maturity – from emerging and lower middle-market organizations to large-cap enterprises – has enabled us to develop an adaptable, analytical approach to growth.
Business Analysis
Identifying Business Needs and Solutions
A business analysis is the discipline of identifying business needs and solutions to problems. Using a proprietary system Our business analyst performs a competitive analysis of your business vs. peer businesses performing in the top twenty-five percent of your industry.
Business Improve Profits
We identify strengths and weaknesses as they pertain to operations, their corresponding relationship to profits. It is our goal to build skills, commitment and consensus, enhance management control, and increase the likelihood of a successful turnaround where necessary or to sustain profit and cash flow improvements for already successful businesses.
Employee Evaluation
Establishing clearly defined workplace roles, and improving communication between ownership, management and staff, our focus is:
- Establishing and communicating expected job roles and requirements between employees, management and owners
- Creating evaluation techniques and guidelines for management to track employee success and areas for improvement
- Developing incentives for increased employee productivity and time management through a pay-for-performance program
- Teaching, training and setting timelines for development
- Creating curriculums to foster advancement