PE-backed CFO Michael Ives tells Tales from the Other Side and Provides all the Insight for Exiting to a PE-backed Strategic
- S2E7
- 39:08
- October 21st 2021
Michael Ives, experienced CFO for PE-backed tech firms, joins Kevin Mosley. Together they walk through Michael's experience as CFO for Prometheus Group and Intelerad, both owned by large PE firms. Michael details what they look for in acquiring smaller firms and all the lessons learned on both sides of the table.
Exit Stories
Exit Stories features tech founders, buyers, and sellers from the Triangle, North Carolina and the Southeast to tell their stories about raising capital and selling their startups.
This program is produced by GrepBeat and hosted by Kevin Mosley of Jurassic Capital.
Meet the Host
Kevin is a General Partner at Jurassic Capital, a Durham, NC-based Growth Equity firm focused on growing B2B software companies in the Southeast. Alongside cofounder Joe Colopy, Jurassic’s deep entrepreneurial and operating experience from Bronto and other SaaS companies helps grow and scale capital-efficient companies over $1M in Revenue. They recently closed a $20M+ fund and have portfolio companies building software in HR (Workdove), B2B eCommerce (Corevist), and Test Automation (Cycle Labs).
Kevin spent his pre-Jurassic career operating at growth-stage software companies, including Sageworks, Lulu, Bronto, and Republic Wireless/Relay. He graduated with a BS in Finance from Clemson and loves spending time with his wife in the Triangle as well as watching and playing all sports, especially golf and tennis.