Partnering With Us
For Management Teams
For twenty-five years, Saratoga Partners primary focus has been to identify and partner with exceptional management teams in growing their businesses. As long-term investors, Saratoga is patient and prepared to work with management to achieve significant long-term value appreciation. Saratoga believes that investing alongside a strong management team with substantial, and aligned, financial incentives is one of the most important factors in making successful investments. For that reason, Saratoga has had a particularly long and successful track record in working with founders to guide the businesses they started through the next phase of growth.
- Partnership with Management: Our first priority is to partner with high-quality, experienced management teams. While we work closely with our management teams, we are not operators. We consider ourselves their merchant banking partner, providing strategic, financial and operating guidance in our targeted areas of focus. Through our industry experience and network of relationships, we can share our own knowledge while providing access to potential advisors and board members.
- Building Businesses: Saratoga has always worked with entrepreneurs to identify mutual objectives around an investment and work to achieve them. We are strong believers in investing for disciplined growth and are willing to support management plans with additional capital beyond the original investment.
- Commitment and Focus: Saratoga limits its investments to a relatively small number of portfolio companies in each fund, allowing us to focus closely on each company, providing each investment with significant attention and oversight. Likewise, as a small firm, Saratoga does not have separate origination, execution and oversight staffing; there is continuity in the relationship across the entire investment life cycle.
- Alignment of interests: Equity incentives are a critical factor in aligning the interests of our portfolio company management teams with ours, and we believe in working together to achieve a common goal.
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