“I find Catalyst’s approach to be imaginative and their understanding of the media and telecommunications sectors to be thorough. They have done a wonderful job.”


—  Jeff Smulyan
CEO, Emmis Broadcasting

Forward Thinking. Research-Based Investing.

Catalyst Investors employs a proactive, research-based approach to investing. We identify sectors that we believe will experience above-average growth, and formulate an investment strategy. Our research enables us to recognize important market trends early on and identify world-class companies and management teams to capitalize on those trends. This approach yields opportunities to invest at all stages of the growth cycle, including:

  • Working with a talented entrepreneur to execute an industry roll-up
  • Providing expansion capital to a company in the form of a minority investment
  • Acquiring a majority stake in a company buy-out
  • Recapitalizing a business to give existing investors and lenders liquidity

Returns Driven by Growth, Not Financial Engineering.

Catalyst invests in growing business at reasonable valuations and employs moderate to no financial leverage in its investments. We position our portfolio companies for a number of exit possibilities, including sales to strategic and financial buyers or IPOs. Catalyst generates returns on its investments through revenue growth and multiple expansion and does not rely on financial engineering – allowing us to invest throughout all types of investment cycles.