Scaling technology businesses.
It takes more than capital to grow a software company. We've been on both sides of the table — and we use that experience, our talent network and a hands-on approach to actively help the businesses we invest in.
We help technology businesses fulfil their world-beating aspirations through two stages over a 12–24 month period. Nothing great is built overnight.
A hands-on approach.
Our Principal, Tom Llewellyn-Lloyd, explains our hands-on approach in working with the management teams of our portfolio companies, in particular our focus on defining and streamlining systems and processes.
Foundation building.
Laying the groundwork.
Strategy
We work with management to refine the current strategy across three key areas — what products to sell, how to make them best-in-class and what customers to target.
Measurement
We don't believe in measuring everything or creating endless reports. We help the business focus on a handful of key financial and operational metrics, with the right systems and as much automation as possible.
Talent
Square peg, round role is not a recipe for success. We use our vast talent network to place the right people in the right roles — or promote hungry internal candidates into challenging roles.
Accelerating growth.
How to achieve terminal velocity and create a market leader.
Insight
We use our experience running businesses to drive operational excellence and share best-practice insights across the business — and connect you to our community of CEOs who've done it before.
Sales effectiveness
We help develop a world-class B2B sales effectiveness and marketing programme to drive revenue growth. We've successfully done this before for our other software companies.
Bolt-ons
We provide the capital and M&A capability to add bolt-on acquisitions and accelerate growth.
“Tern understands B2B focused SaaS businesses. They have a strong understanding of our market, our customers' requirements and the value proposition underpinning our subscription-based pricing model. They have been a useful sounding board to the team, which has helped us double our business in less than three years.”
“Tern played a pivotal role in the internationalisation of the business. They were open, pragmatic and brought a wealth of knowledge of key geographies and always with a focus on fast and cost-effective market entry.”
“Tern brought in best practices to help build an MVP at record speed.”