UNIQUE
Our proprietary Lotus Methodology, implementing experienced managers & valuable shared services, leverages success & sets us apart from other funds.
EXPERIENCED
Our leadership team has more than six decades of expertise in high-tech, finance, operations, sales and marketing in global and regional Fortune 500 companies.
SUCCESSFUL
Lotus Innovations Fund I has delivered 13%+ annual cash on cash return with half the capital in half the time and beat the S&P500 index in 2015 by a factor of 5x.
Not All Private Equity Firms Are Alike: Four Core Values that Make Lotus Innovations the PE Disruptor
Should I stay or should I go? British Punk Rockers ‘The Clash’ weren’t the first to pose that question and surely won’t be the last. And as you consider an exit of the company you’ve founded and built, you may be pondering the same question. If you are leaning toward cashing in your chips and moving on, you’ll be thinking ‘strategic buyer’ who will purchase your company based on the value you’ve built and not retain you or the management. If you say ‘stay,’ you’ll be thinking about the private equity route. But with private equity on the rise – especially in California where the region saw an all-time high of 626 deals completed in 2015, up 22% from just two years prior (source: PitchBook, 2016), and in IT which accounted for 27% of all PE activity in 2015 – your choice of private equity firms is ever-increasing. So how do you choose a PE firm that you, your team, and your customers can live with?
THE LOTUS INNOVATIONS STORY
A focus on companies stuck between start-up and growth
When Lotus Innovations founders Christian Mack, Philip Jones and David Roman discussed with each other their personal experiences exiting software companies they had built, they found they had a lot in common. Their companies were unattractive to most venture capitalists because they were beyond the start-up stage; having landed customers and built a small pipeline. PE firms offered the needed capital, but not the resources or support to help them build a functional infrastructure. The model they designed became the Lotus Methodology; the primary tenet of the Lotus Innovations Fund. Not only does it provide growth capital, but it supports a small firm’s growth trajectory with shared services as well as innovative marketing. Now there is a private equity model that serves companies stuck between start-up and growth.
OUR FOUNDERS
Our founders, directors, and strategic advisors bring over six decades of experience in high-tech, finance, sales & operations to help grow our Partner Companies and build wealth for our investors.
OUR FOUNDERS
Our founders, directors, and strategic advisors bring over six decades of experience in high-tech, finance, sales & operations to help grow our Partner Companies and build wealth for our investors.
Strategic Board and Advisory Committee
Darrin Anderson
Chairman and CEO of Salas O’Brien LLC
Ivo Tjan
President and Chief Executive Officer of CommerceWest Bank
Daniel Lubeck
Founder and Managing Director of Solis
Al Zollar
(retired) Formerly GM of IBM Tivoli Software & IBM iSeries
Joao Perez
Senior Vice President of Global Sales for the Financial Services Division of NCR
Guillermo Romo
President & CEO at Grupo Mega
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