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Beacon Software

Beacon is a permanent capital holding company that acquires, operates, and grows niche vertical market software businesses — the kind of profitable, founder-built companies that mainstream tech has ignored. Think precast concrete detailing software (EDGE), youth soccer management (E2E Soccer + PowerUp), campground booking (Let's Camp), fundraising platforms (99Pledges), and tool-tracking SaaS (ToolHound). Unlike private equity, Beacon never sells: it holds forever, lets brands run independently, and reinvests. What it adds is a centralized layer of world-class engineering, AI tooling, GTM playbooks, and back-office infrastructure that small niche software companies could never afford alone. It is also building a proprietary "agentic operating system" — a cross-portfolio data lake with a feature store and AI agents — so a lean central team can manage a fast-growing portfolio. Acquisition cadence: roughly one new company every two weeks. Customers are founder-operators seeking a permanent home, not a flip. Co-founded by Nilam Ganenthiran (ex-President of Instacart, ex-D1 Capital) and Divya Gupta (ex-Sequoia partner, ex-Databricks engineer).

$1.4B+ post-money (Series C) valuation · 30 employees · 43 open roles

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