Our Approach
Whether you’re a pre-product start up looking for venture capital to fund a game-changing idea or a mature company looking for an exit that preserves your legacy, Alpha invests for the long haul. Our goal is to empower our leaders to grow their businesses while providing access to our ecosystem of capital, operational resources, leverage, and guidance.
Why Alpha
Permanent Capital
We buy businesses that we will own forever, using permanent capital. Once we buy a business, employees can focus on the long-term: providing durable value to their customers.
Autonomy
Every business that we buy is a strategic focus for us, with its own P&L and leaders post-close. Post-close, each business’ primary concern is how to deliver value to customers. We provide each business with autonomy to pursue this focus. For departing shareholders, this approach allows the organization to thrive, yet maintains what has made the business unique, all the while backed by our expertise, guidance, and permanent capital.
Expertise
Over the course of three decades, our parent company, Constellation Software Inc., has acquired, and now runs, more than 1000 vertical market software businesses. We have made studying vertical market software our life’s work. When businesses join us, they benefit from joining a network of peers focused on the same problems and opportunities they face every day.
Access to Resources
Our ecosystem of tech companies offers operational guidance, best practices, knowledge-sharing events, and tools to strengthen and scale software businesses. We provide each business with administrative and back office support in areas of human resources, accounting and finance, legal and other domains.
“We seek out vertical market software businesses where motivated small teams composed of good people, can produce superior results in tiny markets. What we offer our business unit managers is autonomy, an environment that supports them in mastering vertical market software management skills, and the chance to build an enduring and competent team in a ‘human-scale’ business.”
– Mark Leonard | President, Constellation Software Inc.
Values
Reinvest and Grow With
Permanent Capital
Continuous
Pursuit of Mastery
Fostering a
Meritocratic Environment
Integrity is Foundational in
Everything We Do
Deal Framework
Straightforward
Deal Structures
Proven Track Record
Certainty Of Close
Deals Financed With
Cash On Hand
Effective Processes
Streamlined Due Diligence
Founders & Entrepreneurs
- Enduring Legacy
- Autonomy
- Access to Resources
- Simple Deal Structures
Corporate Sellers
- Certainty of Close
- Flexible Terms
- Efficient Process (Speed & Minimal Disruption)
M&A Advisors
- Certainty of close
- Cash transactions
- Experience
- Efficient Process (Speed)
