Product & engineering
Our product leaders and engineers work alongside your team to build better software. Together, we modernize products, ship new capabilities and tackle the customer problems you’ve wanted to solve for years.
Bringing AI to the real economy
Beacon acquires and grows trusted software businesses by building the AI products their customers need next.
We are a permanent home. We invest for the long term, giving great software businesses the people, technology and capital to lead their industries.
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The businesses behind everyday life
Beacon acquires and grows trusted software businesses by building the AI products their customers need next.
We are a permanent home. We invest for the long term, giving great software businesses the people, technology and capital to lead their industries.
System Dynamics Corp,a Beacon company
40 years of trustNew AI revenuein 90 days
The Foundation
For 40 years, SDC had served a leading Caribbean gas and utilities company. After joining Beacon, that relationship opened a conversation with the CFO about using AI to automate finance work, starting with bank reconciliation.
The Result
Within 90 days of acquisition, that relationship led to a six-figure AI project spanning Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana. The bank reconciliation product was sold on a multi-year subscription, with pricing also tied to outcomes.
Our Growth Platform
The people, technology and capital to help your business grow.
Product & engineering
Our product leaders and engineers work alongside your team to build better software. Together, we modernize products, ship new capabilities and tackle the customer problems you’ve wanted to solve for years.
Finance & operations
Our central teams take on accounting, payroll, invoicing, collections, legal, and compliance tasks. You get a clearer view of business performance and more time to spend on your customers, product and team.
Sales & marketing
Reach more of the customers you’re built to serve. We help sharpen your positioning, generate demand and improve sales execution, drawing on what works across Beacon.
Applied AI
Add AI to your existing product, build new to world AI-native applications or re-image how work gets done and automate work for your customers. Our AI team helps you identify the opportunity and build reliable products customers will pay for.
Operating leadership
Experienced operators work alongside you on hiring, product priorities and growth. They stay close to the business and help your team follow through on the decisions that matter.
The Beacon Network
Join founders and operators who understand what it takes to build a software business. Share practical advice, learn from experienced company builders and put ideas from across Beacon to work.
Partnerships & acquisitions
Expand your business with the right commercial partners and acquisitions. Beacon brings the relationships, capital and deal team to help you add products, enter new markets and serve more customers.
Embedded fintech
Bring payments, banking and payroll into the software your customers already trust. We help you integrate the right financial services to serve more of their needs and create new revenue for your business.
Finance & operations
Our central teams take on accounting, payroll, invoicing, collections, legal, and compliance tasks. You get a clearer view of business performance and more time to spend on your customers, product and team.
Sales & marketing
Reach more of the customers you’re built to serve. We help sharpen your positioning, generate demand and improve sales execution, drawing on what works across Beacon.
Applied AI
Add AI to your existing product, build new to world AI-native applications or re-image how work gets done and automate work for your customers. Our AI team helps you identify the opportunity and build reliable products customers will pay for.
Operating leadership
Experienced operators work alongside you on hiring, product priorities and growth. They stay close to the business and help your team follow through on the decisions that matter.
The Beacon Network
Join founders and operators who understand what it takes to build a software business. Share practical advice, learn from experienced company builders and put ideas from across Beacon to work.
Partnerships & acquisitions
Expand your business with the right commercial partners and acquisitions. Beacon brings the relationships, capital and deal team to help you add products, enter new markets and serve more customers.
Embedded fintech
Bring payments, banking and payroll into the software your customers already trust. We help you integrate the right financial services to serve more of their needs and create new revenue for your business.
Questions we get asked
We look for software businesses with:
- Deep customer relationships
- Intimate understanding of the end customer workflows
- Long accumulated data
We acquire businesses to own them permanently and keep investing in them. Your company gains access to engineering, AI, sales and operating capabilities that can be difficult to build independently. We want to help you turn years of customer trust into better products and a bigger business.
We work with founders who want to keep leading and those who are ready to step back. We are proud that today the vast majority of Beacon businesses are still run by their founders. We’ll discuss what you want from the sale and agree on your role and a transition plan. Continuity for your customers and team is an important part of that conversation.
Our approach is to preserve the brands and customer relationships that make our businesses valuable. We look at where your team needs more resources and where shared Beacon teams can help. The organization, leadership and any planned changes are part of the acquisition discussion.
Beacon takes an active role in product, engineering and investment decisions. Teams remain close to their customers, while drawing on shared technology and expertise across our businesses. We agree on leadership responsibilities and how we’ll work together before closing, so expectations are clear.
We consider the quality of your revenue, profitability, customer retention, growth prospects and opportunities to improve the business. We discuss price and deal structure together, including payment terms and any ongoing equity or earnout. The goal is a proposal you can understand and evaluate as a whole.
We start with a conversation about your business and what you want to achieve. If there’s a fit, we review the information needed to discuss an offer. From there, we work through diligence, definitive agreements and transition planning. We’ll establish a timeline with you based on the work involved.
Yes. We can introduce you to founders who have been through the process and worked with us after closing. Ask them what changed, where Beacon helped and what they wish they had known. Their experience should be part of your decision.
We’re happy to get to know you before you’ve made that decision. An initial conversation can help you understand how Beacon works and whether we could be the right owner when the time comes. You don’t need a sale process underway to reach out.
Let’s see how far your business can go.
Whether you’re ready to sell or thinking a few years ahead, we’d like to hear what you want for your business, your team and yourself. Let’s talk about how Beacon could help you get there.
