Trusted Growth Investor: WestView Capital’s Matthew Carroll

This episode explores WestView Capital Partners' investment strategies, particularly focusing on growth equity in middle-market companies within healthcare technology, IT services, and software. Matt Carroll, Managing Partner at WestView, attributes the firm's 20-year partnership success to a core philosophy of prioritizing teamwork and minimizing ego, which has resonated with investors. The firm distinguishes itself by being control-agnostic, often engaging in minority recapitalizations, and focusing on companies where management retains significant ownership. WestView aims to be "helpful but unintrusive," offering strategic support such as recruiting key personnel like CFOs and facilitating channel introductions, exemplified by their success with Park Place Technologies. Carroll emphasizes that WestView's investment approach centers on aligning economic interests with management teams, employing conservative leverage, and targeting growth at reasonable prices (GARP). He highlights the firm's consistent returns and low capital impairment as key factors valued by their limited partners, achieved through careful asset selection and management alignment.