Our Approach
Firm Overview
Datavest Partners is a private equity firm targeting majority recapitalizations and significant minority investments in digital consumer, commerce & marketing companies. The firm was founded by John Kim, who has covered these industries for 15+ years while at H.I.G. Capital.
Our Data-Driven Approach
Data-driven investing in high-growth digital consumer, commerce and marketing companies.
Datavest’s specialization in digital consumer, commerce & marketing is unique in the private equity industry. As evidenced by our name, data permeates every facet of our process, from investment sourcing and underwriting to portfolio management and value-creation. We believe this strategy enables us to take a more algorithmic vs. art critic approach to partnering with exceptional founders & management teams of companies with breakout potential.
Creating Partnership
Deep domain expertise enables Datavest to be a value-added partner to management.
Datavest is focused on partnering with successful founders and management teams to accelerate their companies’ next phase of growth. We provide our management teams with tools and resources tailored to e-commerce companies based on the founder’s 15+ years of experience.
In addition to the founder’s experience and network, we work with a team of focused operating partners across digital marketing, data & technology and financial planning & analysis. This team assists with Datavest’s investment sourcing and underwriting process and supports our management teams with strategic planning and implementation of growth initiatives.
Relevant Experience
*These companies are not Datavest Partners investments or prospective investments and are presented for illustrative purposes only to indicate certain investments that John Kim led or where he served as a board member/observer while at his prior firm and are not a complete list thereof. Other investment professionals not employed by Datavest Partners provided services with respect to such investments and ultimate investment approval was granted by an investment committee.