GAINSystems, a rapidly-growing provider of advanced Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Optimization solutions, today announced a significant growth investment from Francisco Partners, a leading global technology-focused investment firm. This transaction represents the first institutional capital invested into the company. CEO Bill Benton and members of the GAINSystems management team are retaining a controlling ownership stake.
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“We chose Francisco Partners for their proven ability to enhance value creation for customers within our context of strong growth and focus on delivering best-in-class results.”
“Particularly in today’s dynamic economic environment, companies of all sizes need to optimize their supply chains to mitigate risk and improve performance and profitability,” said Benton. “We chose Francisco Partners for their proven ability to enhance value creation for customers within our context of strong growth and focus on delivering best-in-class results.”
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“The value realized by GAINSystems’ extremely satisfied customer base has fueled the company’s rapid growth and leadership recognition by Gartner and other industry analysts,” said Adam Solomon, Principal at Francisco Partners. “GAINSystems provides the most comprehensive supply chain planning suite in the industry, all delivered by a single technology platform and a proven results-focused implementation methodology. This enables customers to realize significant return-on-investment in a very rapid timeframe.”
Deep Shah, Co-President at Francisco Partners, added, “We have spent many years evaluating the supply chain planning market and have long admired GAINSystems for its market-leading product functionality and demonstrated customer results. We are extremely excited to partner with Bill and the rest of the GAINSystems team, as we believe that the opportunity in front of the company is vast and that GAINSystems’ solutions will only grow in strategic importance over time as they become a leader in the supply chain planning software market.”
