The Savant
Ecosystem
DevSavant is the result of a unique and disruptive approach to traditional venture capital by Savant Growth. Through DevSavant, Savant Growth allows B2B Tech and AI companies to be capital-efficient by supporting their growth with services that combine talent and analytics. Globally, the Savant Growth team has advised over 200 firms and its investments have amassed over 50 high-growth ventures.
A Success Story.
Savant Growth is a US-based growth equity fund with a powerful software and operations platform dedicated to accelerating growth for founder led and capital-efficient B2B Tech companies. Over the last three decades, the Savant Growth partners have invested almost $1 billion in capital in the American and European markets.
They assist founders and CEOs in constructing high-growth, market-leading companies while harnessing the power of DevSavant. Collaborating with Kennet Partners, Savant Growth manages specific investment programs, collectively striving for global market leadership for the companies it supports.
Investment Philosophy
The coming decades will witness immense value creation through the digitization of most of today's work-streams. As major tech giants invest in creating tools to facilitate this change, there will be substantial opportunities within every industry. Emerging businesses, backed by software, data, analytics, and AI, will revolutionize workflows and potentially reshape market leadership. Our 30-year journey with software, analytics, and AI has taught us that true innovation lies in redefining workflows to fully harness these technologies' potential.
Our focus? Companies that blend software, data, analytics, and AI to drastically improve business efficiency and transform markets.
Target Markets
Industries Poised for Innovation
Deal Profile
Strategic Investment Framework
Savant Growth
Benefits
We Are Growth
Investors
We are not VCs. In the early stage VC ‘hits’ model, a few companies deliver the fund returns while the rest face a higher risk of failing or stagnating. We diligently pursue the big wins and take an active role in helping each portfolio company succeed.
Your Equity
Is Top Priority
We fund investments to your specific cash needs; not to what a particular fund size requires. Billion-dollar funds need to write big checks to make the numbers work. We target big valuation step-ups, 18-24 months out. This means you keep more equity.
Partial Founder
Liquidity Is Important
Bootstrapping companies is tough. We celebrate the success of founders and understand the importance of separating company and personal balance sheets with partial liquidity upfront.
Collaborative
Partners
We love what we do and enjoy being active partners with founder-led companies. We leverage experience, people, technology, and services to increase the probability of a big outcome. We also respect that management needs to run the business.
Patience
Is A Virtue
First time founders, weak board books, no board books, technical debt, no management, unaudited numbers, CXOs that are really director-level. We have seen it all. We understand that in order to ensure the best outcome, we need to exercise flexibility and patience to successfully work through it all.
Proven
Model
Whether it is hiring executives, building an outbound sales team, scaling engineering, adding systems and processes, expanding TAM, moving from SMB to enterprise or any and all of these, we have the resources you need with a proven track record for success. We continue to invest in and expand our portfolio support capabilities in a unique, proprietary way.
Maximize
The Exit
Building category-leading, lasting businesses, whether stand-alone or acquired, is the goal. We have advised and/or exited more than 200 companies and pride ourselves in being expert marketers of your equity to maximize the big win.
We Are Growth Investors
We are not VCs. In the early stage VC ‘hits’ model, a few companies deliver the fund returns while the rest face a higher risk of failing or stagnating. We diligently pursue the big wins and take an active role in helping each portfolio company succeed.
Your Equity Is Top Priority
We fund investments to your specific cash needs; not to what a particular fund size requires. Billion-dollar funds need to write big checks to make the numbers work. We target big valuation step-ups, 18-24 months out. This means you keep more equity.
Partial Founder Liquidity Is Important
Bootstrapping companies is tough. We celebrate the success of founders and understand the importance of separating company and personal balance sheets with partial liquidity upfront.
Collaborative Partners
We love what we do and enjoy being active partners with founder-led companies. We leverage experience, people, technology, and services to increase the probability of a big outcome. We also respect that management needs to run the business.
Patience Is A Virtue
First time founders, weak board books, no board books, technical debt, no management, unaudited numbers, CXOs that are really director-level. We have seen it all. We understand that in order to ensure the best outcome, we need to exercise flexibility and patience to successfully work through it all.
Proven Model
Whether it is hiring executives, building an outbound sales team, scaling engineering, adding systems and processes, expanding TAM, moving from SMB to enterprise or any and all of these, we have the resources you need with a proven track record for success. We continue to invest in and expand our portfolio support capabilities in a unique, proprietary way.
Maximize The Exit
Building category-leading, lasting businesses, whether stand-alone or acquired, is the goal. We have advised and/or exited more than 200 companies and pride ourselves in being expert marketers of your equity to maximize the big win.
The Savant
Growth Team
Experienced leaders driving innovation and success.
Javier Rojas
Founder & Managing Partner
Eric Filipek
Founder & Managing Partner
Olivier Verhage
Vice-President
Paola Castellanos
Chief of Staff