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10/01/2021

From vegetable oil to one of the world's largest IT services companies. At Arcspring, we're always impressed by such incredible transformations and reinventions like the one accomplished by Wipro.

In 1945, Wipro began manufacturing and selling vegetable oil. Over the next two decades, the company diversified into soaps, detergents, talcum powder, light bulbs, and other consumer goods.

In 1966, 21-year-old Azim Premji took over the company from his father and expanded Wipro into IT - beginning a decades-long transformation.

Today, more than half of Wipro's $6.9 billion revenue comes from the U.S., where it provides outsourced research and development and IT consulting services

09/29/2021

An Epic Digital Transformation

Nokia, the Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics company didn't start out that way. Back in the 1860s, they were building pulp mills and slowly transitioned into manufacturing rubber boots.

But by the late 1960s, the Nokia we know today was beginning to take shape as an electronics giant as Finland was dubbed the "Nordic Japan."

09/16/2021

What Private Equity can learn from the mistakes of Robert Moses.

The first time I heard the name "Robert Moses" was in Jane Jacobs' incredible The Death and Life of Great American Cities a book I had to read before beginning my (brief) architecture studies in college. In it, Moses is rightfully pegged as the antagonist - a racist and "rationali...

08/19/2021

Arcspring's Adam Drake explores the use of Digital Twins in manufacturing and design and recommends their increased use in private equity modeling.

It's time to unleash digital twins into the private equity world. ...

07/19/2021

Our fearless leader, Duncan Angove preparing for a portfolio company workshop. Prior to making any acquisition, we get alignment with our CEOs by conducting joint workshops around people, processes, and technology.

The goal is to create a 5-year plan that applies both capital and proprietary software that will transform the balance sheet and the income statement.

We are open for business and looking to apply capital. Our sweet spot is to write $15-75M equity checks for owners/operators in business services industries.

We do NOT buy software companies. We buy companies that should be software companies via tech enablement. Arcspring

07/16/2021

Arcspring's Adam Drake takes a look at how lessons from WWII bombing strategies can inform the marketing tactics of today.

A small plaque on the back of a statue in my mother's childhood hometown of Royal Leamington Spa states: A German bomb moved this statue one inch on its plinth on the 14th November 1940. My mother, misreading it, always wondered who Agerman Bob was, why he chose to move the statue such a small a...

07/14/2021

Data continues to be the lifeblood for companies attempting to pivot from analog business models to digital ones.

07/06/2021

Thanks for providing Arcspring an audience to address our differentiation and value creation playbook to owners, entrepreneurs, and operators.

We are looking to apply both capital and proprietary software to transform our portfolio companies. It’s a growth mindset that has worked well thus far in our technology-based careers.

We are looking to build long-term relationships with owner/operators of great privately held businesses.

Bringing next to now.

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Episode #255: Corey Tollefson   Hosted by Ryan Tansom    Software and tech companies get much higher valuati

06/15/2021

One of Arcspring's portfolio companies, Gridiron Football, is leveraging the digital payment and interest-free option offered by Sezzle to ensure every player has the chance to play right now.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sezzle-now-available-on-gridiron-football-bringing-buy-now-pay-later-to-sports-301312799.html

/PRNewswire/ -- Sezzle Inc. (ASX: SZL) (Sezzle or Company) // - Sezzle, a leader in the Buy Now, Pay Later industry, is pleased to announce its partnership...

05/20/2021

We are excited to announce the launch of Gridiron Football's new acquisition-based site. Whether you want to sell your youth football league, start one, or need help running the one you've built, Gridiron has solutions for you!

Learn more here: http://sellyourleague.com

Want to sell your youth football league quickly and easily, or interested in having someone help run it? Gridiron wants to hear from you!

03/15/2021

We are having a fantastic discussion in the office about people who have created technologies, inventions, and scientific discoveries that changed the arc of human progress since the dawn of time. (Such as Galileo, Da Vinci, Darwin, Turing, Jobs, Musk, etc...)

Who do you think belongs on the list?

02/05/2021

Arcspring is a new private equity firm set up by some familiar names in the enterprise software industry, aiming to use their expertise to drive ‘value creation’.