Drew Coash

Drew Coash is the Director of Business Development at Lightview Capital, a lower middle-market private equity firm headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. In this role he plays an active part in the firm's deal sourcing, execution, and due diligence — effectively serving as a front line for identifying and evaluating potential platform investments and add-on acquisitions among founder-owned business services companies.

Before joining Lightview, Coash worked at SmartAsset, the New York–based personal finance technology company, where he was an Enterprise Associate on the Strategic Partnerships team from roughly June 2018 to early 2020. That experience gave him exposure to enterprise partnership development and B2B relationship-building that maps closely to a business-development mandate at an investment firm.

Coash graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Political Science, where he was also a member of the varsity baseball team. He is based out of Lightview's operations serving the firm's North American, business-services-focused investment strategy.

Lightview Capital itself was founded in 2012 and pursues a control-buyout and growth strategy in business services and tech-enabled services. The firm's founders have led direct investments and acquisitions in more than 50 growth companies, with more than half resulting in IPOs or strategic exits and creating close to $2 billion in combined enterprise value. Lightview has been named to Inc.'s Founder-Friendly Investors list for three consecutive years (2023–2025).

• Invests in founder-owned and bootstrapped lower middle-market companies in business services and tech-enabled services across North America.
• Targets companies generating roughly $10M–$150M in revenue and $2M–$15M of EBITDA, writing equity checks of about $10M–$50M per transaction.
• Pursues control-oriented strategies: management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations, and strategic add-on acquisitions to build market-leading platforms.
• Core sub-sectors include enterprise/commercial automation, compliance solutions, managed services, marketing solutions, healthcare services, and industrial technology; most common exposure is IT and internet software/services.
• Positions itself as a "collaborative capital partner to founder-owned businesses," emphasizing organic growth plus strategic M&A and a "Value Creation Playbook" delivered through operating advisors.