Pavan Tripathi

Pavan Tripathi is a Partner and Co-Founder at Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private capital firm founded in 2012. His firm profile says he focuses on originating and underwriting investments in software, information / data services, and digital infrastructure.

Before Bregal Sagemount, Tripathi worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as both an investment banker and private equity investor. His most recent Goldman role was on the Growth Equity team in the Merchant Banking Division, where he focused primarily on high-growth software and digital infrastructure businesses.

Tripathi graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

• Invests through Bregal Sagemount’s flexible mandate across majority equity, minority equity, and credit investments.
• Targets companies with recurring or re-occurring revenue streams in markets with strong secular tailwinds.
• Focus sectors include software, information / data services, digital infrastructure, financial technology and services, healthcare IT and services, and business and consumer services.
• Typical company metrics include $7 million+ revenue, >10% growth potential, recurring or re-occurring revenue, and corporate or unit-level profitability.
• Bregal Sagemount states: “We are equally comfortable in the role of the majority or minority partner and investing in equity or debt securities.”
• Tripathi has described Sagemount’s approach as partnering with entrepreneurs and executives “across majority equity, minority equity, and credit investments” and aiming to accelerate growth through the firm’s Growth Factors program.