# Guidepost Growth Equity

> Guidepost Growth Equity is a VC fund in Boston backing Software and SaaS. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 69%
- Last fund: Nov 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/guidepostgrowthequity/
- Website: http://guidepostgrowth.com/

Guidepost Growth Equity is an equity firm partnering with growth stage technology companies. They invest in large technology markets including tech-enabled services, infrastructure software and services, and application software and data services.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1M–$35M |
| Private Equity | $25M–$95M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 38% |
| SaaS | 6 | 23% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 15% |
| Human Resources | 3 | 12% |
| Pet | 2 | 8% |

66 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 9 | 35% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 12% |
| Series B | 2 | 8% |
| Series C | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 16 | 62% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Austria | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christopher E. Cavanagh | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-e-cavanagh |
| Eugene Nogi | General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-nogi |
| Reginald Seawright | Vice President, Private Equity | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reginald-seawright |
| Roshen Menon | General Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roshen-menon |
| Russ Pyle | General Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/russ-pyle |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PetScreening | PetScreening is a platform designed for property owners and housing providers to effectively manage pet policies and streamline the processes related to assistance animals. PetScreening offers a secure, simple location for residents to store and share important information about their pets, enhancing the diligence required by landlords.PetScreening enables tenants to create detailed profiles for their pets, including vaccination records, behavioral history, and photos. This centralized information aids property managers in making informed decisions regarding pet policies. | $80M | Series B | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Kaizen Reporting | Kaizen Reporting is a team of regulatory reporting specialists dedicated to improving the quality of regulatory reporting data in the financial services industry. | $54.1M | Private Equity | Nov 06, 2024 |  |
| ClassWallet | ClassWallet streamlines manual, time-intensive tasks of collecting receipts, reconciling invoices, and making vendor and reimbursement payments by digitizing and automating those processes. | $95M | Private Equity | Aug 15, 2023 |  |
| Intellum | Intellum is an Atlanta-based technology company that provides employee collaboration, performance and learning tools for the modern workplace. These products include the cloud-based Exceed learning management system; Tribe Social, a private group collaboration tool that allows employees to securely share ideas, files, links, photos and videowithout the distractions of typical enterprise social experiences; and Level, a new approach to performance tracking that focuses on building successful employee habits through gamification. The tools work seamlessly together to provide a new approach to enterprise learning, which hundreds of companies depend on everyday to deliver better employee experiences. To learn more about Intellum, visit www.intellum.com. | $25M | Private Equity | Aug 02, 2023 |  |
| SearchStax | SearchStax Makes Powerful Search EasySearchStax is the fastest and easiest way for marketers and developers to deliver the most powerful, relevant and robust search experiences. We offer end-to-end SaaS search solutions - with fully-managed Solr Service on the backend and powerful website search on the frontend.SearchStax manages one of thelargest Solr footprints in the world with over 600 customers in more than 20 countries -- and is recognized by G2 as a Leader for Enterprise Search.Fully-Managed Hosted Solr Service in Any Cloud SearchStax Cloud is a fully-managed SaaS solution that automates, manages and scales Solr infrastructure in public or private clouds on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Developers use SearchStax Cloud to: • Implement faster with less risk • Focus resources on building better search experiences • Spend less time managing and supporting SolrBest-in-Class Site Search SearchStax Studio delivers advanced, modern and personalized search for your website or custom application. Marketers can deliver best-in-class site search experiences with: • Actionable search insights • Self-service, easy-to-use tools for the Marketing team • Quick implementation for Developers |  | Private Equity | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| SearchStax | SearchStax Makes Powerful Search EasySearchStax is the fastest and easiest way for marketers and developers to deliver the most powerful, relevant and robust search experiences. We offer end-to-end SaaS search solutions - with fully-managed Solr Service on the backend and powerful website search on the frontend.SearchStax manages one of thelargest Solr footprints in the world with over 600 customers in more than 20 countries -- and is recognized by G2 as a Leader for Enterprise Search.Fully-Managed Hosted Solr Service in Any Cloud SearchStax Cloud is a fully-managed SaaS solution that automates, manages and scales Solr infrastructure in public or private clouds on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Developers use SearchStax Cloud to: • Implement faster with less risk • Focus resources on building better search experiences • Spend less time managing and supporting SolrBest-in-Class Site Search SearchStax Studio delivers advanced, modern and personalized search for your website or custom application. Marketers can deliver best-in-class site search experiences with: • Actionable search insights • Self-service, easy-to-use tools for the Marketing team • Quick implementation for Developers |  | Private Equity | Jul 24, 2023 |  |
| ClassWallet | ClassWallet streamlines manual, time-intensive tasks of collecting receipts, reconciling invoices, and making vendor and reimbursement payments by digitizing and automating those processes. |  | Private Equity | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| Shibumi | Shibumi is a cloud-based enterprise application that provides the work management, collaboration, and performance measurement necessary to deliver successful business initiatives and optimize results. The company is focused on what customers need to execute business activity ranging from a single key initiative to an enterprise business improvementprogram. It reduces the need for time-consuming manual effort compiling status, impact, and results and helps get teams back to their most important job executing.Shibumi helps teams stop spending the majority of their week in meetings and accelerate their actions with a focus on measurable results. The application is easy to use, intuitive interface, that requires little or no training means that any user can focus on getting work done rather than endless stakeholder reporting.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. | $30M | Private Equity | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas provides business solutions for industries such as venture capitals, government industries, tech industries, and financial services. Atlas also allows its clients to monitor their progress under their personalized software platform to fast-track and simplify HR set-up. Atlas was established in 2015 by Rick Hammel in Chicago, Illinois. | $200M | Series B | Sep 15, 2022 |  |
| Atlas | Atlas provides business solutions for industries such as venture capitals, government industries, tech industries, and financial services. Atlas also allows its clients to monitor their progress under their personalized software platform to fast-track and simplify HR set-up. Atlas was established in 2015 by Rick Hammel in Chicago, Illinois. | $200M | Series B | Sep 15, 2022 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-bridge-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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- [Vogel Communications Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vogel-communications-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Guidepost Growth Equity invest in?

Guidepost Growth Equity invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guidepost Growth Equity's check size?

Guidepost Growth Equity typically joins rounds of $1M–$35M at Series A and $25M–$95M at Private Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guidepost Growth Equity participates in.

### How do I contact Guidepost Growth Equity?

Public channels for Guidepost Growth Equity include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Guidepost Growth Equity?

The team at Guidepost Growth Equity includes Christopher E. Cavanagh (General Partner), Eugene Nogi (General Partner) and Reginald Seawright (Vice President, Private Equity), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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