Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
At Beacon the investment process will provide you exposure to three parts of being an investor: Building and scaling our proprietary M&A agents and AI product suite
What they're looking for
- Strong academic record from a competitive institution with a degree in Business or Finance
- A strong understanding of technology and a passion for the software industry
- Minimum 1-6 years of M&A experience, working in private equity, investment banking, consulting, corporate development, or strategic finance
- Familiarity with a buy-and-build model and experience/knowledge in VMS, software, and technology is a plus
- Expertise in building financial models, and proficiency in preparing thoughtfully structured analysis
- Strong ability to synthesize complex systems
More about this role
Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies — niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.
Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently — accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable.
We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about. Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better.
Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst,...
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