Athena Value Creation Activities
Operational Excellence
- Foundational Improvements
- Cost Evaluation
Balanced Growth
- Enhance Organic Growth
- Pursue Accretive Acquisitions
Athena For Shareholders
- Athena offers flexible deal structures to align our interests with current shareholders
- We support operational excellence and enhanced balanced growth post close adding a former successful software founder / executive to the Board
- We will consider some liquidity for investors or the management team
- Athena offers speed and certainty to close as our team has worked on more than 350 closed transactions


Athena For Management Teams
- We engage as partners, to co-strategize the next phase of operational excellence and enhanced balanced growth
- As partners we align economic incentives with the management team to create value post close
- We are excited to enhance balanced growth via organic investments and pursing accretive acquisitions
- Athena looks to supplement the management team with additional talent as needed
- We have a network of former software executives and founders that can be leveraged as mentors
- Athena via numerous long-term relationships can open partnership discussions with prominent strategic partners
Athena For Intermediaries
- We have software sector focus but financial profile flexibility as we will invest in:
- Businesses with flat or high revenue growth
- Companies that are burning capital or profitable
- Businesses that need to optimize operations or executing well but want additional support / capital
- Small-cap businesses (e.g. $5 million of ARR)
- Slow growth companies with limited profitability or companies growing quickly but want to responsibly accelerate growth
- We have significant transaction expertise (our team has worked on more than 350 closed transactions) focusing on speed and certainty to close
- Disciplined diligence process with operational partners participating from the beginning
- We have a broad base of debt financing sources which allows us creative options but can also close with all equity
- Athena offers flexible deal structures with committed capital and look to proactively solve deal issues

Athena uses a disciplined and distinct thematic approach to proactively identify industry sectors of interest, source initial targets for investment and accretive acquisition for our portfolio companies.
We strategically based on our decades of experience, deep industry expertise and extensive research select the most attractive domains from analysis of broader domain lists.
Athena applies best in class bespoke KPI analysis and benchmarking to only invest in the most promising target companies and to maximize operational excellence.
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