An operator-led growth capital firm.

TGC Capital Partners is a growth capital firm - the dedicated investment platform of the Gateway Group of Companies, founded in 1998. We were established to address a structural gap in growth-stage B2B SaaS investing: founders who had reached product-market fit but lacked the engineering, go-to-market, and governance capacity to compound the next stage of revenue without disproportionate dilution. As a minority-stake growth capital firm, we pair capital with operating capacity rather than deploying capital alone.

We invest as minority partners through our operator-led platform. We deploy embedded engineering, go-to-market, and governance capability alongside capital. We measure ourselves against the same outcomes we ask our founders to commit to. How we differ from private equity · how we differ from venture capital.

Who we are

The Gateway Group has spent twenty-eight years scaling enterprise software businesses for clients and, since 2018, for portfolio companies. The group operates from offices in the Netherlands and across the Nordics, Benelux, DACH, and the United Kingdom, with delivery presence aligned to those markets. Across the platform, engineers, product designers, and operators support businesses ranging from early-stage SaaS to publicly listed enterprises.

TGC Capital Partners was carved out as a dedicated investment vehicle to channel that operating capacity into a curated portfolio of growth-stage companies. The investment thesis, the partnership terms, and the operating model were designed in 2018 and refined across more than forty engagements - see our engagement models, sector focus, and geographic coverage.

What we believe

Capital is necessary, not sufficient. Growth-stage SaaS rarely fails for lack of capital. It fails because the company cannot convert capital into compounding revenue at acceptable burn. Operating capacity, deployed deliberately, is the missing variable.

Founders should retain control. The structural defaults of venture capital - preferred liquidation stacks, board-control thresholds, ratchets - make sense for venture-stage risk. They are poorly suited to growth-stage companies with established product-market fit. We invest as minority partners and structure terms accordingly.

Outcomes deserve to be measured. Every engagement begins with a written diagnostic and a written set of operating goals. Progress against those goals is reviewed quarterly. We have found that founders welcome this discipline because it makes the partnership legible.

Operating capacity is a moat that compounds. A capital-only investor cannot match the throughput of dedicated operating teams deployed under a single thesis. We can. This is not a marketing claim; it is the load-bearing reason TGC Capital Partners exists.

The Gateway Group connection

TGC Capital Partners is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gateway Group of Companies. The two entities are operationally distinct: TGC retains independent investment authority, governance, and capital allocation. The connection is the operating capacity it provides to portfolio companies - engineering, product, design, GTM, and managed services - at terms negotiated transparently and disclosed to all stakeholders.

Location

• Zoetermeer, Netherlands - Maria Montessorilaan 5, 2719 DB · +31 (0) 79 3200 980

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