How we engage
We engage in four ways.
Start-ups, scale-up growth, scale-up transformation, and M&A and joint ventures. Each brings the 6X Factors as one programme, shaped to the company.
They share one principle: capacity before capital.
TGC Capital Partners engages with founders in four ways. They differ in our role, the stake and the share of the operational load. We bring the teams, the method and the capital a company needs to grow revenue, and we invest in the programme we deliver, together with the founder’s lead investor. The result we measure is revenue.
The summaries below are short; each links to its own page. If you are unsure which way fits, the readiness assessment gives you a first view in 8 minutes; otherwise the intro call is the fastest path to a partner conversation.
From start-up to M&A and JV
- As co-founders
Start-up
- As a catalyst
Scale-up growth
- As an equal partner
Scale-up transformation
- Joint ventures and acquisitions
M&A and JV
As co-founders
Start-up
We engage with experienced professionals to kickstart their entrepreneurial journey, as co-founders. The 6X Factors are there from the first day: a brand, demand and sales capacity, engineering, governance and a board, so the founder builds the company instead of running every function.
- Our role
- Co-founder
- Who it is for
- Experienced professionals starting a company
- What we bring
- The 6X Factors from day 1
As a catalyst
Scale-up growth
We act as a catalyst: a minority, non-controlling stake, sized on the recast plan. Your 18-month plan is recast month by month with the programme inside it. We invest in the programme we deliver, together with your lead investor, at an agreed valuation. Strategy, culture and operations stay with you. This is our standard scale-up engagement.
- Our role
- Catalyst
- Stake
- Minority, non-controlling
- Sized on
- The recast 18-month plan
As an equal partner
Scale-up transformation
We take equal responsibility for the transformation: a fifty-fifty partnership with the founder, with Gateway Group sharing the operational load. This is for companies that need to change how they sell, build and run the business at the same time. Here we may fund most or all of the growth journey, agreed case by case in the workshops.
- Our role
- Equal partner
- Stake
- Fifty-fifty with the founder
- Operational load
- Shared with Gateway Group
Joint ventures and acquisitions
M&A and JV
Joint ventures or 100% acquisitions for growth, case by case. A joint venture pairs a founder or a partner company with Gateway Group teams in a new market or a new line of business. An acquisition brings a company into the group with the 6X Factors behind it. Each one is built as a win-win model for the people involved.
- Our role
- Joint-venture partner or acquirer
- Form
- JV or 100% acquisition
- Decided
- Case by case
How to choose the right way
The right way is rarely a matter of stage alone. It depends on what the founder wants to change: revenue capacity, engineering throughput, governance, new markets, or all of them at once. Most conversations start with a one-hour intro call where we map the constraint and agree which way fits. Then two workshops with all decision-makers in the room recast the plan with the programme inside it. If we do not agree, we stop early and respectfully. We would rather pass cleanly than miscast the engagement.
Next step: a two-hour workshop.
Book the intro call and we fix the workshop date on it.