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Catalant Technologies Raises $35 Million in Series E Funding to Fuel Enterprise Growth and Scale
Catalant Technologies announced the close of $35 million of additional funding from its Series E equity round and the expansion of its existing debt facility to scale its product offering and expand into new global markets. Catalant is a leading provider of software that helps companies effectively manage strategy execution.
Goldfinch Partners led the round, with new investments from Anheuser-Busch InBev’s ZX Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SJF Ventures, and Tectonic Ventures. New investors were joined by follow-on investments from General Catalyst, Highland Capital, GE Ventures, Bob Doris of Accanto Partners, former Bain Capital Managing Director Mark Nunnelly, and Mark Cuban. The round brings Catalant’s total equity and debt funding to more than $100 million.
“We’re thrilled to lead this round of investment in Catalant,” said Bill McNichols, Managing Partner and co-founder of Goldfinch Partners. “We invest in companies and founders who are changing the way the world works, and Catalant exemplifies that. No other software delivers the same level of visibility into work happening inside companies, the value driven by the work, who’s actually doing the work, and whether the people doing the work are engaged and productive.”
We invest in companies and founders who are changing the way the world works, and Catalant exemplifies that.
Bill McNichols, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Goldfinch Partners
Catalant was founded in 2013 as an online marketplace for companies to find consultants quickly and easily. Since then, Catalant has globally rolled out software and services for work planning, resource management, and insights and reporting. The system, in its Resources module, facilitates access to more than 65,000 independent experts and 1,000 consulting firms in 127 countries around the world.
Global organizations typically partner with Catalant to accelerate and enable strategic plan
execution, enterprise portfolio management, transformation workstreams, centers of excellence, organizational redesigns, post-merger integrations, and agile transformations.
“Catalant helps provide operational clarity and faster, more effective allocation of the right resources to critical work that helps us grow and better serve our customers,” said David Almeida, Chief People and Transformation Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev, an early Catalant customer who helped shape its strategic roadmap and product offerings.
…we’re happy to back a company that is helping organizations around the world move quicker.
Bernardo Novick, Head of ZX Ventures, Anheuser-Busch InBev
“Catalant has been a trusted partner of our company and we’re happy to back a company that is helping organizations around the world move quicker,” said Bernardo Novick, Head of ZX Ventures, the global growth, and innovation group of AB InBev.
“We’re fortunate that our evolution has been driven by partnering with many of the world’s biggest brands on some of their most defining, difficult work,” said Pat Petitti, Co-Founder and CEO of Catalant.
Rob Biederman, Catalant Co-Founder added, “These same customers investing in us validate our platform’s impact on their business objectives. We’re proud to have driven meaningful, long-term partnerships with very sophisticated corporate leaders.”
In addition to Anheuser-Busch InBev and GE, top global companies like Highmark Health, Fidelity Investments, and Pfizer use Catalant’s software platform to accelerate and deliver pivotal corporate initiatives.