MVP Private Equity Digital Marketing
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Private Equity, Portfolio Company, and Investment Bank Websites that Work
Tap our more than 20 years’ of experience and proven MVP TeamMate℠ website process to distinguish your firm with secure, easy to manage private equity website and digital marketing support. We’ve been a “most valuable partner” to many leading PE firms and their portcos throughout North America—with award-winning work for clients like Cortec Group, River Associates, Merit Capital, Akoya Capital, Svoboda Capital, Shoreview, JZ Partners, Shoreline Equity Partners, The Halifax Group, Prestwick Partners—and more. We built our reputation as the “PE MVP” through creativity, technology expertise and a deep understanding of private equity marketing.
Become a Portfolio Company MVP with our MVP PortCoPro℠ Program
Have a portfolio company you’re readying for sale or that needs a suite of website design, branding and SEO/PPC services? Contact us about our MVP PortcoPro℠ program for either a discounted “one-off” or longer-term deferred payment basis. We can help revitalize your portfolio company with a new website and EBITDA-generating digital marketing without breaking the bank. See our Roadtrek case history below for a good example!
Branding
Revamp your brand visually and verbally through our proven MVP BrandMate℠ process. We’ll revise your firm’s logo and regenerate its marketing DNA through a combination of our “form follows function” design process and our MVP Voice of Customer (VOC), Business and Brand Positioning Statements. Invest in a Brand Graphic Style and Tone of Voice Guide that will add value to your communications for years to come.Custom Websites
For a design and functionality there is no comparison between custom MVP CMS websites and templated solutions. Consider our many PE partners who have enjoyed our creative and collaborative MVP TeamMate℠ process. Through combination of affordable custom and stock photography (and videography) we’ll fulfill your vision and accomplish your goals with the type of distinctive website that has set MVP—and its clients—apart.Digital Marketing
Build on the success of your new website with our comprehensive digital marketing and communication services. From a new pitch deck and one-pager to an HTML email template and search engine optimization, we’ll leverage your to generate as much as 1.5X to 2X year-over-year increase in organic site traffic, based on case history results. Partner with MVP to discover how our integrated private equity digital marketing and communications services make a difference.Wind Point Partners
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
Founded in 1984, Wind Point, one of the oldest Private Equity firms in Chicago, selected MVP to revamp its website to align with its distinguished industry reputation and strategic vision. MVP designed and developed a cutting-edge website featuring engaging testimonial videos from former PortCo CEOs and deal team members, encapsulating the firm’s investment strategy and collaborative ethos. These case study videos, central to user experience (UX), offer vivid insights into WPP’s dynamic team interactions and effective value creation, enhancing digital storytelling and stakeholder engagement. This digital transformation not only showcases Wind Point’s substantial achievements and strategic expertise but also sets a new standard in trend-setting private equity digital communication.
FalconPoint
A Custom-Tailored One-Page Private Equity Website
FalconPoint, a New York-based private equity firm, focused on industrial and business services, tapped MVP to revamp its outdated website. As the firm partners with BrightAI, an AI IoT platform, the new site was redesigned to amplify the FalconPoint’s technology edge and support its upcoming fundraise. The smartly designed, one-page MVP custom-tailored website features a user-friendly layout, comprehensive sections on investment strategy, and seamless access for investors. Optimized for various devices and browsers, the site employs SEO best practices to enhance the client’s online presence, effectively communicating its investment success to a global audience.
Gemini Investors
An MVP TeamPlate℠ Private Equity Website
Gemini is a Boston-based private investment firm with focus and flexibility. The firm, renowned for its investment in over 170 diversified U.S. companies, sought MVP’s expertise in revitalizing its website. A multi-segment generalist, Gemini’s aim was to showcase their dynamic investment strategy, encompassing LMM B2B and B2C manufacturers and service providers as well as healthcare companies. To provide the custom-quality “look and feel” of bespoke Private Equity websites but at a price-competitive value proposition, MVP employed its proven MVP TeamPlate℠ website design and development platform. This MVP-developed WordPress website platform blends the design advantages of custom-crafted websites with price, performance and ease-of-use benefits in contrast to SaaS solutions like SquareSpace and “off the shelf” WordPress themes. The result is an impressive, easy-to-use and maintain website that clients own – not rent. Key site features include an eye-catching Boston Harbor flyover video, intuitive navigation and specialized portfolio filters. The site reflects Gemini’s commitment to diversified growth and distinctively sets them apart as an approachable national leader in providing flexible debt and equity solutions through a clear and concise investment strategy.
Woodward Park Partners
An MVP TeamPlate℠ Investment Banking Website
In a collaborative triumph, Woodward Park Partners, a Bloomfield Hills-based firm specializing in middle-market advisory, unveiled a revolutionary website developed by MVP. This platform reflects their commitment to high-touch advisory services, showcasing their expertise in mergers and acquisitions with senior professional involvement. The MVP TeamPlate℠ WordPress Website design process delivered a tailor-made, sophisticated digital presence that aligns with Woodward Park’s values of integrity, teamwork, and excellence. Lauded for its seamless design and functionality, the site sets a new benchmark for online presence in the investment banking sector, enhancing Woodward Park’s brand and solidifying their position as a leading middle-market M&A advisor.
Havencrest Capital Management
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
Dallas-based healthcare private equity firm, Havencrest Capital Management, recognized the need to rejuvenate its digital presence to better reflect its dynamic approach and successful track record in the lower middle-market (LMM) sector. Led by the esteemed healthcare investor, Christopher W. Kersey, M.D., M.B.A., the firm wanted to create a “first impression buzz” that would echo its core values: Integrity, Transparency, Growth, Collaboration, Leadership, Relationships, and Results.
MVP took on the challenge, leveraging the MVP TeamMate℠ process to craft a website that is both visually captivating and functionally adept. The new site showcases Havencrest’s transactional healthcare competencies and the profound expertise of their blue-chip team, offering intuitive features such as a home page video, portfolio company filters, and direct links to their LinkedIn profile. Built on a “no-template” WordPress CMS platform, it allows for easy in-house management and updates, ensuring the site remains a powerful tool in supporting Havencrest’s ambitious goals in the healthcare investment banking landscape.
Gallant Capital
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
Los Angeles-based Gallant Capital, a middle-market private equity firm boasting over $1B in AUM, partnered with MVP to elevate its digital presence from a SquareSpace setup to a trend-setting website that would distinctly portray its unique value proposition to a diverse audience. The firm sought to break away from the competition by presenting a fresh, modern, and bold image in the PE market, emphasizing its unique “OTX™: Onboard, Transform, and Exit” value creation process and a strong commitment to ESG investing.
MVP rose to the challenge, crafting a website that mirrors Gallant’s innovative approach through a minimalist yet authentic design. The new site, rich with engaging content and streamlined navigation, effectively showcases the firm’s capabilities, portfolio, and news, all while allowing easy updates through an MVP-modified WordPress CMS. This rejuvenated digital platform not only sets Gallant apart in the competitive middle-market private equity space but also positions them for continued success by resonating powerfully with their multifaceted target audience.
ShoreView
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
Minneapolis-based private equity firm ShoreView, with a rich history dating back to 2002 and over $1.3 billion of committed capital across four funds, approached MVP to revamp its website, aiming to vividly depict their two-decade-long successful journey of fostering long-term, stable growth through partnerships with family and entrepreneur-owned businesses.
MVP delivered a dynamic website that not only modernizes ShoreView’s image but also stays true to its brand essence. The homepage stands as a testament to private equity success, adorned with a serene background header video showcasing the picturesque Minnesota lakefront, coupled with dynamic deal statistics and previews of key site sections such as recent investments and team testimonials. The site offers enhanced user engagement through features like video testimonials, an investor login, and a dedicated podcast page, providing visitors with a comprehensive insight into the collaborative spirit of ShoreView.
Equipped with an MVP-customized WordPress CMS, the site ensures smooth and quick updates, ready to mirror ShoreView’s expanding role as a premier private equity partner across the nation. This rejuvenated digital platform, harmoniously blending the latest trends in private equity website design with ShoreView’s established brand, is set to be a beacon of their enduring commitment to nurturing investments in a plethora of sectors, from healthcare to niche consumer products.
Mason Wells
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
A dated, content heavy website made browsing difficult and slow. With a successful Buyout Fund in hand, Mason Wells, a Milwaukee-based private equity firm, needed a way to promote their services and success while intentionally connecting with business owners and intermediaries.
From a refreshed logo to clear, simple navigation, our work gave Mason Wells the look they needed to connect with people and promote their new fund and firm. We created unique, “choose your own adventure” business sector pages that individualized imagery for specific audiences to help keep visitors interested. Our clean iconography makes case studies dynamic, yet easy to browse and the print functionality on the team page gives clients a quick and simple way to stay in touch.
Beedie Capital
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
Beedie Capital (Vancouver), a leading multi-strategy direct investment platform that manages the alternative investments for Beedie, the largest Family Office in Canada with over $1B in AUM, and one of British Columbia’s largest private companies, selected MVP to revitalize its brand and web presence.
Facing the challenge of standing out in a crowded private equity marketplace, Beedie Capital aimed to sharpen its brand identity and establish a clear and consistent communication strategy. To achieve this objective, MVP implemented its proven MVP BrandMate℠ process. Once business and brand architecture language were formulated, including the new “Institutional Expertise. Entrepreneurial DNA,” tagline, MVP transitioned to its MVP TeamMate℠ website design and development process. The result featuring striking and animated Vancouver scenic imagery, animated images and modern portfolio company display techniques enable Beedie to project its brand and web presence throughout North America.
RA Capital
A Custom-Tailored Investment Banking Website
RA Capital is a distinguished investment bank headquartered in San Diego, California. The firm caters to the unique needs of private and family-owned businesses. The company specializes in representing clients in sell-side M&A transactions across a broad spectrum of industries in the lower middle-market (Deal value: $10M – $500M). Having facilitated over $60 billion in transactions over the past 30 years, RA Capital sought a new, distinct website to reflect its high-quality client service.
In close collaboration with the RACA team, MVP developed the site using the MVP TeamMate℠ website design and development process, which is derived from the waterfall method of software engineering. TeamMate helps businesses articulate their marketing, competitive, creative, and website requirements.
The new website provides a premium user experience for clients and referral sources, serving as a crucial “middle of the funnel” component in the sales process. The site allows team members to effortlessly upload webinars, transactions, team bios, client stories, news, and insights. Its distinctive “R”-shaped graphic container surrounds the homepage imagery, while unique mouse-over animations capture viewer interest.
Shoreline
A Custom-Tailored Private Equity Website
ShoreLine (Jacksonville) needed a self-managing website that would serve as a first and lasting introduction to visitors through use of distinctive imagery and flawless functionality that would deliver a great experience and spark further interaction and deal flow.
The new custom-tailored website’s enticing beachfront imagery strikes a balance between impressive and inviting. A customized and intuitive menu helps visitors navigate the site’s rich waters. Interior site pages boast photos that speak to the many sides of ShoreLine’s business and are unified with a soft blue gradient that matches the logo. The site also employs MVP’s unique application of the WordPress backend site administration tool, making timely content updates as easy as a day at the beach for ShoreLine’s marketing team.
MVP, in combination with its local partner 3D Digital, provided a joint combination of team member photography and videography featuring spontaneous team member interaction and heartfelt interviews conducted by MVP with ShoreLine’s portfolio company CEOs. These elements enable this leading Florida-based private equity firm to stand out regionally and nationally in a sea of mundane private equity websites.
Brentwood Capital Advisors
A Custom-Tailored Investment Banking Website
Based just outside Nashville, aka Music City USA, BCA provides world-class investment banking and M&A advisory to healthcare services, healthcare technology and business services companies. The premier independent investment bank approaches every project uniquely with guidance tailored to each individual client. Seeking a complete revamp of their earlier site, BCA turned to MVP for an investment bank website design that would be expansive, impressive and one of a kind to match the breadth and depth of their expertise.
MVP built the site to function as flawlessly as it looks. The MVP TeamMate℠ custom design and development process makes the site more interactive and targeted to each user. For example, filters for “service type” and “sector” enable visitors to see exactly what they are looking for on BCA’s robust transactions page, which features MVP’s easy to use tombstone maker in place of time consuming and cumbersome Photoshop methods.
Midwest Mezzanine Funds
A Custom-Tailored Mezzanine Capital Website
With a former site that did not offer the styling and flexibility needed to make quick and easy content updates, Midwest Mezzanine Funds, a Chicago-based a lower middle market junior capital provider sought a creative and affordable solution that could be implemented quickly and efficiently. Turning to MVP for its award-winning expertise in private equity and mezzanine debt branding and website design, MMF’s partners agreed that an MVP TeamPlate℠ website would fit the bill for their audiences of private equity firms, independent sponsors, family offices and management teams while delivering flawless functionality through MVP’s customized and easy-to-use and administer WordPress content management system.
The site’s customized homepage reflects the qualities that make Midwest Mezzanine so successful in the Windy City junior capital market —and nationally. From the inspiring Chicago skyline imagery to the sublime use of the firm’s distinctive yellow trade dress, MVP projected a modern and efficient look that holds its own with the best the industry has to offer. The site functions as well on mobile devices as it does on desktop, augmented by features such as dynamic deal statistics; multi-filter current, realized and sector portfolios; and an SEO-friendly content structure.
Northstar Capital Partners
An MVP TeamPlate℠ Private Equity Website
Northstar (Minneapolis) sought a distinctive yet cost-effective site that would reflect its commitment to partnerships, range of solutions and professional yet personable team. The firm was drawn to MVP’s new and innovative MVP TeamPlate℠ WordPress website platform, which is based on the code derived from many of MVP’s custom-designed award-winners.
Leveraging a creative combination of both Minnesota “Land of 10,000 Lakes” and “Mini-Apple” cityscape imagery, the site asserts streamlined User Experience (UX), dynamic deal statistics, and a three-variable current/realized, industry and investment theme-based filter. Other enhancements include an MVP-customized backend content admin system that surpasses “out-of-the box” WordPress installs. The MVP team implemented SEO best practices to ensure that starry-eyed sub-debt and equity CEOs and management teams find their way to the site. Showcasing Northstar’s human capital, professional photos “mouse over” to whimsical team portraits and contact information.
This latest iteration of MVP’s flexible and customizable MVP TeamPlate℠ private equity website platform is sure to set Northstar and its trusted, experienced, and committed financing partners on the course to Lower Middle Market deal flow.
Grandview Partners
A One-Page MVP TeamPlate℠ Private Equity Website
Grandview Partners, a private investment firm based in Columbus, Ohio, required a comprehensive enhancement of their online presence to better reflect their dedication to disciplined and strategic investment in lower and middle market private equity. They enlisted MVP to develop an intuitive, easily navigable one-page website. Built on the easy-to-use, MVP TeamPlate℠ WordPress CMS platform, the new site allows Grandview to efficiently manage content and effectively promote their strategic investment approach and rigorous process evaluation. This digital enhancement bolsters the client’s profile among potential investors and deal sources, highlighting their dedication to transparency and reliable partnerships in the private equity sector.
TPM
A MiddleGround MVP TeamPlate℠ Portfolio Company Website
MiddleGround Capital, operating from Lexington and NYC, teamed with MVP and its digital transformation program, MVP PortcoPro, to redefine the online presence of their Minneapolis-based precision plastics company, TPM. The project aimed to introduce TPM’s new brand identity and elevate market awareness with a state-of-the-art digital footprint. MVP conducted an extensive branding analysis to align with TPM’s long-term visions and market position, leading to the design of a fresh company logo and a bespoke MVP TeamMate website. The new site showcases TPM’s commitment to precision and innovation, featuring user-friendly navigation, animated video content, and dynamic calls-to-action, ensuring a seamless user experience across various devices including PCs, iPads®, iPhones®, and Android™ phones.
Enhanced with SEO best practices and visually stunning elements, the site serves as a robust resource for TPM’s precision molding solutions. It also includes a secure portal for intelligent requests for quotes (IRFQs), making it a principal destination for prospective clients. The redevelopment not only emphasizes TPM’s core values and culture through its visuals and fonts but also complements its expansion strategy by allowing employees to update and maintain content effortlessly using the WordPress CMS.
WePackItAll
An Akoya Capital Portfolio Company Website
WePackItAll, an LA-based Akoya Capital portfolio company, is a leader in Health & Wellness custom filling and co-packaging solutions. The company sought to redefine its digital presence to accurately reflect its collaborative problem-solving expertise and unwavering commitment to quality. WPIA challenged MVP to modernize their existing website, emphasize strategic national services and appeal to health and wellness bulk manufacturers, brands, and products. A further goal was to make the site ADA and WCAG 2.2 compliant without compromising the website’s “look and feel.”
MVP leveraged its proprietary MVP TeamMate℠ website design methodology, which is based on the Waterfall method of software engineering. The new user-friendly WordPress CMS website simplifies content management administration and exudes clarity and sophistication, aligning with WePackItAll’s core values and service philosophy. It also features customer testimonials, an efficient contact system for inquiries and quotes, and is optimized for user navigability and SEO.
The result packs form and functionality together as the go-to destination for OEM stakeholders in contract packaging and fulfillment services.
JOBS AMST
A Former Keystone Capital Portfolio Company Website
JOBS Group (Houston), formerly JOBS-AMST, a platform portfolio company of private equity firm Keystone Capital (Chicago), sought a revamped site after the success of the MVP-redesigned website for Keystone. The leading Houston- and Dallas-based building services company wanted to showcase its decades of experience across such markets as skyscraper maintenance, window washing, waterproofing, elevator redesign, new construction and architectural-surface preventive maintenance. The problem, however, was that each of JOBS’ business units, including AMST and April Building Services, had their own identity, market specialty and geographic operating area. To unify messaging, JOBS tasked MVP with reinventing its brand and creating a new B2B website that would project its multifaceted presence throughout Texas and beyond.
The fully responsive website employs dramatic home page slider photography, clean and concise navigation and many CTAs (calls-to-action) encouraging visitor interaction. The easy to manage website was designed and built on MVP’s customized version of the WordPress CMS featuring a unique backend site administration system which exceeds the features and functionality of WordPress’s own out-of-the-box admin tool. Combining the MVP’s “design & build” creativity with SEO best practices, the new JOBS Group website is bound to help this group of PE platform building services companies reach new heights.
Roadtrek
A Former IOP Portfolio Company Website
Leading PE firms have selected MVP to improve the sales and profits of their portfolio companies through state-of-the-art responsive, website design and development. For example, Evanston, IL based Industrial Opportunity Partners, tapped MVP to create an impressive new site for Roadtrek (Cambridge, ON) – the North American leader in Class B motorhomes which MVP recently updated on behalf of Roadtrek’s current parent company, Rapido Group (France). With eye-catching consumer appeal and such functionality as a 22 variable “Build your own Roadtrek” van configurator, a multiple dealer locator tool, and US/Canada currency converter, this digital destination sets a high standard in responsive, WordPress CMS, e-Business websites.
MVP BrandMate℠ Messaging
Giving Voice to Clients and their Stakeholders to Distinguish these Firms.
MVP excels in helping private equity firms articulate their brand messaging and unify their corporate communications through its MVP BrandMate℠ process. Based on a combination of internal and external (Voice of Customer) stakeholder interviews, competitive website and business and brand architecture statement formulation, our marketing team applied the MVP BrandMate℠ process to formulate the verbal and visual brand scaffolding of such leading private equity, investment bank and real estate equity firms as Beedie Capital (Vancouver, BC), R.L. Hulett (St. Louis, MO) and Mortar Group (New York City, NY), respectively. If it’s time to tell your story in a new and more vibrant manner, we look forward to discussing how our MVP BrandMate℠ process can revitalize your messaging and help you attract the stakeholders you’re seeking whether they be CEOs and management teams, intermediaries, investors or new employees. Click here to learn more.
Video Production
From Onsite to Remote Video, We Bring Portco CEO Stories and Case Histories to Life
In 2022, we collaborated with some of the industry’s top firms, including Svoboda Capital (Chicago, IL) as shown, Mason Wells (Chicago, IL), Brentwood Capital (Nashville, TN), R.L. Hulett (St. Louis, MO) and Wind Point Partners (Chicago, IL) to create high-impact home page and CEO portfolio company testimonials. Our in-house team understands the importance of creating videos that not only reflect the CEO’s and deal team’s success stories but bring them to life through compelling graphics and animation effects. Though it’s “have camera, will travel” when it comes to on-location shoots, our new Remote Video service, which we forged during the Pandemic, saves our clients time and money as it eliminates the need for crew travel. We simply send a kit consisting of a GoPro camera, desktop lighting and mic to the CEO, coach them remotely over Zoom, and they then return the kit to MVP for SD card extraction and post-production complete with all the graphic effects. Then on to the next CEO until we complete production and deliver the files–and a compelling online testimonial case history. Have a value creation plan worth sharing? Please contact us to learn how we can make it come to life.
Brentwood Capital Advisors SEO Results
Total Website Traffic +75%
Brentwood Capital Advisors is a Nashville-based investment bank providing M&A, recapitalization, divestiture, and growth capital advice to middle market healthcare providers. The MVP SearchMate℠ SEO program boosted Brentwood’s website traffic by optimizing key search terms, phrases, and technical meta data.
Midwest Mezzanine SEO Results
Organic Search Traffic +25%
Chicago-based Midwest Mezzanine Funds (MMF) provides junior capital for private equity acquisitions in manufacturing, distribution, and services sectors. MVP designed and enhanced MMF's website using its SEO program, MVP SearchMate℠, increasing its search engine visibility and relevant traffic by targeting market-focused keywords, resulting in new investor leads.
Mortar Group SEO Results
Domain Trust Flow +33%
Mortar Group, a New York-based investment firm, specializes in high-return multifamily real estate investments. Following a website redesign and domain name change, MVP's SearchMate℠ helped improve the search engine friendliness, credibility of the new domain, and trust flow of Mortar's website through link-building tactics that focused on acquiring high-quality, relevant backlinks from trustworthy sites. The result was an increase in search engine visibility, rankings, and traffic to the site.
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