- EBITDA / organic growth stagnation"This asset isn't delivering the growth case."
- Unpredictable, unscalable growth engine"Growth happens, but we can't control or repeat it."
- Exit readiness gap"We need to exit, but the commercial story isn't strong enough yet."
The growth partner you can put in front of your portfolio.
B2B growth, from strategy to implementation. We build data-driven Growth Engines that make portfolio revenue predictable — with skin in the game on the results delivered.
Network-dependent revenue trades at a discount.
Predictable, proven revenue compounds EBITDA and earns the multiple. It's the value-creation lever most portfolio companies leave untouched.
- Commercial conviction gap at investment"We don't know if the growth thesis is really achievable."
- Portfolio prioritization blindness"We don't know where our growth capital and attention will generate the highest ROI."
- Buy-and-build commercial integration gap"We bought the companies, but the commercial synergies aren't appearing."
Three services, three PE pain points.
Every engagement leads back to one of these three.
Growth Engine
Portfolio company needs faster, more predictable growth
Readiness → Generation → Conversion → Acceleration
Proof: European CRM Leader casePost-M&A Commercial Integration
Recently acquired companies aren't one commercial whole yet
One CRM, one process, quantified cross-/upsell, aligned ICPs
Proof: 11 add-ons consolidated into 1 sales process (Xwift)Commercial Due Diligence
Unsure whether a target has real commercial upside
Growth-thesis stress test, pipeline quality read, 100-day plan
Proof: Commercial DD Checklist for PEA PE-backed European CRM leader, rebuilt in 90 days.
Stretch embedded as interim Growth Marketing Manager and rebuilt a fragmented lead engine across 6 markets. Read the full case — or see the same Growth Engine approach applied at a Belgian D2C brewery and a Belgian concrete producer.
How we plug in with PE.
From pre-deal commercial diligence to portfolio-wide growth support.
Portfolio-wide workshop
One 45–60 min session that upgrades growth thinking across every company in the portfolio at once. Open to founders and ops teams, live Q&A, interested companies can opt in for a pilot.
A tangible value-add for leadership, at zero cost or risk to the fund.
Portfolio office hours
Lightweight, ongoing access. On-demand sessions booked directly by founders for GTM questions, funnel issues, or growth blockers.
Visibility into which companies are engaging, an early signal for where extra support may be needed.
Portfolio audit
The same structured lens applied across your portfolio companies. About 2 weeks to validate funnel, channels, and bottlenecks, depending on data availability.
One view of where growth is breaking across the portfolio, plus a prioritized fix list per company.
Pre-deal commercial diligence
An independent, buy-side read on the commercial strength and growth readiness of an opportunity. We pressure-test the growth story with real funnel data and separate repeatable growth from one-off deals.
A clear go/no-go/fix-first on commercial upside, plus a draft 100-day growth plan if you close.
Add-on synergy mapping
A fixed-scope commercial build, triggered every time you close an add-on onto a platform: consolidate the commercial infrastructure, quantify the overlap with data, and adapt ICPs after consolidation.
One CRM, one validated ICP, and a prioritized cross-sell list, repeatable across every add-on.
Frequently asked questions
Usually because growth depends on individual salespeople, founders, or one-off deals instead of a repeatable system. We run a commercial audit to find the real bottleneck first — visibility, demand, conversion, or scale — because each needs a different fix. More marketing rarely solves a problem that is actually about conversion or scalability.
We build a Growth Engine: tracking and CRM foundations first, then a demand generation system, a conversion process, and finally the scaling layer, in that order. It is the same trajectory (Readiness → Generation → Conversion → Acceleration) behind our European CRM Leader case, where a PE-backed SaaS company grew monthly MQLs from 56 to 388 in 90 days while cutting cost per MQL by 25%.
Yes, through commercial due diligence scoped to the deal. We pressure-test the growth story against real funnel data, separate repeatable growth from one-off deals or market tailwinds, and assess what it would take to hit the model post-close, so the investment committee is deciding on evidence, not the pitch deck.
A portfolio-wide commercial audit, roughly two weeks, applies the same diagnostic lens to every company and rolls the findings into one view: where growth is breaking, and a prioritized fix list per company. That turns "which asset needs attention" from a guess into a ranked list.
We consolidate the commercial infrastructure first, one CRM, one process, before touching strategy. Then we quantify the real cross-sell and upsell overlap with data rather than assumption, and adapt each ICP so the combined client base gets a coherent go-to-market. We ran exactly this playbook across 11 consolidated acquisitions for a transport and logistics group, mapped onto one sales process and one CRM.
By replacing "management promises" with evidence: reducing key-person dependency, showing which KPIs improved and why, and building the kind of predictable, systemic growth story that buyers do not discount in the valuation conversation. The earlier this starts before the exit window, the more of that story is real rather than assembled at the last minute.
Start with a pilot for one company.
Upgrade growth thinking across the portfolio through a tangible case, and see exactly how Stretch thinks and works.
A real GTM challenge, or an ongoing growth topic amongst your board.
Market research, competitor analysis, customer journey & funnel analysis, channel analysis, CRM & data tracking, bottleneck identification.
On the real case, not a generic template.
Companies can opt in as they see fit, or are positively challenged by what they see.