Apax Digital Named to Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors List

28th October 2025

The annual list highlights the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with track records of backing founder-led companies.

Apax Digital is proud to announce its recognition on the Inc. Founder-Friendly Investors list, honoring the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with a track record of backing founder-led companies. This year’s list recognizes Apax Digital among 248 firms.

The prestigious list celebrates the investors that believe in backing founder-led businesses and helping them thrive. All companies on the list have successful track records of collaboration and remaining actively involved with the businesses they invest in.

“Raising capital is no small feat for today’s entrepreneurs. That’s why discovering investors who offer more than just financial backing—those who bring mentorship, resources, and a true spirit of partnership to your growth journey—is both rare and invaluable,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “The 2025 Founder-Friendly Investors are collaborators and dedicated to helping their portfolio companies succeed.”

Marcelo Gigliani, Partner, Apax Digital said: At Apax Digital, we’re proud to work alongside extraordinary entrepreneurs and leadership teams to accelerate growth, foster innovation, and achieve lasting success in an ever-evolving market. This is the third consecutive year we’ve been recognized as a Founder-Friendly investor by Inc. and we want to thank all our partners within the Apax Digital family for the continued support. We look forward to meeting even more world-class founders along the way.”

To date, the Apax Digital Funds have completed 24 platform investments across their core subsectors.

A cornerstone of Apax Digital’s strategy is its partnership with Apax’s Operational Excellence Practice, a team of experts in technology, sales, marketing, pricing, and talent who work hand-in-hand with portfolio companies to turn strategic vision into measurable results. By embedding this expertise directly into key initiatives, whether optimizing go-to-market execution, accelerating cloud transformations, enhancing product innovation, or strengthening leadership, Apax Digital drives faster, more sustainable growth. 

To compile the list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their companies have grown during these partnerships.

For more information or to view the complete list of honorees, visit www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors.

About Apax Digital 

The Apax Digital Funds specialise in growth equity and buyout investments in high-growth enterprise software, consumer internet, and technology-enabled services companies worldwide. The Apax Digital team leverages Apax’s deep tech investing expertise, global platform, and specialised operating experts, to enable technology companies and their management teams to accelerate the achievement of their full potential. For further information, please visit digital.apax.com.  

For over 50 years, Apax has worked to inspire growth and transform businesses. The firm has raised and advised funds with aggregate commitments of c.$80 billion. Apax Funds invest in companies across three global sectors: Tech, Services, and Internet/Consumer. These funds provide long-term equity financing to build and strengthen world-class companies.

About Inc.  

Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.