Eric Filipek

## PROSPECT INFORMATION: Name: Eric Filipek Title: Founder & Managing Partner Fund: Savant Growth Background: Eric Filipek is the Founder and Managing Partner at Savant Growth, based in San Mateo, California. He is also a Managing Director at Kennet Partners, focusing on growth equity. Eric studied at the University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1994. **Key Activities & Interests:** * **AI and Revenue Growth:** On February 4, 2025, Eric shared an article about Applied AI transforming sales and marketing, highlighting Conversica's role in driving revenue. He stated, "Investing in Applied AI is about efficiency, scale, and results. Companies leveraging AI today will stay ahead of the competition—those who wait risk falling behind." (Post: 'AI is fundamentally reshaping how businesses streamline and drive revenue. Jim Kaskade, CEO of portfolio company, Conversica...') * **Savant Growth and DevSavant:** On December 12, 2024, Eric reposted about DevSavant's growth as a top Latam provider of staff augmentation and software development services, expressing excitement about the team. (Post: 'We are wrapping up this amazing year with a fantastic team! DevSavant keeps growing...') * **Investments and Partnerships:** * On December 14, 2021, Eric expressed pleasure in completing an investment with Ray Downes and Peter Melerud for FileCloud, stating, "Very pleased to complete this investment with you guys." (Post: 'Exciting times for Peter Melerud and I as we join forces with the excellent founding team...') * On October 21, 2021, he mentioned welcoming BPC as an investment partner into Impartner, noting, "Augmenting expensive direct models with leveraged partner go-to-market approaches is essential these new days for many verticals." (Post: 'Thrilled to welcome our new investment partnerrs BPC this week into Impartner.') * On February 17, 2021, Eric reposted about the team built at Savant Growth, commenting, "Very exciting!" (Post: 'Proud of the team we have built!') * On November 6, 2020, he congratulated Kemp Technologies on their acquisition of Flowmon Networks, stating, "Congrats to kemp and company!" (Post: 'Kemp is delighted to announce the acquisition of Flowmon Networks...') * **Recognizing Portfolio Companies:** * On February 23, 2019, Eric praised Conversica's recognition as one of the ten most innovative AI companies, saying, "Nice way to start the year!" (Post: 'We’re thrilled to be named one of the ten most innovative #AI companies in the world!') * On November 14, 2017, he celebrated Conversica's win at Dreamforce, commenting, "I need one of those t-shirts. Big win!" (Post: 'Our team did a great job during Dreamforce this week...') Fund details: - Description: Savant Growth is a US-based Growth Equity Fund that invest in SaaS software / technology companies. Savant Growth invests capital to help fuel growth, provide founder liquidity, and provides a powerful software called SaleSavant and operations platform called DevSavant dedicated to accelerating growth for capital-efficient SaaS companies. Our mission is to help our founders/CEOs build high growth market-leading companies. We don't work alone. We have the power of our operations platform through DevSavant & SaleSavant. We continue to partner with Kennet, managing Kennet V’s US investment program. Together, we work to achieve global market leadership for our companies. - Website: https://www.savantgrowth.com - Location: San Mateo, California, United States - Lead qualification: 95/100 - Immediate priority: Strong fit — growth equity fund focused on B2B SaaS, small partner-led team, ~$500M AUM and active recent investments Use case: Deliver 50 qualified founder-led B2B SaaS targets monthly with 3M–15M ARR, capital-efficient, $10M–40M check-size profile, with owner/CEO contact information ready for outreach Pain points: • Partners managing portfolio companies instead of sourcing new deals • Limited internal sourcing bandwidth for targeted capital-efficient SaaS niches (operational constraint) • Difficulty maintaining a proprietary, differentiated pipeline vs larger PE/VC firms (competitive disadvantage) decision_maker: Joe Wang, CEO / Partner (listed on firm site) portfolio_count: ~20 companies (Tracxn) or 9 in Savant Growth I per firm site (sources differ) - Recent deals: • Redica Systems (May 2025) - investment by Savant Growth (amount not found) • Qount (Mar 2024) - $17M investment in AI-powered practice-management platform (Savant Growth + Kennet) • FileCloud (Jun 2023) - reported $30M Series A led by Savant Growth (reported) • Exactera (2023) - reported $33M investment (reported) Research: - Query: Savant Growth (web (Eric Filipek) recent investments? fund focus / thesis? - Answer: Savant Growth focuses on B2B SaaS and tech-enabled services. Its latest fund targets applied AI. Recent investments include Redica Systems and Qount.