This is how your partner describes your PE firm in a podcast interview:
> Polychrome is a PE firm focused on acquiring 50% or greater equity positions in B2B software companies. That’s our primary focus and that’s what we do pretty much every day. [...] So we are open to full buyouts, we’re open to partial buyouts. Our core structure though, is typically keeping the founder in place. And we are typically partnering with technical founders who don’t have, the go-to-market expertise or who just don’t want to sell or the go-to-market is what’s keeping the company from taking that next step in their growth trajectory. And so what we’ve done and what our typical structure is we’ll do cash, let’s say for 25% of the business.
When you talk about "typically keeping the founder in place" you're not 50/50 partners. You're the senior partner.
> Polychrome is a PE firm focused on acquiring 50% or greater equity positions in B2B software companies. That’s our primary focus and that’s what we do pretty much every day. [...] So we are open to full buyouts, we’re open to partial buyouts. Our core structure though, is typically keeping the founder in place. And we are typically partnering with technical founders who don’t have, the go-to-market expertise or who just don’t want to sell or the go-to-market is what’s keeping the company from taking that next step in their growth trajectory. And so what we’ve done and what our typical structure is we’ll do cash, let’s say for 25% of the business.
When you talk about "typically keeping the founder in place" you're not 50/50 partners. You're the senior partner.
https://blog.acquire.com/startup-acquisition-episode-26/