Private Equity Software Investing with Adi Filipovic
Adi Filipovic, Managing Director at Resurgens Technology Partners, joins Sean Mooney to discuss his journey from Bosnian refugee and college athlete to software private equity investor. He details the operational value creation structure Resurgens uses to scale portfolio companies, analyzes why the software deal market has slowed amid artificial intelligence disruption, and explains how behavioral economics concepts like anchoring and the endowment effect impact investment decision-making.
- Adi Filipovic arrived in the United States in December 1994 as a child refugee from war-torn Bosnia, settling with his family in Augusta, Georgia. Read →
- Adi Filipovic applies behavioral economics from Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler (whom he studied under at Chicago) directly to private equity deal screening. Read →
- Software returns have shifted entirely from multiple expansion at entry to operational execution during the hold period. Read →
- Dedicated software buyout funds have quietly halted new platform acquisitions, choosing to hold uncalled capital while evaluating artificial intelligence disruption. Read →