Partnering with founders to build enduring services businesses.
GATE Partners is a private equity firm investing in services businesses across financial services, life sciences services, and real estate services. We partner with founders and management teams to help these companies grow into category leaders.
A new firm, with a long history of investing together.
GATE Partners was founded by a team that spent over a decade at Greenfield Growth, where we invested in technology companies that went on to define their categories.
We founded GATE Partners to bring the same investment approach to services businesses. Our focus is on companies that perform specialized, mission-critical work in financial services, life sciences services, and real estate services.
We invest with patience and partner closely with management teams. Our role is to provide the capital, sector expertise, and operating network that help services companies grow into category leaders.
Meet the teamFour principles, applied with discipline.
Long-Term Equity Holders
Our hold periods extend beyond traditional fund cycles. This gives portfolio companies room to compound capital and management teams the runway to plan and invest over multi-year horizons rather than quarterly cycles.
Founder-Aligned
We back the founders and operators who built the business. Our role is to support their continued leadership with capital, sector expertise, and access to a network of senior services operators.
Operator-Driven
We bring a network of senior services operators and advisors to every investment. They engage from diligence onward, contributing functional and sector expertise that complements management teams.
Disciplined Capital
We are concentrated by design. Two to three new platform investments per year, in services businesses with proven economics and clear paths to scale.
Where we invest.
We are long-term equity holders. Great services businesses are built over decades, not over five-year hold periods. Our approach to investing reflects that reality.The Partners, GATE Partners
Partners and leadership.
Before joining Greenfield, Itay was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. In his role, Itay worked with management teams across sectors on IPOs, M&A, and other private and public capital raises.
Itay is a Major (Res.) in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces. During his service, Itay was awarded numerous excellence awards having led innovative research projects.
Itay holds a Bachelor’s Degree, Double Major in Accounting and Economics from Tel Aviv University.
Shay is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Greenfield Partners, focusing on SaaS, healthcare and AI. He leads Greenfield’s investments in BigPanda, Avanan, Coralogix, Capitolis, Mixtiles, and Quali. Prior to Founding Greenfield, Shay was a senior advisor to TPG Growth.
Originally from Tel Aviv and for the last 25 years in NYC, Shay spent the early years of his career operating and maturing early growth technology companies. He then joined Thylacine Capital to lead the alternative investing activity.
Shay has an undergraduate degree from Fairleigh Dickenson University and an EMBA from Columbia Business School.
Recent perspectives from the firm.
Third-Party Administration: A Multi-Decade Opportunity
An analysis of the structural drivers in TPA services and where we see continued consolidation across insurance and benefits administration.
Read moreOperating Themes in Specialty Services
Common patterns we observe in services platforms that successfully scale from founder-led businesses to institutional category leaders.
Read more2026 Outlook: The Services Opportunity
Our view on the structural tailwinds shaping services businesses and what they mean for founders evaluating long-term capital partners.
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