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Why Alpine partnered with Ramp to streamline spend and cut costs across its portfolio
A centralized finance ops solution delivering immediate savings
Alpine Investors, a private equity firm specializing in software and services, has built a reputation for its people-driven approach to investing. With a focus on empowering leadership teams and streamlining operations, Alpine has partnered with Ramp to optimize spend management and financial workflows across its diverse portfolio of companies. Over 20 Alpine platforms are already using Ramp across their underlying add-on portfolio companies, with CFOs consistently ranking it as one of their most impactful and easy-to-use vendors.
One of Alpine’s verticals, Alpine Software Group (“ASG”), the firm’s software-focused arm, has been at the forefront of adopting Ramp. ASG buys, builds, and operates market-leading vertical SaaS companies, and its lean finance team oversees over 50 portfolio companies.
Within six months of implementing Ramp, 90% of ASG’s companies adopted Ramp’s solutions, achieving $1 million in annual cost savings and significantly reducing administrative burdens.
Features like automated approval workflows, receipt tagging, and GL mapping have allowed ASG’s finance teams to close books faster while giving employees access to efficient spend management tools.
Prior to Ramp, ASG and other Alpine Investors portcos used multiple disparate systems to manage spend, which resulted in costly operational inefficiencies.
“Ramp has fundamentally transformed how we approach financial operations,” says Kaitlin Farinella, Portfolio Operations Manager at Alpine. “By consolidating tools and automating processes, Ramp empowers us to focus on driving value across our portfolio.”
Ramp’s partnership with Alpine goes beyond cost savings—it equips portfolio companies with scalable tools to manage spend, automate manual processes, and enhance visibility into financial operations. Ramp’s unified platform consolidates expense management, corporate credit, and bill payments, enabling finance teams to focus on strategic priorities instead of time-consuming admin tasks.
Katilin notes, “Ramp has become an essential part of our tech stack, helping our companies streamline processes, save time, and operate with greater financial control. Its user-friendly interface and powerful automation are invaluable for companies at every stage of growth.”
With Alpine’s focus on scaling software and services businesses, Ramp provides a crucial foundation for its companies to grow efficiently. This partnership highlights how modern finance tools like Ramp can deliver meaningful cost savings, operational efficiency, and scalability for private equity-backed companies. With Ramp, Alpine ensures its portfolio companies are equipped to maintain smooth financial operations and thrive at every stage of growth.
Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm committed to building enduring companies by working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people. Alpine specializes in investments in the software and services industries. Alpine’s PeopleFirst strategy includes a talent program that allows Alpine to bring leadership to situations where additional or new management is needed post-transaction. Alpine has $17 billion in assets under management and has three offices in San Francisco, New York, and Salt Lake City.
