Gearset
- Gearset is the market-leading Salesforce DevOps solution for personas of all levels of sophistication covering developers to admins
- The company provides comprehensive DevOps, backup and release management solutions for Salesforce developers, admins and hybrid teams, allowing teams to build faster, ship fewer bugs and deliver more value
- Gearset currently partners with more than 1,700 customers and handles more than 250,000 deployments per month on its platform
- Gearset was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, UK
Silversmith Capital Partners
- Silversmith Capital Partners is a growth equity firm with $2 billion of capital under management, which seeks to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies
- The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston
TeleMessage Profile
- TeleMessage, a global leader in multi-channel mobile voice and messaging capture, is widely recognized as an innovative provider of mobility solutions and next-generation wireless communication technologies to enterprises and mobile operators
- As communication channels and regulations continue to proliferate, the company empowers organizations of all sizes across all industries, including financial services, government, healthcare and network carriers globally to leverage the power of all mobile channels with a robust communications and archiving platform
- TeleMessage was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel
Smarsh Profile
- Smarsh is the industry leader in enabling organizations to easily manage risk and uncover the value within their communications data
- The company’s portfolio of cloud-native digital communications, capture, retention and oversight solutions enables enterprises to transform oversight into foresight and identify regulatory and reputational risk across more than 80 digital communications channels
- The acquisition of TeleMessage makes Smarsh the undisputed leader in helping customers to meet global regulatory compliance requirements within the SEC, FINRA, Dodd-Frank, GDPR, FCA, IIROC and others across corporate mobile devices, BYOD “virtual phones” and consumer and collaboration apps
- Smarsh is based in Portland, Oregon and serves a global client base spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, including leading global banks, brokerage firms, insurers, registered investment advisors and U.S. state and local government agencies
K1 Investment Management Profile
- K1 is a leading investment firm focused on high-growth enterprise software companies globally
- K1 seeks to help dynamic businesses achieve successful outcomes by identifying and executing organic and acquisition-based growth opportunities that position its companies as industry leaders; the firm typically invests alongside strong management teams that continue to guide their organizations on a day-to-day basis
- Based in Manhattan Beach, CA, K1 has over 120 professionals with more than 180 investments to-date
beqom
- beqom provides cloud-based compensation software that unifies all compensation and rewards on a single platform, from salaries and bonuses to executive and sales incentives
- beqom enables companies to attract and retain talent, engage and motivate employees, control costs, streamline processes and ensure fair and compliant pay
- beqom will use the investment to fuel additional growth in product innovation and continue its momentum of 100% year-over-year bookings growth in 2021
- Today, beqom manages over $300 billion in compensation for Global 5000 customers of all sizes and industries, including Mercedes Benz, PepsiCo, Pictet and DHL
- beqom was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Nyon, Switzerland
Sumeru Equity Partners Profile
- Sumeru provides growth capital, strategic insight and operating expertise to leading technology companies in North America and Europe
- Since its founding as Silver Lake Sumeru in 2007, Sumeru has made over 50 investments and add-on acquisitions in technology companies, resulting in several IPOs and numerous exits to leading financial and strategic acquirers
- Sumeru was spun out of Silver Lake in 2014 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA
BlueConic Profile
- BlueConic, the leading pure-play customer data platform, liberates companies’ first-party data from disparate systems and makes it accessible wherever and whenever it is required to transform customer relationships and drive business growth
- Over 300 companies worldwide, including Hearst Newspapers, Heineken, ING, T-Mobile, UEFA, and VF Corp, use BlueConic to unify data into persistent, individual-level profiles, and then activate it across customer touchpoints and systems in support of a wide range of growth-focused initiatives, including customer lifecycle orchestration, modeling and analytics, digital products and experiences, audience-based monetization, and more
- BlueConic was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in Nijmegen and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vista Equity Partners Profile
- Vista Equity Partners is U.S. based private equity firm with more than $86 billion in assets under management and exclusively invests in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organizations across private equity, permanent capital, credit and public equity strategies
- Vista’s investments are anchored by a sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions and proven, flexible management techniques that drive sustainable growth
- Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX, with offices in San Francisco, Oakland, Chicago and New York
Don Johnston Inc. Profile
- Don Johnston Inc. has been a staple of the accessibility community, partnering with literacy experts, AT specialists, SLPs, OTs, and special education directors to develop popular assistive and evaluative tools including Co:Writer, Snap&Read, uPAR, Word Ban and Quizbot
- Students across North America with diverse learning challenges rely on Don Johnston Inc. assistive tools to accommodate their learning needs in schools and at home
- Don Johnston Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Volo, Illinois
Texthelp Profile
- Texthelp Group is a global EdTech company creating innovative education and workplace solutions
- The company is focused on helping people learn, understand, and communicate through the use of digital literacy and accessibility software
- With over 50 million users worldwide, the Texthelp suite of products includes Read&Write, EquatIO, WriQ, Fluency Tutor, ReachDeck, and SpeechStream
- Texthelp was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Antrim, Ireland
Unily
- Unily is the creator of an employee experience platform used by enterprises to improve communication, collaboration and productivity amongst their employees
- Unily’s sophisticated cloud-native SaaS platform offers customers scalability, a rich feature set and deep integrations with other mission-critical enterprise systems
- Unily continues to experience rapid growth across its global customer base driven by enterprises seeking out best-in-class software to replace old legacy custom-built platforms
- Today, more than 300 enterprises and roughly 3.5 million of their employees rely on Unily’s employee experience platform and the company’s portfolio of Fortune 500 clients spans a large range of industries and includes high-profile brands.
- Unily was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom
CVC Capital Partners Profile
- CVC is a leading private equity and investment advisory firm with a network of 25 offices throughout Europe, Asia and the US, with approximately $125 billion of assets under management
- Since its founding in 1981, CVC has secured commitments in excess of $165 billion from some of the world’s leading institutional investors across its private equity and credit strategies
- Funds managed or advised by CVC are invested in more than 100 companies worldwide, which have combined annual sales of over $100 billion and employ more than 450,000 people
- CVC was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Luxembourg
CVC Growth Partners Profile
- Launched in 2014, CVC Growth Partners is the growth-oriented middle-market technology investment arm of CVC Capital Partners
- CVC Growth Partners primarily targets equity investments between $50 million and $250 million in North America and Europe and manages over $2.5 billion in assets across two dedicated funds
- CVC Growth Partners was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Luxembourg
Tango Profile
- Tango, a portfolio company of Frontier Growth, is the leading provider of cloud-based store lifecycle management and integrated workplace management software
- Tango offers an end-to-end solution encompassing site selection, project management, lease administration & accounting, facilities maintenance and space management
- Tango was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX
Berkshire Partners Profile
- Berkshire Partners is a private equity firm managing more than $15.5 billion in capital and has made 135+ investments since its inception
- The firm invests in software and technology companies operating in the education, government, real estate and facilities management, construction, professional services, and compliance end sectors
- Berkshire Partners was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, MA
Frontier Growth Profile
- Frontier Growth is a leading growth equity firm seeking to make both majority and minority investments in high-growth software businesses
- The firm invests across a wide range of verticals in the software sector and has $1.1 billion in assets under management
- Frontier Growth was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC
