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Shea & Company Advises Redgate on its Strategic Growth Investment from Bregal Sagemount

Redgate Software Profile

  • Redgate Software’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges across the database DevOps lifecycle. Redgate’s solutions make life easier for IT leaders, development teams and database professionals, increasing efficiency, reducing errors and protecting business-critical data
  • More than 200,000 data professionals, representing 92% of the Fortune 100, rely on Redgate to enable automation, resilience and efficiency, ensuring they get the most value out of their database estates
  • Redgate was founded in 1999 in Cambridge, United Kingdom and grew from a startup offering a handful of database tools to a global business with over 500 employees and six locations worldwide

Bregal Sagemount Profile

  • Bregal Sagemount is a leading growth-focused private equity firm with more than $7.5 billion of cumulative capital raised
  • The firm provides flexible capital and strategic assistance to market-leading companies in high-growth sectors
  • Sagemount has invested in over 90 companies in sectors including software, information / data services, financial technology & financial services, digital infrastructure, healthcare IT and business & consumer services, with offices in New York and Palo Alto

I have led Redgate as CEO since 2021, working with an exceptional team who have made us the market leader in Database DevOps we are today. When seeking a partner for our next phase of growth and development, I knew we needed an investment firm with a close cultural fit and shared long-term view of Redgate’s potential. Sagemount’s wealth of experience and success with founder-led software businesses, coupled with their strong support of our vision to become the trusted database operations platform, makes this an ideal partnership

Jakub Lamik

CEO, Redgate

Simon, Neil, and the Redgate team have built an exceptional company, with a trusted, long-established brand and a track record of resilience and reinvention. We have followed Redgate with interest for many years, and, leveraging our long history of partnering with founder-owned and product-led businesses like Redgate, we believe that now is the ideal time to be making a strategic investment with long-term growth ahead

Adam Fuller

Co-Founder & Partner, Bregal Sagemount

  • Sagemount’s investment in Redgate was announced on January 7, 2026; financial terms were not disclosed
  • Shea & Company served as the exclusive financial advisor to Redgate
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