Private Equity

Dallas’ Trive Capital Is Taking a U.K. Bowling and Entertainment Company Private

by | Feb 8, 2024
Tenpin offers customers a unique experience via a mix of bowling lanes, video arcades, escape rooms, karaoke, laser tag, pool, table tennis, and soft play across 53 centers. The partnership with Trive will allow Tenpin to accelerate its expansion strategy in the U.K. and continue to invest in its site portfolio to enhance customer experience, the Dallas PE firm said.
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Dallas’ Kainos Capital Announces 2 Leadership Promotions
by | Jan 19, 2024
Steven Koch has been promoted to principal at Kainos Capital, and Alex Stanek has been promoted to manager of the private equity firm's operations team.
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Dallas’ Crossplane Capital Announces 3 Promotions, and a New Hire
by | Jan 12, 2024

Dallas-based middle-market private equity firm Crossplane Capital announced three promotions and one new hire.

The company said the moves come after a strong 2023 that included nine acquisitions and one exit....

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CAF Capital Partners Hires New Senior Vice President of Acquisitions
by | Aug 25, 2023

Industry veteran Jason Geer has been named senior vice president of acquisitions at CAF Capital Partners, a Dallas-based private equity real estate firm.

Geer joins CAF Capital Partners from Invesco Real Estate where he spent 25 years....

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Dallas Digital Signage Co. Korbyt Receives ‘Significant Growth Investment’ from Boston VC Firm

by | Jul 20, 2023
Korbyt said the partnership will accelerate its growth trajectory by expanding reseller and technology partnerships, facilitating customer support growth, as well as supporting more innovation in Korbyt’s industry-leading, cloud-native SaaS platform.
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India’s Persistent Systems Opens Global Private Equity Hub in Plano
by | Jun 16, 2023
With 22,750 employees in 21 countries and $1 billion in annual revenue, Persistent cited Dallas-Fort Worth's prominence as the third-largest U.S. market for private equity firms after New York and Chicago as it opened its new Plano global PE hub.
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Trinity Hunt Partners Make Majority Investment in Centricity Research
by | Jun 5, 2023

Dallas-based Trinity Hunt Partners announced a majority investment in Centricity Research, a clinical research services provider specializing in conducting Phase I-IV clinical trials across more than 40 therapeutic areas.

The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

“We are confident that Trinity Hunt’s expertise in partnering with growing healthcare services companies and its shared commitment to providing an empowering team environment will help us drive innovation and make significant strides as we continue to expand,” Centricity President Dr....

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Grapevine’s Sera Systems Reports ‘Eight-Figure’ Series B Funding Round
by | May 25, 2023
Sera—a SaaS service for small-to-large size HVAC, plumbing, and other field service businesses—said it closed the oversubscribed funding round with a market cap three times the value the company had at the close of its Series A round in November 2021.
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Dallas-based Trinity Hunt Partners Makes Majority Investment in Supreme Optimization

by | Mar 15, 2023

Dallas-based growth-oriented private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners announced a majority investment in Supreme Optimization, a digital marketing agency focused exclusively on life sciences.

No financial details were released.

Founded in 2015 and based in Southern California with a team distributed across the U.S., Canada, and UK, Supreme has grown rapidly to become a thought leader in the life sciences marketing space, combining top digital marketing strategies with deep scientific expertise to deliver exceptional results for clients, Trinity Hunt Partners said....

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‘Affecting Every Aspect of Our Society’: McKinney Startup Aims to Identify Mental Health Issues
by | May 31, 2022
Many who are diagnosed with a mental health condition had no idea the symptoms they suffered were related to mental health. McKinney-based Connected Mind aims to change that with technology that screens people for the most common types of mental health conditions. “It's like being interviewed by a psychologist, but it's a computer,” says CEO and CTO Christian Lehinger.
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Amping Up: Fort Worth Battery and EV Charger Company Acquired by PE Firm
by | Apr 20, 2022
Schumacher Electric, a 75-year-old company that relocated to Fort Worth from Chicago last summer, is reimagining the future of power innovation.
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Dallas Cybersecurity Company Acquired by Former U.S. Secretary of Treasury-Owned Firm in a $525M Deal
by | Mar 29, 2022
Dallas-based Zimperium, a mobile security platform, is set to be acquired by Washington, D.C.’s Liberty Strategic Capital, a firm led by former Goldman Sachs CIO and Trump Administration appointee Steve Mnuchin.
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Sole Source Capital Portfolio Company More Than Doubles in Size With Three Acquisitions

by | Jan 5, 2022
The announcement continues a strong run for the Dallas-based industrial-focused PE firm. In October, Sole Source Capital was named a 2021 Inc. "Founder-Friendly" investor and raised $555 million in its second fund.
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6 Dallas Private Equity Firms Make Inc.’s ‘Founder-Friendly’ Investor List
by | Oct 13, 2021
The Dallas firms are among 14 Texas shops "that founders will love" on Inc.'s 2021 list of private equity and venture capital firms.

Inc.'s list of 146 founder-friendly investors is its biggest yet.
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Dallas-Based PE Firm Partners With Two Aerospace Companies to Form New Missile and Space Platform
by | Jan 26, 2021
The new platform, now operating in Los Angeles, is already among the largest independently owned suppliers focused on manufacturing complex systems in the space, missile, interceptor, and hypersonic markets, the firm says.
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Richardson-Based RealPage Is Acquired by Thoma Bravo in $10B Deal
by | Dec 21, 2020
The real estate software and data analytics provider expects to continue operating under Chairman and CEO Steve Winn and his existing leadership team in Richardson. Winn founded the company, which now serves some 12,200 clients worldwide, in 1998.

In an earnings call in February, Winn said, “This is a good time to be in the real estate technology space.” The company is committed to the “North Star of Innovation and simplification,” he said at the time.
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