Bison Capital Asset Management

Bison Capital makes growth equity investments in fundamentally strong middle-market companies, public or private, for expansion, acquisitions, or recapitalizations. Their investment approach involves the flexibility to invest in both the equity and debt securities of a company in order to meet its capital needs while enabling existing managers to retain significant equity ownership going forward. Our ability to invest on a non-control basis provides our management partners with the freedom to execute their business plans and capture substantial equity appreciation created after our investment. As a flexible and value-added partner, Bison Capital provides a full spectrum of financial, strategic, and operating resources. The Principals of Bison Capital have broad experience in investing capital at all levels of the capital structure and have played significant roles in creating equity value for both management teams and institutional shareholders.

Yee-Ping Chu

Partner

Andreas Hildebrand

Partner

Peter Macdonald

Partner

Kurt Pilecki

Partner

Doug Trussler

Co-Founder and Partner

28 past transactions

Fluid Truck

Series A in 2021
Fluid Truck is a peer-to-peer truck sharing platform that offers 24/7 mobile access to a wide array of trucks, vans, and SUVs. hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses. They provide fleet services, truck rentals, fleet rentals, and van rentals.

For The Record

Private Equity Round in 2020
For the Record (FTR) assists courts around the world to capture, store and distribute court recordings and transcripts while also providing fast and secure access to attorneys, parties and court reporters. Their fully-managed solution and service models provide measurable improvements to digital court recording and management processes while protecting court governance with the highest level of security and control. By working alongside their customers, they’ve learned first-hand that quality audio is the key to success. It underpins the entire court recording lifecycle and is critical to the delivery of broadcast quality audio and video and a precise and fast transcript.

Apex Innovative Sciences

Private Equity Round in 2019
Apex Innovative Sciences is an independent clinical trial site operator focusing on clinical trial studies for central nervous system indications and other therapeutic areas, including neurology, psychiatry, addiction, and others. Apex delivers the highest scientific and clinical quality for its client partners and participants.

FinFit

Series B in 2019
FinFit provides the highest level of service to clients by identifying the unique needs of each individual and sharing a sense of urgency in meeting them.FinFit works closely with business owners, executives, human resource departments, benefits administrators, and other third-party servicers to bring a sense of stability into the workplace through a combination of financial assistance and educational support. FinFit has brought together an innovative team of technologists, data masters, people people and creative types to create a benefit platform that does more than educate, it helps employees solve the real-life challenges.

Etta Biotech

Series A in 2018
Etta Biotech creates electroporation equipment and associated supplies for research experts. The company's solution enables customers to do research by allowing researchers to control and study cell features. It is a reputable manufacturer of electroporation devices and research facilities. It fills a void in the market for residential electrotransfection apparatus. It introduced the X-Porator F1 flow electroporation device, which has a processing capacity of 250 ml cell fluid and attained a satisfactory transfection rate.

Aqua Expeditions

Private Equity Round in 2018
Aqua Expeditions sails to remote destinations with minimal human interaction, secluded from crowds. They has stood for since the very beginning comes to the forefront, demonstrating the advantages of small explorer vessels in bringing families and friends on travels to the remote. They offer personalized service, spacious private and entertaining spaces and tailor-made excursions.

FinFit

Debt Financing in 2018
FinFit provides the highest level of service to clients by identifying the unique needs of each individual and sharing a sense of urgency in meeting them.FinFit works closely with business owners, executives, human resource departments, benefits administrators, and other third-party servicers to bring a sense of stability into the workplace through a combination of financial assistance and educational support. FinFit has brought together an innovative team of technologists, data masters, people people and creative types to create a benefit platform that does more than educate, it helps employees solve the real-life challenges.

HNI Healthcare

Series E in 2018
HNI Healthcare (formerly Hospitalists Now) is a technology-enabled physician practice management company focused on the delivery of full-service facility-based physician programs to improve the quality of patient care. The Company’s physicians, processes and technologies enable healthcare facilities to improve key quality and performance metrics through a more clinically integrated care model.

Twin Med

Acquisition in 2017
Twin Med is a distributor of medical supplies. They offer items like linens, personal care products, skin and wound care, enteral, oral supplies, incontinence, IV therapy, durable medical equipment, gloves, needles, and syringes, among others. Additionally, they offer emergency treatment at a certain place every day of the week, around the clock.

Overland, Pacific, & Cutler

Venture Round in 2017
Overland, Pacific, & Cutler is a real estate company. They widen roads, highways, and freeways. They make intersections, bridges, and overpasses safer. They create new modes of mass transit, provide affordable housing, and bring in new utility systems.

Cartasite

Series D in 2017
Cartasite is leveraging realtime telemetry to streamline operations, reduce risk, enhance security, and ensure effective utilization of critical assets for some of the world’s largest energy and natural resource corporations. The Company has deployed sensors in 38 countries monitoring everything from pickup trucks to offshore drilling rigs for global enterprises like ConocoPhillips, Anadarko, 3M and Freeport McMoRan. Cartasite doesn’t build hardware. It builds the algorithms that sift through the torrents of data streaming into two, fully redundant clouds identifying the anomalies that direct more efficient response from field workers. Cartasite has well established, multiyear, recurring revenue service contracts with over 70 enterprise customers. As one of the fastest growing Industrial IoT SaaS companies in the energy and natural resource verticals, Cartasite has established a reputation for superlative service and pragmatic innovation. The Company’s realtime geospatial dashboard, worldVIEW, is used to monitor operational status and orchestrate response to critical events. Thematically, Cartasite has a disciplined focus on those industries that must increasingly operate as a geographically distributed factory floor. The Company believes that realtime operational intelligence and geospatial business process optimization will be critical differentiators in the Industrial Internet of Things. The energy and natural resource sectors are adjusting rapidly in response to low commodity prices. The focus on operational efficiency is driving adoption of new technologies and methodologies. Deployment of M2M sensors is transforming field operations within these sectors. Cartasite is positioned precisely at the nexus with proven, deployed solutions to reduce operating costs, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance safety and security.

MIVA

Private Equity Round in 2017
MIVA, Inc. was a digital media company that had two focuses to its business: marketing browser-based toolbar and homepage products through its MIVA Direct division; and running a pay-per-click ad network through its MIVA Media division. In March 2009, MIVA, Inc. completed the asset sale of its MIVA Media division to Adknowledge, Inc. Following this sale, MIVA, Inc. rebranded to [Vertro, Inc.](http://crunchbase.com/organization/vertro) and the company's continuing division, MIVA Direct, rebranded to [alOt](http://crunchbase.com/organization/alot). As part of the rebrand, the company's ticker symbol changed from NASDAQ:MIVA to NASDAQ:VTRO.

Advantmed

Venture Round in 2016
Founded in 2005 and based in Santa Ana, California, Advantmed, LLC is a healthcare information management company that helps health plans and managed care organizations optimize revenue and improve quality outcomes.Advantmed partners with managed care organizations to deliver the optimal combination of capabilities unique to each organization needed to achieve the objectives, including risk analytics, software containing NCQA-certified HEDIS ® measures, medical record retrieval, medical record abstraction, risk adjustment coding and provider education.

Midwestern Bioag

Venture Round in 2016
Midwestern Bioag is a biologically-based agricultural consulting company that provides a route to better farming through better soils. They show farmers how to create a tailored farm management plan that builds the capacity of the soil to provide a wide range of economic and environmental benefits for the farm. It was founded in 1982 and headquartered in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

Cartasite

Venture Round in 2016
Cartasite is leveraging realtime telemetry to streamline operations, reduce risk, enhance security, and ensure effective utilization of critical assets for some of the world’s largest energy and natural resource corporations. The Company has deployed sensors in 38 countries monitoring everything from pickup trucks to offshore drilling rigs for global enterprises like ConocoPhillips, Anadarko, 3M and Freeport McMoRan. Cartasite doesn’t build hardware. It builds the algorithms that sift through the torrents of data streaming into two, fully redundant clouds identifying the anomalies that direct more efficient response from field workers. Cartasite has well established, multiyear, recurring revenue service contracts with over 70 enterprise customers. As one of the fastest growing Industrial IoT SaaS companies in the energy and natural resource verticals, Cartasite has established a reputation for superlative service and pragmatic innovation. The Company’s realtime geospatial dashboard, worldVIEW, is used to monitor operational status and orchestrate response to critical events. Thematically, Cartasite has a disciplined focus on those industries that must increasingly operate as a geographically distributed factory floor. The Company believes that realtime operational intelligence and geospatial business process optimization will be critical differentiators in the Industrial Internet of Things. The energy and natural resource sectors are adjusting rapidly in response to low commodity prices. The focus on operational efficiency is driving adoption of new technologies and methodologies. Deployment of M2M sensors is transforming field operations within these sectors. Cartasite is positioned precisely at the nexus with proven, deployed solutions to reduce operating costs, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance safety and security.

Lime Energy

Post in 2014
Lime Energy is building a new energy future. Our integrated demand side solutions provide utilities with a single platform to deliver predictable energy saving products and services to their hardest to reach customers. As the largest direct install firm in the country, Lime Energy consistently exceeds energy efficiency savings goals while fostering customer loyalty and long-term engagement.

Clinical Research Laboratories

Venture Round in 2014
Clinical Research Laboratories, Inc. (CRL) was incorporated in 1992. Today, CRL operates as an independent contract laboratory providing a wide range of clinical safety and efficacy testing to the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Located in central New Jersey, CRL is dedicated to conducting human clinical test procedures to determine the safety and efficacy of cosmetic, personal care, and OTC drug products. Areas of expertise include Dermatology, Photobiology, Ophthalmology, Bioinstrumentation, Microbiology, Cosmetology, Associated Services, and Clinical Trials. CRL combines a highly skilled technical staff with both state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Clinical Research Laboratories, Inc. is committed to providing cost-effective testing of the highest quality combined with timely scheduling, comprehensive final reports, and a commitment to customer service.

Ease Entertainment Services

Venture Round in 2014
Ease Entertainment Services, from their Los Angeles headquarters and their eight satellite offices around the US and Canada, provides comprehensive production payroll, accounting, worker's compensation & labor relations services to the motion picture, television and commercial production industries. Ease's suite of technology and software offerings were purpose-built for studio executives, producers, bond holders, and production accounting professionals. Ease Entertainment is the only bonded, major payroll company servicing the entertainment industry, which speaks to Ease's stability, security, and transparency regarding their business efforts

Solarsilicon Recycling Services

Venture Round in 2012
Solarsilicon Recycling Services specializes in providing solar and semiconductor feed stock processing services. Solarsilicon obtains and recycles unusable and off-spec silicon from silicon suppliers and solar wafer manufacturers and applies a proprietary reprocessing method to create production-ready silicon. SRS is a market leader in silicon feedstock processing with over 3,000 metric tons of SRS processed silicon in solar cells worldwide.

Global Benefits Group

Venture Round in 2010
Global Benefits Group (GBG) is the largest independent, fully integrated provider of international benefits in the world. In 2017, GBG celebrates its 36th year of serving the needs of expatriates, third-country nationals and local nationals. Because of our unique underwriting platform, GBG can offer a multitude of insurance products – including health, life, travel, income replacement and special risks – to individuals and groups of any size anywhere in the world. As globalization of the world's economy has continued to accelerate, GBG has developed customized products that are desperately needed by international and multinational companies.

BC2 Environmental

Acquisition in 2008
BC2 Environmental is a provider of environmental and geotechnical drilling solutions to California based government organizations, environmental consultants, real estate developers, and other corporations.

RestorixHealth

Venture Round in 2008
RestorixHealth develops and manages comprehensive wound care centers of excellence. Chronic wounds are a significant health problem affecting millions of people. And, caring for those people requires a specialized level of expertise – the kind you will find at RestorixHealth. At RestorixHealth, we are dedicated to healing those with chronic wounds.

Big Rock Sports

Acquisition in 2007
Big Rock Sports is an outdoor sporting goods distributor.

Performance Team

Venture Round in 2006
Performance Team is a logistics company that provides logistics and distribution services.

Metagenics

Venture Round in 2005
Metagenics, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA, is a global life sciences company focused on reversing chronic illness and improving health. Founded in 1983, the company serves tens of thousands of health care professionals and more than a million patients throughout the world and holds more than 40 proprietary formula patents for use in nutraceuticals, medical foods, and pharmaceuticals. Today, Metagenics continues its leadership role by successfully merging the disciplines of nutritional genomics, functional medicine, and therapeutic lifestyle change programs to find solutions to society’s most pressing health concerns.

Helinet Aviation Services

Venture Round in 2003
With over 30 years in business, Helinet has earned a highly trusted and widely respected reputation for its exceptional pilots, unparalleled service, and an outstanding safety record. Helinet serves the following markets: VIP charter, emergency medical services including patient and organ transport, electronic news gathering, motion picture, television and commercial production, and airborne law enforcement. Its mission is, and has always been, to be Southern California’s preferred carrier for safe, responsive and reliable rotor wing services

Catalyst Biosciences

Series B in 2003
Catalyst Biosciences is a research and clinical development biopharmaceutical company. They focus on addressing unmet medical needs in rare disorders of the complement and coagulation systems. They create novel catalytic biopharmaceutical products based on engineered human proteases.
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