ClearLight Partners

ICS is a Managed IT services provider. It analyses and maintains technological environment.

Handel's Homemade Ice Cream and Yogurt, founded in 1945 and based in Youngstown, Ohio, operates a chain of ice cream shops across the United States. The company specializes in producing and selling homemade ice cream, made fresh daily on the premises using unique recipes and proprietary methods. Each batch is crafted in specialized freezers designed to achieve a distinctively smooth and creamy texture. Handel's offers a diverse selection of flavors, including cherry vanilla, chunky chocolate chip, strawberry cheesecake, and caramel apple, ensuring that customers enjoy high-quality, freshly made products.

Paul Fredrick is a company based in Reading, Pennsylvania, that specializes in the design, manufacture, and distribution of men's apparel and accessories. Their product range includes a variety of items such as cufflinks, face masks, hangers, hats, lapel pins, pocket squares, socks, and travel cases. The company offers an online ordering platform, making it convenient for customers to purchase stylish outfits and accessories at everyday prices. Paul Fredrick combines both e-commerce and traditional retail, catering to men looking to enhance their wardrobe with fashionable options.

Moore Landscapes, LLC is a landscape service provider headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, serving the Chicago area since its founding in 1948. The company specializes in landscape installation, maintenance, and enhancement, catering primarily to commercial and public clients. Its services encompass a wide range of offerings, including landscape design, commercial grounds management, and snow and ice management. Additionally, Moore Landscapes provides interior plant maintenance and seasonal display services, such as holiday lighting and container installations. With a commitment to ensuring accessibility and safety for its clients, Moore Landscapes has established itself as a trusted provider in the environmental services sector within Northern Illinois.

Walker Advertising, LLC is an advertising agency based in Torrance, California, specializing in the legal profession. Founded in 1984, the company develops advertising campaigns that encompass various legal fields, including personal injury, workers compensation, mass tort, and criminal defense. It provides a range of services, such as legal marketing research, creative services, media buying, and bilingual call center support. Walker Advertising aims to enhance the accessibility of legal services to communities by utilizing a combination of traditional and digital media strategies, allowing law firms to effectively connect with potential clients.

PepperBall is a manufacturer that specializes in non-lethal weapons designed for use by military, law enforcement, correctional facilities, and private security. The company focuses on creating high-quality irritant-filled projectiles and associated air launchers, which serve as safe and effective tools for crowd control and one-on-one situations. PepperBall products are widely utilized by various law enforcement and military agencies both in the United States and internationally. In addition to its innovative launchers and projectiles, the company provides comprehensive training services to ensure effective deployment and use of its products.

Taymax is a multi-unit franchisee of Planet Fitness health clubs located throughout North America. Taymax owns and operates over 30 Planet Fitness clubs in the greater San Antonio, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, Toronto, and Ottawa regions. Taymax is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisees within the Planet Fitness system. With more than 1,000 locations, Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) is one of the largest and most popular fitness chains in the world. Planet Fitness possesses a highly recognized brand in the low-cost, high-value segment of the market. Its core mission is to enhance people’s lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which it calls the Judgement Free Zone®. More than 90% of Planet Fitness stores are owned and operated by independent franchisees.

Founded in 1992 in Dover, N.H., Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT) is one of the largest and fastest-growing franchisors and operators of fitness centers in the United States by number of members and locations. With more than 1,000 locations in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, and the Dominican Republic, Planet Fitness' mission is to enhance people's lives by providing a high-quality fitness experience in a welcoming, non-intimidating environment, which we call the Judgement Free Zone®. More than 90% of Planet Fitness stores are owned and operated by independent business men and women.

PHSI Pure Water Technology®, a bottleless water cooler supplier, manufactures state-of-the-art water purifiers for the workplace. Our multi-stage water filtration system represents the best-in-class bottleless water cooler alternative: superb drinking water, improved sustainability program and immediate cost savings for most commercial applications, from the office to manufacturing to retail.

Apple & Eve, founded in 1975 and headquartered in Port Washington, New York, is the largest privately held producer of 100% fruit juice products in the United States. The company offers over one hundred juice products under its flagship brand, Apple & Eve, and a range of sub-brands including Organics, Fruitables, Quenchers, Waterfruits, and Sesame Street. It also markets juices under the Northland, Seneca, and The Switch brands. Apple & Eve specializes in organic fruit juices made from a variety of fruits, such as apples, berries, grapes, and oranges, among others. Its products are distributed widely across supermarkets, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, natural food stores, schools, and convenience stores nationwide.

Katzkin Leather Interiors, Inc. is the leading designer, manufacturer, and distributor of made-to-order leather interiors for automobiles and light trucks. Katzkin’s personalized leather interiors can be constructed with more than 100 materials that can be configured with a variety of options – including color, perforation, two-tone, piping, stitching, embroidery, and embossing – resulting in millions of unique combinations. Katzkin’s product line also includes seat-heating components, mobile electronics, and other aftermarket accessories.

Richardson Sales Performance is a recognized provider of sales training and performance improvement solutions, primarily serving the pharmaceutical, medtech, and healthcare sectors. The company partners with clients to develop customized learning programs that aim to change behaviors and enhance the effectiveness of their sales teams. By identifying best practices and evaluating talent, Richardson creates tailored sales training experiences that leverage proprietary methodologies and modern digital technology. Their approach is data-driven and focuses on equipping sales professionals with the necessary skills and strategies to achieve organizational objectives. Additionally, Richardson employs sophisticated performance support tools to reinforce learning and ensure lasting results, enabling clients to implement their sales strategies effectively.

Switchcraft is a leading supplier of a broad line of components for the audio, video, telecommunication, computer, medical, military, appliance, transportation and instrumentation industries. With a basic line of over 5,000 standard products and thousands of variations, Switchcraft markets products both domestically and internationally through a network of manufacturers' representatives and independent distributors. They specialize in quick-turn, low-volume, custom-engineered harsh environment products using their round, sealed connectors. With a on-site toolroom and 3D design capability, they can provide the fastest, most efficient response to your project's custom needs.

Switchcraft is a leading supplier of a broad line of components for the audio, video, telecommunication, computer, medical, military, appliance, transportation and instrumentation industries. With a basic line of over 5,000 standard products and thousands of variations, Switchcraft markets products both domestically and internationally through a network of manufacturers' representatives and independent distributors. They specialize in quick-turn, low-volume, custom-engineered harsh environment products using their round, sealed connectors. With a on-site toolroom and 3D design capability, they can provide the fastest, most efficient response to your project's custom needs.

SCS Refrigerated Services (“SCS”) is a leading provider of public refrigerated warehouse services in the Pacific Northwest. SCS provides temperature controlled cold storage as well as logistics services, transportation, and handling services for customers in industries ranging from dairy products to seafood. SCS operates three state-of-the-art facilities located in downtown Seattle, Algona and Tacoma and has been serving customers since 1969.

The Outsource Group is a prominent provider of receivables management services specifically tailored for the healthcare sector, boasting over 25 years of experience. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, with additional call centers in St. Louis, Columbia, and Austin, the company specializes in accounts receivable management, including early-out services, insurance follow-up, and bad debt collections. Its comprehensive offerings encompass healthcare revenue cycle management, addressing various payment sources such as commercial, managed care, Medicare, Medicaid, and workers' compensation, as well as credit balancing auditing and self-pay collections. The Outsource Group has established itself as a trusted partner for hospitals and physician groups, ensuring effective management of their financial operations.

Bocchi Laboratories is a premiere full-service contract manufacturer with true professional expertise and decades of experience producing a wide range of cutting edge health, beauty and personal care products – all developed and manufactured with the highest regard for quality, efficiency, and safety. Bocchi Labs is a proactive vendor partner dedicated to only the highest levels of quality in every service we offer. The entire Bocchi Labs team is highly experienced and motivated to helping our customers in every way possible to achieve their goals of creating and producing the very best quality products, economically and efficiently, to offer their own valuable customer base.

U.S. Education Corporation was formed in partnership with leading education industry executives to acquire, develop, and grow private career colleges throughout the Western United States. ClearLight Partners provided initial funding for U.S. Education in June 2002 to fund the acquisition of Silicon Valley College, an allied healthcare and information technology school in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2003, ClearLight Partners provided U.S. Education additional capital for, and assistance with, three acquisitions including Western Career College (February 2003), American Institute of Healthcare Technology (October 2003), and Apollo College(December 2003). As a result, U.S. Education grew from a four-campus school in Northern California to a leading career education company with seventeen campuses across the Western U.S. and a dominant position in allied healthcare training. ClearLight Partners has provided active assistance to U.S. Education in evaluating and executing acquisitions, arranging debt financing, strategic planning, and filling key management positions. ClearLight exited its investment in U.S. Education in 2008.

Futurelogic is a leading developer of small-format embedded thermal printing subassemblies. Headquartered in Glendale, CA, the company customizes its products to meet the specific demands of OEM customers for a variety of end products, including cashless slot machines, gas dispensers, medical devices, self-service kiosks, and others. ClearLight Partners recapitalized FutureLogic in partnership with its founders and provided the company with strategic guidance which lead to the expansion of the client base, assisted with the selection of a CFO and participated in restructuring the company’s debt. ClearLight exited its investment in Futurelogic in 2005.

Tripwire is a leading provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions that enable enterprises, service providers and government agencies to confidently detect, prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats. Tripwire solutions are based on high-fidelity asset visibility and deep endpoint intelligence combined with business-context and enable security automation through enterprise integration. Tripwire’s portfolio of enterprise-class security solutions includes configuration and policy management, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability management and log intelligence. Learn more at www.tripwire.com, get security news, trends and insights at http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/ or follow us on Twitter @TripwireInc.

Counterpane delivers Managed Security Monitoring to some of the best-known corporations in e-commerce, finance, healthcare, hosting, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and transportation.

Communispace Corporation develops, manages, and facilities private online communities for organizations in the United States and internationally. The company's online customer community site delivers the voice of the customer and enables businesses to generate continuous insights, drive faster innovation, and drive revenue. It serves consumer packaged goods, financial services, food and beverage, footwear, health and beauty, healthcare, hospitality, household cleaning, media and entertainment, pharmaceuticals, retail, technology, telecommunications, and toys industries. Communispace Corporation was formerly known as Cambridge Learning Design Corp. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts with additional offices in Atlanta; Austin; Chicago; London; New York; San Francisco; and San Remo, Italy.