Columbia Partners Private Capital

Columbia Partners Private Capital (CPPC) is an investment management and advisory firm based in Bethesda, Maryland. Established in 2004, it specializes in private equity, venture capital, and mezzanine debt investments, primarily through its Fund of Funds structure. CPPC also directly invests in privately held, institutionally backed growth companies, employing a disciplined investment process aimed at achieving superior risk-adjusted returns for its clients. With over $440 million in assets under management, CPPC operates under the governance of its executive management team and is a unit of RCP Advisors 2, LLC, serving a diverse client base in the institutional investment space.

Matt Klinger

Managing Director

Saul Waller

Managing Director

29 past transactions

Appcues

Series B in 2022
Appcues, Inc. is a Boston-based Software-as-a-Service company founded in 2013 that specializes in user onboarding solutions. The platform allows non-technical teams to create personalized onboarding experiences without the need for coding, thereby enhancing product adoption and user retention. Users can design, publish, and manage onboarding flows, in-app announcements, and surveys in a matter of minutes. Appcues also offers tools to measure and analyze product usage, enabling businesses to gather user feedback and insights effectively. The platform is utilized by numerous product-led organizations worldwide, helping them to improve their user engagement and outcomes.

Equiti

Venture Round in 2020
Equiti is a video-focused language interpretation service provider that helps patients with limited English proficiency communicate with caregivers in healthcare settings.

BlueCart

Series B in 2017
BlueCart, Inc. is a free ordering platform designed to connect restaurants with suppliers, streamlining the wholesale procurement process. The company provides an operations management and inventory ordering service, enabling restaurants to efficiently consolidate and track their inventory orders while allowing suppliers to receive orders, market their products, and manage incoming requests through BlueCart’s website. Key features of the platform include real-time messaging between sales representatives and restaurants, customizable price sheets, and an ordering interface that fosters relationships between buyers and suppliers. BlueCart's solutions are accessible via both web and mobile applications, available on Android and iOS. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., BlueCart was previously known as Improvonia, Inc. before rebranding in October 2015.

CareWell Urgent Care

Debt Financing in 2016
CareWell Urgent Care is a healthcare provider operating emergency care centers throughout the New England region, with its headquarters located in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. The organization focuses on delivering accessible and efficient urgent care services, catering to a variety of common illnesses and injuries, including cold infections, fractures, rashes, and chronic conditions. CareWell Urgent Care features on-site laboratories, x-ray capabilities, and the ability to dispense common medications, allowing patients to receive timely treatment without the need for an appointment. This patient-centered approach is designed to meet the urgent healthcare needs of the community effectively.

Cardlytics

Debt Financing in 2016
Cardlytics, Inc. operates an advertising platform that integrates with the digital channels of financial institutions, including online and mobile banking, email, and real-time notifications, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the company partners with over 1,500 financial institutions, such as Bank of America and PNC, to enhance customer loyalty through banking rewards programs. Utilizing purchase-based intelligence, Cardlytics enables marketers to effectively identify, reach, and influence potential buyers while accurately measuring the impact of their marketing campaigns. The company's primary offering, the Cardlytics Direct solution, serves as a native advertising channel within banking platforms, allowing marketers to connect with consumers in a trusted environment. Additionally, Cardlytics provides other platform solutions that leverage purchase insights outside the banking context, further enhancing marketers' capabilities to engage with their target audience.

Visto

Private Equity Round in 2016
Visto is a technology company focused on enhancing transparency, interoperability, and accountability in digital advertising. Its Visto Enterprise Advertising Hub serves as a vendor-agnostic platform that consolidates the entire ad tech stack into a single, user-friendly interface. This platform enables brands, media companies, and agencies to manage execution partners effectively, optimize advertising spend, measure performance, and leverage analytics to improve operational efficiencies and return on investment. Additionally, Visto's solutions facilitate the unification of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, allowing users to control audience reach and frequency while coordinating messaging across various media channels. Through its offerings, Visto aims to provide clarity and control in data-driven advertising.

BlueCart

Series A in 2015
BlueCart, Inc. is a free ordering platform designed to connect restaurants with suppliers, streamlining the wholesale procurement process. The company provides an operations management and inventory ordering service, enabling restaurants to efficiently consolidate and track their inventory orders while allowing suppliers to receive orders, market their products, and manage incoming requests through BlueCart’s website. Key features of the platform include real-time messaging between sales representatives and restaurants, customizable price sheets, and an ordering interface that fosters relationships between buyers and suppliers. BlueCart's solutions are accessible via both web and mobile applications, available on Android and iOS. Founded in 2014 and based in Washington, D.C., BlueCart was previously known as Improvonia, Inc. before rebranding in October 2015.

Banjo

Series C in 2015
Banjo, Inc. is a live intelligence platform that enables users to explore social and local conversations across various social networks. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Park City, Utah, the company also maintains offices in Redwood City, California; Washington, D.C.; and Las Vegas, Nevada. Banjo's services, accessible through a mobile application, focus on delivering critical and life-saving information rapidly, thereby contributing to the reduction of human suffering. By providing relevant updates on nearby events and conversations, Banjo enhances situational awareness for its users.

BarkBox

Series B in 2014
BarkBox provides a monthly subscription service for dog owners. They offers members a monthly shipment of dog toys and treats, as well as additional products to gift a friend.

Blurb

Debt Financing in 2014
Blurb, Inc. operates a self-publishing and marketing platform that allows users to create and publish a variety of books and magazines in both print and digital formats. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in London, the company offers tools such as an Adobe InDesign plug-in and BookWright, enabling users to design and layout books, photo books, and magazines. Blurb caters to a diverse range of publishing needs, including trade books, photography, memoirs, and personalized keepsakes. Authors can utilize Blurb's platform to sell their works directly through their own websites or social media, with the company managing the printing and shipping of orders. Blurb is recognized for its focus on high-quality coffee table books and fixed-format ebooks, making it a popular choice for both professional and amateur creators. As of August 2020, Blurb operates as a subsidiary of Reischling Press, Inc.

Resonate

Debt Financing in 2014
Resonate is a developer of a consumer intelligence platform that equips brands and agencies with deep insights into audience motivations and behaviors. By analyzing various dimensions such as values, lifestyle, and life-stage data, Resonate offers a nuanced understanding of consumer segments. This approach allows clients, including political campaigns, advocacy groups, and major consumer brands, to craft targeted online advertising strategies that resonate with specific human values, such as patriotism, environmentalism, and innovation. By moving beyond traditional demographic targeting, Resonate empowers its clients to engage more effectively with their audiences and enhance customer experiences.

BARK

Venture Round in 2014
BARK is the world’s most dog-centric company, devoted to making dogs happy with the best products, services and content. BARK’s dog-obsessed team applies its unique, data-driven understanding of what makes each dog special to design playstyle-specific toys, wildly satisfying treats and wellness supplements, and dog-first experiences, like BarkPark, that foster the health and happiness of dogs everywhere. Founded in 2012, BARK loyally serves dogs nationwide with monthly subscription services, BarkBox and Super Chewer; a curated e-commerce experience on BarkShop.com; and custom collections via its retail partner network, including Target and Amazon. At BARK, we want to be the people our dogs think we are and promise to be their voice until every dog reaches its full tail-wagging potential.

Vertical Communications

Post in 2014
Vertical Communications is a provider of communication solutions tailored for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers across the United States. The company specializes in upgrading or replacing legacy phone systems with advanced voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) networks and customized voice applications. Vertical Communications offers a comprehensive portfolio of unified communications technologies, collaboration tools, and mobility solutions that enhance business operations and processes. By utilizing a national network of direct offices and channel partners, the company delivers secure cloud services and innovative communication platforms, enabling clients to connect their workforce and customers effectively, no matter their location.

Donuts

Debt Financing in 2013
Donuts Inc is the registry of next generation domain names. With nearly 200 top-level domains, and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics (.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), their portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation. Using their industry-first DPML product, they also work with a large majority of the top global brands to protect their trademarks online. With office locations in Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong, they sell their products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba and 1and1.

Captivate Network

Private Equity Round in 2013
Captivate Network is a prominent digital-out-of-home advertising company that specializes in delivering news and advertising content to business professionals through high-resolution screens in elevators and lobbies of major office buildings. Operating approximately 8,900 screens in nearly 1,000 locations across 15 of North America's top 20 metropolitan areas, Captivate reaches around 5.6 million viewers each month, generating approximately 59 million advertising impressions. The company is recognized for its innovative approach to engaging a highly desirable audience of affluent and influential professionals by providing timely news and actionable information that supports their work-life balance. With a focus on creating effective advertising programs that are both creative and data-driven, Captivate Network connects advertisers with a unique and hard-to-reach demographic, enhancing their marketing strategies in a competitive landscape.

Donuts

Series B in 2013
Donuts Inc is the registry of next generation domain names. With nearly 200 top-level domains, and millions of registrants, Donuts offers a wide variety of clear and meaningful names that represent your identity online in the best possible way. Whether looking for business identifiers (.ltd), navigation (.support), vertical market specifics (.builders) or broad-based generics (.world), their portfolio offers unequaled precision and differentiation. Using their industry-first DPML product, they also work with a large majority of the top global brands to protect their trademarks online. With office locations in Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong, they sell their products through the world's leading registrars and resellers, including Go Daddy, Alibaba and 1and1.

Echopass

Debt Financing in 2010
Echopass Corporation specializes in providing advanced IP-based call and contact center solutions as a service, catering to mid-to-large enterprises and government agencies. Through its innovative EchoSystem service integration platform, Echopass delivers comprehensive, on-demand solutions that are fully integrated with clients' existing customer contact applications and voice or data technologies. The company offers a range of services, including voice, email, chat, and fax, designed to be quick to deploy, user-friendly, and flexible, requiring no capital investment or ongoing maintenance. As a privately-held entity, Echopass has garnered recognition, including the Red Herring Top 100 Companies award, and is supported by venture capital firms.

MTM Technologies

Debt Financing in 2009
MTM Technologies has become a strategic partner for organizations of all sizes across numerous verticals. MTM Technologies is a leading national provider of innovative, next-generation, IT solutions designed to empower the modern organization and the users. Partnered with the top-tier technology providers and with offices from coast to coast, their unique solution-based methodology, combined with their experience and expertise, has enabled thousands of industry-leading organizations to effectively address their business needs, optimize the returns on their IT investments, mitigate risk, and focus on growth and profitability.

MTM Technologies

Debt Financing in 2008
MTM Technologies has become a strategic partner for organizations of all sizes across numerous verticals. MTM Technologies is a leading national provider of innovative, next-generation, IT solutions designed to empower the modern organization and the users. Partnered with the top-tier technology providers and with offices from coast to coast, their unique solution-based methodology, combined with their experience and expertise, has enabled thousands of industry-leading organizations to effectively address their business needs, optimize the returns on their IT investments, mitigate risk, and focus on growth and profitability.

Telecom Transport Management

Debt Financing in 2008
Telecom Transport Management, Inc. (TTM) is a pioneer and leading provider of wireless backhaul and alternate access services, whose customers include the top U.S. wireless carriers. TTM operates its facility based fiber and microwave networks in 15 metropolitan areas across 5 Midwest and Eastern states and is continually expanding its footprint. TTM provides a fully managed end to end backhaul solution and was one of the first U.S. carriers to provide Ethernet backhaul in support of 4G services. Our networks simultaneously provide TDM and Ethernet backhaul services, easing our customers' migration path from 3G to 4G.

Bug Music

Private Equity Round in 2007
Bug Music is a music company that offers creative support, provides access to platforms, and maximizes the value of each and every copyright, ensuring all its artists receive all payments promptly and accurately. It operates a worldwide publishing and recordings business under one roof and off the same platform. Bug Music was launched in 2008 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Nextpoint

Debt Financing in 2006
Nextpoint develops regulatory, compliance, and litigation software applications. Its products include Cloud Preservation, a tool for social media and website archiving; Discovery Cloud, an application to process, review, and produce digital evidence; and Trial Cloud, an application to manage evidence for litigation. Nextpoint was founded in 2005 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Vertical Communications

Post in 2006
Vertical Communications is a provider of communication solutions tailored for small to medium-sized businesses and enterprise customers across the United States. The company specializes in upgrading or replacing legacy phone systems with advanced voice-over-internet protocol (VOIP) networks and customized voice applications. Vertical Communications offers a comprehensive portfolio of unified communications technologies, collaboration tools, and mobility solutions that enhance business operations and processes. By utilizing a national network of direct offices and channel partners, the company delivers secure cloud services and innovative communication platforms, enabling clients to connect their workforce and customers effectively, no matter their location.

NexTone Communications

Venture Round in 2006
NexTone Communications, headquartered in Rockville, Md., is focused on delivering Internet-based solutions for voice and data convergence to service providers. NexTone is in touch with the needs of the communications industry and is building products and solutions that facilitate the delivery of next generation applications. NexTone Communication's solutions represent what's next in convergence.

Genband

Debt Financing in 2006
GENBAND is a global supplier of IP gateways, session border controllers, and FMC security solutions that enhance the performance and security of fixed and mobile communication networks. The company specializes in developing IP multimedia applications and infrastructure products aimed at transforming the speed and quality of communication. GENBAND's software solutions facilitate seamless connectivity and rapid deployment of services for service providers, enterprises, and systems integrators. By integrating real-time contextual communications into business and consumer applications, GENBAND aims to improve productivity and user engagement across various workflows.

MTM Technologies

Debt Financing in 2005
MTM Technologies has become a strategic partner for organizations of all sizes across numerous verticals. MTM Technologies is a leading national provider of innovative, next-generation, IT solutions designed to empower the modern organization and the users. Partnered with the top-tier technology providers and with offices from coast to coast, their unique solution-based methodology, combined with their experience and expertise, has enabled thousands of industry-leading organizations to effectively address their business needs, optimize the returns on their IT investments, mitigate risk, and focus on growth and profitability.

Traffic.com

Private Equity Round in 2005
Traffic.com believe that we are a leading provider of accurate, real-time traffic information in the United States, based on the quality of our traffic data and the extent of their geographic coverage. They offer detailed traffic information, including specific speeds, travel times and delay times.

iBiquity Digital

Debt Financing in 2005
iBiquity Digital is a company that develops and licenses HD Radio technology for both AM and FM audio and data broadcasting, operating within the United States and internationally. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with additional offices in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and Pontiac, Michigan, iBiquity's technology enables digital radio signals to coexist on the same frequencies as traditional analog broadcasts. This innovation allows for enhanced audio quality and additional data services for listeners. The company also offers products such as the Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and a dedicated HD Radio application for iPhone and iPod touch users, facilitating access to HD Radio FM broadcasts.

Traffic.com

Debt Financing in 2002
Traffic.com believe that we are a leading provider of accurate, real-time traffic information in the United States, based on the quality of our traffic data and the extent of their geographic coverage. They offer detailed traffic information, including specific speeds, travel times and delay times.
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