W Capital Partners

W Capital Partners is a direct secondaries firm founded in 2001 that purchases direct equity investments in companies. The firm is focused on sectors such as financial services, business services, Internet, technology, media, consumer, industrial and healthcare.
EB

Evan Bolling

Associate

EF

Eric Friddell

VP

Simon Harris

VP

Blake Heston

MD

John Lambrech

CFO

Robert Migliorino

MD, Co-Founder

Todd Miller

MD

JM

Jack Muehlheuser

Senior Associate

ES

Emma Sawkins

Associate

Katie Stitch

MD

CS

Constance Su

VP

David S. Wachter

Managing Partner, Co-Founder

Stephen Wertheimer

MD, Co-Founder

Past deals in Alaska

Impact

Private Equity Round in 2022
Impact is a marketing technology company helping brands grow by optimizing their paid marketing and media spend. The Impact platform was designed to respond to marketers’ demands for simplicity, transparency, performance, and confidence to drive growth through marketing. The platform is the first native integration of leading solutions to stop ad fraud, enable more confident decisions through media measurement, attribution, and mix optimization, and create new performance partnerships, including with influencers and strategic partners. Founded in Santa Barbara, CA in 2008, Impact has seven offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

AOptix Technologies

Series E in 2012
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Mzinga

Venture Round in 2009
Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly social interactions from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide. To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.

Tremor Video - Software Platform

Venture Round in 2011
Provides video advertising solutions for advertisers and agencies, and publisher partners in the United States and internationally.

Tremor Video - Software Platform

Venture Round in 2011
Provides video advertising solutions for advertisers and agencies, and publisher partners in the United States and internationally.

Billtrust, Inc.

Secondary Market in 2018
Billtrust develops a payment cycle management platform designed to automate every step in the invoice-to-cash process. Its platform accelerates cash flow by automating invoice delivery, invoice payment, and cash application for remarkable cost savings, ease-of-use, and improved customer satisfaction rates, enabling businesses and corporate clients to improve operational efficiency. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series F in 2009
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Alida

Venture Round in 2021
Alida believes in a world where customers are the ultimate source of truth. A world where the best business decisions are those made with customers, not for them.

GroundTruth

Series E in 2016
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that drives results with real data. They believe in the power of place. Build your brand, increase sales and more by building off what real people are doing in the real world, mapped using their proprietary Blueprints technology. GroundTruth delivers superior consumer insights by seeing more people and places than anyone else, with an unrivaled first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million active daily users, across 100 million places and points of interest. GroundTruth currently serves 21 countries globally.

Ravn Alaska

Private Equity Round in 2015
Ravn Alaska is a regional airline headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, that offers scheduled service between Anchorage, Fairbanks, Bethel, Cordova, Homer, Valdez, Kenai, Kodiak and over 100 smaller Alaskan communities. It also offers service for passenger groups and odd-sized cargo up to 6,000 pounds, and is licensed for charters throughout Canada and the continental United States.

Inspirato LLC

Series C in 2014
Inspirato LLC operates as a luxury hospitality company that owns and operates a private club that provides luxury vacation options for travelers. It allows its club members to access a collection of luxury vacation residences and signature residences across various beach, mountain, metropolitan, and lifestyle destinations worldwide. The company offers access to private vacation homes, luxury villas, luxury vacation residences, luxury hotels, and resorts for its members. Inspirato LLC was formerly known as Best of 52, LLC and changed its name to Inspirato LLC in March 2013. Inspirato LLC was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

New Moosejaw, LLC

Private Equity Round in 2013
Moosejaw Mountaineering and Backcountry Travel engages in the retail of outdoor gears and apparels. It offers men, women, kids, and baby clothing, such as long sleeve shirts, sweatshirts, hats, shorts, and accessories. The company also offers foot wear and accessories, such as backpacking boots, kids footwear, light hiking shoes, mountaineering boots, rock climbing shoes, sandals, slippers, snowboard boots, socks, and street shoes. In addition, it offers camping and travel accessories, such as camp chairs, headlamps, knives/tools, lanterns, map cases, sunglasses, sleeping bags, trekking poles, travel packs watches, packing accessories, and tent accessories and travel gears. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan.

SS8 Networks

Series B in 2010
SS8, the network intelligence company, provides solutions to help customers quickly identify, track and investigate suspects and devices of interest. By generating, storing and analyzing months, and even years, of high-definition records extracted from network packets, SS8 customers gain unprecedented intelligence for investigating what matter most. SS8 is trusted by six of the largest intelligence agencies, eight of the 14 largest communications providers and five of the largest systems integrators.

Adam Aircraft

Series F in 2006
Adam Aircraft designs and manufactures a family of innovative general aviation aircraft, including the centerline thrust, twin-engine A500, and the A700 twin-engine AdamJet. By combining modern technologies, rapid deployment processes, and innovative engineering, Adam Aircraft is designing and building new high-performance aircraft that are raising the standards of quality and value in general aviation.

Tremor Video

Venture Round in 2011
Tremor Video is a programmatic video platform.

AOptix Technologies

Series D in 2009
AOptix Technologies, Inc. develops free space optical communications and iris biometrics based identification solutions for government and commercial markets. It offers advanced biometric iris recognition systems and ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions. Its products are used in advanced biometrics applications, such as border security, national and regional ID cards, aviation security, governmental and commercial access control, and law enforcement; defense applications, including network-centric operation and ground and air nodes; and commercial applications comprising outdoor sporting event remotes, wireless ad-hoc networks, and wireless breakthrough delivers uncompressed HD video.

Payoneer

Series E in 2017
Payoneer empowers global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its innovative cross-border payments platform. In today's borderless digital world, Payoneer enables millions of businesses and professionals from more than 200 countries to reach new audiences by facilitating seamless, cross-border payments. Additionally, thousands of leading corporations including Google, Airbnb, Elance-oDesk and Getty Images rely on Payoneer's mass payout services. With Payoneer's fast, flexible, secure and low-cost solutions, businesses and professionals in both developed and emerging markets can now pay and get paid globally as easily as they do locally. Founded in 2005 and based in New York, Payoneer is venture-backed, profitable and ranked in the top 100 of Inc. 5000's Financial Services companies.

Bay Microsystems

Series E in 2007
Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol and multiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company's network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland.

Pandora Media, Inc.

Series D in 2006
Pandora Media, LLC provides music and podcast discovery platform services in the United States. It offers music streaming services to approximately 70 million users each month with its proprietary Music Genome Project and Podcast Genome Project technology at home or on the go through its mobile app, the web, and integrations with approximately 2,000 connected products. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Oakland, California. Pandora Media, LLC is a subsidiary of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.

Telaria

Venture Round in 2011
Telaria, Inc. provides a software platform for publishers to manage and monetize video advertising in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific regions. The company offers publishers with real-time analytics, data, and decisioning tools to control their video advertising business, as well as a monetization solution to optimize yield across a publisher’s supply of digital video inventory. Its technology enables publishers to manage and deliver their video inventory through a single platform. The company was formerly known as Tremor Video, Inc. and changed its name to Telaria, Inc. in September 2017. Telaria, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Telaria, Inc. is a subsidiary of The Rubicon Project, Inc.

Primarion

Series E in 2006
Primarion is a mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) company that designs, manufactures and markets digital power ICs to address inflection points in power management for the computing, graphics and communication markets. At Primarion, they enjoy a distinct competitive advantage by delivering customer-partnered solutions. They make relationship building a priority, while offering their customers cutting edge technology.

FreshDirect

Private Equity Round in 2016
Fresh Direct is a fresh food and grocery delivery service, offering their services primarily to customers in the New York metropolitan area.

Workfront

Secondary Market in 2019
Workfront is a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing teams, creative agencies, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools. Unlike other tools, Workfront Enterprise Work Cloud is a centralized, easy-to-adopt solution for managing and collaborating on all types of work through the entire work lifecycle, which improves team productivity and executive visibility. Workfront is trusted by thousands of global enterprises, like Cars.com, Cisco Systems, Comcast, iProspect, Schneider Electric, and Trek. To learn more, visit www.workfront.com or follow us on Twitter @Workfront_Inc.

Mzinga

Venture Round in 2009
Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly social interactions from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide. To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.

ReadWrite Labs

Venture Round in 2016
ReadWrite Labs is a computer software that helps businesses and companies to grow and serves as a research analyst for the internet of things industry. Its software specializes in digital transformation, mobility, infrastructure, and the internet of things. ReadWrite Labs was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Ping Identity

Series F in 2013
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

GroundTruth

Series E in 2016
GroundTruth is a global location technology company that drives results with real data. They believe in the power of place. Build your brand, increase sales and more by building off what real people are doing in the real world, mapped using their proprietary Blueprints technology. GroundTruth delivers superior consumer insights by seeing more people and places than anyone else, with an unrivaled first-party database of 95 million active monthly users and 17 million active daily users, across 100 million places and points of interest. GroundTruth currently serves 21 countries globally.

SS8 Networks

Venture Round in 2009
SS8, the network intelligence company, provides solutions to help customers quickly identify, track and investigate suspects and devices of interest. By generating, storing and analyzing months, and even years, of high-definition records extracted from network packets, SS8 customers gain unprecedented intelligence for investigating what matter most. SS8 is trusted by six of the largest intelligence agencies, eight of the 14 largest communications providers and five of the largest systems integrators.

Ping Identity

Series G in 2014
Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations. They help enterprises achieve Zero Trust identity-defined security & more personalized, streamlined user experiences. The Ping Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees, partners, and, increasingly, IoT, with access to the cloud, mobile, SaaS, and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale. Ping Identity was founded in 2002 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Mzinga

Series D in 2008
Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly social interactions from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide. To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.

Primarion

Series D in 2005
Primarion is a mixed signal integrated circuit (IC) company that designs, manufactures and markets digital power ICs to address inflection points in power management for the computing, graphics and communication markets. At Primarion, they enjoy a distinct competitive advantage by delivering customer-partnered solutions. They make relationship building a priority, while offering their customers cutting edge technology.

Fast Track

Series D in 2003
Fast Track: a completely new and comprehensive approach to the way clinical trials are managed. The company is assembling a creative and energetic staff of technical and medical professionals, an experienced management team, industry-specific advisory boards, and an active investor constituency - all aggressively focused on achieving their vision: to revolutionize the management of clinical trials.

MINDBODY

Private Equity Round in 2014
MINDBODY emerged from a simple idea: small business owners deserve the time to do what they love. Since its very first iteration, MINDBODY’s software has turned that idea into an imperative, streamlining all aspects of business management for thousands of health and wellness businesses across six continents. The result is software with a positive impact on the health and wellness of the world.

US-Pan Asia IoT Superhighway

Angel Round in 2016
US-Pan Asia IoT Superhighway helps companies excel in IoT, wearables, and emerging technologies. US-Pan Asia IoT Superhighway bridges the gaps in the startup community and connect dispersed efforts and resources. It began operation in 2016, with its headquarters in Hong Kong.

INFICON

Post in 2003
INFICON provides world-class instruments for gas analysis, measurement and control. INFICON is a provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced process control software that enhance productivity and quality in sophisticated industrial vacuum processes. These analysis, measurement and control products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration and automotive manufacturing. They are vital to equipment manufacturers and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for optics, flat panel displays, solar cells and industrial vacuum coating applications. Other users of their vacuum-based processes include the life sciences, research, aerospace, packaging, heat treatment, laser cutting and many other industrial processes. They also leverage their expertise in vacuum technology to provide unique, toxic chemical analysis products for emergency response, security, and environmental health and safety. INFICON is headquartered in Switzerland and has world-class manufacturing facilities in Europe, the United States and China, as well as subsidiaries in China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. INFICON is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 registered at their main locations. Many of their instruments are manufactured RoHS compliant.