Seaport Capital
Founded in 1997, Seaport Capital is a lower middle market buyout firm that invests in communication infrastructure and services, business and information services and media companies (the “Focus Sectors”). Seaport’s senior investment team has over 100 years of combined experience investing in the Focus Sectors, and the team has worked collectively for over 15 years. Seaport typically invests $10 to $30 million of equity capital in companies generating EBITDA between $3 and $15 million, with the goal of maximizing the return on invested capital.
Seaport’s substantial industry expertise and investing experience enable it to develop successful strategies; its relationships and team help achieve them. Nearly all of Seaport’s platform investments have been owned by founders or entrepreneurs seeking a collaborative institutional partner to provide the financial and operational resources to grow their businesses and execute on a successful strategic plan.
Past deals in Communications Infrastructure
Ubiquity Hosting
Venture Round in 2014
Ubiquity Hosting Solutions is a privately held company based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The company specializes in web hosting services such as dedicated servers, cloud servers, managed hosting, as well as IP transit services with data centers operating in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York and Phoenix.
Net Access Corporation
Private Equity Round in 2012
Net Access provides colocation, cloud, and hosting solutions.
Net Access' data centers allow its customers to focus on their core strengths, without the need to operate the underlying infrastructure, providing technology solutions for small businesses and global enterprises alike.
Linen King
Private Equity Round in 2020
Linen King LLC provides laundry services to the healthcare industry. It offers rental, surgical pack, distribution, and consulting services. Linen King LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Bixby, Oklahoma with additional laundry facilities in Springdale and Conway, Arkansas; Midwest City, Oklahoma; and Columbia, Missouri.
Pathlore
Series A in 2001
Pathlore Software Corporation provides the most widely adopted learning management solution in the world. Over 1,000 organizations and millions of users rely on Pathlore to optimize their business performance. Whether business performance depends on getting sales channels up to speed quickly on new products, increasing quality and customer satisfaction, or reducing costs
associated with regulatory compliance, Pathlore learning management solutions ensure that clients achieve the maximum return on their investment in people.
Linen King
Acquisition in 2020
Linen King LLC provides laundry services to the healthcare industry. It offers rental, surgical pack, distribution, and consulting services. Linen King LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Bixby, Oklahoma with additional laundry facilities in Springdale and Conway, Arkansas; Midwest City, Oklahoma; and Columbia, Missouri.
Tachyon Networks
Series B in 2003
Tachyon delivers carrier-grade broadband over satellite. The company sells its services to large enterprises and government agencies to augment their terrestrial networks - it operates in the United States, Mexico, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Tachyon draws upon its expertise as a technology developer and network service provider to assess and provide customized solutions that solve business problems.
Filmwerks International Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2018
Filmwerks International Inc. provides power generators, site lighting, climate control, and mobile studios for events. The company provides generators for all types of events, including concerts, sports events, fashion shows, movie productions, and corporate events. It also offers automation, design and fabrication, mobile stages, Television Sports Lighting, Large Format Field Lighting, Helium Balloon Lights, Color Corrected Lighting, Big Light Towers, and Safety Lighting. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Rocky Point, North Carolina.
Atlas Keg Co
Acquisition in 2017
Keg Logistics, LLC rents kegs to brewers in the United States. It also assists its customers with shipping requirements that range from empty keg returns to the shipment of full product (cases and kegs), packaging material, hops, brewing equipment, and tanks. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana with additional locations in Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington.
Internap
Debt Financing in 2011
Internap is the high-performance Internet infrastructure provider that powers the applications shaping the way we live, work and play. Their hybrid infrastructure delivers performance without compromise – blending virtual and bare-metal cloud, hosting and colocation services across a global network of data centers, optimized from the application to the end user and backed by rock-solid customer support and a 100% uptime guarantee. Since 1996, the most innovative companies have relied on Internap to make their applications faster and more scalable.
Teamworks Innovations, Inc.
Series D in 2022
Teamworks Innovations, Inc. designs and develops an athlete engagement platform for collegiate and professional organizations. It offers Teamworks that enables teams worldwide to connect and collaborate by simplifying their internal processes. Its software makes everything easier for elite athletic teams ranging from scheduling and communication, to sharing files and managing travel. The company serves professional teams, athletic departments, college teams, national teams, collegiate championships worldwide. Teamworks Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.
Hedonova
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hedonova is an alternative investment fund. The company invests in asset classes like wine, art, startups, real estate, equipment finance, litigation finance, students, and more.
EXACOM
Venture Round in 2020
EXACOM, Inc. was founded in 1986 as a New Hampshire based corporation chartered for the purpose of providing telecommunication technology research and product development and manufacturing services. Since then, EXACOM has grown to become a leading manufacturer of multi-media recording solutions for public safety, homeland security, defense, utilities and transportation applications.
B Media Group
Private Equity Round in 2014
Founded in 2009, B Media Group provides first-in-class billboards in digital and static formats. The Company offers strategic advertising services, flexible solutions and personalized services through a team of marketing professionals.
Rutherford and Associates, Inc.
Private Equity Round in 2019
Rutherford and Associates, Inc. designs and provides route accounting software. Its products include eoStar Route Accounting Distribution Software; eoTouch; forecasting, sales analysis, palletization, voice pick, eoWarehouse, and eoMobile. The company has strategic partnership with Barcoding, Panasonic, MillerCoors, Microsoft Dynamics, Honeywell, intervolve, and Zebra Technologies. Rutherford and Associates, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Holland, Michigan.
Peak 10 Data Center Solutions
Series C in 2002
Peak 10, Inc. is a privately owned IT infrastructure solutions provider based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company offers cloud solutions; IT infrastructure solutioins including colocation and private network services; and managed services including cloud-based data storage and managed security.
The company was founded in 2000 by David Jones and Nick Kottyan, two executives with experience in the technology and telecommunications industries, with the purpose of providing data center services to mid-market businesses, particularly in emerging growth markets. The company's first data center was opened in Jacksonville, Florida in 2000.
As of 2013, the company owns and operates data center facilities in Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.
EXACOM
Acquisition in 2020
EXACOM, Inc. was founded in 1986 as a New Hampshire based corporation chartered for the purpose of providing telecommunication technology research and product development and manufacturing services. Since then, EXACOM has grown to become a leading manufacturer of multi-media recording solutions for public safety, homeland security, defense, utilities and transportation applications.
Peak 10 Data Center Solutions
Venture Round in 2001
Peak 10, Inc. is a privately owned IT infrastructure solutions provider based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company offers cloud solutions; IT infrastructure solutioins including colocation and private network services; and managed services including cloud-based data storage and managed security.
The company was founded in 2000 by David Jones and Nick Kottyan, two executives with experience in the technology and telecommunications industries, with the purpose of providing data center services to mid-market businesses, particularly in emerging growth markets. The company's first data center was opened in Jacksonville, Florida in 2000.
As of 2013, the company owns and operates data center facilities in Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio; Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia.
Atlas Keg Co
Acquisition in 2017
Keg Logistics, LLC rents kegs to brewers in the United States. It also assists its customers with shipping requirements that range from empty keg returns to the shipment of full product (cases and kegs), packaging material, hops, brewing equipment, and tanks. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana with additional locations in Denver, Colorado; and Seattle, Washington.
All Traffic Data
Private Equity Round in 2019
All Traffic Data Services, Inc. provides traffic data collection and reporting services to a multitude of civil engineering firms, state and local transportation networks, commercial establishments, and cities across the US. Its services includes average daily traffic counts, turning movement counts, origin-destination studies, radar speed studies, gap and delay studies travel time delay studies, GPS inventory, road condition inventories, pedestrian studies, saturation flow studies, parking studies, and Bluetooth data collection. All Traffic Data Services, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The company The company has additional offices in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Oregon, and Washington.
Internap
Series A in 2011
Internap is the high-performance Internet infrastructure provider that powers the applications shaping the way we live, work and play. Their hybrid infrastructure delivers performance without compromise – blending virtual and bare-metal cloud, hosting and colocation services across a global network of data centers, optimized from the application to the end user and backed by rock-solid customer support and a 100% uptime guarantee. Since 1996, the most innovative companies have relied on Internap to make their applications faster and more scalable.
B-there.com
Venture Round in 2001
B-there.com provides online event management solutions for the meeting, trade show, and convention industries. It is based in Westport, Connecticut.
Teamworks Innovations, Inc.
Series C in 2020
Teamworks Innovations, Inc. designs and develops an athlete engagement platform for collegiate and professional organizations. It offers Teamworks that enables teams worldwide to connect and collaborate by simplifying their internal processes. Its software makes everything easier for elite athletic teams ranging from scheduling and communication, to sharing files and managing travel. The company serves professional teams, athletic departments, college teams, national teams, collegiate championships worldwide. Teamworks Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.
Teamworks Innovations, Inc.
Series A in 2016
Teamworks Innovations, Inc. designs and develops an athlete engagement platform for collegiate and professional organizations. It offers Teamworks that enables teams worldwide to connect and collaborate by simplifying their internal processes. Its software makes everything easier for elite athletic teams ranging from scheduling and communication, to sharing files and managing travel. The company serves professional teams, athletic departments, college teams, national teams, collegiate championships worldwide. Teamworks Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.
Switch & Data Facilities Co
Series C in 2000
Switch and Data Facilities Co. (S&DFC) is dedicated to becoming the international leader in the operation of highly improved shared infrastructure facilities and basic support services for clients in the telecommunications and data/internet industries.
The principals of S&DFC are nationally experienced and recognized. S&DFC applies its extensive real estate expertise to diligently select the premier telco building in each targeted regional market. Their criteria includes: close proximity to carrier POPs, many existing IXC and CAP interconnects, high capacity power feeds and high floor loads. Where necessary, S&DFC is capable of constructing entirely new buildings to provide proper power and cabling heights and key fiber routes.
iTV-3
Venture Round in 2016
iTV-3, LLC provides fiber optic communication services. It offers fiber optic Internet, high-definition television, and voice/telephone services to residential and business customers. The company is based in East Peoria, Illinois. As of November 14, 2016, iTV-3, LLC is jointly owned by CountryWide Broadband, LLC and Seaport Capital.
FTJ FundChoice, LLC
Acquisition in 2012
FTJ FundChoice is to provide advisors with efficient and scalable back office solutions allowing advisors to focus on raising assets and servicing clients. They accomplish this through innovative offerings, accountability, and respect for advisors and their clients. They are focused on delivering a high touch mutual fund platform and Turnkey Asset Management Program (TAMP). Advisors have the ability to efficiently manage their existing investment management process as a standalone through the creation of model portfolios or in conjunction with investment strategists designed and monitored by leading institutional advisory firms.
Logicworks
Venture Round in 2011
Logicworks Corporation provides managed hosting and cloud computing services. It offers private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions. Additionally, the company provides healthcare cloud solutions, including HIPAA compliant infrastructure; disaster recovery for electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) platforms; medical image and vendor neutral archiving; and application decommissioning solutions. It caters to healthcare, legal, financial services, marketing and advertising, e-commerce, media, and gaming industries.
