Edison Partners

Edison Partners L.P. is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 1986 and based in Princeton, New Jersey. The firm specializes in growth equity investments in technology-enabled solutions, focusing on sectors such as financial technology, healthcare information technology, and enterprise software. Edison Partners typically invests in companies with revenues between $5 million and $30 million, primarily targeting those exhibiting a growth rate of approximately 30 percent. Its investment strategy includes expansion capital, management buyouts, recapitalizations, and secondary stock purchases. The firm utilizes a holistic approach, offering strategic advisory services through its Edison Edge platform, which encompasses the Edison Director Network and executive education. Edison Partners manages over $1 billion in assets and has created an aggregate market value exceeding $5 billion across its active portfolio, which includes over 170 investments. The firm's primary geographic focus is the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions of the United States, including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland.

Joe Allegra

General Partner

Peter Bozian

Senior Associate

Kelly Ford Buckley

Partner

Christopher Clark

Operating Partner

Eileen Covey

Director of Finance and Operations

Robert Dickey

Vice President

Michael Dirla

Associate

Kristen Dumbeck

Vice President

Del Giannotti

Analyst

Joe Giquinto

Vice President of Finance

Joseph Gwozdz

Operating Partner

Daniel Herscovici

Partner

Michael Kopelman

General Partner

Jennifer Lee

Partner

Jean-Marc Levy

Operating Partner

Lenard Marcus

General Partner

Gregg Michaelson

General Partner

Jay Naik

Operating Partner

David Nevas

Partner

Tom Vander Schaaff

General Partner and Portfolio Management

Brendan Scher

Senior Associate

Steve Schloss

Operating Partner, Leadership Center of Excellence

Sherri Sklar

Operating Partner

Christopher Sugden

Managing Partner

Alexandria Symos

Vice President, Sales & Marketing Acceleration

Alex Symos

VP, Go-To-Market Center of Excellence

Joy Whitney

Research Director

Ryan Ziegler

General Partner

Vander Schaaff, Thomas

General Partner

Past deals in Indiana

Emplify

Series B in 2019
Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a proven agile engagement system. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana.

Sigstr

Venture Round in 2018
Sigstr, Inc. develops a cloud-based email signature marketing application. It offers Sigstr, a platform that gives marketers the ability to target their top contacts and accounts with relevant ads where they're spending their time. The company’s platform also helps companies to get more out of their employee email by turning it into a channel that understands and engages their important audiences. Sigstr, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. As of December 17, 2019, Sigstr, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Terminus Software, LLC.

Emplify

Venture Round in 2018
Emplify, a leader in employee engagement measurement, enables executives to ask for, analyze, and act on employee feedback — transforming data insights into human action. Informed by science and psychometrics. Emplify is the first to fuse survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement, and transformation strategists into a proven agile engagement system. It was founded in 2010 and is based in Fishers, Indiana.

Liberty Tax

Venture Round in 2014
Liberty Tax is a prominent tax preparation service based in the United States, specializing in the preparation of tax returns for individuals and small businesses. As the third largest tax preparation franchise in the country, it offers a range of services aimed at simplifying the tax filing process. Liberty Tax operates through a network of franchise locations, providing customers with both in-store and online options for their tax preparation needs. The company is part of Franchise Group, Inc., which also oversees various other retail and franchised businesses, including rent-to-own stores and health and wellness product retailers. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Liberty Tax has established itself as a key player in the tax service industry in both the U.S. and Canada.

TetraData

Venture Round in 2004
TetraData Corporation, headquartered in Greenville, S.C., is a privately-held company organized in January of 1997 with an exclusive focus on K-12 education. TetraData has demonstrated a passion and commitment to the advancement of education through technology and is recognized by many industry leaders as a catalyst in education improvement. A growing company with more than 50 employees, TetraData boasts a strong pool of both education and software engineering innovators dedicated to helping nation’s schools reach and sustain high performance. TetraData’s solutions are currently installed in more than 600 K-12 educational institutions serving over 1.5 million students in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.