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 Texas

Slingshot Aerospace

Series A in 2022
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. is a company that develops innovative online tools and platforms aimed at providing geospatial information for the aerospace and defense sectors. Incorporated in 2016 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, with an additional office in Austin, Texas, Slingshot Aerospace offers a suite of platforms—Slingshot Earth, Slingshot Orbital, Slingshot Edge, and Slingshot Imagery—that integrate data from a variety of sources, including satellites, airplanes, drones, and ground-based sensors. This integration enables organizations in industries such as energy, military, government, and emergency management to access critical insights and analytics. By leveraging advanced technologies, including signal processing AI, the company helps clients make informed decisions based on Earth Observation data and other data sources, ultimately improving operational efficiency, reducing risks, and lowering costs.

Solutions by Text

Private Equity Round in 2021
Solutions by Text is a consulting firm.

Overhaul

Series B in 2021
Overhaul Group, Inc. is a software solutions provider focused on visibility and risk management for the global transportation and logistics industry. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers a platform that integrates various data sources to enhance supply chain integrity. Its software allows users to track compliance during the entire shipping process, from pick-up to delivery, while enabling real-time monitoring of critical factors such as temperature fluctuations and suspicious activities. By connecting disparate data points, Overhaul transforms this information into actionable insights that can prompt immediate corrective measures, ensuring that cargo is delivered safely, undamaged, and on time. The company was previously known as OverHaul Group, LLC before rebranding to its current name in December 2015.

MacroFab

Series B in 2021
MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

Overhaul

Venture Round in 2020
Overhaul Group, Inc. is a software solutions provider focused on visibility and risk management for the global transportation and logistics industry. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers a platform that integrates various data sources to enhance supply chain integrity. Its software allows users to track compliance during the entire shipping process, from pick-up to delivery, while enabling real-time monitoring of critical factors such as temperature fluctuations and suspicious activities. By connecting disparate data points, Overhaul transforms this information into actionable insights that can prompt immediate corrective measures, ensuring that cargo is delivered safely, undamaged, and on time. The company was previously known as OverHaul Group, LLC before rebranding to its current name in December 2015.

LawnStarter

Venture Round in 2019
LawnStarter, Inc. is an online marketplace that connects consumers with lawn care professionals to provide a variety of lawn maintenance services. Founded in 2013 and based in Austin, Texas, the company offers essential services such as mowing, edging, and blowing, as well as specialty services like fertilization, aeration, over seeding, and leaf removal. LawnStarter facilitates instant quotes for consumers, allowing them to easily schedule lawn care services from insured professionals. The company's innovative algorithms utilize geolocation data to optimize route density for lawn care providers, enhancing their efficiency and profitability. LawnStarter operates in multiple states, including Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

Solovis

Series A in 2017
Solovis, Inc. provides investment management portfolio analysis and reporting software. Its software platform generates detailed reports in real-time for the investors turning to multi-asset strategies for diversification and risk management. The company also provides a multi-asset class portfolio management and reporting solution for foundations, endowments, pensions, OCIOs, and family offices. Solovis, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Irving, Texas. As of March 31, 2020, Solovis, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of eVestment Alliance, LLC.

SANpulse Technologies

Venture Round in 2009
SANpulse Technologies, Inc. designs and provides enterprise infrastructure software and services for automated SAN migrations and optimizations. Its products include SANlogics, a multi-vendor service-enablement software that automates, simplifies, and accelerates SAN consolidation, migration, and management. The company’s SAN optimization and migration solutions include SAN blueprint discovery and analysis, which provides a path to project planning, identifies wasted capital spending, and correlates data for mapping to the SAN management hierarchy; SAN migration and consolidation that provides a view into the environment and generates current output for completion of migration projects; storage optimization, which identifies opportunities and inefficiencies in the storage environment and generates required actions to rectify problems via storage re-tiering and reclamation; and server remediation that delivers various analysis and reports to understand the supportability requirements of servers, as well as provides assistance/guidance on remediation task implementation. It also provides professional services. The company serves financial companies, computer hardware manufacturers, and IT management software providers. SANpulse Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey with additional offices in Dallas, Texas; and London, the United Kingdom. It has development centers/labs in Jersey City, New Jersey; and Pune, India.

Tangoe

Series E in 2006
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.

Tangoe

Series D in 2006
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.

Tangoe

Venture Round in 2005
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.

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.

Tangoe

Series B in 2002
Tangoe, a telecommunications group, provides software and technology-driven services that enable global organizations to procure, manage, and control their fixed, mobile, and converged communications assets and their costs. Global 2000 organizations and government agencies depend upon Tangoe solutions to more effectively manage their communications processes. Tangoe has offices in Orange, CT, Austin, TX, Hoboken, NJ, and Waltham, MA.