LLR Partners is a private equity firm founded in 1999 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, specializing in lower middle market investments across various sectors. The firm focuses on technology and service-based businesses, particularly in areas such as business services, fintech, healthcare, and software. LLR Partners seeks to provide growth capital, recapitalizations, and buyouts, typically investing between $25 million and $200 million in companies with revenues of $10 million to $250 million. The firm emphasizes identifying businesses with strong growth potential, annual revenue growth exceeding 10%, and gross margins above 40%. LLR Partners primarily operates in the United States, with a specific focus on regions such as the Mid Atlantic and Eastern United States. It aims for exits through strategic sales, initial public offerings, or recapitalization within three to seven years and takes an active role by securing board seats in its portfolio companies. With over $3.5 billion raised across multiple funds, LLR is committed to fostering long-term value in its investments.
About True: The True platform is a global suite of products and services driving the intelligence behind talent management. True consists of four business units: True Search, Thrive, Synthesis, and AboveBoard. True Search: Global recruitment for board members, c-suite executives, VPs, directors and other strategic talent. We focus on investment firms, their portfolio companies, and public companies seeking transformative growth. Thrive: Collaborative, real-time talent relationship management software and information services for search firms, in-house recruiters, and VC/PE firms looking to make better hiring decisions. Synthesis: A multi-layered approach to leadership assessment and development which combines the evaluation methods of elite military units, executive coaching techniques and agile methodology principles. AboveBoard: A diversity-focused startup bringing unparalleled solutions to the critical need to bring more women and executives of color to leadership roles. We provide access to hundreds to full-time or interim opportunities so members can proactively find their next executive role based on what they want to accomplish rather than who they know.
Health Recovery Solutions, Inc. is a telehealth company that provides a cloud-based platform designed to engage patients in their healthcare plans and equip clinicians with necessary tools. Founded in 2012 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the company focuses on reducing hospital readmissions for conditions such as congestive heart failure, heart attack, pneumonia, diabetes, and COPD. Its platform aggregates and digitalizes critical patient data, facilitating adherence and education while enabling caregivers and care coordination staff to intervene as needed. This approach not only helps prevent 30-day readmissions but also optimizes workflows, enhances revenue generation for transitional care activities, and promotes transparency of medical information across the healthcare continuum. Health Recovery Solutions serves hospitals, physicians, and patients, aiming to improve overall patient outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
Edmunds Govtech is the provider of cloud and on-premise ERP (enterprise resource planning) software solutions for local government. The company's solutions help the organization manage expenditures and revenues, produce a budget, deliver robust reports, and seamlessly integrate with all applications, a personnel management solutions, a cloud-based modules allowing customers to view and pay bills online, check permits, log complaints and check statuses and a suite of mobile applications allowing users to access, edit, and enter information.
SUN Behavioral Health, Inc. operates hospitals that provide various behavioral health services to children, youth, adults, and seniors. The company’s services include inpatient psychiatric and substance abuse treatment, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs, 24-hour assessments, and crisis stabilization. It also serves women, and active duty and veteran military persons. The company is based in Red Bank, New Jersey. SUN Behavioral Health, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of SUN Behavioral HoldCo, LLC.
Learn-It Systems is an educational services company that provides research-based reading and math tutoring services to struggling public and private school students targeted by classroom teachers and district administration for intervention in the United States. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland with additional offices in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin.
CompoSecure, L.L.C. is a design and manufacturing company founded in 2000, specializing in premium financial cards. The firm produces a range of EMV chip and contactless metal cards, including full metal, metal hybrid, metal veneer, and embedded metal options. Additionally, CompoSecure offers customized metal card manufacturing services and patented pre-laminated products, catering to plastic card manufacturers. The company also creates high-security identification cards for clients in various sectors, including financial services, luxury retail, secure identification, and hospitality. With a management team that boasts over 200 years of combined experience in the card industry, CompoSecure is recognized for its innovative design capabilities and commitment to addressing high-security requirements for both public and private sector clients. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, the company serves a diverse clientele, including luxury resorts, casinos, and government agencies, both domestically and internationally.
EKR Therapeutics, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, focuses on acquiring, developing, and commercializing prescription products and oncology supportive care. It focuses on various areas, including oral mucositis, stomatitis, dry mouth/xerostomia, nutritional issues, cachexia, skin reactions, bone marrow depression, bone complications, acute and chronic pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Community Education Centers, Inc.
Funding Round in 2007
Community Education Centers, a provider of rehabilitative services in reentry and in-prison treatment facilities as well as management services for county, state and federal correctional and detention facilities.
Gestalt, LLC provides business and technology consulting services for defense, energy, utility, and commercial sectors. The company offers technology assessment, process optimization, business processing, and financial advisory services. Additionally, it provides strategy development, system integration, and data modeling and simulation services. Gestalt’s clientele include Starnet Communication, TECO, Nevada Power, Raytheon Company, Slater Consulting, and Sun Microsystems Inc.
Princeton Softech
Venture Round in 2002
Princeton Softech provides enterprise data archiving and test data management software. The company offers Princeton Data Ace, a data management tool that accelerates testing; and Version Merger, an intelligent version reconciliation tool, which accelerates the upgrade process. It also offers project mentoring, systems consulting, and training programs. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. - the fifth largest payments processor in the United States - provides payment processing services to 250,000 merchants in the United States and Canada. This involves facilitating the exchange of information and funds between merchants and cardholders financial institutions, providing electronic payment processing services to merchants, including merchant set-up and training, transaction authorization and electronic draft capture, clearing and settlement, merchant accounting, merchant assistance and support and risk management. In May 2010, Heartland launched its E3 end-to-end encryption technology solution to help merchants protect their businesses from data breaches. The Company also provides additional services to its merchants, such as payroll processing, gift and loyalty programs, prepaid and stored-value solutions, and paper check processing, and it sells and rents point-of-sale devices and supplies.
Taratec is an established leader in providing integrated e-technology and regulatory solutions to the highly regulated life sciences industry that enable their global clients to meet discovery-to-market objectives, deliver quality products, and achieve strategic goals. Taratec is actively engaged by their clients to help them reap the benefits derived from web-enabled systems across the entire product development life cycle while maintaining compliance with all applicable industry standards and FDA regulations including 21 CFR Part 11, the e-records and e-signatures regulation.